Today, I’m sharing Creative Press plate Techniques with Alcohol ink. I will be using the NEW Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Betterpress plates from Spellbinders. We will use different techniques with the Betterpress plates and Alcohol inks. Ad
I love using Alcohol Inks with my Gelli plates and wanted to test out using Betterpress plates with Alcohol ink Gelli Prints using Alcohol Lift ink as well as Stamping and Embossing on top of the Alcohol Ink Gelli prints. I’m using the New Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Press plates that Spellbinders sent to me to create with and share with you. I love how many different techniques these plates can be used for and have done several videos using them. For this one, I’m concentrating on different Alcohol Ink Techniques.
When using Alcohol Inks with my Gelli plates, I like to use fine tipped squeeze bottles and pre-mix my alcohol inks with 1 park Alcohol ink and 3 parts Isopropyl Alcohol. This saves a step in the process and lightens up the alcohol ink colours. (NOTE: Alcohol inks CAN stain your Gelli plate but it does not affect the use. You can see in the video that one of mine has stained but it works exactly the same as the unstained one) These techniques will work with any colour palette.
The first step to creating Alcohol ink Gelli prints is putting the pre-mixed inks on the gelli plate and then leaving them to dry completely. Once dry, you can either pull the print with a thin coat of acrylic paint spread out using a 6″ brayer before placing the cardstock on the plate, rubbing the paper for a few seconds to make sure the paper has good contact with the plate before pulling the print or you can add pattern to the dried alcohol ink. To add pattern to the dried alcohol ink, you can apply the betterpress ink to the plate and press that onto the dried alcohol ink or you can use alcohol lift ink on the plate and press that onto the dried alcohol ink. If you use lift ink, you need to remove any lift ink with paper towel by blotting several times before adding the acrylic paint to pull the print. Because the lift ink takes on some of the alcohol ink colour as it lifts, you can use that plate (carefully) in your Betterpress system with Glossy Cardstock (shows off the Alcohol ink colour best) and run it through your Spellbinders Platinum 6 to transfer the ink to the glossy cardstock. If you choose, you can also add some shimmer to your Alcohol inks before they dry on your plate with Maribu Rainbow Alcohol ink additive.
Another way to use Alcohol inks with Press plates is using Copic Markers. For this card, I Hot Foiled the Press plate onto Hammermill cardstock using Rose Gold Glimmer foil with my Glimmer Machine. Once my Press plate had been foiled, I used Copic Markers to colour in the Greenery and Flowers on the image before creating the card. I added some tiny Nail Gems to the centres of the flowers with a Jewel Picker for some sparkle.
For the last Alcohol ink Technique, I used Glitter Alcohol ink cardstock to create an Alcohol ink background and then used the Betterpress plate in the Betterpress system and pressed onto the Alcohol ink Glitter Cardstock and Embossed with embossing powder for some dimensional texture. For some contrast with the flowers, I used a dotting tool with Isopropyl alcohol to remove the alcohol ink and reveal the Glitter cardstock underneath. Several of the cards were finished off with Sentiments that had been hot foiled during previous projects.
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