 Hey guys, all right, I don't even think I can get them all on camera. This is the alcohol ink. I still have in my possession This is crazy because I don't even use it that much anymore, but anyway, it's definitely on the no buy list I have some metallic colors. I don't know that I've ever used most of them, but anyway We're gonna try to use some of these today So I saw a video from a scrapbook or here on YouTube who has been having a tough tough time dealing with Discrimination in the scrappy booking and art world and I am so sorry as Essie Ruth makes I will link her channel below. Go show her some love and support. Anyway, I don't know that She's gonna be putting out much or any new content, but I do appreciate the content She has put out and I will have no problem with saying that put up publicly She's a fabulously creative and should be judged on that and that alone and that's the end of that conversation. Anyway, I She was using a sticker a couple of different stickers, but one of them I had to go do some searching and cute things from Japan website, which is a site. I do like How does a sticker from a company called Mu MU and they're called a watercolor sticker They seem to be more of a rub-on, but anyway, they're really interesting. I'll put a link down below You can go check them out. They're on a transparent background. So whatever you put them on You know, whether it's dictionary paper or layers of other things shows through I thought they were really fascinating again Go watch some of Essie's videos, especially the last one where she's talking about what happened with her Which is an interesting conversation to hear her talk about but also The page she created pages she creates in her journal where she writes about what happened are also interesting and Anyway, I thought well, I don't really want to buy that in order a bunch of stuff from Japan Nobody close by of course has it and so but I thought, you know I've got clear label paper from Avery from back in the day when I used to Play with that kind of thing and I've got lots of watercolor paint. I Could just make my own I could make something on Paper scan it and then like print it on the clear label paper and then I thought yes I could do that, but I also have all of these alcohol inks I wonder if we can do something with alcohol ink and then and then try that So I've got some alcohol ink. I've got some blending solution I've also got some white pinata alcohol ink and I'm going to grab the rubbing alcohol because they don't have a lot of alcohol blending solution But fun fact you can use rubbing alcohol. So I'm going to grab some things. We're going to do some play. They're just paint blobs They're just little translucent paint blob stickers. So we are going to try to make something similar We're going to see what okay first. I have to get rid of the Duple Hits I obviously really like this color because I've got four of them But anyway, I'm going to figure out Figure out what I'm going to do and then we're going to get started. I'll be back Okay, we are going to let these Get good and dry some of my Blobs kind of ran together, but that's okay. I definitely was In a brown zone. I don't know why but brown and turquoise brown and purple obviously So we're going to let them dry I would advertise if you're going to do this get some disposable cutting mats from the dollar store and Do the inking on the cutting mat because I forget alcohol ink goes right through paper. It's pretty messy so Do that and that'll save you some aggravation and then the mess will only go so far That being said most of the ink comes off of your work surface with rubbing alcohol I do have a fabric cutting mat on my surface to protect my surface So yeah, I get them at Joanne's every now and then when I wear out the old one and I use a 40% off coupon. So Anyway, we're going to let these dry then we're going to scan them At a medium high resolution Then we will remove the white background Then we will print it onto the label paper. I'm going to walk y'all through the process of how I do this I have a Mac computer. So if you have a PC, it's going to be a little different Anyway, I'm going to go get some steps in and get my tomatoes and coffee creamer I guess and I'll be back. This is for the alcohol ink experiment video And I guess I'm out walking the neighborhood, you know, sometimes it's good to get out of your art space in it Just gives you moments of clarity and inspiration. So maybe you're not like me and And you don't want to scan them and then print them on paper on sticker paper But you do have clear sticker paper. You why can't you just alcohol ink directly on the sticker paper? You could You don't have sticker paper. Maybe you've got parchment or vellum You could clear alcohol ink on the vellum That might be interesting and then just glue them down So whatever works for you, whatever you have in your stash, try that. I may try a couple when I get back Directly on the clear sticker paper First we're going to go for a walk get some steps in and try to get back before it starts raining because it's really bad but I'll be back for you in just a second for me about an hour before we go scan the ones that we did on paper We're going to try my idea that I had while I was out walking in the clip