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…
this demo features an overview on the differences of distress ink and distress oxides. learn about the importance of various…
Let's begin this post by saying....I got the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks !! The hype was killing me! I couldn't go much longer ...
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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
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…
Happy Sunday my craft friends. Hopefully you had a great week and are enjoying your weekend. Today we have Poppy Bouquet Stencil Part 2 again using the Poppy Bouquet Stencil from the NEW Simon Says Stamp Send Happiness collection that went live earlier this week. My Icelandic poppies are blooming in my garden and
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…
What do you get when you combine liquid glue, Distress Inks and the Ink Blending Tool?!?!? A cool new experiment that went oh so right!!!! I am so excited...I HAVE to share this with you. I was going to wait till next week when I had time to make up more examples and take better pictures but I just cannot wait! This is so much fun! By the name of my blog you know I like to get messy... Well I usually have 3-4 projects going at once ~ you know dry time and all...can't stand to wait so I fill that time with other things. Normally I end up with various glues, inks and paints on my fingers. If it's a really good day there might even be some collage medium or other "goodies" stuck to me. If I'm not careful I get this extra stuff on my fingers everywhere...sometimes where it actually belongs ~ other times where it doesn't. It's these other times that inspired me to experiment with glue...Now, I'm not sure if this technique has been done before or not so all I can say is it's new to me and maybe you too! Enjoy!! Distressed Glue Supplies: Distress Ink Ink Blending Tool Paper/Cardstock/Tag/etc. Liquid Glue...I like Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue (tell you why in a minute) That's IT!!! Instructions: 1. Apply desired colors of Distress Ink to the paper using the IBT. 2. Add glue...just place it in a few spots or in several. Totally up to you.... 3. Now, smear it around! Yes!! I love this part...it's so much fun ;) 4. VERY IMPORTANT!!! LET THE GLUE DRY!!! If you don't it will make a terrible mess...with your IBT, Ink Pad, paper, etc. It's just not something you want to mess with. 5. After the glue has dried completely apply another layer of Distress Ink in whatever color you would like to use. (Look at the awesome distressed design already coming through!) 6. After you have applied the ink, wipe away the excess ink which has pooled on the glued areas (it won't dry on the glue) and you're done!! Check it out.... And another quickie example... The reason I mentioned that I like to use Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue for this technique is the texture! This glue is so thick that while you can spread it really thin it's fun to leave thicker areas because you can see those differences in the finished results. Notice the upper right hand corner of the green ~ you can actually see the streaks and crevices that I left in the thicker areas. Now for the blue below I just applied the glue directly to the white cardstock. You can see that the ink did slightly color the glued areas and left the other areas darker. So, if you're short on time you can completely skip step 1! Well what do you think? Fun huh? Quick, easy and stunning results ~ doesn't get much better than that :) I'll have more examples to share with you next week... Till then friends have a wonderful weekend!!
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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 with these inks, and I have actually tried to mess it up (such a putting orange onto purple, or yellow onto blue); but nope! Still like what I have gotten. And they are SO MUCH FUN to play with! Oxide inks are a fusion of dye ink and pigment ink. The dye ink soaks into your paper and the pigment ink sits on top. This combination gives your finished product a matte, almost chalky look that is soft and beautiful. Blending Oxide inks is a dream, and they react with water even more interestingly than regular dye based Distress inks. I have been playing a lot with blending Oxide inks, but I wanted to try smooshing with them. There are different types of what I would call "smooshing", which I would describe as getting wet ink onto your paper in a somewhat messy, unpredictable way. For other smooshing posts go here, here and here. You could put the ink onto acetate or a piece of saran, and apply said inked plastic to your paper... OR you could put ink on your work surface or craft mat, spray it with water to wet it and drag your paper into it. This second type is what I did for this card. I assembled some oxide inks to apply to my craft mat: Wilted Violet, Broken China (my current favorite combo); then also Cracked Pistachio and, just to be a rebel, Fossilized Amber. I started with Wilted Violet and Broken China, and rubbed them firmly onto my craft mat. I spritzed each one with pearly water (mix 2 oz water with 1/4 tsp Perfect Pearls powder). I love how these inks look when you spray them. They bead up and look opaque. That's because of the pigment in them. Distress Oxide inks: Wilted Violet & Broken China I used a piece of 5.5" x 4.25" Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock for this project, and placed it onto the ink on my mat and picked it