Sarah Jane's Craft Blog

No new craft post this week, but I wanted to share a reminder that you can follow me over on Instagram: Sarah Jane's Craft Blog on Instagram . View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Jane Setnes Dale (@sarahjanescraftblog) I post photos of each week's projects along with coloring projects and flashbacks to old crafts. Be sure to follow! P.S. If you're interested in more info about adult coloring and what colored pencils I like--check out my past posts here: Adult Coloring .

A couple weeks ago I tested out some new (to me) alcohol inks: Unicone Arts Alcohol Ink . My opinion of the inks was a bit mixed . The inks were beautiful colors, but a bit thin and really inconsistent in vibrancy/opacity (how strong the colors are). So, I wanted to try them out using some different methods to see how well they really work. I've done a lot of plastic wrap alcohol inking over the last few years, but when I first started to try  applying alcohol ink with plastic wrap , I had a few sort of successful attempts at applying it with the  plastic wrap and peeling it off while still wet or tacky . Since then, I've mastered the art of letting it dry (it can be a real challenge of patience some days). Dollar Tree Altar Candles were one of the projects I tried inking with plastic wrap with mixed success, so I thought I'd try it again.  This time, I spray painted the candle jars with a light coat of white spray paint. I taped off the top of the candle jar, and I spra...

As the blog inches up on its 10th anniversary, I thought I'd share some of the projects that started the blog.  Click on the monthly links to check out projects from the beginning of blog! January 2012 :  February 2012 :  March 2012 :  April 2012 :  May 2012: August 2012 : September 2012 :

There are so many new brands of alcohol ink coming on the market that I've started doing these first impressions reviews of the inks as I manage to try them out. This brand-- Unicone (not Unicorn--though they use a Unicorn in their logo)--was on a lightning deal on Amazon for $9.99. Since they usually sell for around $20.00, I figured it would be worth checking them out. Unicone mainly sells resin and resin supplies, so these inks were probably designed to be used with their resin. I will not be using these inks with resin (at least not in the immediate future), so let's see how they do. The inks arrived in a pretty box with lovely colors on the lid and their unicorn logo on the front. I got out some basic alcohol inking supplies ( craft mat , rubbing alcohol , pipette , hand blower , ceramic tile , etc.) and got to work. When I opened the box, the bottles reminded me a lot of the T-Rex ink bottles. They were a nice size and easy to work with, but don't fit in my existin...

The 4th of July is just around the corner, so I thought I'd try some inking techniques in patriotic colors. Last month, I tried a technique to create stripes of alcohol ink with a foam brush . It worked fairly well (it worked really well on smaller surfaces ), but was tough to apply in straight lines. I figured I'd drag the ink across the tile vertically to see if I could get a straighter line. I also wanted to see if I could use the Pinata white ink to keep the red and blue from turning into purple on the tile as I striped. Well, the white ink worked well, but striping vertically (I turned the tile after) did not seem to improve my wonky lines. So onto project #2. This time I wanted to test out using a piece of permanent vinyl (the kind you buy for Silhouette or Cricut cutting machines) as a resist for alcohol ink. I had some vinyl scraps leftover from some previous projects , so I drew a star on the paper backing and cut it out. It wasn't a perfect star, but I was mostl...