Make Alcohol Inks with These Easy Recipes | DIY Alcohol Ink Tutorial

[@futuristontheloose]

*Thank you* for this wonderful, instructive step-by step! Have been jumping around for a few days trying to find this exact tutorial. You're a great visual teacher, love your detailed commentary and vast experience-sharing. You're a really talented communicator and I love that you placed your camera above your work area. High quality instructional content right here.

[@JamieAndrick]

Treasure Books used just kids markers and they turned out incredible..

[@aprildegele1510]

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".

[@greenones8754]

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

[@kristabelle9581]

Hee hee - I love craft product dissection and chemistry projects. You have some great low cost diy hacks. I love that.

[@create.channeleileenelias4795]

Thankyou so much i have made the marker inks before and will try the other ones now i just need more bottles now ❤❤

[@marilynbaziak532]

temu has them

[@dianamoore2292]

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

[@devinemsm05]

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. 💥💫

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Glad it was helpful, thank you!

[@cherilynn1557]

What a great way to get custom colours!

[@ematthews3267]

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

[@MorgaineChristensen]

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.

[@crystalchilvers7669]

Great tutorial!!! Thanks so much for sharing the different options you’ve discovered.

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

You are so welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@Sky-ht6vn]

Thanks for this practical and great information!

[@SS-hz4jo]

You are brilliant. I learned so much. Thank you.

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Thank you so much! That was so sweet of you to say :)

[@sallysavage3879]

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.

[@Gloria_Davis]

This was a fabulous tutorial. Thank you!

[@MarraCarreno]

Thanks for the class it was very important to me❤😊

[@mixedmediaminnesota]

Thank you for this great information! It was so fun to watch and learn 🤗

[@yvonne1960100]

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?

[@patriciahogg5763]

Wow!! Great info! Thanks for sharing!!

[@funnyg460]

Tank you for video. Just thought the alcohol ink refill could be used too since you said only need around 10-15 drops.

[@karenraabis5296]

Excellent video! I subscribed!

[@jyotimuni1859]

Hi... great video.... but can you use these for resin art?

[@gradyel6563]

Thank you for all your demos very informative and educational thank you so much

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Thanks so much for the feedback! Glad it was useful for you :)

[@Goldi-Luc]

great video !! ❤ i was wondering if py martin inks could be done like this, and also watercolors, daniel smith watercolor sticks in particular since they have no fillers. i can find nothing online for either so shall experiment lol

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hi there!! Worth a try! When I made this video my studio was like a lab haha I was trying everything. So, I would say go for it 😁

[@erikabrownfield174]

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?

[@valkiehaider4544]

Great demo.. 🕊🕊🕊

[@annemorgan2928]

Excellent video thank you.

[@ArtyGal]

Thank you so much for this information!❤

[@deborahcoram6793]

Thanks so much for showing this! Very helpful!

[@skunnavatana9407]

Great video. What paper do you suggest for beginners like myself?

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

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 :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHzIZ5t7httoa8k Thank you!

[@mywifetheartist]

Great information. ❤❤. How do they work with resin?

[@debramackawgy9245]

Thank you. Pretty cool

[@kelleyoneal2578]

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.

[@BetsySchuyler]

I love this ! Thank you for sharing ❤

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

You are so welcome, thank you!

[@theperson8049]

Hiya ive been wanting to use alcohol ink with polymer clay, as water based paints/inks dont do well when mixed with the clay. D'ya think these homemade recipes would work? If so which recipe do you think would be best? Love the vudeo btw ❤

[@LaceyR_FreeEricBrandt]

Thank you and well done.👍 I love experiments😊

[@lenoreschurman5139]

Fabulous! What is that squeeze tool you used?

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hi there! That would be the Ranger Ink Blower which you can find here amzn.to/3Y2VO3I :) Thank you!

[@gerardbradshaw5644]

a great video lots of info and thanks from the uk

[@jennyvoorhaar9547]

Another great video! Thank you so much 🥰

[@elorafina]

Where do you get your empty bottles w needle on the end?

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hi there, sorry I missed this :) Amazon! There are a bunch of links to all the stuff in the description. Thank you!

[@hand_Made_products]

Thank you so much ❤

[@ginamartin718]

Thank you

[@millanahorner3942]

Thank you so much.

[@rusty-y8r]

hi, are there any alternatives to alcohol ...that don't smell strong?

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hi there! Not that I have discovered or worked with unfortunately. I know they make wintergreen isopropyl but I have never used it and it likely still smells pretty strong.

[@gabs.lita.]

How do you make a blending solution?. Nice video!! :) Congratulations. :)))

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hello! I have tried to make blending solution before but I just got the "recipe" here on KZbin. 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 :)

[@jennyvoorhaar9547]

Bedankt

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

I learned a new word today :) Thank you so much!!

[@paulettebennett5695]

I was wondering if you could put those samples in a sunny location to see if they fade and how fast?

[@VickyCooksalot]

I used to use Sharpi markers. Again has to be permanent, not water-based highlighters

[@Nasylabrinou]

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 !👍

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

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- kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3OylXRmorWGbpo Thank you for subscribing!

[@Artistry_avenue_00]

Do I Used Highlighter coz I don't have these markers 😢

[@khak3960]

Thanks

[@sheilal.7284]

I want to know how they make the opal and chameleon alcohol inks !!

[@GriffandZeus]

Can these be used in resin?

[@Phungnoi]

Yes I did

[@kimlylondon5497]

Do the markers have to dry out before you make the inks

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hello! No they do not have to dry out. You can do this if they're brand new or old :)

[@rhondaviau-caron3322]

Do you make your own blending solution

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Hi again:) I have made my own before but I haven't done it in awhile. There are some good tutorials here on KZbin though. You just need glycerin and isopropyl if I recall correctly!

[@rhondaviau-caron3322]

What tool did you use to blow your inks on the paper

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

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!

[@learnartwithashoo7015]

Can u name the black bottle u used for blowing ink

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

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!

[@learnartwithashoo7015]

Thank u mam

[@ritasnow455]

how much alcohol did you use, please?

[@millanahorner3942]

Have you tried Easter egg pellets?

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

Nooooo but I am now intrigued!

[@jamieharrison5946]

How long will diy alcohol ink last? Does it go bad???🤔

[@sherriq4571]

Not a deal breaker for me, but I’m still new to alcohol inks and haven’t reworked them in any way.

[@moonpixyart4562]

Wow, I have learned so much….thank you for sharing your talent. BTW, your voice is soothing. You should read books and get paid 😂

[@CreatedandMadeStudios]

haha, thank you!!

[@mariaclaudiabravopsicologa9550]

❤

[@Latuya-y1n]

Walnut oil vegetable oil grapeseed oil turpentine oil etc pistachios oil

[@Latuya-y1n]

Vodka skul or ever clear

[@alecmonteiro]

Wouldn't it be easier and more sustainable to simply buy alcohol-based inks?

[@kelleyoneal2578]

I wouldn't be putting water with it.

[@greenones8754]

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?

[@tanyasnyder9033]

70% alcohol works just as good with permanent markers

[@greenones8754]

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 🤷‍♂️