Big Alcohol Ink Trees

Posted: September 1, 2026 | Author: Heather | Filed under: Alcohol Ink, Concord & 9th, grafix, Kristina Werner Joyful and Merry dies, Kristina Werner Joyful and Merry stamp set, simple strips, Stampin Up, Taylored Expressions, Tim Holtz | Tags: Alcohol Ink, Concord & 9th, grafix craft plastic, Stampin Up, Taylored Expressions, Tim Holtz | 2 Comments

Time for another bunch of alcohol ink Christmas cards featuring one of the tree dies from the lovely Creative Expressions Festive Collection – Winter Pines set. The set has 6 different trees some tall, some short, some wide some skinny. The one featured here is a great size and shape so I used it over and over. The cards above feature Kristina Werner’s Joyful and Merry Stamps and Dies.

You can see the tree on the left was made with the Ranger alcohol ink silver sparkle cardstock. The tree on the right was made with a stencil on alcohol inks, hence the pattern. All the sentiments are from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips – Christmas stamp cut with the coordinating die.

I used an embossed background behind every tree, often the retired evergreen folder from Stampin Up. I also used the snowflakes/speckles one from Tim Holtz.

Of all the tree cards I made (and there were many) the one above on the left is my favourite. I like the mix of soft blues with a bit of dark blue and green and some splatter circles. I wish I remembered which alcohol inks I used but I don’t. It doesn’t matter too much. You can see I used dark blues and greens as well as light and some pinks, purples and silvers too.

Alcohol Ink Baubles

Posted: August 24, 2026 | Author: Heather | Filed under: Alcohol Ink, baubles, Christmas filigree, Concord & 9th, Echidna Studios, Kristina Werner Joyful and Merry dies, Kristina Werner Joyful and Merry stamp set, Penny Black, simple strips, Spellbinders, Taylored Expressions | Tags: Alcohol Ink, grafix craft plastic, Penny Black creative dies, Ranger Alcohol Ink, Spellbinders, Taylored Expressions, Yupo Paper | 2 Comments

The alcohol ink cards continue but there is a new element featured in the shimmery baubles above. I created alcohol ink patterns on Ranger alcohol ink silver sparkle cardstock. Whatever colours you blend over the cardstock automatically shimmer and shine. On the cricut I cut the finials using the “Christmas Filigree Digital Stamp and Cutfiles” from Echidna Studios. Both decorations are on panels embossed with the Spellbinders “forevergreen” folder and feature Kristina Werner’s Joyful and Merry sentiment dies and stamps.

I also made simple round baubles using Penny Black dies and patterned panels. Basically any pretty alcohol ink panel is fair game for creating some baubles. As is my pattern they are also stuck on embossed panels, tied with silver cord and sentimented with Taylored Expressions “Simple Strips Christmas sentiments”.

I don’t actually own any of this sparkly cardstock; a friend let me use some of hers, but I can highly recommend it if you want a very simple way to make your alcohol patterns look fabulous.

Alcohol Ink Trees

Posted: August 17, 2026 | Author: Heather | Filed under: Alcohol Ink, Creative Expressions, grafix, Kristina Werner Joyful and Merry dies, Kristina Werner Joyful and Merry stamp set, Spellbinders, winter pines | Tags: Alcohol Ink, Concord & 9th, Creative Expressions, grafix craft plastic, Spellbinders | 3 Comments

The alcohol ink cards continue, this time with a tree theme. If you didn’t see my first collection of alcohol ink cards please visit here. Once more I worked with only 2 or 3 alcohol inks to create patterned panels. I have been starting with 4.5″x 6″ yupo or craft plastic panels which I can turn into a large background panel, two smaller backgrounds or numerous trees.

To add interest to alcohol ink panels I use several different techniques. I always add isopropyl alcohol to the panels to move and blend the inks and sometimes move the liquid around by tilting the panel or blowing the ink with an alcohol ink blower.

Another technique which gets quite intricate or softly blended results is to apply ink or isopropyl to a felt pad and ‘stamp’ it onto the yupo or craft plastic. Many of the cards I’ve been making feature an embossed panel behind the alcohol ink elements. I’ve used “a nordic themed”ski lodge” embossing folder from Spellbinders and an Anna Griffin ‘regal braid’ folder for today’s cards. The greeting stamps and dies are from Kristina Werner’s sets “Joyful and Merry stamp set” and “Joyful and Merry dies“. I don’t actually own them but you can be sure I made good use of them before my sister-in-law took them home to Australia. All the trees are cut using a fabulous Creative Expressions die set called Festive Collections – Winter Pines.