Sarah Jane's Craft Blog

Check out the blog's collection of Alcohol  Ink projects: Alcohol Ink Collection 

Over the years, the blog has shared many suncatcher projects. Check out the whole collection here: Suncatcher Collection

Last week I shared a ceramic tile sign that I made . It went so well, that I made another alcohol inked ceramic tile with a decal on it.  I cut the designs for this week and last week (and one I made a couple of weeks ago ) all at the same time to fill the 12-inch cutting mat. I made a design with a clipart sun and a song lyric from a fun upbeat song. The tricky part was learning how to wrap the text around the sun on a curve . But I managed to figure it out. I cut the designs on permanent black glossy vinyl using standard settings on my old Silhouette Cameo . After the designs were cut, I separated them from each other using scissors and then weeded the designs with a weeding pick tool .  I gathered up some sunshine colors in  yellow and orange alcohol   inks and prepped my surface with a craft mat . I started with some of the lighter colors (yellows) to get a base of color on the tile. I used a hand bulb blower and thinned the ink with rubbing alcohol to move ...

A few weeks ago, I made a ceramic tile sign combining alcohol ink with a decal cut on my old Silhouette Cameo . It turned out so well, that I made another. When I made my last ceramic tile sign, I cut out a few different patterns out of the black vinyl to fill the 12-inch square cutting mat. Today's design was based on one that I found while doing some Googling. I found a similar design and then decided to make my own version of it. I found a free (for personal use) clipart sloth and layered the text over top of it in the Silhouette Design Studio. I cut it using standard vinyl settings and cut the designs apart from each other with scissors. I removed the excess vinyl with a weeding tool and set aside the vinyl. Then I pulled out my alcohol ink supplies and a 6-inch ceramic tile (picked up at the hardware store). I wanted the sloth to look like he was up in the trees so I selected a couple of shades of bright green and sky blue alcohol inks to cover the tile. I started out w...

Check out all of my patriotic crafts here: 4th of July Stars and Stripes Craft Collection  

Around Memorial Day this year, I cut a couple of designs out of blue vinyl to make into signs. The first was applied to a Dollar Tree metal sign , the extra design cut through the backing, so it was set aside (I wasn't sure I'd be able to weed it without it coming to pieces). So, with the 4th of July holiday coming up, I thought I better try to salvage the vinyl. Both of the patriotic designs were freebies in the Silhouette design story at some point. I found them in my library and cut them on some blue permanent vinyl . I set it to the standard glossy vinyl settings in Silhouette Studio but upped the force to 11. Usually, this works well to make sure the design cuts cleanly without having to increase any other settings on my old Silhouette Cameo . The extra force worked fine on the other design on cut on this same sheet of vinyl, but parts of this design cut through the paper backing. The outside vinyl came off the design cleanly and easily. But I had to be a bit more careful ...