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Happy Birthday Butterflies and Dragonfly alcohol ink background DL card Hi Craft addicts! Well, I have been playing with Tim Holtz and Jaquard Pinata Alcohol inks again and have come up with this DL Birthday card... Hope you like it! How I made this card:- I cut a piece of Range Self Adhesive foil tape (or it could have been the Black self adhesive paper from Creativity Int) approximately 4" x 6" and used a variety of bright alcohol inks (a mix of Tim Holtz and Jaquard Pinata) and left it to dry (it does dry very quickly). I then used the Dragonfly and Butterflies die from Sweet Dixie and cut it out, trying to make sure that some of the very bright colours would be dominant. I stuck that to some cream/ivory card (from the Core Collection from Create & Craft I used a corner rounder (from Hunkydory's Prism Range) to round the corners of a White Linen effect DL card. I took the backing off the paper and placed the die-cut towards the top of the card an...

Happy Birthday Dragonfly with leaves alcohol inks A6 card Hi Craft addicts! Today's latest handmade card is one using a background created with alcohol inks and a dragonfly die! I sometimes find I use the inks and I think ugh what a mess but once cut with a die turns into something quite decent! How I made this card:- I took a sheet of Tim Holtz's Alcohol Ink Foil tape sheet (which is self adhesive) and added a selection of inks - from both the Ranger and Jaquard ranges. I still haven't tried using the Blending Solution yet but will do soon! As before, I wasn't too sure with the result but thought I would see what it was like die-cut so used the Dragonfly die from Sweet Dixie - it is quite a large one so can only been used with an A5 or larger die-cutting machine. I then removed the backing sheet and placed it towards the top of an A6 white linen effect card, burnishing it to make it stick down properly.  I then used a woodgrain stamp from the Hobby Ar...