You just saw so these are my other clear labels. I have They are for the inkjet printer. They're a two by four mailing label. I never use them. So we're going to practice on these We're going to do a mince of cookie sheets. I'm going to get my gloves I put all the alcohol ink way in my basket, but that's okay We'll get some of it out and we will speed forward through the process and when everything dries Then I'll be back for some more talking and we'll see what happens. Okay guys while the Alcohol inking directly on the stickers dries and I did weigh more than I probably should have because I don't even know if it's going to work But anyway The papers we alcohol inked on are dry now the interesting thing about the papers and we'll look at these first Let me turn a light on We'll look at these first did that help. Yeah, I think it did is This is like the right side and it's all dry and that's really cool But the back side because it seeped through so I think we're gonna have to scan both sides So I'm gonna go put my papers in the scanner Forgot these papers are just a little bit too big But that's okay, you know what we're gonna do we're gonna do this so Are we we're gonna Cut them apart or trim them or something so I can get them in the scanner. Hang on. I have things working so I have my scanner app open for my printer and I Always change the presets to something custom. So I'll change it from a document to a photo Scan entire area output color and on the dots per inch. I always do at least 600 Especially if it's something I know I either want to reprint over and over in this case Which I'll talk about in a minute or maybe creating an image or file for the Etsy shop So always like 600 or better. So then I'll hit the scan button My printer is a really old. It's very loud and it's starting to like misbehave It only works what kind of when it wants to and if you hear it popping sound it's I'm doing this You know Yeah, anyway, sorry So I'm gonna get all the images scanned. I'm not gonna make y'all sit here and watch me like scan each single one And I will be back Okay, I've got all of my images scanned and Saved We're gonna open my I Again, I have a iMac and so I'm gonna use pages for this you could use it, you know, whatever software you have use that I like things that are easy. I don't like to do complicated things with like Adobe or anything If it needs that then I either have my daughter help me or my friend Mike Deegan to be honest I'm gonna just make this just a little bit bigger. Although. I don't think I wanted that big when I print it I'm gonna go over here to image Instant alpha and this allows me to take out the white background. I think that's blue will be Taken out. That's good Then I'm going to do this But we're to the side. I'm gonna make it really little although. I don't necessarily want it that little when I'm done I'll pull in the next one Do the same thing to it and get them all So that when the printer prints, it's not trying to print the white paper. It's only trying to print The colorful image and that's it. All right, so I'm gonna do that and I'll be right back Okay, so we printed our first batch on the clear label paper. Now. This is a full sheet of clear paper This isn't like mailing labels or anything and this is how they turned out, which I think is pretty cool and Let me cut one out and show you all while it why I was just Fascinated with the idea of this when I saw them on Essie's channel Pick one Again, if I make this Either if I make this a download I need to put my reading glasses on in the Etsy shop that you can print yourself Or you decide to do this yourself you can print them any size and Then just sit and cut them out print a whole bunch of um And then sit and put on some of your favorite YouTube my channel and And then just sit and cut them all out and then this is what they'll look like cut out But this is clear label paper remember so the white part that you're seeing is the backing The hardest part of this is usually with any sticker whether I make them or I buy them Getting the backing off When you remove it from the paper, I mean look at that Layered in a collage Like how cool is that? you don't have to buy them the ones from Japan are great, but you can make them yourself and and Or I'm gonna have this particular file of these images Available in the Etsy shop. You could print them on your own clear sticker paper And just do them yourself and then you have the file forever. You can print them as often as you need We're gonna let the other ones that we did alcohol directly on the labels Dry and then we'll see how those turn out. I have this sneaking suspicion I'm gonna like the way these look better because those ones might be more opaque, but we'll find out I'll be back our alcohol ink experiments So I will say if you do alcohol ink directly on this the label paper It takes a long time to dry So it's been almost five whole days and most of these are still not dry You can see the shine there where the spots are still wet and sticky I'm assuming it's because the label paper by its nature is not a porous material. It's not like rate regular paper so the ink Alcohol ink takes a very long time to dry. I do have two sheets that are dry enough To see what the difference is in appearance