Bah Humbug Challenge 26 - Acetate

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last week but things have been a bit hectic........ hopefully after the weekend it should start to settle down again!!!  This week's challenge at Humbug Towers is acetate.  I am afraid this was a very quick card for this challenge.  I have coloured a piece of acetate on the back with alcohol inks and then stamped on the front with black Staz-on.  The stamps are all from the same set but I've no idea where I got them from as there isn't a name anywhere on the packet......  I matted onto white pearl card and then onto a matching pink card which had been put through my Joy in a Christmas embossing folder (although I don't think you can see that on the photo).  This has been mounted onto a white DL top folded card and all I've added are some gems.

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Tall Trees Acetate Domed Card

It felt like Christmas this morning because my eagerly anticipated order of 5 (yes I said 5.........) stamp sheets arrived from Graphicus by courier. Then another two Joanna Sheen stamp sheets arrived so I have spent all morning mounting the sheets on EZ Mount, cutting out the individual stamps, laminating the illustrated sheets etc etc - boy are my hands sore!!!! LOL But not sore enough to stop me having a go at a card that was shown in the Graphicus Guild Newsletter using acetate domed over an image. It looked really effective so here's my attempt.



I have used an alcohol inked background on glossy cardstock and stamped the main image several times across the card using Staz-On in Timber Brown and Olive Green. I then stamped a separate image of the trees on a spare piece of the inked background. I then took a piece of acetate and swiped it with an antistatic bag and stamped the same image in the Timber Brown ink. The acetate is then scored down the side and attached to the back of the single image with DST (red liner tape)so you get the domed effect. This was then matted onto bronze mirri card, placed on the background image of the trees and then onto the main A5 top-folded card to which I had adhered some Graphicus paper. An organza ribbon across the top and a greeting and block from the Damask Blocks and Loving Sentiments stamp plates, again from Graphicus.



I was quite pleased with the way this has turned out and will be using this design again.

Alcohol Inks Project

We had our monthly club night on Wednesday and I was doing the alcohol inks project. The girls were all given a plain card and envelope, glossy card and a domino.

I made several samples using the glossy card and dominoes, alcohol inks on acetate, mini books using 2" dominoes and I also treated my heat gun to the
alcohol inked effect - the
girls thought that was really cool!!!