Alcohol Ink Landscape Background By Karen Slusher 

1.  Start with a piece of glossy white cardstock and a stamp that needs a landscape-type background.  Choose alcohol inks that are the appropriate colors for your chosen landscape.

2.  Using your stamp as a guide, apply alcohol inks, starting from the lightest colors to the darkest.   For this example, the water will go on first.  Starting with Stonewashed ink, dab all over and down to where the rocks will be.
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3.  The water needs more dimension, so add some Stream and Denim inks.  Keep the Denim mostly towards the lower part to keep the dark at the bottom.
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4.  Now the rocks can be added.  Dab on some Carmel ink at the bottom, referring to the shape of the rocks in the stamp for placement. The Carmel can mix with the blues along the edge – it just gives it a good edge of a greenish color which would be appropriate for underwater rocks!
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5.  Using StazOn black ink, stamp the image onto the background, trying to line up the colors with the image as much as possible.
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6.  At this point you can be done, or you can paint in a little more color onto your image using more alcohol ink.  Put one drop of Pitch Black onto a paint palette or piece of acrylic and use a paintbrush to apply it very lightly onto the seal.  This is a little tricky because to “thin” the ink it’s nice to use some blending solution, but the ink – and especially the blending solution – will lift the StazOn ink image.  If you dip your brush in the ink, wipe most of it off, then apply it carefully to your image, it can work.  To make the kelp green, apply Lettuce ink to the leaves in the same way.
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7.  Trim and mount finished piece to black and green papers, then adhere to white card.
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