Wishing you a Magical Holiday Season with a snowflake ornament and an inky background using Kraftin' Kimmie hybrid ink on mineral paper.
Putting It Together
I like experimenting and trying hair-brained ideas that pop into my head. I wondered if it would be possible to use Kraftin' Kimmie hybrid ink like alcohol in on wet mineral paper so I tried it.
Mineral paper is non-porous and made from ground mineral bonded together with a resin. It has an incredibly smooth texture and an odd weightiness. It can be used with watercolour, alcohol ink, and a variety of other mediums. So why not try it with re-inkers?
I wet the mineral paper first then dripped re-inker, Mermaid Melody and Whimsical Wysteria. Dripping the ink into the spots that were wetter was more successful. The ink floated some in the water and spread similar to alcohol ink.
I used a blower to move the ink with the water.
I added more water, more ink, and more blowing, just like I would with alcohol ink. The hybrid ink and water do move differently.
Side note: Blogger has changed the editor and it's decided it wants to work the way it wants, not the way I would like. So, sorry for the odd formatting.
Once I had the panel looking like I wanted, I left it to dry. Because of other things going on, I left it a couple days.
Wen I got back to the panel, I noticed there were still some sticky ink areas. It definitely does not dry like alcohol ink *laugh* So, I put a panel of while Hammermill paper over the ink and rubbed.
The paper picked up the still not dry ink (after 2 days of drying!), but in a really pretty way that I'll use later.
To make sure the panel was dry, I sprayed it with hairspray as a fixative. However, that, too, dried differently and left speckles of gloss which added a different character, too.
I was originally planning to die cut a snowflake and add a sentiment from Snowflake Kisses but this die drew my eye. I hadn't used it since I bought it at a car boot sale sponsored by a local scrapbooking store a couple years ago. Looking through my Kimmie stamps, the Christmas Seals had the perfect match. I dry fit my revised idea with silver glitter paper as a matt and for the snowflake ornament.
I stamped and embossed the sentiment on vellum then fussy cut it. I added a glittery enamel dot from the Rainy Day dots to the centre of the snowflake ornament.
I used the Sparkling Snowflakes stencil to bring the magic inside the card using Mermaid Melody with a bending brush and adding a subtle sparkle with Nuvo Glitter Gloss pen.
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A beautiful background Rijacki. It's a gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing with us at Watercooler Wednesday this week
ReplyDeleteA wonderful background, Rijacki! Love the rich colours!! Thanks for joining in at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week. Take care! :)
ReplyDeleteThat looks AMAZING Rijacki!!
ReplyDeleteAndrea x