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More Distress Oxide Ink Techniques with Heather Tracy for The Graphics Fairy!
You may have heard me say that I don't think you can do anything wrong with Distress Oxide inks. Honestly, I like everything I have done wit...
Happy Wednesday, all! I’ve received multiple questions recently about the differences between Distress Ink and Distress Oxide Ink when it comes to ink blending. So today I thought I would try ink blending with the same colors in each ink formula. (Wondering what I used in this video? Everything is linked to multiple sources in
Easy Cardmaking technique using Embossing Folders and Distress Oxide Inks. Friendly Birds Embossing Folder by Simon Says Stamp
Hey card making friends, welcome back. Today I have a new Distress Oxide Ink Blends Fall Colors for you and a card I created using the Unity Stamps Aging Gorgeously Stamp Set. I was messing around with some fall colors to create a new background and came up with this one. Fossilized Amber, Spiced
Hello All and Welcome! I hope you are all well… I’m back today with two tutorials for a couple vintage inspired carts. These were created for the Tim Holtz Creativation 2019 show. They …
NOTE: This post is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon! Hello, all! Today I have three fun ways to use water with Distress Oxide Ink watercoloring. Distress Oxide inks react with water beautifully, so I thought I’d experiment with different ways to add water textures to watercolor backgrounds. :) (Wondering what I used in
At the Creativation show this past January, Tim Holtz introduced a really cool technique you can do with Distress Oxides. He was playing ar...
Tim Holtz Distress® Oxides®: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Evergreen Bough, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet, Walnut Stain, Carved Pumpkin, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber Tim Holtz Distress® Ink: Pumice Stone, Walnut Stai
Thanksgiving scrapbook card featuring Ranger Oxide inks, Sizzix dies and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. Complete photo step by step tutorial.
Hi folks, not the catchiest of titles for a blog post but if you are not familiar with the Watercolour Smooshing technique, let me tell you ...
Below are some digital downloads, created by me for you to print off at home and use. These are a colour chart already filled in, a colour chart for you to fill in, and labels for your 3″ Dis…
At the Creativation show this past January, Tim Holtz introduced a really cool technique you can do with Distress Oxides. He was playing around with different substrates for Distress Oxide, and tried the inks on glossy paper, specifically the Ranger Alcohol Ink Cardstock. It seems like Tim Holtz will try anything with his products, including licking the paper (not recommended). He found that the oxidation of the inks was especially pronounced on the glossy cardstock, (that's when he licked it) and then he tried a product that's been around awhile, Distress Glaze. Distress Glaze is a pretty cool product that will seal a surface and make it permanent (such as sealing Distress inks to protect them from being activated again). It's an almost waxy substance that can be applied with a blending tool, or even with your finger. I've had a lot of fun playing with this technique, and have made a lot of backgrounds using it. For the purposes of this post, I made two Christmas cards. Since I'm trying to make all of my Christmas cards and tags by October, these are my March cards (still late). I made two versions and couldn't decide which I liked best, so I'm doing half of one and half of the other. While I was making the backgrounds for these cards, I took a lot of pictures to try and show you how this is done. It's pretty easy and it's fun. Since I wanted blue backgrounds for these cards, I got out all of my blues and a purple in my Oxide inks. I also used Ranger Alcohol Ink Cardstock, although in the past I have done this technique using other glossy cardstock (including Kromecoat) and it seems to work just as well. I worked with 3 colors at a time, putting them on my mat, spritzing with water, and also running a brush through them so they wouldn't be such square shapes when I swipe my cardstock through. Here's the first swipe. I just laid the cardstock onto the colors and I may or may not have moved it around before picking it up. This is what it looked like after one swipe. After placing it in the colors, then I dried it with a heat tool. I prefer to use the Ranger one for drying because it doesn't distort my cardstock as much. I ended up using 3 pieces of glossy cardstock for this session. I