Alcohol Ink Leaves

Good morning everyone!  Todays card was a project that I designed for a Dabble Day that I did last weekend in Leighton Buzzard.  I didn't think that I had any photos of the projects, but I came across this one so I thought I would post it.  We had a great day of "speed crafting" as there were six projects and everyone moves from table to table every 45 minutes.  For this card, you drop alcohol ink in various shades (we used butterscoth, ginger, purple twilight and copper mixative) all over your craft mat.  You have to work quickly as it dries very fast.  You take a piece of gloss white card and with the glossy side to the mat, you pick up the ink by swirling your card in it.  It gives a different effect than if you use the tool to apply it.  It looks very much like encaustic wax to me.  You can do another layer if you want the colour to be more intense.  Then we dropped gold mixative on to our mat and used it as an ink for our stamp (we used a stamp off of the wildflowers stamp set that looks like webbing) and stamped it randomly over the piece.  It gives the look of gold veins running through the background.  Using the anti-static pad over the background first, we then stamped the grape leaf around two sides of the background and clear embossed.  We repeated the same steps for our sentiment and then cut it out with Labels 22 and layered it with mounting foam on the background.  I added a layer of white card to the background, then a bit of piercing and a final mat of black to complete the card.  Total time to complete was under 45 minutes for this one.  Hope you like it and if you made this card last weekend, I hoped you enjoyed making it!  All for now, Sue x