Blended Distress Ink backgrounds (Not Oxides)

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

I hope today finds you all as well as can be expected!  Sadly none of us come under the "well" title!  😔 Sending big squishy hugs to anyone who needs one. 

We had a wet and miserable day yesterday,  in fact when Paul popped to the letter box late afternoon he said it was so cold you could see your breath, too cold to put my newly transplanted seedlings into the little greenhouse we put outside the back door.  The utility room looks like a potting shed at the moment! 

Now onto todays cards,  I had a lovely time playing with Distress Inks, I haven't used them in ages, I saw a couple of projects on Pinterest that I loved the colours of so I decided to have a play, I have to say that I was surprised at how vibrant the colours were!  The bottom card was my first attempt,  one of the tutorials I read said to smoosh the ink onto the watercolour card with a piece of acetate, while I liked the depth of colour (after a few layers, I dried between each layer) I wasn't really happy with the blockiness of the colours, so I tried again using thicker watercolour card this time (first one was Bristol smooth).  This time I smooshed the inks into the glass mat and spritzed with water until they started to blend together and then I dipped my piece of card into the ink, I dried with heat gun and repeated until I was happy, now I loved how gorgeous the blend was on this piece ( middle picture).                                                                               However when it came to stamping onto them the roles reversed!  The bottom card (Bristol smooth) took the ink really well so the embossing powder stuck well,  the beautiful blended thicker card did not want to take the ink,  it had a rougher texture,  I think the ink may have been absorbed into the card although I added embossing powder straight away 🙄, who knows!  It was very frustrating though, so card 1: I loved the ink blend but stamping looks distressed.                                                                    Card 2: ink blend not so great but took ink much better !     

The colours I used are: Picked Raspberry,  Wild Honey,  Cracked Pistachio & Mermaid Lagoon.  The stamp set is Hero Arts Social Butterfly. 

I have to say that I am really enjoying trying so many different techniques.

I hope that you all have a great day, stay warm, 

Love and hugs to all of you  

Sandra                                                                    xxxxxx