Distress Oxide Ink Blending Combos - Week 6

Hello, here is my post for week 6 of the Distress Oxide ink blending combinations as set out by Kristina Werner's blog. You will find all the details and videos there to inspire you.  Week 6 of Kristina's colour blending can be found here. This week's selection is quite a mix of colour blends.

Oxide Combo 1 - Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Chipped Sapphire

For this card I trimmed the blended card to fit the square card blank. Then with white card and a Tonic Studios die set I cut the 'Hey Blossom' parts and mounted them onto the coloured card.

Oxide Combo 2 - Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain

I cut the dragonfly with a Tonic Studio from the blended card. The greeting is a die from Crafter's Companion. I added a few topaz gems.

 
Oxide Combo 3 - Shabby Shutters, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans

For this card I used a PaperArtsy JOFY stencil and stamps.

Oxide Combo 4 - Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin, Barn Door. 

For this card I used some Sizzix Tim Holtz Wild Flower Stem Thinlits dies. I cut these in black, then added an Avery Elle stamp in black ink, some splats of black ink and a few sequins.

Thanks for looking, I think this is the last set for now.
Lynn x

See previous week's cards here:
Week 1 
Week 2
Week 3 
Week 4
Week 5

Distress Oxide - Review & Cards

Last month's project for the Papermaze Blog was to review Ranger's new Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink, to bring you this review and a few ideas of what you can create with them. I'm really pleased with the results and love the many effects. They are great fun to play with.

Please see the Papermaze blog for techniques. Here are some of my finished cards made from my experiments:

Other items available from Papermaze which I used to make up the cards:
Spellbinders dies, Crafters Companion Dies, Memory Box dies, Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Thinlits dies, PaperArtsy Stamps by JOFY, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps, Tim Holtz Layering Stencils.

I found using these inks great fun and so inspiring, the more I created with them the more I wanted to try out - the possibilities are endless! I think they will be appearing in future blog posts.

Thanks for Looking
Lynn x

More Fun with JOFY Paperartsy Stamps

A second post for March on the Papermaze blog was all about using more JOFY stamps and another IKEA product.

I had a few old KNUFF magazine folders left empty when I sorted out some craft magazines. These were looking a bit tatty so I decided to treat them to the same technique as the bead chest I decorated at the beginning of the month. 

Please see the original post on the Papermaze blog for details of how to make the project and the products used. 

More to come at a later date:

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Fun with PaperArtsy (JOFY) Stamps

I have been having fun with my JOFY PaperArtsy Stamps, for this month's post on the Papermaze blog.  I decorated this IKEA - MOPPE box for all my beads and jewellery making tools - I had a sort through all my beads and once organised I was able to fit them into the mini chest of drawers. My box was old and in need of attention so I decided to decorate it. 

Here is my finished box - the main stages of this project are available on the Papermaze blog.

Front

Right end

Left End

Top

I used acrylic paint (Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Paints), Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Markers. Regular Gel (Matte) Medium, was used for sticking and finishing the images. For finishing touches I added some Liquid Pearls and Stickles.

For more details please see the Papermaze Blog and shop website.

Thanks for looking
Lynn

Reverse Canvas - Bo Bunny Soirée

I have another project using the Bo Bunny Soirée papers together with JOFY stamps and Sizzix dies over on the Papermaze Blog today.

To read more about it please pop over to the Papermaze blog.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

JOFY Stamps Box & A Card

I usually store my stamps in old DVD boxes but the JOFY and a few other stamps come on lovely coloured mounts, and so it would be a shame to cut these up to fit or take them off all together.

I had some cosmetic boxes, given to me over the years and found the JOFY stamp sets fit perfectly into this purple one. (Thanks Linda for the box and the loan of the alpha stamps x). A bonus is they smell nice too!

The I set about decorating and personalising it. I measured the box and cut water colour paper to fit the sides and top of the lid.

With the Paperartsy JOFY stamps from the alphabet set (21), and several floral sets (26, 32) and the tiny bee (30) I did some stamping with the aid of some home made masks and a Versafine onyx black ink pad.

Then using Distress Ink pads, markers, water, a brush and mister, I painted - coloured the images and background. These were then trimmed and I inked around the edges with Black Soot Distressed Ink Pad. To finish off a few drops of Glossy Accents made the bee wings glisten.

Distress ink colours used:
Flower petals and buds - mustard seed, spiced marmalade, spun sugar, dried marigold and carved pumpkin
Leaves - mowed lawn, twisted citron, cracked pistachio
Letters - Evergreen bough and stormy sky
Label - Antique Linen
Background - shaded lilac, dusty concord and weathered wood

Inside lid

Now to make one for my Tim Holtz stamps!

I also made a card for my Mum for Mothering Sunday, using the same technique.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Fresh Herbs

I love to grow my own and so my daughter Emily sent me a kit for growing some kitchen herbs for my birthday in May last year. It was a delightful picket fence box, which holds three pots for growing individual herbs. It has a little shed at the end to hold tiny tools. The photo in my layout shows the herbs some months later.

I created this layout in response to the Dusty Attic Blog - June Mood Board challenge.

I created my background with two sheets of Bazzill cardstock - the base is cream and has been trimmed all around with a Martha Stewart punch around the page punch set. The top layer started out white! I trimmed this down to fit inside my cream border and set about creating a background using stencils (Tim Holtz and PaperArtsy -JOFY) and Distress Paint (Picket Fence, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain). Then I added colour with Distress Inks (Shabby Shutters and Bundled Sage). After this was all dry I spritzed a little Dylusions Ink (Black Marble and White Linen). I stitched round the edges of the finished cardstock before sticking to the larger piece.













Behind the tear in my cardstock is a small piece of 'Raspberries' paper from Maja Designs Coffee in the Arbour collection, these colours blend well with the colours I chose from the mood board and my inks and paints, and a tiny hint of the red.

My choice of Dusty Attic embelishments for this page was Chicken Wire 12" x 12", Flutterbies #3 and Flower Buds, all from Papermaze. The butterflies were painted with a little Picket Fence Distress Paint, then some red ink lightly dusted on the the butterfly wings followed by a fine layer of glitter. Some beads of glossy accents were added to the seed heads of the flower buds.

I tucked two halves of a small doily under the photo. My date is Prima number stickers on a scrap of white Bazzill surrounded by a metal label plate from Tim Holtz.

My lettering is Making Memories Simply Fabulous, velvet alphabet stickers in peapod for 'HERBS', and Doodlebug Designs Inc. Fancy Fonts letter stickers in black cherry for 'FRESH'.

I enjoyed making this layout, and creating my own background for a change rather than using patterned papers.

Take a look at the Dusty Attic blog to see beautiful creations from other entries as well as the amazing design team work.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x