Inky Fingers

Ever create an inky mess?
Oh I have more times than I'd like to admit.

Recently I posted about making backgrounds

with Dylusions Ink Sprays.

Check out my fingers in these pictures.

You can see a variety of colors on my fingers.

Oh and you really can't even see most of that ink.

There were many different colors.

I wish I had taken a couple pictures of just how inky

my hands had gotten, but I wasn't expecting to need

the pictures.

Why? you ask am I showing you pictures of inky fingers?

Well, I'll tell  you.  After we finished playing with the ink,

I cleaned up my fingers the best I could with some rubbing alcohol.

That didn't do much and my fingers were still a mess.

I went down to the kitchen to get a snack and washed my hands.

While washing my hands I saw the Dawn Dish Detergent and 

on a whim gave it a try for cleaning my hands.

Low and behold, didn't it take that ink right off my hands?!?!

I was so excited, I've always had to just let it wear off over

several shampoos.
Now I've found another reason to love Dawn.

I just wanted to pass this on to any of you who might

tend to get inky like I do.

At least it works to get Dylusions Inks off,

give it a try, maybe it will work for whatever kinds of

inks you are getting covered with.

Thanks for stopping in today,

now go get inky!

Spray backgrounds

Welcome!

I don't know about y'all, but I do love getting messy

now and then.

While visiting my friend, Mary, I did just that.

Funny how when ever I visit her, we get into something

messy with inks or sprays of some kind.

Here's what I used

Dylusions Ink Sprays, a spray bottle of water, deli paper

and white card stock.

Mary has an old cookie sheet that she uses for projects like this,

I put a piece of deli paper on the cookie sheet and sprayed it

with the Dylusions spray.

After spraying 3 different colors on the deli paper,

I sprayed it with water.

For this one I used Pomegranate Seed, Postbox Red and
Pure Sunshine.

You can see how the water blends with the ink and beads up.

Next I placed a piece of white card stock onto the ink.

This is what I got when I picked up the paper.

The white areas are where there were folds in the 

deli paper.

I laid another piece of card stock down to pick up 

more of the ink and this is the result I got.

I ended up with this pretty mix on the deli sheet

once I was done soaking up the ink.

I can use this for more backgrounds.

Next I used After Midnight, Lemon Zest and Polished Jade.

I used the same technique.  Love these colors together!

After I soaked up most of the ink with some card stock,

I spritzed the inks again and folded a piece of card stock

into the deli paper.

This is the result I got.

I sprayed even more water and soaked up ink from 

all over where ever it was wet.

And I got a pretty pastelish (is that a word) background.

My last combination was After Midnight, Vibrant Turquoise

and Fresh Lime.

I played around with the deli paper after I made some

card stock backgrounds.

I laid another sheet of deli paper over the inks and picked

up what I could, this is the results.
I will use all these deli papers to create more backgrounds.

Below are the card stock pieces that I created.

They are going to make some beautiful cards.

I'm not sure what happened to that lower right corner piece,

I suspect that somehow I dripped some rubbing alcohol onto 

it when I was cleaning up.  Kind of an interesting splotch,

don't know how I can incorporate it, so I'll probably end up

covering it with something.

Never know what I'll end up doing with these,

but I do love how they turned out.

I'm glad you stopped by today,

I hope you are too.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on

Kristie Kreates.