A day spent crafting with friends has aways got to be a great day and Sunday was no exception!
Our ladies came to the workshop prepped ready for a day full of creating wonderful backgrounds and brooches.
So how did they get started?........
For this project we were using Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks and Yupo paper. Everyone experimented with different colour combinations of alcohol inks to create vivid and beautiful backgrounds. We supplied multiple sheets of Yupo so that they could create a choice of backgrounds to use later on their projects.
Once they had finished this initial stage we then showed them some techniques they could use with the Alcohol Lift Ink using stamps and stencils. This technique allowed them to lift areas of colour using stamped designs or patterns using the stencils.
The image above shows the effect of the Alcohol Lift Ink using a butterfly stamp. As you can see the ink has lifted the colour from the coloured background.
After playing around with these techniques, everyone had a great variety of backgrounds to choose from in the next stage of the day..... assembling their brooches.
They started by drawing around these MDF heart shapes which will form the base of their brooch. From there they could pick and choose from a multitude of ephemera and lace and also add tiny photos to their brooches too.
If they didn't want to wear what they had made, they also had the option to turn these hearts into hanging decorations using the pre-drilled holes in the hearts to thread through some ribbon.
Once they were happy with what they had designed the final stage was to add Inkssentials Glossy Accents to the surface which will set clear and glossy.
The final part of the workshop was creating a background for a photo frame using the alcohol ink backgrounds from before and adding some ephemera and washi tape to help frame the picture.
All in all a wonderful day and we look forward to hosting another workshop soon!
