Sunday, December 27, 2020

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.

2 comments:

Murphy's Law said...

I'm so glad you went through it. I bought felt and had no clue why LOL. Great tags! I have so much trouble seeing pix to not be a robot bwahaha

Murphy's Law said...

It didn't do it this time. Never mind.