Simon Says: Alcohol, Drinks Or Inks
Hi all and welcome to another
Thank you for joining us for the Recycle Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
This week we would like you to use something ‘alcohol’ on your creations, this includes alcohol ink markers, or you can choose to use images of alcoholic drinks eg, wine, beer etc
Alcohol
The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty packages and will pop around to visit you ASAP!
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Wendy has used Alcohol Inks with a Gel Plate and Tim Holtz Stencils to create this bright, fun background. For the focal spray she has used a mix of Metallic Cardstock Jewels, papers and Thinlits Traveler Words, Funky Festive and Framelits Stitched Circles Dies
Andrea used a variety of alcohol inks and alcohol blending solution to make this colorful tag duo. She added some polka dot fun with Scrapberry’s Dotted Pattern stencil and some figurines from Inky Antics’ Silhouette Sentiments.
Anna-Karin made a hot air balloon shaker card this week, using Ranger’s alcohol ink to color both the acetate for the balloon and the gloss paper that the small balloon were die cut from. She used Sizzix Hot Air Balloon Impresslits Cut and Emboss Folder, and Tim Holtz Distress Ink for the background.
Barbara used Alcohol inks to create her background and to paint her metal embellishments. She used Ranger Yupo Paper, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous French Collage , Idea-ology Collage Frames and Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed media #1.
Cheiron used a rainbow of Alcohol Inks on Ranger Silver Sparkle Alcohol Ink cardstock to shine thorough on her card using the Simon Says Stamp Windows to My Heart and CZ Design Babe dies.
Emma used a variety of Alcohol Inks on Yupo card to create art on her mini Etcetera Tag. She used the Stitched Circles die to cut circular discs of the Yupo before layering them with Sprocket Gears and a Tim Holtz Paper Doll.
Kath used Tim Holtz White Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper and Alcohol Inks to create a panel for her 2019 notebook decorated with Tim Holtz/Sizzix Funky Floral Large and CutOut Script Thinlits
Lols made a birthday card using White Yupo Paper, Crimson and Dandelion Alcohol Inks and a little Blending Solution. She used an Alcohol-Lift Ink Pad and a Wine Blueprint Stamp to create the design. She also altered a wine glass and made it into a candle holder by dribbling the inks and then adding some Platinum Glitter Dust for lots of sparkle.
Macarena made a bouquet of wine glasses using Tim Holtz Wine Blueprints stamps set and a leather-like background using Simon Says Stamp Large Dots stencil.
Maura took out her Ranger Alcohol Inks, Yupo Paper and Tim Holtz Great Outdoor stamp set and created a landscape.
Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Translucent Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper on the background, then colored it with Ranger Alcohol Inks and embellished it using Tim Holtz Rubber Stamp Beer Blue Print.
Sandra had fun playing with Alcohol Inks on Yupo paper, and lifting it with Alcohol Lift Ink and the Dapper stamp set.
So now it’s YOUR turn to get out your inks, paints and all things arty and start creating! We are looking forward to seeing what you make!
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Please read the challenge rules on the sidebar. It has come to our attention that some are entering projects that were posted weeks ago. While they may follow the theme these are not eligible to win the voucher. All creations must be newly published. Thank You

Okay gals…I am INSPIRED! Great job and thanks for all the wonderful ideas!!!
gorgeous projects from team!
thanks for your lovely comments ladies :-) XX
Fantastic inspiration as always from the team. I’m looking forward to hopping round for a closer look.
Alison x
What a wonderful theme, you have inspired me to get out my Alcohol Inks and Alcohol Lift-Off and have a play! Amazing inspiration from the DT as always, thanks so much for sharing your talent and techniques, Deb xo
I decided to participate in my very first SSSMchallenge, but failed to read all the instructions. I uploaded something that I posted months ago and then read that’s a no-no, but I couldn’t figure out how to delete it. I promise I’m not a jerk and I will follow the rules next time!