Dazzling New Year | with Ardyth – Birch Press Design

If there’s one thing we can probably all agree on, it’s that we’re happy that 2021 is almost here!

I created a colourful New Year’s card with a fun technique using alcohol inks and the Delicate Pastels Glitter Card pack.

I started with a 6×6 inch piece of white glitter cardstock:

I liberally spread rubbing alcohol (you can use blender solution) over the cardstock and dropped in lots of colours of alcohol ink. I used my lens cleaner (air pump) to spread the colours around and then left it to dry.

I used mostly bright colours and I added some darker (Eggplant) ink around the edge to see how I liked it. I preferred the bright colours for this card, but I wonder about creating a ‘galaxy’ sky with more of this darker ink…..

When it was dry, I used the top layer of the Dazzle set to cut it. This gave me a sparkly circle from the centre which I used a little later.

I cut the bottom 2 layers from black cardstock, as well as a black cardbase, to really let the glittery colours stand out!

I used the sparkly circle from the centre of my top layer, and placed it over the bottom layer die to cut a smaller circle. I glued it in and that created a black pointy frame around it, which has a really energetic look!

For my sentiment, I used the rest of my glittery alcohol ink panel and the Mod Alphabet, using white cardstock for the shadow layers to try and make sure that the visibility was high.