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Showing posts with label distress oxide ink pads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distress oxide ink pads. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Messing with distress oxides

I've been watching videos and hearing people rave about the distress oxide pads for a while now. So When I saw them at the make it show I decided to give them a go.
After some time playing with them I'm not really sure what to think of them.
While  I was quite pleased with the background result on this card stock, I have to say most  of my efforts went in the bin. 
 I am not sure if the poor results I've been getting is down to  the inks , the paper or me.
The best results seem to be on glossy card stock, but then my Versafine black ink  doesn't want to stay on the glossy card. 
So I tried  water colour paper... I quite like this one, but I don't want to be working on water colour paper.  The colours are not as vibrant as they appear in the photograph.
The colours are more muted on this glossy paper. (This glossy paper is  the back 0f a piece of packaging that came in a pack of card stock.) 
I've not quite finished playing with this one,  but I decided to share it Because I  love the sentiment here,  it's so fitting for me and most crafters who use glitter.  Although I am not sure that is the way it is meant to be interpreted. LOL.
I will keep trying different card stocks until one that reacts perfectly with the ink and technique I am using.