Once you are happy with a design, you may want to seal it with polyurethane spray.

After the fire has burned out, the glass will be completely dry.

Use 91% rubbing alcohol for best results (the stuff at the dollar store is usually only about 70%, so check the pharmacy section at a grocery store).

If you don’t like how your alcohol ink art turns out, just use straight alcohol to clean off the glass or tile and start over!.

It’s fun to experiment with different techniques to get different look on your alcohol ink art: try dropping the ink, swirling the ink, spritzing the alcohol instead of dropping it, etc.

If you don’t like how your design turns out, try adding more ink and more alcohol and lighting it again.

We used the glass out of dollar store pictures frames, but you can also use inexpensive tiles from Home Depot (the white 4×4 inch tiles are super cheap).

Each bottle goes a long way so you’ll be able to use them over and over again. I’d probably recommend getting at least 6 colors, but it’s even more fun if you have a wider variety of colors to play with. They are about $10 for a pack of three, so it’s nice to use coupons to get them cheaper.

You can order them online or buy them at your local Jo-Anns or Michaels. For this project, you want to use Ranger alcohol inks (affiliate link).(It doesn’t make any smoke, however.) Using alcohol ink on glass If someone has dumped a lot of alcohol on the glass the flame may be tall, so use caution.

Then an older child or adult used a lighter to light the alcohol. Once the glass was ready to be fired, we moved it to a foil-covered cookie sheet in the center of the table, away from the alcohol and other children. We found it was easiest to protect the table with a plastic tablecloth, then let kids drop ink and alcohol on the glass wherever they were seated. If you want to do this project with kids, make sure an adult is supervising and please use caution. I love the sweet spot for mixing technology and craft so I jumped at the opportunity to test out JOANN’s MyFabric, a new service joining the world of print on demand fabric. Then I made three more alcohol art pieces to go with it:Īs you can see from the video, you are lighting the alcohol on fire. This is the fired alcohol art on glass I made in the video, in under 5 minutes real time: Once the fire has burned out, you can back the glass with white paper and place it into your frame for instant DIY art. Think it must be more complicated? Just watch the video: As the inks & alcohol burn, they create beautiful designs. Swirl to combine, then light the alcohol on fire. Drop alcohol inks onto the glass, then add rubbing alcohol. The process couldn’t be simpler: remove the glass from a picture frame. With only a few supplies and in only a few minutes you (and I!) can make pretty artwork for your wall. Click here for more easy art projects for kids. It’s so easy that kids can create a “masterpiece” in minutes, but it’s fun for adults to play with too. This easy fired alcohol ink art turns out beautiful and takes no artistic talent whatsoever. Which is why I like today’s project so much. Use this soft yarn for your upcoming crafting projects to create afghans, sweaters, hats and. When I was a kid no one wanted me on their team for Pictionary because I couldn’t draw anything, and in junior high my art teacher used to say “tell me about this picture” because she didn’t want to admit she had no idea what it was supposed to be. Find the Sweet Snuggles Yarn by Loops & Threads at Michaels. In today’s post: Kids and adults can create gorgeous artwork with alcohol ink and fire! Everything you need to know to make alcohol ink art.

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