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Gina K Designs Alcohol Ink Cards (+VIDEO!)

4 Jun

Good morning!  Today I’m sharing a video pairing alcohol ink backgrounds with beautiful stamped cakes from Gina K Designs to create a quartet of cards perfect for birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries!

Alcohol Ink Backgrounds by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Gina K Designs

You can watch the video below at at my YouTube channel!

To start I created alcohol inks using copic refills in R12, RV10, RV14, BG10, BG11, and B66 along with pinata brass metallic ink and isopropyl alcohol.

Alcohol Ink Backgrounds by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Gina K Designs

Then I stamped the cakes from Gina K Designs’ Cake Toppers set with versamark and heat-embossed them with gold glitter embossing powder.  I also heat-embossed the platter and sentiments with the same glitter embossing powder on white and black cardstock and die-cut them all with the coordinating dies.

Alcohol Ink Backgrounds by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Gina K Designs

I also stamped and die-cut the layered flowers from the set using Altenew inks in pink pearl, coral bliss, coral berry, crimson, mountain mist, volcano lake, lagoon, and dusk to match the alcohol ink backgrounds.  Then I used my life-changing blender brushes to blend the two softest shades on the bottoms and sides of my cakes.

Alcohol Ink Backgrounds by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Gina K Designs

I trimmed down the alcohol ink card panels and then arranged all my elements on top before adherinf them with a mix of ATG adhesive and connect glue!  And that’s it!  I love how one design and layout can create cards for a variety of occasions!  And I really love how you can pair alcohol inks and dye inks to create designs that look like they were meant to be together! 🙂

Alcohol Ink Backgrounds by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Gina K Designs

Thanks so much for visiting and have an amazing day!

Interested in the products I used?  To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!

Gina K Designs CAKE TOPPERS Clear…
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Gina K Designs CAKE TOPPERS Die Set 2668
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Copic Sketch Marker R12 LIGHT TEA…
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Copic Marker REFILL BG11 MOON WHITE…
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Copic Sketch Marker B66 CLEMATIS Blue
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Jacquard BRASS Pinata Color Alcohol…
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Darice 10 WELL PAINT PALETTE Round…
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Altenew PINK PEARL Crisp Dye Ink Pad…
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Altenew CORAL BLISS Crisp Dye Ink Pad…
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Altenew CORAL BERRY Crisp Dye Ink Pad…
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Altenew CRIMSON Crisp Dye Ink Pad…
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Altenew MOUNTAIN MIST Crisp Dye Ink…
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Altenew VOLCANO LAKE Crisp Dye Ink…
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Altenew LAGOON Crisp Dye Ink Pad ALT1208
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Altenew DUSK Crisp Dye Ink Pad ALT1212
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Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD…
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Ranger Embossing Powder GOLD Tinsel…
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Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun…
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Gina K Designs CONNECT GLUE Adhesive…
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3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE…
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MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping…
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Tags:
alcohol ink, alcohol inks, altenew, copic, gina k designs

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Comments

  1. Kelley Clarke says

    June 5, 2019 at 6:14 pm

    OMG! I Love, Love, Love your work…so beautiful!

    Reply
  2. Jan says

    June 8, 2019 at 12:29 am

    Wow! Gorgeous! You get a marbled effect.

    Reply
  3. Kristine Boydstun says

    June 8, 2019 at 11:57 am

    Gorgeous cards! So many great techniques!

    Reply
  4. Megan Niergarth says

    June 14, 2019 at 7:44 pm

    I love the softer look you got on these alcohol panels!

    Reply

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