Alcohol Ink on Grunge-- CCC#15

Welcome to week #15 of Lovely Linda's Compendium of Curiosities Challenge! This week, page #53 is our tutorial. Now, I am prefacing this week by admitting I have loved alcohol (oh, err..) ink since my very first bottle of Pinata inks. And this particular technique on glossy has been a fave of mine since, well, that first bottle of Pinata ink! And after our Monoprint challenge a few weeks back..now those inks are never far from my hand! So, to do this on grunge...well, I was quite excited (and very glad my order for the paint dabber came in time!)

So, with best intentions, I stole into my craft loft for a few sacred minutes of playing...unfortunately puppy had to come (or cats would have been eaten..it was one of those nights!) And you guessed it..I was yelling at puppy so much, my mojo ran away...I came up with nothing! So, just to see how it worked, I worked on some flower punches I had (heavens forbid I screw up a nice piece of grunge!) Very cool, but bumpy..having issues with the paint lay-down...tried another...pretty cool..time running out...still no ideas..just small pieces-parts...Dakota has a yarn ball...oye! So...when all else fails...ATC Time! I did get to play with the new Enamel Accents. which I really liked, despite my terrible free-hand stuff. So..here it is...my stamping challenge entry...with absolutely no stamps! But the cats survived, Dakota didn't knock down my grid storage cubes..my yarn wasn't all slobbery..and the photo kinda shows the agate effect. If it wasn't so late, I'd be hitting my other favorite alcohol product!

Oh..Those Tattered Flowers!

Welcome to Week #13! This week's assignment: Page 65, Grungepaper Flowers. For anyone not already involved in the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge, you will need to hop on over to Studio L3 to get the details.

Now, I had just bought the sizzix big shot and Tattered Florals die waiting for this challenge so I was very excited! Of course, without giving anything away, I am sharing the Big Shot with my friend Julie, and pre-punched a bunch of stuff in advance, which sort of screwed up step #1 by assembling after cutting; making things, lets say, interesting; and I'm not sure if the xyron machine is the way to go for pasting onto grungepaper. That aside, I think they turned out splendidly! And once again, I fell to my new color theme: Ancient Linen, Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet. It does turn out so much cooler on a tag than on a white ATC...more likely the type of paper, but you know what I mean! (And Linda...can we please do the first tutorial soon?? I feel like I'm cheating, I'm using it so much! LOL!)

So I'm going to hop over now to see what everyone else has done (I try not to peek too much until after I'm done!). Have a great crafting week everyone! And wow, do I use a lot of exclaimation points..ah well, I probably talk that way too when discussing crafting...