Distress Oxide Ink Gears

Smoky Slate Cardstock & Distress Oxide Inks

I created this quick video to show you how you can take a piece of Smoky Slate cardstock and turn it into a mottled, grungey, oxidized looking piece for die cutting the Garage Gears thinlits. I used the Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks in Black Soot, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Hickory Smoke, Frayed Burlap and Tumbled Glass. To finish off the piece, I added some of the Ranger micro distress glaze. 

https://youtu.be/cLKWXAH4tq0

All of the embossed panels were made using the different distress oxide inks, in the same way as the garage gears, just different colors.

Happy Birthday Chick 2

Still playing around with the Hey Chick and Hey Birthday Chick bundles. I decided to focus on Soft Sea Foam Green for this card. The background panel is Soft Sea Foam Green, as well as the body of the chicken and the egg shell of the baby chick using Stampin' Blends in the Soft Sea Foam. I love that each chick looks like they are doing a little dance of celebration! The background behind the die cut fence was applied using the blending brushes and Tumbled Glass distress oxide ink. 

 

Watercolor Strawberries

I CASE'd this card from pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346284658855641742/

After stamping the strawberries from Sweet Strawberry stamp set, I colored with watercolor paints and aquapainter brush. The dots were from Waterfront stamp set. I love the freedom of the watercolor, where it's okay to color outside the lines! The watercolor set I used is Giorgione 48 color. 

These cards will be sent to some ladies that attended one of my workshops that had never been exposed to stamping and papercrafting! 

 

Blueberries of Hope

This blueberry image is from the Berry Blessings SAB set. The two step stamping makes it come out beautiful. I added a little watercoloring in a different blue on top of the berries for a small contrast. Jeremiah 29:11 is one of my all time favorite verses. A reminder that God is for us, He is with us, He has a plan, and we have hope! The blueberries are stamped on Soft Seafoam Green CS in Cucumber Crush and Night of Navy. The blueberry fill color is Dapper Denim. 

 

Vintage Birthday

My goal was to come up with a card that could be masculine. I was in the mood to play around with oxide inks, and I love that the results are never the same when working with these inks. I did the oxide ink smooshing on my craft mat, sprayed with water in various colors of Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot, Iced Spruce and Tumbled Glass. I applied and smooshed until I got a beautiful, mottled background. Then I stamped the World Map stamp on the large backgrond piece, and embossed the other two panels with square lattice and a license plate ef. The little truck is from an old stampin up set (loads of love?). I stamped the truck on kraft paper, then smooshed in the various oxide inks.