up. Beautiful colors! I kept "smooshing" the color from my mat onto the watercolor cardstock, and I just love the combination of these colors. I then dried the panel and cleaned my craft mat and added the Cracked Pistachio and then the Fossilized Amber colors and sprayed them. Distress Oxide inks: Fossilized Amber & Cracked Pistachio I placed my panel into the new colors and "smooshed" it around. The colors beneath did re-activate somewhat, even though I had dried them. The result was that I got a little muddiness, but I actually really liked the effect. I spritzed some water drops onto the panel and picked up some more of the ink from my mat. I was super happy with the colors on my panel, so I decided to make it into a card. I cut my panel to 3.75" x 5" using the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Stackables die LF768. I chose my Zen Dragonfly from Magenta (44.018.K - and yes, all Magenta stamps come in cling, so just put a "C" in front of the number for cling). I chose the "Have a Beautiful Day" sentiment stamp that I also designed for Magenta (07.969.F). I stamped both of these stamps with Versamark ink, using the MISTI stamping tool. I embossed the stampings with White Diamond embossing powder from JudiKins. The panel was mounted onto a piece of So Silk Fair Blue cardstock and onto a base card of 110# Neenah Solar White cardstock. I added a few sequins and it was all done. This was a VERY fast card to make, and you could use this background for almost any kind of card. We have the Zen Dragonfly and the "Have a Beautiful Day" stamps in stock at Art 'n Soul right now; and we will be ordering more of the fabulous Oxide inks very soon. Magenta Products Used: (If you are local, please look for products at Art 'n Soul. If you are not local and wish to find Magenta products, you can click on the link in the stamp or product name below each image, or you can visit the Magenta online store here). 44.018.K Zen Dragonfly 07.969.F have a Beautiful day! Other Products Used: Distress Oxide inks: Wilted Violet, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio, Fossilized Amber Versamark Ink JudiKins White Diamond embossing powder Perfect Pearls Pearl powder Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock So Silk Fair Blue cardstock Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock Various sequins
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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
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
Hey there, I am back with my second card of my guest designing for Your Next Stamp! I created a "Get well" card with the "Sea Friends" set again. How adorable is that word pun?? I stamped the whale from the „sea friends“ set and colored it with aqua marker pens. The tiny dot details are made with an edding pen called „Pastel Pen-Soft white“ it is not that bright like for example a posca pen - it stays a bit transluscent, I really like that effect . I cut out some water fountains by hand from a piece of vellum and adhered it to the blowhole… I love adding details like that :-) So my ocean on the background panel is made with distress oxides - this time I used blueprint sketch, cracked pistachio and wilted violet. But first I heat embossed the fun sentiment „get whale soon“ with white embossing powder. Maybe you are interested how I created those waves; so I made a step by step photos of the process. Beside the oxides you need a wave stencil, a water sprayer, white pigment ink, a permanent white pencil and that edding pastel pen I already used before for the whale. First I spritzed some water on the whole panel to create some splashes for more texture. Let this dry completely before you continue with the next step. Your heatgun might be helpful getting your panel completely dry very quickly. So here comes the waves. First, I stenciled some white pigment ink onto my panel. Then I used the white pencil to brighten up the area even more and make it kind of „sealed“. Because now I used the pastel pen marker to draw little dots along the wave shape and this one is wet again. if you use it without the white pencil in between, the white dots would absorb completely the color of the distress oxides; this can be pretty, but I wanted to stay them soft white. I hope this helps you to recreate that look. So here comes the photo guide for this procedure: Just leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts (May 4th until May 7th) on the YNS blog or my blog by May 9th 2019 at midnight (EST) for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on May 11th on the YNS blog. Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!
See how to create clouds and water ripples using Distress Oxide Inks and a Tombow Mono Sand eraser. Featuring images from the Framescapes - Tropical Skies stamp set from Gina K. Designs. Finished Card
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.
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…
Hi all! Today I am wrapping up my Distress Oxide Ink Blending Combinations series. After today, I have used all 60 Distress Oxide colors at least once! Check it out! :) (Wondering what I used in this video? Everything is linked to multiple sources in the thumbnails at the end of this post, or 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...
Hello Friends! I am back again… and this time with a look at an exciting new Distress product release by Tim Holtz, Foundry Wax! Ohh, have I been longing for a product like this for so long a…
Find colour combinations for the Distress range of inks and oxides!
