Hello and welcome back; I have a couple of cards today with a great technique for using your alcohol ink backgrounds up. I don’t know about you, but I love to play around with my alcohol inks however, I don’t always have a project in mind when creating them. Therefore, I collect a pile of backgrounds just waiting to be used and they are perfect for die cut inlay technique. Whatsmore, the Fine Bouquet from Altenew is stunning die that is perfect for an alcohol ink die cut inlay!
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Alcohol ink die cut inlay: Creating the backgrounds
To start, apply a selection of alcohol inks onto white Yupo cardstock in a variety of colours of your choosing. You may wish to add blending solution and a straw to help move the colours around.
For these two cards, I used Flamingo, Intrigue Alcohol Pearl Ink, Wild Pulm, Cool Peri and Indigo. When you are happy with the overall look of the background, set this to one side to dry.
Whilst the background is drying, die cut the Altenew Fine Bouquet die from Soft Stone and Slate cardstock from Gina K designs 4 times. You will then want to layer up the two colour matching layers on top of each other to create a slightly dimensional die cut using Gina K Connect glue.
Next, create two 5.5″ x 4.25″ card bases, one from Soft stone cardstock and the other from Neenah Classic Crest Solar white 110lb cardstock. In addition, create two card panels measuring at 5.25″ x 4 in the same two cardstocks.
alcohol ink die cut inlay: assembling the panels
When the alcohol panel has dry, die cut the Fine Bouquet from the inked panel. You need to keep the die cut pieces; to do this you may find it easiest to die cut with the die facing up in your die cutting machine. Before you remove the die cut pieces off your die cutting machine, cover the back of the inked panel with washi tape to keep hold of all the die cut pieces.
Take one the Slate cardstock layered die cut and adhere this onto the Soft Stone card panel using Gina K connect glue. Once more, repeat this process with the Soft Stone layered die cut and adhere down onto the Neenah card panel.
To add the inlay pieces, use a pick-up tool to adhere the die cut pieces from the alcohol ink background die cuts into the layered die cuts on the card panels. Make sure you add a small amount of glue into each section of the die cut before adding the alcohol ink pieces in. You’ll want to keep repeating this process for both cards.
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Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you at these shops: Altenew (ALT), Scrapbook.com (SB), and Craft Stash UK/US (CS UK/US).
All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP) and WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US)
 Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |  WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: WOW US |  Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP |
 Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: BP | WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS | WOW UK |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing pad Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Soft Stone Heavy Weight Cardstock – Gina K Designs Shop at: BP |  Fine Bouquet – Altenew Shop at: ALT | BP | SB |  Smiles and Hugs – Altenew Shop at: ALT | BP | SB |
 Slate – Gina K designs Shop at: BP |
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for Bumbleberry Papercrafts have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Bumbleberry Papercrafts to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
