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Wednesday 28 July 2021

Colour Creations: Calypso Coral

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Hello, and welcome back to the new Colour Creations Blog Hop. It's Calypso Coral's time to shine this week! Are you a fan? It's another one of my 'don't use much' colours. I decided that I would revisit the alcohol ink on vellum technique for my card.

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I started by taking a long strip of vellum and scribbling a small patch of Dark Calypso Coral Blend. I dipped a paintbrush in some 100% Isopropyl Alcohol and dabbed it over the ink. I used my old Colour Spritzer to push the ink around. I repeated the process along the piece of vellum. It's much easier to do in small sections than to attempt the whole piece at once. When dry, I wrapped the vellum around a price of Whisper White card, which was adhered to the Basic Black card front.

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The Brilliant Wings butterflies were cut from Black Glimmer paper. The black is a nice, dramatic pop against the background.

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One final butterfly finished off the inside. The sentiments are from the Sweet As A Peach stamp set.

Next up on our Blog Hop tonight is my wonderful friend, Rachel Woollard. She's bound to have something gorgeous for you to see!


If you find a broken link you can view the full list of participants on Catherine Proctor’s blog.

Bye for now,

Tina

12 comments:

  1. This is beautiful, Tina! The black glimmer paper is gorgeous against your alcohol ink background. You've made Calypso Coral look fab (well done!). LOL.

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  2. Tina your butterflies look amazing in the black glimmer paper and I love how you've included a smaller Calypso coral butterfly on the inside of your card too. Thanks for the tip on how to do the alcohol technique too - this is a wow card!

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  3. Rachel Woollard28 July 2021 at 20:18

    Stunnng, sparkly card Tina, beautiful!

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  4. Perfect colour choice for this technique Tina. The contrast between your delicate piece of vellum and the black is stunning and I love your sparkly butterflies.

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  5. Love your Color combination and the black glimmer paper butterflies are gorgeous! Thank you for your great explanation on your ink technique. I look forward to giving it a try!

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  6. Beautiful. Love the black glittery butterflies and how they pop against the coral background. TFS

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  7. Oh wow, that Calypso Coral alcohol blended background looks gorgeous, especially with the black glittery butterflies. Your tag is just beautiful too!

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  8. Beautiful card Tina and the black shimmer papaer goes so well with white and calypso coral

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  9. Fabulous background using the alcohol techniqueTina where Calypso Coral makes those sparkly butterflies pop.

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  10. Beautifully executed technique Tina. Gorgeous butterflies - love the sweet Calypso Coral one on the inside of the card.

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  11. Another stunner Tina. Love the drama of the black butterflies, and the Calypso Coral looks fabulous using this technique.

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  12. I love the black glitter butterflies on the "watercolour" look panel.

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