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	Alcohol Inks, Pt III by Mindy Tobias, Lumpy Stuff Diva inspired by Tim Holtz July 2005 class
This technique gives builds on to the techniques we showed you in the previous articles and adds more dimension to your pieces colored with alcohol inks. Alcohol inks give you a lot of options because they color anything non-porous- think acrylic, metal, plastic, glass, shrink plastic, mica! The best part for me is that I can make matching items.


1. First, gather your supplies and select Alcohol ink colors you like. Add a drop of each to the felt. We will be using two pieces of acrylic in this project. Junkitz Circlez work great for this project, but any clear acrylic accent will do.

2. Put new felt on your applicator and apply inks. Choose the flat side of your acrylic pieces. Cover it in the alcohol ink. You don’t need to worry about how it looks. It still has a way to go.

3. Next step is a second layout of your daubing. As you daub blow on the acrylic as the ink sets. It gives it a nice dimension look. Mine was too light for what I wanted so I went over it again with another color. Remember to keep blowing on your piece but come up for air sometime.

4. Taking Archival ink stamp your chosen image onto the side with the alcohol ink. Quickly wipe it away with a towel. Surprised aren’t you? It leaves the Alcohol ink but takes away from where you stamp. This is called Archival Ink Resist! The ink will resist while still wet but will dry permanent if you choose to leave the image black.

5. Stamp your image on your second piece of acrylic on the side that has the alcohol ink. You are now done with the messy work. 6. Glue the acrylic to a piece of white cardstock using a very small bead of Glossy Accents in a dotted line around the edge of your piece. When dry, trim your cardstock out around your acrylic and punch a hole in the paper even with the hole in the acrylic.

9. Repeat the gluing process again for other acrylic piece. Glue on the cardstock and stick the side with alcohol inks down to create a sandwich the cardstock with the acrylics. 10. All that is left to do is put the chain through the hole and you’ve got a keychain. Another sample has a junkitz ring going though the acrylic. Its a great way to add a charm.