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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

CCC Alcohol Ink Monoprint

I got out one of my FAVORITE products to play today. Alcohol Inks. So glad this one popped up in the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge over at StudioL3. I played with bottle, stream, eggplant, lettuce, sailboat blue and silver. The first card I used black glossy cs and the second white glossy cs. They both give great results. The water lily stamp is from studio g and colored with opaque stix and mounted on paper by zsiage. The seashore scene is done with clearstamps, then cut apart and rearranged to form a grid with Marcasite EP for grout lines. This one is mounted on Club Scrap's Castaway paper. And I have 5 more backgrounds to play with. Whoo hoo!

14 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards. I never even thought of using black glossy cardstock,,,,which I just happen to have (lol)

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  2. Both are quite lovely! Looks great on the black too! The 2nd one looks like you're looking out a window.

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  3. OMG - Those are both incredible!!! I have used black glossy, but did not think of it for this! Love them!!! Next time, I use black!

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  4. I would never have thought to try it on black card stock! What a great idea! It looks fantastic!

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  5. Holy cow, these are INCREDIBLE! Not only are your monoprints beautiful, your designs are just mind-blowing. Those lilies are almost otherworldly against the black paper-- what a cool effect. And how clever to use the EP as "grout" between the tiles. That is over-the-top cool! (Can I borrow that technique??)

    Boy, am I ever happy you're doing the challenges, because I'm learning all kinds of great things from you! Thanks for sharing your talent.

    ♥~Linda

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  6. Your cards are VERY beautiful!

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  7. These are both beautiful, I love the way the backgrounds tell you what the focal stamp needs to be - just gorgeous x

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  8. Both beautiful the second one is so creative and magical. The first one WOW so Monet one of his Lily paintings is at Tate Modern and disappointed me a little yours has so much more life! & yeah i know what I've just said and stand by it.

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  9. Wow, both of these are fantastic, brilliant. Thank you for leaving lovely comments in my blog as it enabled me to find you and am so glad I did. Annette x

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  10. These are both beautiful! I really like the sea colors in your second card!

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  11. Stunning Rachelle..really loving the 2nd card!

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  12. Great pieces, that black is just stunning, will have to try that!

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  13. They're both fabulous - but I love the first one, the background looks like ripples in water.

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  14. I see someone above mentioned Monet ... it's exactly what I was thinking!

    Nice work!

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