 Hey there, it's Sandy Alnok and today I have a really quick video with a tip to make your alcohol ink projects un-sticky. This one is one that looks like it should be sticky. It's got very dark, dark areas where all that ink has congealed, nothing sticky on it whatsoever. I don't know what makes some get sticky and some don't. This one uses a certain combination of colors and there's no sticky on it whatsoever. I did another one, same colors, and yes it was a little heavier ink but this one had some sticky areas. Well I was working recently on a project where I had my embossing stuff out and I had this de-static tool that puts out a little bit of powder and I thought I'd try it, see what happens. If it's really wet, you're going to get some of the ink maybe on that brush and you'll have to clean that off using some alcohol to try to gently get rid of it. But it works really well. I rub it with a cotton ball afterward, just kind of spread that powder around and then buff it with my hand to get rid of any of that remaining powder on the surface of the paper. These flowers had kind of a little bit of tacky in the center and it wasn't really bad but it was worth putting a little bit of this powder on to just get rid of that initial tackiness and then if it's in an envelope it's not going to stick to the envelope itself, that sort of thing and work really well as a card. This one had a lot of areas though that were really sticky and I was nervous about getting too much of that ink onto my de-static tool so I thought aha I'm going to try just using some actual talcum powder, some baby powder and yes it did make a bit of a mess on this but I wasn't going to be using it anyway when it was that sticky so I thought I'd try this and see if it worked. I spread the powder around as best I could and then use the cotton ball to move it around a little bit further, just very light pressure not to scratch the surface or anything and it left a little white sheen on it but as soon as I used my hand to buff it all that color came right back and it was suddenly not sticky at all. I was just so tickled. When I discover little things like this it makes me so happy that I can use a project instead of just set it aside until I can figure out how to unstickify it. Here's another that was quite sticky and needed the talcum powder to be used on it and this one was created as an IGTV so I'm going to link you up to that in the description down below this video if you want to go see how that's made. If you're interested in doing scenes with your alcohol inks there is a little bit in the alcohol ink jumpstart class that is all about making scenes not a ton of it it focuses more on that ethereal look of things but there are some lessons on how to make scenes mountains and that sort of thing so there will be a link to that in the doobly doo as well. Look how beautiful that just comes right back and polishes itself right up. Now this one was a little different. I recently bought some of the metallics finally and boy did I make a mess. I was doing things and this was like such a tacky mess. I didn't even think the powder would do any good but I thought it's already a mess it's already ruined it looks pretty but it's not usable for anything so let me just give it a shot with the powder and see what happens and I clearly need more practice with these metallics we'll see how that goes I've got to watch some tutorials and see what the heck you do with them but this one I had to use quite a bit of the powder I wanted to make sure I got it spread around really well so I tapped on a little bit extra after I got the first bit because it didn't want to move that's how sticky it was it didn't want to tap around at all but then when it was all done you could see that there's all that powder in there it did make a little bit of texture in some of the areas because it was really tacky wet but as soon as I took the cotton ball to it it slid right across the surface it just glided right over it as if it had never been sticky I was absolutely shocked that it worked on this one so if you have any projects that you think you've ruined because of that don't worry about having ruined them just get out a little bit of powder and a cotton ball and you can fix them right up and be able to use them on cards so I hope this was helpful to you if you enjoyed it and learned something from it hit that like button share it with your friends if you know somebody else who does alcohol ink projects and links to everything are in the doobly-doo including that class I'll talk to you guys later take care bye bye