Alcohol Ink Gem Necklaces with Cabochons and Bezels
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A couple of weeks ago I made some St. Patrick's Day Necklaces using some new cabochons and bezels /blanks that I had ordered on Amazon. They worked alright to make necklaces with printed paper, but now I wanted to see how they worked with alcohol ink. I got out my alcohol inks and a craft mat . I also got out a small paint brush, some rubbing alcohol, and a can of air . I started out by dripping some purple ink onto a gem/cabochon and used a can of air to spread it around the gem. I added some sailboat blue to finish covering the gem with a base of colors. Then I slowly added other colors through a combination of dripping and painting. I would drip some ink on the mat and then load the paintbrush with some ink to dot it onto the gem. I repeated this process with pretty much the same mix of colors on another gem, but with bigger blobs of color and then I tried a monochromatic black , gray , and silver gem . I set these aside for a while t