Distress Oxide Glaze Technique: Sending You Sunshine!

Another card using the Distress Oxide glaze technique. If you have not seen my post on how to do this technique, you can see it here.

For the card today, I used another Memory Box die 99940 Fresh Flowers. I like this die because the insides of the petals come out and you can have different color petals and outlines.

In this case,  I die cut the flower first from "Core'dinations 80# White Canvas cardstock, and then also from a panel of Distress Oxide glaze, where I had used pinks and orange colors.

I adhered the flower to a circle of Paper Accents Natural Kraft cardstock, that I had cut using one of the MFT-849 Inside Outside Stitched Circle dies.

I adhered the circle to a panel of Distress Oxide glaze that I had cut with the largest of the Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle dies.

I stamped the bottom of the Distress Oxide glazed panel with a Magenta sentiment 07.952.F Sending You Sunshine, using Versafine Clair Green Oasis ink. Since this ink will probably never dry on the glazed surface of my panel, I applied clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.

I matted the panel with a piece of Papertrey Ink Pinefeather cardstock, and adhered the entire panel to a base card of Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock. I applied YNS Gumdrops - Magical Pastel yellow enamel dots to the centers of the flowers.

Products Used:

Magenta 07.952.F Sending You Sunshine!

Memory Box 99940 Fresh Flowers die

Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

MFT-849 Die-Namics Inside-Outside Stitched Circle dies

Distress Oxide inks: Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry,

Wilted Violet, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Cracked Pistachio,

Lucky Clover Peeled Paint

Ranger Glaze Medium

Versafine Clair Green Oasis ink

JudiKins Clear Detail embossing powder

Ranger Alcohol Ink cardstock

Core-dinations 80# White Canvas cardstock

Papertrey Ink Pinefeather cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

YNS Gumdrops - Magical Pastel

Alcohol Ink Mini Class

For those of you who are local, I will be doing a mini class at Art 'n Soul on Saturday, June 17 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.. Mini classes at Art 'n Soul are structured like a make and take. If you come in any time between 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, you can make this card for just $5.00 cash or store credit.

You will get to play with alcohol ink and Yupo paper, and you will come away with a finished card. If you have a little experience, it should only take about a half hour to make the card. I have a lot more samples using alcohol ink and Memory Box and Poppy dies that I will post over the next week or so.

Art 'n Soul has an open catalog for Memory Box and Poppy dies. Memory Box and Poppy orders are 10% off through Saturday the 17th.

Magenta Products Used:

(If you are local, please look for products at Art 'n Soul. If you are not local and wish to find Magenta products, you can click on the link in the stamp or product name below each image, or you can visit the Magenta online store here).

07.952.F Sending you Sunshine

Other Products Used:

Poppy Die 1737 Floral Stem Collage

Ranger Alcohol Inks: Limeade, Amethyst,

Turquoise, Valencia, Mermaid, Flamingo

Tim Holtz Yupo paper (1/2 sheet)

small beads

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Neenah Solar White Cardstock 110#

Scor tape

Technique of the Week: Painting Your Stamps with Nuance

This post is in conjunction with the Art 'n Soul Newsletter  article, "Technique of the Week". This card and technique is also featured on the Magenta blog right now.

The stamp I chose was the beautiful Clover Silhouette designed by the talented Ellie Knoll. You could use any stamp that has a lot of solid surface, rather than outlines. I also chose to use some of the newest colors of Nuance, but really any colors of Nuance would also look great.

   

I used the MC27 Round Shape Mask for this technique. You get two pieces with this template: the outside of the circle, which covers your card and leaves the circle open to work in; and the circle itself.

I taped down my card panel and taped down the outer piece of the stencil over it, leaving the circle open to stamp in. 

I put Nuance powder onto my craft mat in little piles. I inked the stamp with Versamark ink (clear, sticky ink) to help the colors stick. Then, using a damp brush, I picked up Nuance powder from my mat and painted it onto the solid areas of the stamp.

I spritzed the stamp to activate the color, and stamped it onto a piece of watercolor cardstock. I stamped off onto a second piece of cardstock, and then repeated the process to have a second image on my card.

