Mom ATC #2 - Inky Oils

Today's ATC technique is one I came up with quite some time ago but it's still lots of fun cause it's another technique that you never know what you'll end up with.

I know it's going to sound weird but it's time to go pull out your baby oil...

Inky Oils

Supplies:

Cardstock
Baby Oil
Re-Inkers (dye or Distress)
Scrap Papers
Embellishments

Instructions:

1. Squeeze out a dime sized puddle of baby oil onto your non-stick craft mat.

2. Add one drop of re-inker to the center of the baby oil.

3. Stir the ink into the oil.  You will notice the inks don't mix into the oil but instead form tiny dots of color in all different sizes.  This is o.k...it's what you want.  Kind of like oil and water.

4. Now dip your paper into the mix multiple times until the paper has been saturated by the oil/ink.

And here is what your paper might look like....   It is going to be very oily so you'll want to place it on a pile of scrap paper until it drys.  Now to help speed drying you can take an old magazine or catalogue and press the paper between some of the pages.  You will notice the pages soak up quite a bit of the oil but little if any of the ink.  Move the paper to a new set of pages and press; continue until the pages don't soak up any oil.   Set the paper aside to dry for about 20 minutes or so.

For time sake I made this sheet of paper yesterday.  It was made using Distress Ink instead of regular dye inks.   

I have already prepared an ATC blank by gluing on a background of book text.  Why you might ask????

Because now the cardstock is translucent like vellum!!!  Told you this was an awesome technique!

Glue the inky oils cardstock to your atc and embellish as desired!


NOTE: Someone asked about adhering items to the oily paper.  You will need to use liquid glues for affixing it to your substrate as well as for gluing items to the oily papers.  The dryer type adhesives (Tombo, ATG, etc.) just don't have enough stick power like the liquid varieties.

This is such a fun and addictive technique.

Sometimes I just sit and play with different ink colors and layers to see what I can come up with.

It really is so much fun and quite easy....

best part is that you end up smelling so good afterwards - LOL!!

Now it's your turn!