Distress Oxide water resist.

I made another card. It didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to. I think I used too much water on this stamp! I ordered this stamp without looking at the measurements and I was shocked when it came in and was so little. Lesson learned ALWAYS CHECK THE DETAILS WHEN YOUR BUYING SOMETHING. I knew it was too good of a deal. oh well. Also I didn't use my "wrmk version of the misti" I can't remember what they call it. So anyway my resist didn't turn out EXACTLY like I wanted it. But it ended up working with the card, FIRST I colored my card with " Salty ocean".At the top and "Broken China" at the bottom of the piece of watercolor cardstock. I just wiped the inks across the cardstock till it filled in. Then blended the two with the mini blender tool. ( This way I didn't have to switch out the pads on the blender tool. I am waiting for some to come in) I also wiped over it with a clean DRY cloth (no fuzzies) to get the access color off.

Next I got my stamp ready to stamp the ink.

I would be using the resist method (its not hard you simply spray the stamp with a LITTLE water and stamp it. DOnt use too much water as I think I did it will smear your image) looking back I should have used my WRMK tool thats like the MISTI I probably would have had a better stamped image. I will try again and use that.

See how the image is smeared. I think that is from the water running and not using the tool. But I'm gonna try to make it work any way. (it was supposed to be flowers.) I had a scrap piece of paper that was perfect to go down the middle. MY mom is in lockdown at her assisted living facility (yes someone got covid) and is struggling. So I like to send her encouragement. So I intend to send her this card so I used these encouraging stickers I had in my stash.

I also Inked a cardstock butterfly that my friend Anne Lambert sent me in a Swap.

I added some Jewels from BO BUNNY to my butterfly right down the middle 3 tiny ones. TO help it look even more pretty.

ANd Thats the finished card. Its ready to mail. OH BY the way I dried the inks between times with my heat gun. I also dried the glue with my heat gun.To speed things along. Im enjoying these distress Oxides and IM learning more and more techniques. Im gonna try this one again with my Wrmk tool and less water. I see Jennifer McGuire do it so perfect haha she makes everything look so easy. Have fun creating!!

Playing with Distress Oxides

I saw this neat trick the other day but I have some questions about it. If Anyone can help. Here is what I saw first

INK and VELCRO HMMMMmmmmm Turn ink over ok sounds easy enough'

You put the velcro on the back. USE THE ROUGH FEELING ONES not the soft ones. Take the blender pad from the blender (mini) tool that you have already used with a distress oxide (one per color)

BE SURE To USE THE OXIDE COLOR THAT IS THE SAME COLOR as the pad color you have. ok EXAMPLE: if you just used mowed lawn with the mini blender tool with the pad, get the mowed lawn Distress oxide and turn it over and put a piece of velcro on it the rough side one not the soft fuzzy side.

This is what it should look like. TA DA!! SO, My question is: How do you get them to stack after you do this? or are you not supposed to stack them anymore after you do this?

Here are a couple tags I made. I used the water method with these tags and then decorated them. Which was fun but, I like other techniques better. this feels so sloppy but it is really fun. You can't really control where the ink rolls and streams too and goes. I guess thats the fun part. First you press your ink pad down on your mat (I use the ranger 15x19 waterproof mat) I got for Christmas. You pat them down all very close by each other, as many colors as you wanna use. I usually use 3 to 4 different distress inks. Pat them good up in the corner of you a waterproof mat (I call it a splat mat because nothing sticks to it. I have the Ranger inks one but any one will do. pat your inks a couple few times and do them close together. Then you take a small spray bottle and spray over your inks in a fine mist a couple of times till they kinda bead up ink water. (but you don't want to saturate them just a little water is all it needs) Then you take your tag or card or whatever you are working on, and do it top side down (the part you wanna see and work with side down)then wipe it all the way across the inks. swirl it, zig zag it, do it back and forth. how ever you think it is fun. It will give you a great design of color. Experiment with different color combos. I decorated them with stickers I got from Hobby lobby they were their brand paper studio really cute. I cut the photo down to fit that tag on the right I just thought it would be cute. I added the buttons from my large stash of buttons. The hearts are washi tape. I have another card to show you. Part of it is done in Oxides.

The strip across the center held by brads is colored by distress oxides in concord grape and seedless preserves. The big butterfly is done in seedless preserves and cracked pistachio the little butterflies are done in seedless preserves and concord grape. I added all the rest for decoration. The paper is by Carta Bella. Thank you for looking at my distress inks creations. There will be more as I play with the tags and cards. Ill show you what I learn. I am having a large time learning and playing with them.

