Positively Peach

Hello, today I am on the Joy Clair Designs blog sharing a monochromatic peach card featuring the beautiful Spring Rose digital stamp set and an alcohol ink background.  I LOVE working with alcohol inks because they offer such depth and texture to the backgrounds, despite the occasional mess and unpredictable end result you get each time! ​

Card details: 

​For the base of this A2 sized card I use 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.  On a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Yupo paper, I created the alcohol ink background by "ink blowing" Ranger Adirondack alcohol inks in Peach Bellini and Gold Mixative.  When I say "ink blowing," I essentially dropped small amounts of the ink onto Yupo paper, added a bit of 80% isopropyl rubbing alcohol and used the Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Air Blower to move the ink around.  Once the ink dried, I splattered the background with white acrylic paint.  Once the acrylic paint dried I then adhered the background to the card.  

​I printed the Spring Rose digital stamp set onto 80 lb. Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.  This is my go-to white cardstock for everything from die cutting and card bases to Copic coloring and distress oxides.  I printed one of the roses at 60% and the other at 80%.  I colored each rose with Copic markers and adhered them to the card using 3M foam adhesive.  I printed the sentiment on the same white cardstock and used an oval die to die cut the sentiment out.  I adhered the sentiment to the left of the card also using 3M foam adhesive.  Lastly, using a Uniball white gel pen, I made small white dots, in groups of threes, on the flowers to add a little more texture.  

I hope you have enjoyed this card. Thank you for visiting and happy creating!
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XO, Crystal