Playing With Inks

Hi, I have a couple quick simple cards to share with you today.

After I make a card, if it is not specifically for someone

I will leave it on my desk until I type up a blog post.

Well, I have a bit of a back up on my desk so I am going to

have a few cards in this post that I have made playing around

with inks, Distress, Distress Oxide and Catherine Pooler Inks.

The first card I created the background using the Distress Oxide inks.

At first, I started out by just painting on stripes using Worn Lipstick and Fossilized Amber, it di not come out the way I envisioned it but the great thing about the Distress Oxide is that once it is dry you can layer the colors.  I added some Spiced Marmalade and Iced Spruce.  In the end I really liked it and did

not want to cover it up too much so I just added a Gina Marie die label

and stamped the happy birthday.

The next two cards again I played around with the Distress Oxides.

Both of these cards were made with the same piece of paper.

I really didn't like the way the paper came out after I had added the

Oxide inks, so I thought what the heck let me try using the 

Joseph's Coat technique on it.  I grabbed some CTMH solid flower stamps

and randomly stamped using Versamark and then clear embossed them.

I then used Distress Walnut Ink I just covered over the stamped piece using my blending sponge.  It was amazing to see this come to light, so I turned my

not so nice piece of paper into a pretty usable piece.  I cut it in half using a wavy die and used the two pieces to make a couple cards.

Finally, the last card of the day is one using Catherine Pooler Inks and Unity Stamps. 

The Cather Pooler inks are so vibrant and work pretty much like

the regular Distress Inks.  I just spread some ink on my craft mat

misted it with water and drug my watercolor paper through it.

I then stamped the Unity Stamps flower from the "Rebuild Your Life" set and

the sentiment is from "Bunches of Love" set.

After I stamped the flower and went back in and added some water from

the petals and dabbed it with paper towel lifting off some of the color.

Thanks for stoping by, would love to hear which card is your favorite.

Challenges entered:

Aud Sentiments - use a stamp for your sentiment - ends 4/30

Crafting with Attitude - anything goes - ends 4/30 

Crafty Girls Creations - anything goes - ends 4/30