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.