Just Because

Minnie Mae-Hemm has returned with a stunning card. We had some fun with this alcohol ink brayering technique on our Re-Ink Christmas card class, and everyone who has tried it has been hooked! Quick, simple, and you never know how it's going to end up! Instructions

1. Cut a piece of black card 8"x6", and fold in half to make your card blank.
2. Cut a piece of turquoise card 3.5"x5.5" and stick to the centre of your card blank.
3. Cut a piece of black card 3.25"x5.25", and stick this to the centre of your turquoise piece of card.
4. Cut a piece of white glossy cardstock 3"x6".
5. Place a small amount of each Alcohol Ink in a row on your craft sheet (leaving a small space between each one). The finished effect will depend on how much of each ink you use, and the order that you place them in. Add a few drops of Blending Solution across the row of ink.
6. Run your brayer through the inks (so that they form stripes on your brayer). Make sure the whole of the brayer is inked up, and that you are just going forward and backwards in a straight line, so that the inks don't mix together too much.
7. Run the brayer over your piece of glossy card. You will get a patchy effect - which is fine.
8. Pick up more ink from the craft sheet, and repeat going in a different direction on your glossy card. Keep repeating this (adding more Blending Solution when the Alcohol Ink starts to dry/disappear on the craft sheet) until your piece of glossy card is covered.
9. Cut your glossy card to 3"x5", and then stamp some of the different size circles over it using the black ink pad (it's always a good idea to start with the largest stamp, and then work your way down to the smallest one - which is idea for filling in gaps).
10. Stick your stamped piece of card to the centre of your card blank.
11. To finish ... Stamp your greeting onto the remaining piece of inked up glossy card, and then trim to size. Mat this onto a piece of black card, and trim so there is a small border all the way around it. Stick the greeting onto your card blank.

Ingredients

- "Beetle Black" Bazzill Cardstock

- "Dragonfly" Bazzill Cardstock

- White Glossy Cardstock

- Alcohol Inks - Watermelon (red), Pool (turquoise), Sunshine Yellow (yellow)

- Alcohol Blending Solution

- Craft Sheet

- Brayer

- imagine that ... "Write Big #2" Clear Stamp Set

- imagine that ... "Going Dotty" Clear Stamp Set

- Acrylic Block

- "Jet Black" Archival Ink Pad