A couple of weeks ago, I tried making sun catchers with laminating pouches and tissue paper. The project worked pretty well, and I wonde...
Most of my alcohol ink projects lately have involved stamping the ink onto the surface, I felt it was high time I did some more ...
I still have some ceramic tiles left from my last run to the hardware store, so when I remembered I had saved the contact paper heart f...
The first time I visited the Iowa State Fair, I saw someone wearing a neck cooler. I thought, I'm uncomfortably warm (as it almost alway...
It's that time of year again--time to start crafting Christmas ornaments! I decided to give something a little different a try. A w...
When I left off, I had just crafted some great stamps made out of fun foam from the dollar store glued onto cardboard. The leaf shap...
If you've been following the blog, you know that I snagged an incomplete domino set over Christmas break and I've been putting ...
I needed a little something to decorate my mantel for Thanksgiving. It's always easy to find Halloween and Christmas decor, but Tha...
I've made a few crafts over the years with shrink plastic , but I'm too cheap to buy the stuff in the store, so I make my ow...
I got my Cuttlebug about a year ago (update: Cricut has discontinued the Cuttlebug, the closest alternative is the Sixxis Big Shot ), ...
My dad gave me a bunch of washers from his garage stash for Christmas, so I just had to ink some of them! I thought I'd try out a n...
A couple of weeks ago I made some St. Patrick's Day Necklaces using some new cabochons and bezels /blanks that I had ordered on Am...
I had some Amazon gift cards saved up, and I knew just what to get with them: a Cuttlebug . A Cuttlebug is an embossing and die cutting...
Well, I'm finally moved all downstairs. So my first project in the basement craft room is with alcohol inks (of course it is). I lo...
One of the first projects I saw online using Alcohol Inks was a candle holder. It looked like stained glass, and I was so excited to t...
A while back I saw a post on pinterest claiming that you could use canola oil or olive oil with vinegar to remove (or at least reduce...
Last Christmas I saw a recipe for Cornstarch Clay to make ornaments. So, after I was done baking Christmas Cookies, I whipped up a batc...
Always looking for a new way to use alcohol inks, I decided to try them out on glass gems. You know, the kind you buy at craft stores ...
I've been wanting to test this pin for quite some time. With the fall in full force and a week with flurries and highs in the 30s ...
The best part of camping is the campfires. Who doesn't love making s'mores and roasting hotdogs over a fire? Sometimes the fire...
Alcohol Ink Washer Necklaces are my most popular blog post. There's good reason, too. They are really cute and really easy. All...
About a year ago I inked up a bunch of glass gems . I turned the most colorful ones into necklaces, but I was left with quite a few pre...
A couple of weeks ago, I tried making sun catchers with laminating pouches and tissue paper. The project worked pretty well, and I wonde...
This blog's most popular post is from the first time I ever used alcohol ink on glass gems . Since then, I have tried out several s...
The current trend for alcohol ink is to use a low power hair dryer or heat gun to gently blow the ink around on yupo or ceramic tiles ...
I received a package of alcohol inks for Christmas and then bought a second set with a 50% off coupon at Michael's. I've used ...
A few years ago, I used a batch of Tim Holtz acrylic charms that I picked up on sale somewhere and made some necklaces using alcohol i...
A couple of weeks ago I made some sun catchers for Valentine's Day using tissue paper and clear contact paper. Which made me think.....
The plastic wrap application method for alcohol ink is my new favorite method. I've been attempting to explore all the differen...
A couple of weeks ago I made some sun catchers for Valentine's Day using tissue paper and clear contact paper. Which made me think.....
My most popular project on this blog are these glass gem necklaces. I have revisited and rehashed this project several times in an att...
It's that time of year again--time to start crafting Christmas ornaments! I decided to give something a little different a try. A w...
This is part two in my Beginner's Guide to stamping with alcohol inks. If you missed part one, check it out here: Beginner's Gu...
Recently I saw some really neat projects made by melting plastic pony beads (you know, the kinds kids use), so I thought I'd give i...
As soon as I heard you could use any clear #6 plastic to create your very own homemade shrinky dinks, I've been checking the bottom...
I had some Amazon gift cards saved up, and I knew just what to get with them: a Cuttlebug . A Cuttlebug is an embossing and die cutting...
Alright, so I know I've been making a lot of Alcohol Ink projects, but they are just so darn much fun (and they are usually pretty ...
When I was first learning how to use alcohol inks, I tried stamping ink on some hardware store washers and made necklaces. This project bec...
Last spring I had the novel idea of inking laminator pouches. They turned out great and I made star suncatchers and shamrock suncatchers . ...
Last week on the Blog, I decorated some washers with alcohol ink and used fire to mix and set the ink. This week, I decided to use 3 di...
A couple of weeks ago, I tried making sun catchers with laminating pouches and tissue paper. The project worked pretty well, and I wonde...
Though gem necklaces have overtaken them as the most popular post on the blog, the washer necklaces I've created with alcohol ink ...
I found this fabulous decorative wine bottle at Dollar Tree, and I just had to bring it home and ink it, but I didn't know exactly ...
