What I love about using Alcohol ink on vellum is the soft muted tone of the vellum contrasting with the bring colours of the alcohol ink. Vellum adds a lovely soft texture to your papercraft project and with heat embossing over the top, the alcohol ink adds such a vibrancy to the stamp design. Here I have used the new Altnew Paint-a-flower: African Daisy stamp and create a framed art panel to add to a card front. If you’re not got the colours or want to start crafting straight away, then you can use this technique with any stamp you have.
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Times for using Alcohol ink on vellum
As vellum is lightweight, you may find it curls when adding alcohol ink to it, so temporarily adhere it down with washi tape to a non-porous surface like a glass mat. Next, add some blending solution to the panel before dropping in some of the alcohol ink colours.
Depending on whether you can cover the whole panel or create a pattern across the panel is up to you. If you find it a bit too intense with the colour you can add more blending solution to soften and lighten the colour. The colours use here are:
Once the vellum has dried, decide which side of the vellum you want to add the heat embossing to. One side will be more muted than the other. Heat emboss with gold embossing powder the Paint-a-flower: African Daisy stamp set. In addition, sandwich the vellum sheet between two white rectangle die-cut frames. This will help reduce warping and give you a way to adhere it to a card base without the adhesive showing through.
Lastly, heat emboss a sentiment from the stamp set in gold embossing powder onto black card. Fussy cut and trim down before adding this to the front of the card.
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Alcohol ink on vellum
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27 thoughts on “Alcohol ink on Vellum (Altenew Paint-A-Flower: African Daisy Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway, $200 in Total Prizes)”
This is so lovely! I need to get my alcohol inks out and play with them. Haven’t touched them in years and I love this look!
Gorgeous card and love the alcohol ink background!
Gorgeous card!
So beautiful!!!! I love the gold and blue combination!
Gorgeous background and gold embossing!
I love the intensity of this card. So pretty. Thanks for sharing how you created this card. Love it.
Beautiful cards! Thanks for all the directions in using the alcohol inks on vellum–so lovely!
Love this technique-very pretty card!
Wow!!! Stunning!!! Love the dreamy ink on the vellum!!!
So glad you used alcohol inks. Your card is lovely.
Beautiful card and so elegant. Love the alcohol ink background. The colors look lovely together.
Now that is very interesting! I did not know you can put alcohol on vellum! I will have to try that! Your card is truly inspiring and so very gorgeous!!!
Fantastic background! I love it!
Beautiful card. Your background is stunning; I’ve never tried alcohol ink on vellum before, but that’s about to change!
I love your techniques and this card is gorgeous!
Beautiful background with this embossed image! I love the African Daisy set!
Gorgeous background!
Absolutely stunning! I love your color choices and design. Thanks for sharing. Alcohol inks on my wish list.
I really need to get out my alcohol inks and try this! I think I have all the colours lol!
Absolutely gorgeous card!
Very cool technique and pretty background for the flowers!! I’ve not used alcohol ink on Vellum, thank you for the tutorial and tips!
I’ve never heard of using ink on vellum like that before. I love the tip for embossing too! Beautiful card!
Beautiful and love the idea of the cardstock frames!
What a fabulous technique! Your card is just stunning.
It really is an amazing look. It is a cross between water and marble.
Pretty embossing and fun coloring! So creative.