July's Tag for Tim's 12 Tags of 2012

I knew that the July tag would be something patriotic.  Since I am not American and with Canada Day already past, I thought I would go a completely different route.  Something summery, something using my favourite colours....play a little with alternate supplies.

One thing I tend to collect are DCWV stacks.  Most of the time they don't fit my style but they are pretty paper and I like pretty paper.  In this case, I had picked up the Royal Garden stack on one of my trips into the States.  I love peacocks and this paper is vibrant with gold foil accents.  It is also a glossy coated paper.  Instead of using the Ranger clay coated glossy paper, I wondered if alcohol ink technique would work on the DCWV paper.  I selected a piece of white peacock feather paper from the stack and began to play.  It worked fairly well.

Materials used:  DCWV pattern paper, Ranger Alcohol ink, Archival ink, and miscellaneous metal elements.

One thing I need to remember when using glossy paper, ink takes much longer to dry on it but thankfully, you can't see where I smudge the image ;-)

Have a good Monday.