didn't want to waste the color on the mat, and three seemed to use up most of what I put down each time. It doesn't really soak in to the glossy cardstock much. I put down 3 more blues and kept swiping the panels into the ink. The panels continued to evolve. I dried them after each application of color. I also spritzed them several times and splattered them with ink that I picked up with my brush. I kept spritzing, blotting, splatting and drying in between I also picked up a little ink and touched my brush to the paper in places, and that made nice bubbles. It was at this point that I thought I wanted it to be a little darker blue. One of the blues I used (Blueprint Sketch?) turned a kind of purple. This is not the Wilted Violet color, as I had not used it yet at this point. I used very little of the Wilted Violet and Cracked Pistachio. The glaze will also darken these colors more. I added some more Faded Jeans color. It's important to realize that there is no right or wrong here, and that the more layers you add the better it will look in the end. Also, the panels will look very cloudy or chalky when dry. This is how they are supposed to look at this point, but they won't end up that way! Before adding the glaze, I usually will buff the panel a little with a paper towel. My friend Marj Marion came up with this idea, because when you apply the glaze with your blending tool, quite a bit of color comes off on your sponge. Buffing with the paper towel will take off some of that color in advance. After buffing with the paper towel, your pieces will already look brighter and start to show some of the layers underneath. This is what the jar of Distress Glaze looks like. Tim Holtz (being Tim Holtz) designed it so that the round blending tool fits right in. I actually store the sponge applicator that I use right inside the jar. It will eventually get very gunky and you can throw it out and replace with a clean one. I'm just starting in on a corner here. This is when the magic really starts to happen. One tip is, be sure you like what you have on your panel before you glaze it. Once the glaze is applied, the panel is sealed and permanent. After you apply glaze to the whole panel (it doesn't take a lot), then you can buff it again with your paper towel. Here are the panels before the glaze And after They turn so much brighter and more beautiful. It's almost like you can see every layer. (I swear that the Peacock Feathers turns almost green on these). These will turn out differently every time you make them. Here's my second card. For the first card, I took a panel of white Core'dinations linen textured cardstock and cut it to 5.25" x 4". Using my mini MISTI, I lined up a Merry Christmas sentiment from the Papertrey Ink set "Keep it Simple: Christmas" and stamped with Versamark ink. I embossed it with Candy Store Chrome embossing powder. I then positioned the Memory Box die 99765 Pinpoint Double Frame in the upper center of the panel and cut it out. I then cut the Memory Box die 99503 Fresh Pine Curved Border out of some Neenah Solar White 80# cardstock, and positioned part of the border behind the opening of the frame. I cut a piece from the Distress Oxide glazed panels I made and positioned it behind the trees. The panel was then adhered to a piece of Malmero Pearl Blue cardstock and mounted to a base card of Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock. My second card was made in a similar way, except instead of the Memory Box Pinpoint Double Frame die, I used the Die-namics MFT-847 Inside/Outside Stitched Rectangle (3rd from Largest) for the opening, and the Die-namics MFT-463 Blueprints 13 Stitched Rectangle for the panel itself. The stamp is Peace Border F3605 from Hero Arts. I was having a hard time figuring out which card I liked better. The Peace one shows more of the beautiful background behind, but I think I'm leaning toward the Merry Christmas one. What do you think? To see a great video of the Distress Oxide Glaze technique by Jennifer McGuire, click here. You can see my post about Distress Oxides in general here, or search my blog for Distress Oxide. Products Used: Both Cards: Distress Oxide inks: Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet Ranger Alcohol Ink cardstock Distress Glaze Memory Box die 99503 Fresh Pine Curved Border Core'dinations White linen textured cardstock Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock Malmero Pearl Blue cardstock Versamark ink Candy Store Chrome embossing powder Card #1: Memory Box die 99765 Pinpoint Double Frame Papertrey Ink Keep it Simple: Christmas stamp set Card #2 Die-Namics MFT-847 Inside/Outside Stitched Rectangles Die-Namics MFT-463 Blueprints 13 die set Hero Arts Peace Border F3605 SaveSave
