mold photos - part 2

Good afternoon everyone - bit cold & grey today isn't it!

Yesterday Bob & I went to visit one of his brothers who is currently in a care home. Bless him he was having a snooze when we got there it was almost a shame to wake him - but we spent about an hour there & it was good to see him.  Afterwards we popped along to see one of Bob's sisters in law & spent a nice time there treated to scones, with jam & cream - yum.  Then on our way home we stopped at a very nice restaurant/pub for a meal.  Very nice day.  So this is the reason no blog post written yesterday.

Today I have the second set of photos for you, from Mold club's project at their meeting last Thursday where we tried out the technique of Alcohol Inks & Aluminium Tape.  You take a piece of card - for our project, a tag - & cover it with aluminium tape.  It is then run through an embossing folder to give the pattern.  After that you just let loose with alcohol inks which can be patted on with an applicator, dripped into certain sections & as you will see multi-coloured.

Some fantastic results to show you - there are lots of photos;

These two were created by Janet & as you can see some of her inks have been dripped into certain areas to highlight them.

These two tags are by Joan (Brookes).  They look so different depending on the embossing folder used, & also the method of inking.

Someone got enthusiastic about this technique & made 3 tags.  That someone was Joan (Brown)

These 2 were made by different ladies - the one on the left was by Joanna & the design has been embossed.  The one on the right was by Janet & has been de-bossed.  I thought it would be good to see how different one design can look used in these 2 ways.

These 2 were created by Joanna - keep an eye out for that one on the right, that looks like it has rivets in it, it will appear again, & of course the one on the left was in the previous photo too.

These 2 tags were created by Lyn.  The tape we used was not quite as wide as the tags - so 2 pieces had to be placed on them.  In the one on the left Lynn has placed the join to one side of the tag & then after using the inks has laid a plain piece of foil to cover the seam which still showed.  Great idea, Lyn.

This piece?  Well, this piece is the foil that Lyn (previous 2 tags) had under her tags whilst inking them.  I know that foil is not going to go to waste - Lyn will use it somewhere.

Mair made these 2 tags - such completely different styles.  I really like the colours of the green one, but can't make up my mind which one I prefer.  

Then Mair went on to have a play with random dripping (rather than picking out features of the design), & this was the little piece of work she produced. Very nice.

Another group of 3 tags this time created by Rachel.  Some great examples of the dripping style there as well.

The 2 tags here were created by Rhiannon & on these tags you can see the seam in the tape.  So a little piece of narrow ribbon, or paper, or as Lyn did - a plain foil strip will cover that up & complete the tags nicely.

The seam in the tape shows up more, or less on some designs, depending on how much texture there is to the design.

These 4 tags were made by Sheelagh who made one of each as embossed & one of each as de-bossed. It gives them such a different look.

These 2 tags were created by Yvonne & the embossing design is very clearly defined.  This again will make a difference to the finished effect - so remember to check how deeply your folders emboss.

Remember Joanna's tags with the rivets style design?  Before the end of the evening Joanna sanded the tag & this is the finished result.  Great for a man's card.

Talking of which.......................

I checked my emails this morning & there was a photo of this card made by Joanna using that very tag.  Brilliant card.  

Once you know how to use these 2 materials together mens cards become easier to make.

Don't worry Mold II & CSNW - this technique will be in your programme soon.

Well, that's me for today I hope your weekend is going well.

I have a member showcase for you tomorrow once I have loaded the photo onto my laptop.

'Bye for now.