Colourful background with distress oxide ink technique.

Aug 6, 2024

By Design Team

Colourful background with distress oxide ink technique.

Hello crafty friends! This week is background week and do I love a good background! I chose to get crafty with distress oxide inks and the Lenten Rose mini slimline die.

I start with 5 distress oxide colours namely:

seedles preserves
Candied apple
Sqeeuzed lemonade
Carved pumpkin
Tumbled glass

For the technique that I’m going to do today I’m using Tim holtz glossy alcohol ink cardstock. I’m going to add every colour once at a time and let every colour dry in between.

I smooch some ink onto my glass mat and spray it with water, just enough to let the ink run a bit. Than I take the piece of alcohol paper with the glossy side down and place it onto the ink on the glass mat. Give it some pressure with your fingers/hands and pull it up from the mat. Clean your glass mat and let the ink dry completely before moving on with the next colour. I started with the darkest colours. Repeat every step until you added all colours.

I’m going to use distress glaze to let the colours pop, as you can see on the picture, half of the panel is bright and half is dull. The glaze seals the colours but also let them look bright and shiny. I’m adding the glaze with a blending tool.

Now it’s time to cut everything with the Lenten Rose die. The die is bigger than the panel but that isn’t a problem at all. Place the die on your panel and run it through your machine. Now try to take the panel off from the die in one piece, that’ll make it more easy to place it onto the paper. I use press’nseal to stick everything in one piece so I can add glue onto all the pieces at once and place it in one piece. I also cut everything out of glitter paper, I’m using the edges of the die in glitter and fill it in with the colourful panel pieces.

I’m cutting all the glitter edges off, because I’m missing one due to the size of the panel. I love the look of a good edge so I placed this panel with double sided foam tape onto black cardstock keeping in mind to show a black edge around the panel.

To top it off I added a small sentiment from pretty pink posh and cut it out with pretty pink posh dies. Traced the text with a gold ink pen.

This technique is so much fun and I would love to see your creative ideas with it, tag me on Instagram if you used it! I wish you a great day! See you next Tuesday.

~ Karin