alcohol ink background - croppinsville style!!

well, more alcohol inks.... Allie Gower had a GORGEOUS background made with really cheap photopaper and alcohol inks and HAND SANITIZER - and of course i HAD to try it!! i did not want to copy Allie's colours or stamps - and that made it really hard - hers was so beautiful! living in south africa, i of course, do not have Germ-X. Allie also said that the soap had to have alcohol in it - mine did not, but i wanted to try the technique!! so, i did.


i used HP everyday photo paper, and i had to "alter" the technique a bit - i first wet my paper slightly with the soap and added the inks and blew on them one by one. i then just left them to dry. i did try it like she said - but the fact that there is no alcohol in my soap makes a difference, i can see that from the way my ink reacts to the paper.


i also added 2 fragments - just added some old paper to the backs after i used alcohol inks on them. the star is from Tim Holtz Grunge Dots Elements i think. the stamped dots are from GLITZ design as well as the roller number stamp. of course the mask and the adage ticket is from Mr Holtz as well as the paint dauber used to distress the edges. i used the scissor distressing method to distress the edges. the butterfly is from TH's stamp set and there you go. i was going to do an X'mas Card with Matthew 2:2b " For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him", but rubons don't work on this background and i figured i had used my MM Magnetic Stamps way too much the past few weeks, so i will try again on a different card, where the verse will be the main feature.


very bright for me - i think this will become thecover for an altered diary i want to do.....what do you think?