The template masked off the area around the stamping. 

The panel that I stamped off onto will make a second card, but the image will be a little lighter.

Once I had stamped the image twice, I removed the template and dried the image carefully. I placed the inside of the template (the circle) over the stamped images to mask them. I then tapped Nuance powder all around the circular mask, and spritzed the powder with water.

You could also do the outside of the circle first; it works either way.

To define the circle around the main image further, I first dried the background, and then placed the template with the open circle back on the panel, and drew around the circle with a green Micron pen.

I sprayed water onto the rest of the Nuance on my mat, and picked up some with a brush and flicked spots onto the background image. Last, I added a sentiment and mounted it to a card.

At the end, not wanting to waste the wet Nuance that was left on my mat, I dragged another piece of watercolor cardstock through it, and created a background for another card.

This technique was really fun, and was not hard to do. Try it out on any stamps you may have with a lot of solid surface.

Magenta Products Used:

(If you are local, please look for products at Art 'n Soul. If you are not local and wish to find Magenta products, you can click on the link in the stamp or product name below each image, or you can visit the Magenta online store here).

48.011.L Clover Silhouette

07.952.F Sending you Sunshine

MC27 Round Shape Mask

MNU026 Old Rose

MNU027 Chartreuse

MNU028 Bright Green

MNU029 Lagoon

MNU030 Anthracite

Other Products Used:

Distress Inks: Mowed Lawn & Peacock Feathers (for stamping sentiment)

Green Micron 01 Pen

Perfect Pearls powder (mixed into water)

Watercolor cardstock

Painter's tape and Post-it tape for masking

Zen Sunflower Gingko Bird

This Zen Sunflower Gingko bird is one of my designs for Magenta in the new 2016 release, and is being featured on the Magenta Blog today, April 4!

I made the background for this sweet bird using Nuance colors in blues, yellow, and just a touch of grey on watercolor cardstock.

Once dry, I stamped the bird with Versamark ink, and embossed with White Diamond embossing powder.

I matted the watercolor panel onto a piece of So Silk Fair Blue cardstock, and stamped the sentiment at the bottom of my base card. A piece of white fun foam was adhered to the back of the matted panel and then adhered to the base card just above the sentiment. Various sequins were scattered around the piece. This card has a beautiful glittery look in real life.

Check out more of the fabulous new Magenta Summer Release in their catalog here.

Magenta Products Used:

44.020.L Zen Sunflower Gingko Bird

07.952.F Sending You Sunshine!

MNU001 Turquoise

MNU002 Bright Yellow

MNU011 Cerulean Blue

MNU013 Royal Blue

MNU014 Grey

Other Products Used:

Perfect Pearls powder

Versamark Ink

White Diamond embossing powder

Versa fine Black Onyx ink

Tim Holtz watercolor paper

So Silk Fair Blue cardstock

white fun foam

Various sequins

New Magenta 2016 Summer Catalog is here!

It's here everyone, and I absolutely love this collection! The sentiments are all fabulous, I love the flowers and the new templates, and the 3 little Zen birds in it are my designs! Check them out on page 9, along with a card I made. I have a larger picture of the card below.

At Art 'n Soul, we have a shipment from this collection coming very soon; possibly as soon as Thursday.

Wait a few moments for the catalog to appear.

Here's the card I made with two of my new little birds, and the sentiment "Sending you Sunshine" that Helene kindly made at my request, and that I think goes perfectly with these adorable sunflower birds.

This card was done with Distress ink and a stencil stamping technique in the background. If you have not seen my tutorials on stencil stamping, you can see them here, here, and here to mention a few. It's a favorite technique. Any detailed stencil should work well.

Magenta Products used:

44.022.L  Zen Sunflower Bird Large

44.021.H Zen Sunflower Bird Small

07.952.F Sending you Sunshine

Other Products Used

Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry; Spiced Marmalade

Judikins White Diamond embossing powder

Versamark Ink

Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock

So Silk Beauty Pink cardstock

Various sequins