Make Alcohol Inks with These Easy Recipes | DIY Alcohol Ink Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Join me as I demonstrate how to make alcohol inks using multiple inks and paints that you probably already have in your stash. I also show how they work on the papers and give a quick demo project at the end!
Materials Used:
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Markers, Inks & Paints
Alcohol Markers - 80 Count - amzn.to/3wq5D0T
Ranger Archival Reinkers - bit.ly/3866hYc
Distress Acrylic Paint - 1) bit.ly/3a0qRJU 2) bit.ly/3sKRnxF
Dr. PH Martin’s Spectralite Liquid Acrylic - amzn.to/3G0WTkY
Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays - bit.ly/39CtktL
Liquitex Acrylic Ink - amzn.to/3868yCI
Food Coloring - amzn.to/3MA4VE1
Distress Spray Stains bit.ly/2ZezQCv
Dylusions Ink Sprays bit.ly/3EbmAgq
Ken Oliver ColorBurst - amzn.to/3E8ga37
Ken Oliver Liquid Watercolor "Merlot" - amzn.to/3s4k3kB
Dick Blick Liquid Watercolor - bit.ly/3PrCAl0
Alcohol + Blenders
Large (Bulk) 99.9% Isopropyl Alcohol amzn.to/3FYXiEL
Small Bottle 99% Isopropyl Alcohol amzn.to/3yFxg7M
70% Isopropyl Alcohol amzn.to/3LqUS2A
Impresa Blending Solution - amzn.to/3N0ku7J
Bottles and Cups
3 ounce plastic cups - amzn.to/3Mr7zvJ
1 ounce plastic cups - amzn.to/3Mt3Q0G
30ml Bottle with Precision Tip - amzn.to/3MEWR4E
15ml Bottle with Precision Tip - amzn.to/3LrNlR5
2 ounce Twist Open Bottle - amzn.to/3NkQ4NF
Tools
Bent Chain-Nose Pliers - amzn.to/3wDebAw
Palette Knife - amzn.to/3PnPVuN
Blue Nitrile Gloves - amzn.to/3wqSapJ
Heat it Tool - amzn.to/3KtFQZr
Substrates
Grafix Craft Plastic - amzn.to/3MuqQwc
Synaps Synthetic Paper - bit.ly/3yPMJ5d
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0:00 Intro
0:42 The Marker Method
8:29 The Reinker Method
13:08 The Acrylic Method
20:30 Marker Ink Bottling
23:38 Marker Ink Demo
25:05 Reinker Ink Demo
26:55 Gloss Spray Ink Demo
28:52 Distress Paint Ink Demo
31:04 Acrylic Ink Demo
33:34 Water-Based Inks Discussion and Demo
39:58 Quick Project Demo
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Just for fun: If you do the marker in alcohol technique with a yellow highlighter and really dilute it down, you can make ink that will only show up under UV light! Really great for secret messages (as long as the reader has at least a UV flashlight), clues to find gifts on puzzle card pieces ... etc. SO much fun!
The best part when it's all been made and bottled, comes after you've cleaned up. Shine the UV light over the sink, the counter, your hands, your workspace, your couch or commode or anything you may have touched while making it (or to a lesser degree, using it). You'll see what an epic mess was made. NO worries, easy to clean off of solid surfaces with alcohol. I wouldn't bet on it coming out of fabric surfaces.
Also, you can use this method of soaking the sponge holding the marker ink with dried up markers, so don't throw them out! Markers, highlighters ... make ink if they're "bad".
By definition they're UV reactive meaning shine a UV light at it and gives off whatever fluor marker hue in use. It's not fluorescent by any means because they if you held your highliter in the sun for a minute it would light up and hold a charge that's not true however. There's specific well pre-made paints too but I suggest look for UV powder they use to cast dyes of resin I use it too so in normal light a certain drawing has specific highlights and if I turn the light off it lights up yellow/green/sky-blue/deep blue/pink/orange that's up to you but remember it's a sorta metal flake you'll be adding so it if HAS TO be sprayed with a mist thingy then I'd reconsider otherwise UV or UV reactive powder. You can mix to your own will but I'll tell you right now I've tried this and with a flexible non luminous more plastic like flake? No problem. Any of the actual oxides you need to make it glow? That's why to me this while art form is a bit daft. Because it's pumped up with waaaaay more solvent then you'd ever need it's gonna kick out meaning your pigments let go you'll have a layer almost like you put down aluminium foil and then pigment solvent and some left over polymer emulsion split off from one another. Now it's totally done so in general id say no. You can make truly way nicer things with way more nuanced because what you get now you spray something thinner then water. The metal flakes will definitely stick out also by day and the when they're charges and it turns night and you didn't make it with a UV light in the room you won't even know if the glow after dark will work at all or maybe just fight against each other
What a great way to get custom colours!
I am so glad I came across your channel. I have been watching all your videos and you have the greatest ideas. Thank you so much for sharing
This was a fabulous tutorial. Thank you!
Thank you for doing this video. I know nothing about alcohol inks or it’s uses so this was very informative. I appreciate you sharing your experience.
Thank you for this great information! It was so fun to watch and learn 🤗
Thanks for this practical and great information!
Thanks so much for showing this! Very helpful!
Thank you for a great video with so much information. I have a set of 80 markers and I had no idea what to do with them. Thanks to you, now I know. 💥💫
Glad it was helpful, thank you!