Christmas eve with the Jones Family

IM loading all our pictures from Christma eve. I will explain what is going on also. We had our annual Candle light service at Dayspring Baptist Church ONLY this year, due to covid (UGH I hate talking about covid.) but, due to covid, we watched it online , which was a blessing. I took screen shots so I would have photos to scrapbook. They came out pretty good. It started off with this family (I didnt write their names down)that got baptized It was awesome to experience on Christmas eve!

Pastor Chase Alford came and brought us the message of baby Jesus and why he was sent to earth. It was so good. God's love for us! There was a lot of music Christmas carols we sang.

It was a beautiful touching service. Even watching it from home. It would be better being there in person, but Im glad we got to experience it, even online. I thank you Dayspring for doing that for those of us that couldn't get out and come to it. We really enjoyed it. I was so sad thinking we might miss this tradition in our family. We closed out with the lighting of the candles and singing "Silent NIght" so beautiful!!!

After we got through watching church online and having supper, We decided to open our one gift we always open on Christmas eve. It was a little bit different this year.

This year instead of giving her 2 pair of pjs and wrapping them separately, I just wrapped them together to be opened on Christmas eve. It was really a box thing. I didn't have many shirt boxes. So it was convenient

It's hard buying pjs for John. He really just likes long shorts (the hanes soft shorts that come down long THAT YOU CANT FIND ANYMORE) He and Bella both think its lame for us all to be matchy matchy anymore. so I just get us whatever I think we will like. John likes plaid. buffalo plaid was closest I could find.(big and tall section) they didnt really have much in his size. He doesn't like busy prints or bright colors but will wear red (he looks good in red too I must add)

So I got him the red and black buffalo plaid sleep pants and a salt life kinda red It wasnt bright red or bright black it was more distressed red and distressed black it has the two swords and the skelton head on the back of it and the right breast side of the front. He has that shirt in a different color and has worn it almost out he loves it so much. so when I saw it in a different color (I was actually looking for black) and in his size!! I jumped on it and did I mention he looks good in red?

He only got one pair of Pjs because he only wears pj pants when its cold down here which is not that often. He has about 4 pair and he hardly wears them. He wears them Christmas for pictures and for me. So I am not gonna buy him a lot of them. ME! I live in pjs. I got 2 pair like Bella. Can I just tell you I LOVE FLAMINGOS! I have a couple of t shirts. I have a couple of blankets that have flamingos on them and soap dish and a few things around a soap dispenser etc that friends have gotten me. So when I see something flamingo I grab it (Unless it is ridiculously priced) I got a Blanket that is fuzzy and soft with flamingos riding bicycles for Christmas. I have it on my bed now. WELL I found pjs that were flamingos! I had to have them! flamingo and tiger print or animal print I love especially for pjs. I got both!

HOW CUTE IS THIS!!! The pants are medium blue and have little flamingos all over them with their necks around each other and hearts above their heads. ADORABLE. IM just so happy with my flamingo pjs. I like the style especially the pants because most are too long. these have a band that comes smaller around my ankle and it has pockets!! Dont you just love anything that has pockets?? The other pair of pjs that are tiger print (they have a tank top and a long sleeve top that is kinda tight and I cant sleep in that but the pants fit fine) but the pants have pockets on them too! I mosey around the house in pj pants and t shirts most days and my house shoes. so I wear a lot of pjs. perfect gift I did good. After we got through opening the presents we decided we would go out and look at CHristmas lights. I have one picture because my husband wouldn't slow down long enough for me to get a photo of the lights so their all blurry messes of photos. but one you can see kinda better. This is it. Its in the subdivision The colonades. This family used to REALLY decorate all the way around their house with wooden and different types of decorations from DIsney to Jesus scenes it was unreal but beautiful. This year they did some but nothing like before. Let me see if yall can figure out this picture,

I know its kinda blurry but speed demon was not driving at christmas light enjoyment speed. Especially not for photo taking. so its blurry but it is the best picture I got. the others look like a blurry mess of light streams. you cant even tell what they are of. Well I hope you have enjoyed Christmas eve with us. We came back home and watched Christmas movies in our New Pajamas. Then encouraged Bella to go to sleep because Santa Claus was coming. We had all our stockings out ready (even Charleys and Lala's) It was a wonderful day and I was very tired. I had a memorable enjoyed day though. I hope to remember it always.

