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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Alcohol Ink Tile Weights - Orange Challenge at Splashy Mixed Challenges

This is my project for April's Orange theme over at Splashy Mix Challenges.

Here is our mood board


Create anything as long as the predominant colour is orange.

-Your work must be new, not previously published anywhere
You can create any mixed media project corresponding to the mood board and the colors presented in the mood board are also accepted.
- You can enter up to 3 entries.
The post should contain a banner, a link to our challenge and the name of the blog.
- Last date to submit your works 28th April until 23:55 !

I decided to play with my alcohol inks and create some colourful weights for my craft room table.  I also took this opportunity to try out a few new techniques and ideas. 

I started my projects by cleaning my white tiles that I purchased at my local hardware store then I added my inks.

Tiles with my inks applied:





 Here are a few pictures of my finished weights. I used a combination of embossing, stamping and copper leafing.





 For my project I used some of the following supplies on the different  tile weights:

Copic Ink refills 

Y38 - Honey
YR04- Chrome Orange
YG63 - Pea Green
YG97 - Spanish Olive

Ranger Alcohol Inks 

Butterscotch 
Orenago 

Pentart Alcohol Inks

Orange 
Trumpet

Rubber Stamps 

Tree Branch - Stampin Up
Reeds - Great Impressions
Dream - K studios
Text - Hero Arts
Circles - Stampin Up

Copper leaf

Gold Leaf Pen

Embossing Powder - Tim Holtz
Cork paper - bottom of the tiles



Prizes

INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER
(as voted by our DT)

$30 USD value prize from CREATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS


NATIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER
(as voted by our DT)

Rs. 500 Value prize from Die Cuts and More




3 DT Favourites
(as voted by our DT, in no particular order)

One DT favourite will receive Goodie bag from Letzcraft Store and will be our Guest Designer the following month 




1 Random Winner
(chosen by Random.org)

One Random winner from Indian Participants will get a goodie bag worth Rs.500 from Creative Minds


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We are looking forward to seeing your beautiful entries for our April Challenge.


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