Crafty Calendar Totally Girlie Challenge - Pink Gem Unicorn Frame

Good afternoon. Hope you are having a great day.  Here in the UK the weather is still fabulous so I'm trying to enjoy it while it lasts in between work and the World Cup.

It is the first Saturday in July so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme for this month is

"Totally Girlie".

For my DT project no card this month !!!  For a complete change I decided to do a box frame with a quote we all should live by...

Ingredients:

8" Box frame

Mount created from white card sprayed with Dylusions Ink Spray in Squeezed Orange, Fresh Lime, Vibrant Turquoise and Crushed Grape with a 4" square aperture cut into the centre.

The quote in the frame is Always Be a Unicorn from Lori Whitlock which I printed with my laser printer and foiled using with rainbow deco foil and a laminator .

The image is Unicorn Jodie digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs coloured with copics.

The stars are chipboard coloured with copics.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

 

Pink Gem Designs 

and

Crafty Ribbons

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar to share your creations in this months challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Now off to watch the footie....Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and I'll see you soon x

Playing with Alcohol Inks and My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns.

Good morning all.  Are you having a good Tuesday.   I'm getting ready for a workathon, from today for the rest of the week I'm working a seven and a half hour day and then I'll be doing another two and a half hours overtime on top of that, so no time for crafting this week I'll definitely be too tired when I get home after my ten hour days....

Luckily I had sometime at the weekend to have play with my alcohol inks so over the coming weeks I have a few cards to share that I made with the results.  I've never really embraced alcohol inks so I thought it was time to give them a whirl instead of them just languishing in a drawer.

For this card I tried a technique that uses alcohol hand sanitiser along with the alcohol inks.

I coated glossy card with hand sanitiser and then added some drops of alcohol inks, I knew I wanted a rainbow effect so just used four colours and blended to get the other rainbow hues.  When the alcohol inks had been added just used my finger to mix them into the hand sanitiser and blended them where I wanted the orange & green then allowed to air dry (don't use a heat tool due to the fumes that it creates).

When it was dry I mounted it onto a 6"x4" card.  The unicorns are from the My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns set.  These were stamped with Memento London Fog ink and coloured with copics.   The sentiment was stamped and embossed in white.

Just a few dots of 3D liquid enamel effects to finish.

Bit of a change for me getting so messy but I quite liked it.  Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog and I'll see you soon....