Happy Friday, all! Today I’m started a miniseries of videos that will appear on Fridays for the next little while. The series will focus on Distress Oxide Inks and blending color combinations! (Wondering what I used in this video? Everything is linked to multiple sources in the thumbnails at the end of this post, or
Distress Ink Oxide Sprays from Tim Holtz are so versatile! Laurel Beard has 9 different ways you can use these sprays on your cards, they work perfectly on their own as colorful backgrounds and you…
This post is in conjunction with the Art 'n Soul Newsletter article "Technique of the Week" This post is less of a technique and more about trying out the new Distress Oxide inks. I was skeptical in the beginning, but now I know I LOVE these new inks. Oxide inks are a hybrid of Pigment ink and Dye ink. Where Dye inks soak into your paper, Pigment inks sit on top and take longer to dry. The Oxides have the best of both of these worlds. They blend like a dream, and they stamp better as well. They also incorporate the best of the water-reactive properties of regular Distress ink. there are 12 colors currently available, and Ranger is overwhelmed with orders, so we have to get in line; but we WILL get them in! Right now we have 8 of the 12 colors for demo'ing at Art 'n Soul, and we will be happy to demo them for you. For my card, I first blended Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, and Broken China, adding a little Wilted Violet at the end. I sprayed the card, using the Tim Holtz spritzer bottle, which makes large and small droplets. You can almost do no wrong with these inks, whatever I have done looks good. However, I wanted to stamp and emboss with White Diamond embossing powder, and I decided that my inks were a little too light for the white to pop out properly. This panel is actually very pretty in real life, and it is at Art 'n Soul for you to see Starting over with new colors was no problem, because playing with these inks is just so much fun. For the second try, I started with Wilted Violet. I added Broken China (I LOVE the combo of these 2 colors), Cracked Pistachio, and Spiced Marmalade. Since the inks have pigment, they are so easy to blend If you compare the colors side by side to regular dye based Distress colors, they will look just a little different. This is because these Oxide colors with pigment sit on top of the paper, and the regular dye based ones soak in. I spritzed it to get the water spots, and decided it was still too pale. I made sure to dry the spots and went over the card with some Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, and intensified the colors in the Wilted Violet, Broken China, and Cracked Pistachio. I love how rich the colors are This time I thought the colors were dark enough, and so I added more droplets with the spritzer, and dried the card thoroughly. I stamped my image and sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed with White Diamond embossing powder by JudiKins. I added a little of the Wilted Violet to the center of the largest flower in the stamp. I hope you'll give these new inks a try. I think you'll find them as fun to work with as I did. As you know, Art 'n Soul is Magenta's Retailer of the Year for the seventh year in a row, and this allows some privileges. The reason I mention this is because we have advance viewing of the new Magenta Spring Collection, and one of the stamps for Spring is a new one by yours truly, a Zen Bouquet of flowers, shown here on my card. I also have several sentiments in the collection, including this one. Since I received my stamps just yesterday, I decided to give you all a sneak peek of two of my new stamps on the post this week. These are available for pre-order at Art 'n Soul now, along with the entire 2017 Spring Collection. Please come by and see our sneak peek catalog and place your order. You can be among the first in the world to receive the beautiful new Magenta stamps! Magenta Products Used: (If you are local, please look for products at Art 'n Soul. We are taking orders for the new Spring collection now. If you are not local and wish to find Magenta products, you can visit the Magenta online store here. The new collection will be in the online store very soon). 44.024.Q Zen Bouquet 07.968.H You are Amazing Other Products Used: Distress Oxide inks: Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Broken China, Wilted Violet,Cracked Pistachio, and Faded Jeans Versamark ink White Diamond embossing powder by JudiKins
You may have heard me say that I don't think you can do anything wrong with Distress Oxide inks. Honestly, I like everything I have done wit...
