Perched Bird on a Painterly Alcohol Ink Background by Anne Thompson

I used a painterly alcohol ink technique to create a background for the PERCHED BIRD 94244 on today's card.

how I created the background

I started with a piece of Alcohol Ink Cardstock (Tim Holtz for Ranger).
I added some drops of Alcohol Blending Solution (Tim Holtz for Ranger) on the top third or so of the paper.
Then I added drops of alcohol ink on top of the blending solution (Tim Holtz for Ranger). I started with Aquamarine.
I used a paintbrush to move the ink around into horizontal lines of color. (I have one dedicated for use with alcohol inks only.) I had to work really quickly and still had some blotchy spots which I kind of liked. Alcohol inks dry really fast!

Continuing to work down the paper, I added more blending solution and Stream ink, overlapping the Aquamarine.
For the next section, I added more blending solution and Pesto ink, blending it into the blue layer.
For the bottom I used Sepia ink blended into the green.
I added a few more drops of ink where I thought more color was needed and blended it in with the paintbrush.

Alcohol inks dry very quickly, in just seconds. And this technique is not as messy as some...only one blue blotch on my thumb!
I chose a light blue notecard and used Scor-tape to adhere the trimmed 4 X 5.25 panel to it.

For the Perched Bird, I chose another notecard in the same color to die cut it. I chose not to use the dotted rayed background because I wanted more of the inky colors to show. I used some white glue to attach it to the alcohol ink background.

All in all, this was a pretty quick card to put together. Another day when I have a bit more time and more alcohol ink cardstock I plan to make a pile of these backgrounds in a variety of colors to have on hand.

Happy Crafting!