Playing with Distress Oxides

I finally got hold of the new Distress Oxide inks and have been having a play with making some backgrounds. I am still feeling my way, but I am enjoying the process of finding out what the new inks can do. They are certainly different from anything else I have used and very effective. This panel was coloured with Fossilised Amber and Cracked Pistachio inks.

I used this background to try out two new sets of Kay Carley stamps I bought when I went  to Ally Pally last weekend, when I had a smashing two days with my lovely Craft Stamping Quartet girls.

I stamped onto the background using my MISTI, both to position the sentiment which I stamped in Onyx Black Versafine ink and then the first stamping of the flower stamps with Old Paper Distress Ink. This pale stamping helped me to position dots of Distress Oxide inks in Fossilised Amber and Wilted Violet using a fine tipped sponge tool, before putting the panel back into the MISTI and re-stamping the flowers in exactly the same place, with Sap Green Archival ink and then adding dots with a white Jelly Roll pen. I added stems from the Stampingback Idiot Flowers set in archival ink and Olympia Green Versafine ink. Finally I added some dots with Nuovo drops and stamped a couple of butterflies from the Kay Carley stamps that I coloured with Prisma pencils and added white gel pen dots. Sorry the photo is a bit bleached out. I have tried all sorts of places to get a better pic, but it wont play!

Last weekend was a special time as it was three years since we had all been together in the same place! It's hard to believe this time last week we were wandering around a nicely quiet show hall (Sunday is always a bit less hectic) and realising our time together was ebbing away. As always, the lovely building of Ally Pally and its view across London makes the show a great experience.

 

 

I'm looking forward to more playing with the lovely things I bought. I have plenty to keep me busy!

 

 

Who knows, perhaps I might even be able to manage a few more frequent blog posts!

 

Thanks for popping by.

 

Elaine 





A year of Inkscapes - April

Here is my calendar panel for April. This month I wanted to capture the vibrant greens of spring as everything leaps into life.

Inks are applied with a mix of Clarity Stencil brushes and round Ranger Ink blending tools and a lot of elbow grease! Sentiments were all positioned with the assistance of a MISTI stamp positioning tool.

Inks: Distress Ink - Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint and Mowed Lawn
Stamps: Woodware Script, Rubbernecker sentiment and Justrite Fern
Stencil: Stamps by Ryn Maidenhair Fern