Using Your Distress Inks and Oxides For Easy Water Colouring...... using Concord and 9th Stuck On You

Good Morning, How fantastic is the weather a the moment.

I decided to pullout the distress pads, as I'm always pulling the oxides out but never the original.

So I thought let go back to the basics. I know I've probably shown this technique before but I just love it as I'm not good at water colouring. 

Products

Concord and 9th Stuck On You Stamp Set

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/stuck-on-you

A selection of Distress Ink pads ( I used Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, and Rusty Hinge. also Tea Dye Oxide for my sentiment tag)

4 1/2 x 6 " Piece of Water Colouring Card Stock

5 x 7 " Card Blank

A Paint Brush and Water or a Water Brush

Method

Stamp the cactus image in Forest moss,

and the pot in rusty hinge.

Then on your glass mat, stamp your ink pads in Peeled Paint and Crushed Olive and carefully paint in the cactus body. Once it dry go on and colour in the pot. in rusty hinge.

At this point i added another part of the cactus. 

I then started using the inks around the white space on my work. stamping first and second generation inks. I also add pattern to the pot by stamping in the same rusty hinge. Using a blending brush i picked up a little shabby shutters and softened the edges.

Finally I stamped the sentiment in black waterproof ink and coloured with a little tea dye oxide.

A simple but fun technique.

happy Stamping

Jo

xxx

Little Stamp Sets, Deserve A Place in your Stash!

Good Morning Crafty Friends, I do hope your all keep well.

Today I have a blog post showing how to get a the most out of smaller stamp sets.

We tend to disregard them, thinking we are better off getting larger sets. 

Think again my crafty friends. Here are just three of the techniques using them.

 1) Background
 2) Focus
 3) Repetitive

Products

Friendly Hello Stamp Set by Concord & 9th

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/friendly-hello

Gina K Inks Wild Dandelion, Blue Lagoon, Amalgam Ink Black  and Passionate Pink

Gina K Card Stock in Ocean Mist (ideally i would have used blue lagoon.) (Card One)

Lawn Fawn Card stock in Black Liq and a strip of black/white pattern paper. (Card Two)

Altenew Inks in a rainbow of colours but any brand would do. (Card Three)

Wow White Fine Embossing Powder

6 x 6 "Card Blank

Nuvo Drops Rainbow Colours Gloss and Gems

Method Card One

Step One choose your ink combination.

Mount your stamps on to acrylic blocks

Randomly stamp on to a piece of cardstock just a touch smaller than your card blank.

(I used 6 x 6 inch card black)

I started with the biggest images which were the flowers.

Then I over stamped the inside of the flowers and leaves in black. I used a embossing tool to create little dots in between. You stamp the round embossing tool in to the ink then stamp on your work, making little dots.

Finally when it was dry, I mat and layered it on to Ocean Mist card stock.Then  stamp and embossed my sentiment in wow white fine embossing powder, on to a scrap of the same card \stock.

Finally I added some little gems from my stash to match the colours of inks i'd used.

Card Two 

Similar idea but just using black ink and Caribbean Blue and Gloss Black drops. Nuvo drops. 

Card Three

Set up your stamping positioner, and stamp your sentiments, then by moving the cardstock stamp again but change the ink colour every time you stamp to create a rainbow pattern.

I hope I have shown you how versatile these little sets are and what value for money they are. As crafters we love to use our stash to the maximum ability.  

I will be doing some Facebook lives and videos on our craft room page so if you have any topics you would like me to cover please message me through messenger though my Facebook profile.

Take Care and Happy Stamping

Jo Summers

Quick, Easy Blending and Stamping with a Stamp Positioner. Using Distress Oxides and Concord & 9th.

Well Welcome,

I do hope your all well.

 I have been having some fun and stepping out of my comfort zone. I'm very much a character stamper and alcohol marker girl.

 So water-coloring, is not  my thing. But I love the look, and admire some of the greats out in this industry.

