Inky Madness - No Alcohol Required

OK, let's try this again with a charged camera battery this time!  Jean Okimoto here - with another inky technique for you.  I love playing with inks and wanted to blend some fall colors on lightweight aluminum leaves diecut from sparkling water cans.  The ColorBox Archival Dye inks looked great, but took too long to dry on the metal so I carefully heat-set them and got some in interesting results.

Here are the details:

Diecut Maple Leaf from lightweight cans.

Use wads of scrunched plastic bags (as in "paper or plastic?" at the grocery store) to daub Pumpkin Pie, Khaki Green and Very Berry ColorBox Archival Dye Inks onto the leaves.

Hold the leaves with a clothespin and heat-set them, letting the inks puddle and splotch wherever they want to.  (Yes one of them accidentally lost a  leaftip when I was diecutting.)

Add messy splotches of the other two inks to each leaf and heat-set them.  Stamp Maple Leaf over the blended inks with Wicked Black and heat-set it.

Stamp Vintage Dreams on Kraft Cardstock with Khaki Green and ink the edges using the Stylus, White Blending Tip and Khaki Green.  Diecut two Tall Birches from dark brown cardstock and trim the trunks.  Cut a strip of Parsley Cardstock.  Attach the birches and leaf to the background - use foam dots for the leaf.  Add the mini-brads.  Attach everything to a Jack o' Lantern Notecard.

Clearsnap Products - View the 2012 Catalog* here

• Pumpkin Pie, Khaki Green and Very Berry Archival Dye Ink Refills (*Page 31)
• Khaki Green and Wicked Black Archival Dye Inkpads (*Page 31)
• ColorBox Stylus and White Blending Tip (*Page 81)

Stamps

• Memory Box Vintage Dreams and Maple Leaf

Other Supplies

• Memory Box Kraft and Parsley Cardstock
• Memory Box Jack o' Lantern Notecard
• Grand Calibur Diecut Machine
• Memory Box Metal Adapter Plate (for intricate dies like the Tall Birch)
• Plastic Grocery Bags
• Heat-Tool
• Screwpunch
• Copper Mini-brads
• Foam Dots

Have fun with this technique - add the leaves to Thanksgiving placecards if you're setting a formal table - or make some quick napkinrings if you're setting up a buffet.  

Happy Thanksgiving - and thanks for visiting!

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