Jewel Tone Tags With Alcohol Inks and Aluminum Foil

I created this tag using alcohol Inks, aluminum foil, a craft tag, embossing folder and my Texture Boutique. You can achieve gorgeous, vibrant jewel tones with alcohol inks on tags, backgrounds, glass, metal. I created a tag, I think it’ll look great on holiday package.

If you don’t have an embosser, no worries. Towards the end of this post I share a different technique you can try.

I covered a craft tag with aluminum foil that I had in the kitchen and secured it using a bit of Scor-Tape on the back.

Next I placed it in an embossing folder and ran it through my Texture Boutique, removed it and dropped alcohol inks straight onto the embossed tag, allowing the colors to pool and blend on their own. I didn’t use any blending solution, but if you find you need some and don’t have any on hand, alcohol can be used in a pinch.

These are the Ranger Inks that I used for this tag

Next I just let it dry completely and added a ribbon to it!

As promised, if you don’t have an embosser, here’s a different technique that you can use to create a tag, an ATC, or even cover a canvas. I chose to work with an ATC, a small piece of aluminum foil and 3 more Ranger Inks.

  I wadded up the aluminum foil into a ball, flattened it out a bit and covered my ATC, folding the edges around back.

 Just as in the technique I shared above, I dropped alcohol ink straight onto the ATC, allowing the colors to pool and blend on their own. Again, I didn’t use blending solution.

What I ended up with, when dry, was a beautifully vibrant background accentuated by the metallic folds of the foil.

My First ATC

I was recently part of a hand-carved stamp swap in the Stamp Carvers/Printmakers group on Facebook and received a fun little background stamp carved by the lovely Theresa Magladry. She named it “Wonky Circles”.

Part of the swap was to create a piece of art using the stamp that our swap partner sent us and send it to them. I was excited to put it to good use so I decided to make my first ATC.

I created this one, which I call “Metamorphosis”, using Ranger distress inks, a Dyan Reaveley border stamp, some bits that I had in my stash, Authentique text stickers that I talked about in yesterday’s post and of course my awesome new Wonky Circles stamp!

You can see the cool background pattern created using Wonky Circles. Thank you so much Theresa; I hope you enjoy the ATC. I LOVE the stamp and know that it will be one I use time and time again!

A quick little side note for any ATC artists. I found this stamp, by Donna Salazar the other day, which you might find handy.