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| All about alcohol inks! This page has color charts, combinations, a collection of techniques and projects. Including using alcohol ink with polymer clay, metal leafing, domino art, mixing with glues and other mediums to tint them for glazing, glass paint, faux enamel, miniature food syrups and beverages, etc. |
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| Alcohol inks work wonderfully inside empty markers, such as Ranger Ink or Copic brand markers. Just add drops of ink onto the broad tip until it bleeds through to the bottom tip. This takes about 150 drops (it's not much, somewhere about 1/10th of a bottle of Adirondack inks.) These colors blend beautifully together on paper projects. Allows you to turn your favorite inks into markers, or mix your own custom colors. Since you can add ink any time the marker starts to run dry, these markers can literally last forever. No more waste of disposable markers, or disappointment when you find a marker has run dry. When mixing custom colors use an empty dropper bottle to mix the colors first before inserting the mix into your marker. Craft stores usually have empty bottles with dropper tops for essential oils in the soap making supplies area. If you are using empty Copic Sketch markers than you can also use these inks with their airbrushing system for painting. When you are using dark colored alcohol inks on a domino you will have a hard time getting a rubber stamped image to show up well. You can help bring out the details of your stamped art by lightening certain areas of your image. You can do this by erasing the alcohol ink with a lighter color of alcohol ink. Alcohol inks or blending solution in marker form is great for this. Sharpies also work, however the tips on those markers do not allow for smooth precision. |
| How to use the applicator, felt and alcohol inks: Add a few drops of each color you want to use to the felt pad that is attached to your applicator. I apply single drops of color a little randomly on various areas of the felt (see photo.) Lightly dab your surface repeatedly until you achieve the coverage and pattern desired. If you apply it by patting the surface only a couple times you will get a blended, less marble looking / blotchy effect as you do if you keep patting your surface repeatedly. You can make it very interesting by blowing on it as you work in quick taps for the smallest marble pattern effects. Try out combinations of 2 inks, or even just one and the "alcohol blending solution" (works as clear alcohol ink) for a variety of marbled monotone effects. Note: Felt by nature has a lot of loose fibers that often fall out. I have not found a way to avoid this, but you can rub off a lot of the little fibers once the ink dries in a few seconds. |
| Use multiple color combinations to compliment your rubber stamped artwork. (I used Stampbord as my surface, and the image is from Spri-106) |
Mountain Vineyard: Espresso,
Raisin, Pesto set
Raisin, Pesto set
Rustic Lodge: Bottle, Terra Cotta,
Denim set
Denim set
Cottage Path: Slate, Currant,
Meadow set
Meadow set
Tuscan Garden: Red Pepper,
Mushroom, Oregano set
Mushroom, Oregano set
Farmers Market: Cranberry,
Lettuce, Eggplant set
Lettuce, Eggplant set
Miners Lantern: Rust, Stonewash,
Pitch Black set
Pitch Black set
Nature Walk: Wild Plum,
Buttrscotch, Stream set
Buttrscotch, Stream set
Cabin Cupboard: Caramel, Ginger,
Latte set
Latte set
Dockside Picnic: Watermelon,
Citrus, Sail Boat Blue set
Citrus, Sail Boat Blue set
Summit View: Sunshine Yellow,
Sunset Orange, Purple Twilight
Sunset Orange, Purple Twilight
Scenic Terrace: Hazelnut, Pool,
Moutain Rose set
Moutain Rose set
Valley Trail: Raspberry, Pebble,
Clover set
Clover set
| The Basics. Here is the standard, most popular application: |
| Color Charts: Adirondack Alcohol Inks by Tim Holtz / Ranger Ink come in 48 colors, including "lights", "brights", and "earth tones" shown individually below on glossy paper, and combinations on dominoes. They appear more vibrant on non-porous surfaces (such as a domino) and slightly muted on porous surfaces (such as paper.) |
Countryside: Shell Pink, Willow,
Cloudy Blue set
Cloudy Blue set
Wildflowers: Lemonade, Peach
Bellini, Cool Peri set