But this technique is truly fall proof. 

Products

Concord & 9th Forever Flower Stamp Set

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/forever-flower

Stamp Positioner

Distress Oxides in 

Combi 1 Tumbled Glass & Salty Ocean

Combi 2 Abandoned Coral & Aged Mahogany

Combi 3 Picked Raspberry & Wilted Violet

Versamark ink pad

Water Spray Bottle

White Acrylic Paint & Paint Brush for splats

White Embossing Powder

Black Cardstock

Neenah Cardstock

Card Blanks

Hero.s Blue Gems

Altenew Mahogany Gems 

Hero's Lilac Gems 

Method

First add the lightest ink down on to the flower image on your stamp positioner. Then stamp this down and repeat.

This builds up a nice cover to the stamp, stamp this down to you neenah card stock cut to the size of your card blank. I used  5.5 x 5.5 " for the blue one.

The other are 3.9 x 5.5 "

Then just using salty ocean around the outside of the petals.

Then stamp this down again.

Go back and spritz the stamp with water. Approx 10 cm away 3 spritz. then stamp it down.

This moves the colour and causes a blend.

Then leave this to one side to dry. 

The next step is to use the lightest blue and stamp the dots around the background,using first and second generation ink. Then blend around the outside to finished the look.

Then using some white paint, I adding some spritz.

Let this dry why I stamp and emboss my sentiment.

Stamping enough sentiments for all three cards in versamark.

Finally I added some enamel drops. 

add foam tape and stick down the sentiment.

I really enjoyed making these very quick cards.

If you give it a go please show us in the Bumbleberrys craft room group.

Happy Stamping

Jo

xxx

Creating Ombre Patterned Backgrounds With Stencils

Well Hello There,

I do hope you are all staying well.

I'm a huge fan of Distress Oxides like most crafty folk. The colour blends and combinations you can archive are amazing. A few months back the most talented Kristina Werner brought out a video all about the different combinations, she had come up with. I add the link here well worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ3Cah5esns

I decided to make a swatch book of all the different combo's. Which I keep handy on my desk.

It inspires me to use my stencils more and to achieve the tone of my project. 

I was look for a girly background combination, for this weeks card as I wanted to thank our post lady who is so sweet and caring. She always checks everything is OK, not to mention delivering a fantastic service with a smile.

Anyway, I had recently received some beautiful stencils from Honey Bee Stamps and was eager to use them.

I choose the third combination in the first set that Kristina shows. (Love and Valentines)

It is a combination of Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, and Wilted Violet.

This was the results of my combination.

Products

Honey Bee Stamps Stencil Diamond

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/diamond-patterns-set-of-2-stencils?_pos=3&_sid=500330a10&_ss=r

Distress Oxides In  Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, and Wilted Violet

Altenew Simple Thank You Die

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/altenew/products/simply-thank-you-die-1?variant=12767670075474

Black Cardstock

Neenah Cardstock

White Jelly Roll Pen

Nuvo Aqua Shine Glitter Gloss Pen

Heart Gems (Little Things From Lucy's Cards) 

6" x 6" Card Blank

Method

First cut a piece of neenah cardstock to 5.5" x 5.5" and attach the smaller diamond stencil to it.

Then start blending on the oxides, with the lightest colour first. Start at the top and work down in lines. Then add the next shade and finally the darker shade .

Then remove the stencil and splat the design with your aqua shine gloss pen. I put a little on a glass mat added some water and flick with a paint brush on to my work.

Why you die cut your sentiment using the thank you die leave your panel to dry. I cut my sentiment from, white then black card stock. 

Attach this to your dry panel and stick on a few heart gems.

finally with a white jelly roll pen draw stitching around the outside of your work.

I mounted this to my card blank.

Also I used the Hexagon shape mask also from Honey Bee to create another card.

This time I blending from the centre out.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my post this week.

Happy Stamping

Jo

xxx