Easy Cardmaking technique using Embossing Folders and Distress Oxide Inks. Friendly Birds Embossing Folder by Simon Says Stamp
Hello again! Are you ready for more Distress Oxide color blending combos? Today I’m continuing my miniseries with even more colors! For today’s video, I wanted to focus on using browns, grays, and black, so each combo with have one of those. :) (Wondering what I used in this video? Everything is linked to multiple
Hello friends! I hope that you are well…it’s been a bit! Life, as usual, has picked up to crazy and add in the secret time that I’ve been spending in my studio and you’d und…
Easy Cardmaking technique using Embossing Folders and Distress Oxide Inks. Friendly Birds Embossing Folder by Simon Says Stamp
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Hi all! I have just a couple more videos in my Distress Oxide ink blending mini series (including this one)! I’ve been keeping track of the colors I’ve used, and I think next week will be the last video for now. However, this week is a good mix of colors–some that I’ve never ever used
Hello again! Today I’m continuing my miniseries on Distress Oxide Inks and blending color combinations! Today’s video uses mostly blues and greens. :) (Wondering what I used in this video? Everything is linked to multiple sources in the thumbnails at the end of this post, or in the text below. Compensated affiliate links used when possible). Some
I'll show you how to create a handmade Halloween card using embossed images on embossable plastic so the blended ink background of your card shows through.
Good morning! I searched the internet, like I usually do for a new idea I had, that I was sure someone else had thought of first! Low and behold, I could not find it! Let me explain. I came across Shari Carroll's Distress ink combo sheets that she created for Simon Says Stamp blog. I had miniaturized them, and printed them out a while back. I taped this sheet on my craft wall above my distress inks, and refer to it often. Then I came across Justine's blog where she has some AWESOME distress OXIDE combos that I had to try, so I wrote them down on my combo sheet. Then realized, I wanted to record them as Shari had with the little watercolor circles and the name next to it. SO.....needless to say, I wanted to add one to Shari's idea, to include all the oxide inks, and then make a combo sheet of my own of my favorite combinations! I wanted to share it with you! First, I needed all the RBG codes for all the distress Oxide inks. I searched all over the ranger site, but to no avail. Then I searched blogs, and pinterest, and found one hit, but it wasn't quite right. Then I thought, if ranger already chose the colors in their swatches, (which I had in my files) then I can use the eye dropper tool in inkscape, and get the codes myself. With a little elbow grease, and a bunch of patience, I could make them! I wanted to make the swatches in word so that I could copy and paste them as I needed to make new combos on a separate combo sheet. Take a look: Here is the word document: click here. I might go forth and create a sheet with all the distress color on it. (I have 24 of them done already) Why not? I'll add to this post if I do. Enjoy! Labels: distress oxide ink RBG codes, Ranger, Tim Holtz inks, 24 Oxide ink colors. 2018 http://cpjcreations.blogspot.com/2018/01/rgb-codes-for-distress-oxide-inks.html
It's raining here today (not something we say often in CA) and I always like to be working in the craft room when it rains. If it's not too cold I sometimes even open the window so I can hear it better. Well today I thought I experiment a little more with the Distress Crayons. Follow along and I'll show you what I did. Scribble out some crayon on to the craft mat. You will also need a Mini Blending tool and a bit of water. Use the Mini Blending tool to pick up the crayon. The foam must be damp not wet. Here are some hints: too much water - it picks up the crayon way too easy and almost makes suds too little water (or none) - it won't pick up the crayon (it will just squeak across the mat) damp sponge - picks up the crayon easily (if you feel like you have too much water on the foam just pounce it on a paper towel a couple times and that will take cake of it) I cut a card front from Mixed Media paper and used a large stencil to add a pattern with the Blending Tool. Now go back and pick up another color. Same blending foam (no need to change the pad) - I just pounced it on the paper towel a couple times before going into the Fossilized Amber. This time I'm using a Mini Stencil to change the scale of the circles. Another Mini Stencil to add some numbers with Seedless Preserves. I mounted the card from on Silver Metallic cardstock and then on a turquoise Kraft Core. A little stitching around the card finishes it off. Next, I mounted the self adhesive Deco Sheet onto a piece of cardstock then punched tiny 1/2" hexagons using the Tim Holtz Hexagon punch. A quick way to make a lot of hexagon pieces. A dot of Glossy Accents works perfectly to adhere the hexagons to the card front. A sentiment from the Hashtags stamp set. I thought the card needed a bit more detail so I used Ranger Watercolor paper and the Tattered Flower Garland to cut a few small flowers. They have been colored with Distress Inks and a waterbrush. I adhered a small Crinkle Ribbon bow with Glossy Accents. And then added the flowers. These flowers have a hole in the center for layering with a brad. I find that if you bend and squish the flower to make them more realistic, the hole fades away. I added a Heart Charm to complete the cluster. Its hard to show the shine of the silver Deco Sheets but that textured surface really makes the card fun. The hexagon punch was super easy to use to create all those hexs...can't imagine doing that by hand. Well, I hope you will try the crayons/blending tool technique to make a background. I ended up creating a few card fronts while I was experimenting. I found that more often than not, I did not even have to wipe off the foam pad between colors (that foam pad is kinda magic). I think this would be a great way to add color to an art journal. I guess I better try that size surface next! now carry on, paula InLinkz.com