Bellini, Cool Peri set
Woodland: Pink Sherbet, Lake Mist,
Juniper set
Juniper set
Lakeshore: Sandal, Aqua, Salmon
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| BRAND NEW PAGE BEING UPDATED NOW :) |
| Creating custom colors and filling markers with alcohol inks: |
| Color Combination Chart: Here are the combinations of 3, as they come packaged from the manufacturer: |
| Idea gallery: |
| Failed experiments and happy accidents. (I make mistakes so you don't have to!) Sometimes I try and fail. Sometimes I thought I failed and in the clean up efforts discover something interesting! Here is where I will share these "mistakes" with you! |
| Using alcohol inks to paint polymer clay or gold leafing: |
| Images coming shortly :) |
| You can achieve marbled monotone effects by combining any single color with the colorless blender (clear alcohol ink) like this: |
| Pitch Black & Stream with stickers. |
| Mixing alcohol ink into TLS, polymer clay (colorizing clay before baking) and miniature food techniques: |
| This is a brand new section and tutorials are coming soon :) |
| Lettuce + Clear Blender |
| Learn various ways to decorate domino game pieces on the domino tutorial page. |
| Altered jewelry! Add color to metal and other non porous surfaces: |
| I bought a silvertone metal ring a while back and I always wished it was colorful. So I picked out some alcohol ink colors (raspberry, stream and sunset orange) and placed a drop of each color onto a non-porous surface (I used the outside of a ziplock bag.) I then picked up the colors and applied them using an empty aqua brush filled with alcohol or blending solution. I sealed it with Krylon clear gloss sealer spray. |
| Simple color combinations of two inks create bold results and polished stone effects like this: |
| See below for combinations of 3 or more colors of ink together. |
| Pitch Black + Red Pepper |
| Lettuce + Meadow |
| Shell Pink + Clear Blender |
| The hunt for an opaque metallic ink: I've gone through quite a bit of trial and error looking for a good stamping ink I could use over my darker alcohol inked dominoes. I have tried the metallic StazOn, acrylic paints and Smooch accent inks. All of which were slightly transparent and started showing the alcohol ink color through them. All in all I do not recommend trying this method, as Smooch ink is an expensive and pretty metallic ink to waste on just washing away, but it does spark my imagination and I'll be investigating bleach stamping techniques further. |
| Bleach Stamping: 1) I applied my alcohol inks to my domino. 2) I coated a rubber stamp with Smooch accent ink by Clearsnap, and stamped the image onto the domino. (I started with the gold fern image.) 3) After about 20 minutes I thought it was going to be dry, so I touched the domino and smeared the Smooch ink. In a panic hoping I could save the domino somehow I rinsed off the gold Smooch ink under running water. It took the Smooch ink off AND some of the alcohol ink underneath it. I was left with a bleached effect. 4) I repeated this process intentionally using a darker alcohol ink combo (Miner's Lantern) and used a brighter color of Smooch Ink (Silver) and washed it off after about 15 minutes. This resulted in a clearer contrast. |
| Shell Pink + Clover |
| Attempts at using alcohol inks as a paint or mixed with sealers for a tinted glaze: |
| I started off with creating molded polymer clay pieces, which I baked and then painted with bright gold Lumiere acrylic paint. I then began my glazing experiments by mixing alcohol inks into sealers to tint it, which was a failure on all of the sealers I tried, including Mod Podge, polyurethane and other multi purpose sealers. It created chunky bits of dried alcohol ink color. I pushed the uneven clumps of color out of the way and used the remaining sealer as a glaze for the owl face ---> |
| More info on this experiment coming shortly. |
| Eventually I just started applying the alcohol ink directly to my gold acrylic paint. I used an aqua brush filled with alcohol or clear blending solution, and picked up alcohol ink color onto the brush tip. If you do not have a non-stick mat or paint palette to put your drops of colored alcohol ink, you can always use a piece of paper covered with tape. |
