Alcohol Ink ATC

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Swap Coordinator:	Brooklyne (contact)
Swap categories:	Art Artist Trading Card (ATC)
Number of people in swap:	16
Location:	Regional - United States
Type:	Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:	4.80
Last day to signup/drop:	November 14, 2010
Date items must be sent by:	December 5, 2010
Number of swap partners:	1
Description:
I love working with alcohol ink. The versatility of this medium lends amazing results whatever your technique. Please, create one ATC for your partner with alcohol inks. You can draw the image with anything you want, but the coloring must be done with alcohol inks. You can embellish with flat components like glitter, paper, etc, but the alcohol ink should be the prominent feature on the card. For example: the image above was drawn with Pitt pen and colored in with alcohol inks and embellished with glitter glue. Have fun with this; theme is open. Senders choice. Must have a rating of 4.8 to join. No flakers. I will be checking profiles. No 1s or 3s in the past 6 months. I gave the swap 3 weeks because of the holidays. You can, of course, complete it early and since this is an open theme and senders choice, you can start as soon as you sign up.

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bluemonkeymama 11/ 7/2010 #

i love alcohol inks! i have on question - do we have to draw an image, or are rubber stamps ok?

veltheimia 11/ 7/2010 #

Unfortunately it's USA only. I would join if it was international!

Ogma 11/ 8/2010 #

I'm with bluemonkeymama. I love these, too. But I can NOT draw to save my life. I have some cool stamps though... :-)

LittleMessyMissy 11/ 8/2010 #

Where do you buy alcohol ink? I have never heard of it. :o)

Brooklyne 11/ 8/2010 #

@bluemonkeymama and Ogma... A stamp should be fine. I use them all the time. Use an ink like stazon and the alcohol ink won't spread beyond the lines. Well, I mean in theory it shouldn't. XD

@littlemessymissy .. Any Micheals, Joanns or Ben Franklin store should have them.

@veltheimia .. I'm sorry. I'm expecting a baby on Dec 25th and am trying to keep things simple for the next couple months. I might host another after the 1st of the year.

Ogma 11/ 8/2010 #

Thanks and congratulations! :-)

JenHuff 11/10/2010 #

Is it OK to use the alcohol in as a background or do you have to use it to color in the image?

Brooklyne 11/10/2010 #

@jenhuff It must be the main component in the ATC. If you use it for the background, 75% of it must be showing.

Also, everyone... I just tried alcohol ink on top of acrylic paint and it turned out amazing. The paint just ended up being the background/underlay color and texture for the alcohol ink. I think that should be ok too.

JenHuff 11/10/2010 #

Thanks!!! I'm going to have a project for pajama day tomorrow!! I thought I was going to have to use paint brushes! YIKES!!

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