STROMY SKY Tumbler Tutorial with Alcohol Ink!

https://youtu.be/bvMBRDz_P4c

Hey, guys, I'm starting with this cute little mug I got from Tj Maxx, but I thought it looked adorable, and it was only ten bucks taking off the packaging and then prepping the final sand with it. The First step was spray painting all this gray granite from rust oleum.

Then I was using my alcohol inks. I could be more experienced with alcohol ink. I'm curious if there's an easier way to do this, but I put drips of the different colors on, used the blending solution, and dabbed it since it is a round surface. It drips down the sides, and I don't always love that look. I tried to do a small amount at a time and was going for a dark stormy sky.

And this part took me a lot longer than I expected, but I worked in small sections, and I wanted it a lot darker than ending up. So I kept layering and layering, and finally, after a long time, I got to a place where I liked how it looked.

And these alcohol inks I got from amazon were pretty cheap. I will link them down below, but I'd like to know if there's a difference in the quality of alcohol inks or if they're all the same. These were the ones that I got to experiment with, and it was bizarre. It had like this reddish tint to it.

You can't see. It looked red and purple, and I was really confused, and I thought I wouldn't like it, but it ended up looking fine after it dried and got epoxy on it. If this happens to you, I'm not sure if that's without alcohol inks, but you can see there it's like black and blue there's none of that, like orange and red tint to it. Why does it do that? But after that dried the next day, I went in with one layer of the artistry epoxy.

I somehow lost the footage of doing this decal, but I found a little mountain scene, cut it out in the decal, placed it on the bottom, and then spray-painted the rest black. I'm going in with two more layers of artistry epoxy to finish off this cup.

Then once that was dry, it was done, but I wanted to see if I could at the bottom. I wish I had cut out the mountains Again and done a sensitive area where there Was matte to shiny, but it might look cool doing it fading up. I took my final sand and a little water and scrubbed for about five minutes.

I believe I find that's easiest to do with my gloved hand for a black mat. If you use anything else, I find you can see the scratches a lot easier using your gloved hand, not even applying much pressure at all rub in circular motions and wash it off and see if you need to do more you can see it's a little bit shiny in the bottom still.

I went in again for another, probably three minutes. As I said, I would have preferred to tape off the mountains and have it be a hard line where you can see the difference between matte and shiny, but I think it still turned out nice, and I love the shape of it with the alcohol ink that's it for this video.

Thank you guys for watching!