Grungy Monday 13

This week's challenge at Linda's Studio L3 is to use alcohol inks as demoed by Tim in this five minute video on the Ranger website. And how about this, it's only Tuesday and I've completed this Grungy Monday piece. Am off to polish my halo.

I've long been a fan of AIs, and I use them quite a lot. For this challenge I decided to have a rummage through all my inks, and play around with the ones I had perhaps used less. As it turned out, I realised that I don't use the range of lights as much as I could. So today I chose Cool Peri, Willow and Pink Sherbet to colour the background, the roses and the ribbon. The edges are coloured with Black Soot DI and the stamps are Stampfrancisco and Tanda in Black Archival. I don't know where the quote came from: it's just one of those stamps in my Words & Phrases box without a label !

I was quite pleased with how this had turned out as I was planning for it to be a friend's birthday gift tag. The colours look good on the glossy card background. Just a shame my photography doesn't capture the effect. However, I'm not alone in this. Recently I saw a display of artwork which also appears on a blog, and was so glad to have been able to see it in real life to appreciate the textures and colours and dimensional effects that the camera had not captured.