August Essentials Challenge

I just received some new goodies, and happened to catch Justine Hovey's alcohol ink blog post over at Ellen Hutson's blog, so I decided to play along with the August Essentials Challenge. The focus is on alcohol inks, which I love... and have been thinking about getting the alcohol ink lift pad, so the series of posts on the inks has been really fabulous. I highly recommend checking them out. The actual challenge is just to share a project using alcohol inks for the chance to win a $50 gift certificate to Ellen Hutson.

This is what I came up with - I actually created a bunch of alcohol ink backgrounds at a class I took at an expo at the MN State Fairgrounds earlier this summer. I usually try to make a ton of backgrounds all at once, and then I can pull them out for future projects, when needed! What made these unique (to me), was that I used a gelli plate and a vellum yupo paper. Super fun!

Love this stamp/die combo from Pinkfresh studios. I bought A Day in the City, too, and I can see using these sets to make a bunch of boxed card gift sets year-round.

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock, vellum yupo
Stamps/Inks: Gina K- amalgam ink, misc. ink cubes, Adirondack alcohol inks, Pinkfresh Studio - Home for the Holiday
Cutting/Embossing: Pinkfresh Studio - Cityscape die
Misc.: Gelli plate, copic markers