At the Creativation show this past January, Tim Holtz introduced a really cool technique you can do with Distress Oxides. He was playing around with different substrates for Distress Oxide, and tried the inks on glossy paper, specifically the Ranger Alcohol Ink Cardstock. It seems like Tim Holtz will try anything with his products, including licking the paper (not recommended). He found that the oxidation of the inks was especially pronounced on the glossy cardstock, (that's when he licked it) and then he tried a product that's been around awhile, Distress Glaze. Distress Glaze is a pretty cool product that will seal a surface and make it permanent (such as sealing Distress inks to protect them from being activated again). It's an almost waxy substance that can be applied with a blending tool, or even with your finger. I've had a lot of fun playing with this technique, and have made a lot of backgrounds using it. For the purposes of this post, I made two Christmas cards. Since I'm trying to make all of my Christmas cards and tags by October, these are my March cards (still late). I made two versions and couldn't decide which I liked best, so I'm doing half of one and half of the other. While I was making the backgrounds for these cards, I took a lot of pictures to try and show you how this is done. It's pretty easy and it's fun. Since I wanted blue backgrounds for these cards, I got out all of my blues and a purple in my Oxide inks. I also used Ranger Alcohol Ink Cardstock, although in the past I have done this technique using other glossy cardstock (including Kromecoat) and it seems to work just as well. I worked with 3 colors at a time, putting them on my mat, spritzing with water, and also running a brush through them so they wouldn't be such square shapes when I swipe my cardstock through. Here's the first swipe. I just laid the cardstock onto the colors and I may or may not have moved it around before picking it up. This is what it looked like after one swipe. After placing it in the colors, then I dried it with a heat tool. I prefer to use the Ranger one for drying because it doesn't distort my cardstock as much. I ended up using 3 pieces of glossy cardstock for this session. I didn't want to waste the color on the mat, and three seemed to use up most of what I put down each time. It doesn't really soak in to the glossy cardstock much. I put down 3 more blues and kept swiping the panels into the ink. The panels continued to evolve. I dried them after each application of color. I also spritzed them several times and splattered them with ink that I picked up with my brush. I kept spritzing, blotting, splatting and drying in between I also picked up a little ink and touched my brush to the paper in places, and that made nice bubbles. It was at this point that I thought I wanted it to be a little darker blue. One of the blues I used (Blueprint Sketch?) turned a kind of purple. This is not the Wilted Violet color, as I had not used it yet at this point. I used very little of the Wilted Violet and Cracked Pistachio. The glaze will also darken these colors more. I added some more Faded Jeans color. It's important to realize that there is no right or wrong here, and that the more layers you add the better it will look in the end. Also, the panels will look very cloudy or chalky when dry. This is how they are supposed to look at this point, but they won't end up that way! Before adding the glaze, I usually will buff the panel a little with a paper towel. My friend Marj Marion came up with this idea, because when you apply the glaze with your blending tool, quite a bit of color comes off on your sponge. Buffing with the paper towel will take off some of that color in advance. After buffing with the paper towel, your pieces will already look brighter and start to show some of the layers underneath. This is what the jar of Distress Glaze looks like. Tim Holtz (being Tim Holtz) designed it so that the round blending tool fits right in. I actually store the sponge applicator that I use right inside the jar. It will eventually get very gunky and you can throw it out and replace with a clean one. I'm just starting in on a corner here. This is when the magic really starts to happen. One tip is, be sure you like what you have on your panel before you glaze it. Once the glaze is applied, the panel is sealed and permanent. After you apply glaze to the whole panel (it doesn't take a lot), then you can buff it again with your paper towel. Here are the panels before the glaze And after They turn so much brighter and more beautiful. It's almost like you can see every layer. (I swear that the Peacock Feathers turns almost green on these). These will turn out differently every time you make them. Here's my second card. For the first card, I took a panel of white Core'dinations linen textured cardstock and cut it to 5.25" x 4". Using my mini MISTI, I lined up a Merry Christmas sentiment from the Papertrey Ink set "Keep it Simple: Christmas" and stamped with Versamark ink. I embossed it with Candy Store Chrome embossing powder. I then positioned the Memory Box die 99765 Pinpoint Double Frame in the upper center of the panel and cut it out. I then cut the Memory Box die 99503 Fresh Pine Curved Border out of some Neenah Solar White 80# cardstock, and positioned part of the border behind the opening of the frame. I cut a piece from the Distress Oxide glazed panels I made and positioned it behind the trees. The panel was then adhered to a piece of Malmero Pearl Blue cardstock and mounted to a base card of Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock. My second card was made in a similar way, except instead of the Memory Box Pinpoint Double Frame die, I used the Die-namics MFT-847 Inside/Outside Stitched Rectangle (3rd from Largest) for the opening, and the Die-namics MFT-463 Blueprints 13 Stitched Rectangle for the panel itself. The stamp is Peace Border F3605 from Hero Arts. I was having a hard time figuring out which card I liked better. The Peace one shows more of the beautiful background behind, but I think I'm leaning toward the Merry Christmas one. What do you think? To see a great video of the Distress Oxide Glaze technique by Jennifer McGuire, click here. You can see my post about Distress Oxides in general here, or search my blog for Distress Oxide. Products Used: Both Cards: Distress Oxide inks: Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet Ranger Alcohol Ink cardstock Distress Glaze Memory Box die 99503 Fresh Pine Curved Border Core'dinations White linen textured cardstock Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock Malmero Pearl Blue cardstock Versamark ink Candy Store Chrome embossing powder Card #1: Memory Box die 99765 Pinpoint Double Frame Papertrey Ink Keep it Simple: Christmas stamp set Card #2 Die-Namics MFT-847 Inside/Outside Stitched Rectangles Die-Namics MFT-463 Blueprints 13 die set Hero Arts Peace Border F3605 SaveSave
Hello, happy Saturday everyone!! Have you seen Tim Holtz's video introducing the newest release of Distress Oxides? After watching the vide...
