Art Journal: Alcohol Inks with Shari Carroll
Put on your sunglasses friends because I have a bright one for you today!!
I had some playtime with Tim Holtz Alcohol inks on Yupo for my art journal page. A quick explanation of Yupo is that it’s a plastic paper. It can be used with watercolors, inks, paints and more. It’s simply amazing! I’m not going to lie, you’re going to love it. The more you experiment; the more backgrounds you’ll want to make.
One of my favorite things is that the Yupo remains smooth and flat so doodling is possible!
I started with Two 5″x7″ sheets of white Yupo and used my Alcohol inks to create the background (see the video below). Once I had the background ink and the two pieces looking similar, I stamped the Circle Doodle image on both using Black Archival ink. This stamp is a fine line images that will leave plenty of color showing through and lines to write on for journaling. I trimmed one of the backgrounds down to 2″x7″ to add together for the square format of my journal.
I added some Tim Holtz Quote Chips for my title and a strip of Tim Holtz Tissue tape to hide the seam between the Yupo pieces. I absolutely love how the alcohol inks marble and mix to create a beautiful background. I’m not quite done with my doodling, this will be a work in progress, sit and relax page.
I have filmed a process video that you can watch below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
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Oh my this is so beautiful!!
What a beautiful, colorful background. Love your choice of colors.
Stunning!
The colors are very pretty!
Beautiful card! I love the colors!
WOW!!!! Your art journal pages are absolutely beautiful and so very stunning!!!
Bold and beautiful. Love the colors and techniques used. I love to see the creative process. Very inspirational.
Your work is stunning. Love all the beautiful colors here. Awesome doodling. :-)
Oh My Goodness! The colors you used are gorgeous.
Gorgeous!!! I love the idea that you can now take it wit you and keep adding doodles!!!
Fantastic background, Shari!
The colors are so lovely – a stunning creation – and wow an Art Journal – I have not ventured there – great work tfs
OMG! This is gorgeous! Wow!
Oh wow, gorgeous colors!
I love how you “brought it back” a few times. It looks beautiful. Watching the process was fun and inspiring.
Wow, this is an amazing technique.
Wonderful artsy look to this.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful!!!
I love Yupo paper and have made backgrounds with it but none with this much color–I love it!
Love alcohol inks on yupo! When is Simon Says going to get the new mineral paper – its pretty cool with
alcohol inks, too. Your mixed media layout is FAB!
Love this project sooo much
Wow! Striking! I need to take out my Yupo paper and alcohol inks and experiment. Thanks for the inspiration.
Gorgeous colors Shari! Thank you for sharing.
Fun! I need some of this Yupo paper. I already follow by email.
I love the way it turned out. It is beautiful.
OOOoooo! Ah! Very pretty. :)
Such vibrant beautiful colors!
Beautiful. Stunning. I like the idea you can doodle and journal with the design.
Love all the colors.
This is stunning! I had almost forgotten about the alcohol inks!!
Love it! And so enjoyed watching you make your Yuppo page! Love that paper :)!! Thanks for sharing .
love playing with alcohol inks on yupo … great idea to stamp, journal and doodle on the beautiful background
With new products being released it’s good to remember old favourites! Lovely masterpiece
Beautiful! I definitely want to give this a try!
I love your art journal page using alcohol inks. I have not played with my alcohol inks in ages and now I am inspired to get them out again.
This is so beautiful Shari! Haven’t used my alcohol inks in so long — this was good incentive to bring them out and play.
I love alcohol inks for backgrounds, they are so lovely. The circle doodles really play off those colors.
Quite Amazing! Well done–that’s a lot of doodling!
I have never used the alcohol inks, but this looks so cool I think I need to get some and try
This is really cool! Beautiful page for your journal.
Gorgeous – this glows like a piece of stained glass.
What an awesome technique. I have never used Yupo, what an great product!
These inks are really vibrant
OMG! Colors are really awesome!!!
Beautiful colors.
It’s beautiful and I love the way you used it to journal.
This is so cool! Love the bright colors, playing with alcohol inks and yupo is so fun!
The colors over the pen and ink look terrific!
Beautiful colors. I just pulled my alcohol inks out recently to make a background and it reminded me how lovely they are. You made a beautiful piece!
I just love this look. This is a new area I need to try! The results are just lovely