Rubber Cement Resist with Alcohol Ink


If you've been to this blog before, you know I like to use alcohol inks in my crafts. I'm always searching for new ways to apply the ink and new things to ink. I've tried some hair brained ideas over the years that I hadn't seen any one else try yet just to see if they'd work (like using wax paper to apply alcohol ink) and they're always fun to try even if they don't work as you'd expect them to. So today's craft is another experiment with alcohol ink.


I bought some rubber cement when I saw it on sale with the school supplies. I had the idea that I could use it as a resist (sometimes folks use it as a poor man's masking fluid/frisket for watercolor paintings). I started out by trying to brush it on in a shape....but I knew that would be a real challenge (maybe it would work with a cardboard stencil, but just being brushed on wasn't going to work). So I wiped the glue off of the ceramic tile and started again.


This time I just dripped it on to the ceramic tile in stripes and drops. Once I liked the coverage and look of things, I set it aside for about an hour to set up.


After an hour, the glue was firm, but still tacky. I dripped some alcohol ink across the tile. I decided to go with two colors: Twilight Purple and Watermelon.


I squeezed the ink on and then used some canned air to blow the ink around. Then I applied a little more of the red and purple ink to fill in any remaining white spots on the tile. While finishing up the tile, I ran out of Twilight Purple. This was a bit of a milestone as an alcohol ink crafter as it is the first time I have run out of any color of alcohol ink. They last a really long time. The purple was clearly my favorite color. But, running out meant it left cool tiny dots of ink where I had squeezed out the last bits. Also, it took like 3 years to run out, so I can't complain too much.


I set the tile aside to dry for about 15 minutes while I was working on another project and came back to try to remove the glue. It was still pretty tacky and I was worried the ink wasn't completely set. I didn't want to rub any of the ink off while I removed the glue, so I let it dry overnight.


The next morning, I sat at the kitchen table and carefully pealed and rubbed the glue off. It was a little tedious, but the glue worked well as a resist, the ink didn't get underneath and the glue came off pretty well (albeit with a bit of rubbing).


The finished project turned out really neat. It certainly provided proof of concept. So now I have to come up with other cool ways to use this method of masking!


As always, if you try it out, tell me about it in the comments. If you plan on using your tile as a coaster or plan to handle it, be sure to seal it with some mod podge or other sealer.

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  1. Definitely trying these coasters. Do you think this alcohol paint technique would work on a canvas? (Maybe without glue is you think it will pull up the canvas at all)
    Again looking for cool ways to help my daughter’s sorority make beautiful signage for their main philanthropy (Breast Cancer Awareness & Education which is the whole month of October) as well as making some of the jewelry I’ve asked you about in other posts that they can hopefully sell at some of their events (the first of which is is a 5K color run for Breast cancer. Just trying to help the get as much done to have on hand as possible TYSM!!


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    1. Alcohol ink on canvas doesn't work the same way as it does on ceramic tiles. Even pre-gessoed canvas isn't smooth enough to create the flowing effects. Alcohol ink works great on glass, ceramic tile, smooth plastic, and a product called Yupo which is a special type of glossy card stock.

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