Designing an alcohol ink background card
- melanie patton

- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min read
Supplies needed:
glitter cardstock

master layout 3
embossing watermark ink
connect clear glue
cardstock
big shot
embossing powder
heat tool
tweezers by tweezer bee
ribbon - stamps of life
heart infinity dies - hero arts
bold lowercase dies - honey bee
scissors - Tim Holtz
my favorite things to say stamp set pinkfresh
script background stamp - impression obsession
foam tape the paperie shoppe
triangle sorting trays jewelry tools
Tombow adhesive
Xyron 1.5" adhesive
square container Rubbermaid
Start die cutting all parts:
A larger square from plain color cardstock.
A smaller stitched square from alcohol ink background.
alphabet letters another color plain cardstock and three times from plain white cardstock.
Two larger hearts one equally spaced inside the other from glitter cardstock.
Small heart from glitter cardstock.
Start assembly:
Cut cardstock to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Fold cardstock base score at 4 1/4".
The ink of the script background stamp, Then lay the folded cardstock folded on the inky background press all over, and remove with tweezers.
Assemble the squares, equally spaced, by adding adhesive to the backs of the alcohol background adhere to plain color cardstock.
Place adhesive on the back of plain color place ribbons ends wrapping around each edge with ribbons on front third of squares bottom.
On plain colored cardstock, I stamped the small sentiment with watermark ink and added embossing powder then melted with a heat tool till smooth.
Put pieces of your word letter by letter through Xyron as it would be read and put a tape strip when the letter is seen to add another letter. Then adhere all plain white letters together filled by the plain color cardstock letters.
Decide your placement of word place letters equally spacing choose where to place small sentiment strip banner and the three hearts.
Enjoy the beautiful outcome of the card and thank you for joining the website, blog, forum, and challenge! Check out the company's links and their products. Or use the products you have on hand. Joyful crafting, thank you again, see you next Friday.





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