this demo features an overview on the differences of distress ink and distress oxides. learn about the importance of various…
Below are some digital downloads, created by me for you to print off at home and use. These are a colour chart already filled in, a colour chart for you to fill in, and labels for your 3″ Dis…
Working with Distress Oxide Inks from Heather Tracy for The Graphics Fairy
Met een layering stencil en Distress Oxide Inkt kun je een leuke truc uithalen. Ik ga je laten zien op film hoe je dat doet.
Zaterdag overheerlijk bezig geweest met mijn Oxide Distress Inkt by Ranger, de schitterende inkt doet het echt ge-wel-dig op mijn Soft Finish Cardstock. En hoe te gek om A Way With Words by Suzanne Cannon eens in het zonnetje te zetten! Schitterende vormen in lagen opgebracht met 2 stencils,... en daarbij de gave set van Craft Emotions *Edges Straight Circle* gebruikt met de mooie cirkels... Deze is verrassend met de belijning van een ragfijn randje bij iedere passende ronding. Dat maakt het geheel enorm speels,... Merry, schitterende 2 delige stans, die speels meespeelt op mijn planner door haar sierlijke lettervorming..... echt verrassend prachtig. Passend in de schitterende stijl is er ook een tekst stempelset die prachtig combineert,... Let Your Heart Be Light zegt alles over de kerstwens voor 2019/2020 De basis stans blijft echt favoriet,.... heb hem al grijs gestanst en op vele manieren verwerkt,...maar nog niet eerder met een tekst stempel... en dat past toch mooi ! ECD 1714 Merry Christmas ECD 1711 Flourised Christmas Minis 2 ECD 1712 Flourised Dear ECD 1601 Flourised Christmas Minis 1 ECD 1442 Love Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament ECD CS 157 Let your Heart be Light Soft Finish Cardstock *Anita's Choice* ECD 1736 Reinforcements ECD 1655 Planner Essentials -11- Feaded Jeans-Bundled Sage-Tunbled Glass-Weathered Wood Oxide Distress Inkt by Ranger Deze kleuren doen het fantastisch op mijn Cardstock 300 gram een waar spectakel in overvloeien met water-blenden en herhalen,... heb gebruikt gemaakt van mijn heatgun om door te werken,...en genoot van ieder momentje... hou er zo van. Uiteindelijk heb ik bij de Christmas Minis -2- na inkt bewerking een mooi stickertje meegegeven. Deze zijn klaar om een eenvoudige kerstgroet te sieren....
Good afternoon! Today I’m sharing four more distress oxide ink blending combos with Kitsch Flamingo and a card using one of the combos! You can find my previous blends here! Kitsch Flamingo is the pink we never knew we were missing! It fits in beautifully with the existing pinks: Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, and Picked […]
My TOP 20 Favorite Distress Oxide Ink Blending Combos Having played with ink combos for Distress Oxide Inks for some time now, I have some favorite color combos. I was looking for a way to catalogue them to have them handy and I came up with this: My Top 20 Favorite Distress Oxide Ink
Find colour combinations for the Distress range of inks and oxides!
New Distress: Saltwater Taffy - Read more from the {creative chick} | shurkus.com blog & more ideas from our "tutorial" section.
Do you like the foiled look that is really hot in card making these days? Here you can find some fun foiling techniques, no fancy tools needed.
"Distress Oxide Storage Labels Video" I have been frustrated on how to store my oxide foam blenders. I started out by placing them on the bottoms of the ink containers themselves, but this proved to be too messy. I printed this chart and then cut the labels out and made my own storage sheet and then stored these sheets inside of Tim Holtz's binder refill pages. This works perfectly! If you would like a copy of this chart, just right click you mouse button and click save/download image. Thanks for stopping by!
