Bird In My Journal - Birthday Card

Hello my crafty friends!

I am back with a couple of birthday cards to share with you 

using a beautiful stamp from Carabelle Studio.

~~Here are the 2 completed cards~~

I used a pretty simple watercolor background for my stamp. 

Some Yellow Gold Liquid Metal (Ken Oliver) was added for a bit of shimmer.

I masked the oval on one of the cards when stamping the bird image (above) except

 for the tail portion.

These were pretty simple and fast cards to make. In total it took 30 minutes to complete both.

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Un Oiseau Sur Mon Journal

Distress Oxide + Art Journal

Welcome to my blog! 

Today I have an art journal page to share with you - using Distress Oxide Inks.

These pages are in an old Calculus Textbook from the 1950's that I made into a journal.

I first prepped my pages by  applying  a light layer of gesso.

Next I used molding paste with a Carabelle Studio stencil.

Once the molding paste was completely dry I started to apply my Distress Oxides.
I first put some Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink on my craft sheet then used my water brush to loosely and liberally apply the colour over parts of the stenciled image.

I sprayed the ink while at the same time drying it with my heat tool. I did the same technique again but this time with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide Ink.

I used up the leftover ink from my craft sheet by splattering it over the pages.

Lastly I added the Creativity Quote stamp from Darkroom Door.

This was a pretty quick and fun journal page to do and I love the way the Distress Oxides turned out.

More Distress Oxide + Perfect Pearl

Hi there! Welcome to my blog. I'm so glad you are.

I am sharing another card that is similar to another card I shared last week,

You can take a look at that card here.

This card uses the same Carabelle Studio stamp, Wilted Violet & Cracked Pistachio
Distress Oxides and Perfect Pearls.

I used the smoosh & drag technique to apply the ink to my watercolour base.

To get a nice crisp, dark stamped image I used my Misti. I find its the perfect way to get a great image especially on watercolour paper. I added a sentiment from the Occasions Small Talk book from Tim Holtz Idea-ology.