Distress Oxides Easter Cards

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I so glad that the snow has gone and that it is a little warmer.

I am in a few groups on Facebook and I saw some cards made with a technique using Distress Oxides. My first thought was I won't be able to do that. Anyway I visited the blog in question and there was a link to a video tutorial. So I had a look and I thought yes that is achievable. So I had a go with what I had in my stash.

 I cut some Neenah card stock to the size I required.  Then with my stamp press I stamped the daffodils with Perfect Medium and heat embossed them with a white powder. With three shades of Distress Oxides I inked the paper with some cut and dry foam starting with the darker colour and working in to the lighter colour. 

I buffed the ink off of the white embossing. Then I took a paintbrush and some water and I lifted the colour from the daffodil as I went I dabbed with kitchen towel. I put some yellow  Distress Oxide on my mat and added water I used this to paint over the daffodils. 

The Happy Easter is a Clarity Stamp and it was heat embossed with a gold powder. 

Here is the video that I saw on my friends blog. I found it very  useful.  I didn't realise how easy it is to put videos on your blog post. 

Here are all the cards together. I think I have enough Easter cards now. This was a a fun technique it was good to get the inks and stamps out again. These cards are nice and flat for posting.

I would like to enter the Easter Challenge at Moo - Mania and More ,Challenge 12 at the Craftaholics R Us Challenge blog , challenge 372 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog and challenge 139 at the Creative Moments Challenge blog. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Happy Easter - Daffodil

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a great weekend. The weather was certainly nice and I even ventured out without my coat for the first time in ages. Despite me having a cold we did all the things we were planning. We had a very nice meal on Sunday with the Bride and Groom, I have been making bits for, and our daughter and her fiancé. There was time to talk about the last few bits and pieces we need to make for the wedding that is less than two weeks away.

I am  up to date and I have all my Easter cards made. This is the last one to share with you.

This is just a 6" x 6" card. I wanted to use my Heartfelt creations Daffy Daffodils stamp set. Also I saw a card using the Spellbinders label dies and I remembered they were in my stash so I wanted to use them too.  The background was created with one of the stamps from the set stamped with CS Perfect Medium and the heat embossed with a clear sparkly embossing powder. Then I inked over the mat with yellow and green shades of Distress Ink. 

I stamped the daffodil in brown ink and heat embossed it with a clear powder then I coloured it with my Promarkers. 

This is a Clarity Stamp sentiment.

It isn't long till Easter now that is the weekend of the wedding so we are going to be very busy. 

I would like to enter challenge #35 at the Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog  and challenge 317 at the My Time to Craft Challenge Blog. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie