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June 1, 2021 Tuesdays At Two: Alcohol background wash with Stampin' Blends

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 I must admit when I saw the "Expressions In Ink" DSP I fell in love with the look of it.  So beautiful with the melding of colors in a beautiful alcohol wash and then accented with the gold foiling!  I hope I can bear to cut it up and not hoard it.  LOL I started to do a little poking around on YouTube and found a few demonstrators who showed how to do something similar with some rubbing alcohol, vellum, our Stampin' Blend markers, a paint brush and something to blow the alcohol around.  I used an empty travel bottle So yesterday, for my "Tuesdays At Two" Facebook Live, I demonstrated how to do this, using the things I had around the house.  You will need, at least, 91% rubbing alcohol.  I had some 70% and it didn't work as well. I also used an empty travel bottle, that was fairly soft to squeeze, a pliable chopping mat from the Dollar Store, and an inexpensive paint brush.  The paint brush I used had a fairly narrow brush, I would use one with a...