Thank you. Pretty cool
Great tutorial!!! Thanks so much for sharing the different options you’ve discovered.
You are so welcome, glad it was helpful!
Thankyou so much i have made the marker inks before and will try the other ones now i just need more bottles now ❤❤
I stumbled across this video while looking for some info on alcohol inks. OMFG, what a great tutorial! I totally learned something new today, lol. At first, I didn't know what you were doing when you were first using the air blower. Of course I looked it up, and never really realized how people had gotten those results before.
Wow!!
Great info!
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for all your demos very informative and educational thank you so much
Thanks so much for the feedback! Glad it was useful for you :)
Another great video! Thank you so much 🥰
You are brilliant. I learned so much. Thank you.
Thank you so much! That was so sweet of you to say :)
Thank you so much for this information!❤
Thank you and well done.👍 I love experiments😊
Excellent video thank you.
Thank you so much for this tutorial!!! I use A LOT of alcohol ink in my projects and have often thought of making my own. Have you ever used/added mica powder to your inks?
I love this ! Thank you for sharing ❤
You are so welcome, thank you!
a great video lots of info and thanks from the uk
Great demo.. 🕊🕊🕊
Thank you
Excellent video! I subscribed!
Hee hee - I love craft product dissection and chemistry projects. You have some great low cost diy hacks. I love that.
Just come across your channel, I want to say what a well made and clearly explained video. I will be toddling over to your playlist and subscribing if I see anything else of interest. Thank you. Eleanor
Thank you so much.
I will try again on Monday with reinker and alcohol. I used acetate. The alcohol dried before reinker and it looked splotchy. Will try on different surface and let it sit longer before squirting it.
Great information. ❤❤. How do they work with resin?
Tank you for video. Just thought the alcohol ink refill could be used too since you said only need around 10-15 drops.
goedemorgen deze zonnige morgen ,Mooi idee van u zelf je alcohol inkt maken. weet u ook of je zo ook witte zink alcohol inkt kan maken om met epoxy te werken?
Great video. What paper do you suggest for beginners like myself?
Hello! Well you can generally use anything that is non-porous. Yupo is the most well known I think but Grafix Craft Plastic is also popular. If you can find photo paper that is blank on the back (no logos) that words too but just the back , not the front. I actually did a video comparing some papers if you want to check it out :) th-cam.com/video/BKe6hEQv55g/w-d-xo.html Thank you!
Fabulous! What is that squeeze tool you used?
Hi there! That would be the Ranger Ink Blower which you can find here amzn.to/3Y2VO3I :) Thank you!
I used to use Sharpi markers. Again has to be permanent, not water-based highlighters
Bedankt
I learned a new word today :) Thank you so much!!
I was wondering if you could put those samples in a sunny location to see if they fade and how fast?
I want to know how they make the opal and chameleon alcohol inks !!
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Have you tried water based inks with isopropyl? And if so did you get good results?. Thank you so much for a very interesting lesson!! And of course I have subscribed !👍
Hi there! The only water based items I have tried are the ones in the video. I tried Dylusions spray, liquid watercolor, colorburst powder and distress spray stain. I do those demos at about the 33:00 mark- th-cam.com/video/5BOdA0mPS88/w-d-xo.html Thank you for subscribing!
Do I Used Highlighter coz I don't have these markers 😢
How do you make a blending solution?. Nice video!! :) Congratulations. :)))
Hello! I have tried to make blending solution before but I just got the "recipe" here on TH-cam. It is really simple just requires vegetable glycerin and isopropyl. I don't know the ratios off hand but there are some great videos floating around here! Thanks for watching :)
Do the markers have to dry out before you make the inks
Hello! No they do not have to dry out. You can do this if they're brand new or old :)
What tool did you use to blow your inks on the paper
Hello! Sorry it took so long to answer but that the Tim Holtz ink blower. There should be a link to it in the description!
Do you make your own blending solution
Hi again:) I have made my own before but I haven't done it in awhile. There are some good tutorials here on TH-cam though. You just need glycerin and isopropyl if I recall correctly!
Wow, I have learned so much….thank you for sharing your talent. BTW, your voice is soothing. You should read books and get paid 😂
haha, thank you!!
Can u name the black bottle u used for blowing ink
Hello, I am so behind on responding to comments, I'm sorry! But that is the Tim Holtz Ranger Ink Blower. There should be a link in the description!
Thank u mam
Can these be used in resin?
Yes I did
Have you tried Easter egg pellets?
Nooooo but I am now intrigued!
Not a deal breaker for me, but I’m still new to alcohol inks and haven’t reworked them in any way.
Wouldn't it be easier and more sustainable to simply buy alcohol-based inks?
I wouldn't be putting water with it.
70% alcohol works just as good with permanent markers
Goodness 😂you washed off PERMANENT marker.. not so permanent then hey? There's only one kind that's an oil based push nib with a highly vapid and sleightly corrosive solvent all the rest is permanent to about the strength of wodka. As those mostly are made W alcohol so water that 70% down it still works just slower 🤷♂️
So I don't have the patience nor respect for the concept as it's really dang basic ass chemistry if we can call it that that especially ladies of a certain age like here start going all scientist over.. there's bio and denatured ethanol. How do we derive at denatured? What's being done?