when we put them on the dictionary paper with the one that I printed from my Printer side-by-side, but I wanted to show you these wet ones first Even the ones were at first glance right there. You think that's wet and then you're like, oh, no wait And if you touch it, it's sticky. So while I think it's definitely doable For many many reasons. I think that I would prefer to print on The label paper rather than do it to ink directly on it You have more control over the size of the blotches So if you do it on the regular paper and your blotches come out real big when you scan it and reprint it You can make them any size that you want you can make them smaller. It doesn't matter how they turn out in real life But also the drying time like I have no patience At all my middle name is not patience or grace and so Yeah, I have yeah, it's taken a long time I'm gonna just stack them up again in a corner out of the way But I have them spread out here on my iron board just for you guys to see and For me to pick through to see if I could find any dry ones to finish the video It's again definitely doable Like this one is pretty wet. It's definitely doable, but Yeah, just don't be in a hurry to use them Just do them and then set them aside to dry and by the way these cookie sheets are from the dollar store I know Dollar Tree is about to raise all their prices, but these cookie sheets were a dollar each and they're not the best cookie sheets We're baking on but they're great in the art room. All right Let's go grab one of the labels that is dry and put it on our dictionary paper and see what the difference is in its opacity and Transparency and appearance on the dictionary paper and compared to the one I printed out From the other ones that I made in earlier in the video. Let's go check your memory earlier in the video We'd put some alcohol ink directly on to some Very smooth finished paper to make some alcohol ink Abstract shapes blobs paint blobs and we discovered that we got some interesting shapes and colors on the back as well as the front And we did a whole bunch of them. We scanned them Turned them into a digital image and Then I printed them on clear label paper, which I then cut out like this Made a whole bunch of stickers right now I have those digital images forever I can print them out at random whatever I want Okay, then we decided to experiment with alcohol ink directly on the label paper. I had a different kind of Configuration of the clear label paper, but it was the same type of paper if that makes sense We put alcohol ink directly on it and it is taking forever and a day to dry Although we did it the same way as a regular paper and this is the way the two of them look side by side So this one is the one with ink directly on the label. This is the one printed from the computer This one's more transparent than that one Although that one is still transparent. I don't think I really Have a preference and appearance of one over the other I think just because as I say stated already this one Once you have it scanned and turned into a digital image you can adjust the size to be bigger or smaller That particular one Let me see if I can find it somewhere Hold on There we go, so that particular blue one the that's the original next to it on the paper So I was able to adjust it make it smaller I could print it the same size as it was originally I could make it bigger so you have more options in The finished product that you go to use in your collage then you do with this one where you just only have that one But use what you have maybe you don't have a scanner and a printer. Well, so then do it this way You get a really actually nice interesting result. Just don't be like me and maybe use less alcohol ink I will be trying these next with watercolor paints because I still am interested in doing that I have to get more paper first because now I've used all my paper But I think it's an interesting way to make some DIY embellishments. Yes, of course you can order the stickers But you know I already stated all my reasons why I probably wasn't going to do that because I have all the stuff I can make something similar and I've been using them in my daily practice journals and my daily practice quote journal I will put some pictures here at the end, but I think that you should give it a try and see what you think I'd love to see what you come up with leave your questions comments and concerns down below Don't forget to check out the video description for relevant links Including my link tree list of links, which is includes my Social media stuff my Facebook group my Etsy shop all the things I am going to turn my ones that I scanned these wait these Into a digital download so you'll be able to download those because maybe you don't want to be bothered with it With anything you just want to get the file and do your old printing cool I'm going to turn it into a digital download and I will have it in the Etsy shop linked down below So check it out. That's it for today. Please like share and subscribe go out and do something nice for yourself Because you deserve it share your experiments with this technique in my Facebook group I would love to see what you do with it tag me in the post and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys