Happy Birthday card and some Alcohol Ink on Yupo

Needed a sweet birthday card so what better than the little ballerina's whispering

to each other. These are the ones that are digital images and I have manipulated

the lines so that in this instance the lines are a light purple (why purple you may ask? well

I don't know purple appealed to me at the time) and I have printed through the laser printer

onto watercolour paper. 

 I watercoloured my little sweeties with Zigs and lots of water so its light on the skin

but trying to get the hair right meant more colour than originally planned. A little bit of grey

around where they are sitting to ground them.

This watercolour paper is not as white as others I have used but brilliant

for printing on and watercolouring so although the card isn't 'white' 'white'

I think it still looks very pretty. I finished it off with a strip of glitter washi

top and bottom and a silver mirror cardstock 'happy birthday' die cut

and my usual odd number of glass gems.

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday Anything Goes

Watercooler Wednesday #140 All About Birthdays

Crafty Creations Challenge #352 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for coming to have a look and I hope you come again soon.  

Now I thought I would share a few pieces I have been playing with using alcohol inks and Yupo.

Ohhhh my goodness I feel like setting up a room that is just for Alcohol inks, Yupo, trays,  

all the bits and pieces. There are so many videos and amazing photos where people are experimenting and Yupo comes in full A3 sizes so you can do full on art and if not happy, clean it off or turn it over and use the other side.

Now I have to decide what to do with these pieces.

I have just put a frame from inside a photo frame around the piece to take the photos here.

This piece was inspired by TaeEun after she had done an amazing card using these colours and she had explained she had used her Copic Markers. I tried with my Copic Markers and the piece didnt turn out so well the first time but with this piece I used both The Black Copic Marker as I didnt have

refill for it but I used the refill inks for the greys.

I used different greys from the Neutrals and the Warms and I used my Colourless Blending Solution that I have in a large bottle. I poured some into a small container and tried a mix of ideas. Some dropping solution onto colours to cause the solution to reactive, some flicking for small dots and some using cotton bud for controlled dots. Love the end result just not sure what to do with it.

This piece was just a lot of dropping Alcohol ink colours and blending solution and moving the yupo to blend and move the colours. All the colours were from my Copic refills and I used so many I lost track of what I used so I cant list. Will have to get better at it. This piece looks better IRL than in photo and is really rich looking but again not sure what I will do with it.

This piece is Copic Ink refills blues and yellows so of course we ended up with greens. I went a bit nuts doing the cotton bud dots and you can barely see the bits where I blew the colours with a straw. Will end up cutting this piece up for backgrounds or die cuts as the colours are wonderful and vibrant.

This piece is a mix of pinks and reds again Copic refills and blending solution but it has warped, too much playing and not knowing when it stop. Hopefully I can use bits for die cuts or parts of backgrounds, its amazing how much torture a piece of Yupo can go through especially as this piece

had also been used on the back, as a dismal failure, thrown in the bin, retrieved because its too expensive to throw away (for me anyway) and played with again.

I now have more background pieces to add to my never ending collection of background pieces, I just need to remember to check them out and use them for challenges.

I hope you enjoyed this little additional piece and please let me know if I forgot to share anything that you would like to know.