playing with new Distress Oxides

Hey Yall, Sorry I haven't posted. I had not created much lately. I have been under the weather alot latly. I had bronchitis and a bad sinus infection. NO! It wasn't covid thank you GOD!! I see a pulmonologist for my asthma and I catch everything but praise God I have not caught that. I got some Oxide inks (Tim Holtz Distress Oxides) for our anniversary. I got them on black friday.(great deal on them THanks Janelle) Our anniversary was on blackfriday and I told John thats what I wanted. There are several things though you need with them that I didnt have but I made do. (to do the card I wanted to do) I had been watching Jennifer McGuire videos regarding the distress Oxides and I couldnt wait to play with them. when they got here I discovered I had no idea where my embossing ink was. but it was probably dried up anyway. I had not used it in yearrrrs. Im talking like 5 or more. I got on Amazon and it was expensive on there. I got on scrapbook.com and it was more sensibly priced AND my crystal stickles and Gold stickles had come in so I ordered a couple of those and some embossing ink. I figured 2 days (the usual time) they would be here. 2 weeeks laterrrr I finally got them.. gosh thee postal service is in a mess. John took them and said ". great stocking stuffers" so I have to wait a couple days to play. II also ordered a flowery back ground stamp it doesnt even give a time it is to be delivered but shows it has been purchased and its coming. It feels like forever before I get to make this card by Jennifer McGuire the way she did it. I made it the Nancy way and made a few improvisions though. I used Dried Marigold Distress oxide ink

and abandoned coral distressed oxide ink

also a blender mini tool and 2 of the sponge tips (one tip per color)

***** money saving tip for you.. The sponge circular tips that you use on the mini blender tool instead of buying more and more for each color. What most crafters are doing is once they use one for a certain color, they velcro underneath the bottom of the ink and velcro just the blender top that has the removable pad that has the color distress ink on it underneath the distress ink, so next time they need to use it they just peel the piece off and put it on their blender tool and they can use the same colored one again instead of throwing them away and having to buy more with each use. Clear as mud? if you don't understand just ask you can message me or email me at Nancywithajones@gmail.com and I will be glad to help you. Here is the card and what I did with it. Its not JUST LIKE Jennifer McGuires. I used an embossing folder and didnt heat emboss on mine. (I didnt have the stuff for that step but its coming!!!)I cant wait to try that. Yall will try with me? I hope so. Im so new to this oxide ink this is my first thing I have made with it. BUt I did it like regular inks till after Christmas when i get all my accessories and stuff!

So I used watercolor paper (it is in a paper pad I got it fro -Hobby Lobby The size paper is 8 x 6 i think? its bigger than a card. It has about 25 in a pad and works just as well as the expensive brands of watercolor paper this one i have no idea what the name of it is has some one painting on the front of it all in a light purple) -so I cutthe paper down to about 5 x7 to run my paper through my big shot with this flower and vine print embossing folder, I ran it through twice so you could really see it on this thick paper. -next Imked up my mini ink blender tool with a new sponge thingy on the end, and i inked it up with Dried Marigold. I went over the bottom of my paper over that embossed image getting it kinda heavy on there. I inked it several times getting it covered good. -next I inked up a different sponge head with abandoned coral and started out in the middle with a heavy hand and worked outward. I then got the edge where the dried Marigold meets I sponged over it and all the edges just on the edge of it. Ill come back with more dried Marigold in the end so i wanna make sure I have all the white filled in and the Abandoned Coral represented well. I cover the middle of the page and the embossed image comes out. -I comme back to the top of the paper with Dried Marigold again starting with a heavy hand in the center covering up all the white. Then blending over the edges well especially where the abandoned Coral is. I want to blend it NOT cover it up so IM not using a heavy amount of ink. Im using a little ink in round circular motions and inking my blending tool often so I can see where I need to add more. You can always add more but you can't take it off once it is on there! so blend with a light hand. after I get my blending done. I measure the length of my card then I cut my inked paper across (so I may have some left over to use in the future for crafting) to the length of the paper (at the bottom or top) then i cut down one side leaving the other side id say about 1 3/4 inches to 2 1/2 inches however wide you like your strip to be mine was right about 3 inches. Then make a small little cut up at the bottom and cut a half diagonal ending in your first cut (to make a sideways triangle) and do the same on the bottom of the other side. so you have a banner. I inked my edges lightly with a darker brown (not the darkest brown but a medium brown done lightly) ink can be distress ink doesnt have to be an oxide. I used my crop a dile tool to cut on the largest hole punch (one side is smaller the other side is larger. 2 holes a thumb print apart so I could put my ribbon bow on there. The ribbon was left from a swap I had the lady tied my gift up with it and had a tag with it. I just loved this ribbon had to keep it.

-Next I added bling in red, onto the banner in varios places. THEN I added these metal words I have had foreverrr.. I glued it all down with Bearly art Glue (my favorite for no wrinkles and I love the tips) and you can get it from everywhere EVEN WAL MART and IT IS GREAT GLUE!!!!(put pin back in it immediately dont let it sit open it dries up fast. just a tip)