Ceramic Tile and Alcohol Ink "Walkin' on Sunshine" Sign


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 the ink around the tile.


I continued to add colors to the tile until it was mostly covered and I was happy with the look.


I let the tile dry for about an hour before I took it outside on a warm dry day and sprayed a couple of coats of Kamar Varnish on it to seal the inks.


Then I grabbed my decal that I had weeded earlier and cut a piece of transfer tape the size of the design.


I applied the tape to the decal and rubbed it down onto the design making sure that all the smallest pieces of vinyl would stick to the tape.


Then I peeled the transfer tape and the decal off of the paper backing and applied the design to the tile.


I was careful to center the design before rubbing it down into place. I used my weeding tool's handle to rub the smallest pieces of vinyl into place before peeling off the transfer tape.


I hope the tile is as sunshine-y as the song is. I had a lot of fun doing some alcohol ink projects again; I hope there are more to come.

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