Wildflowers on Oxide Backgrounds

Here you can see I have revisited the distress background technique

demonstrated by Richele Christensen on the Ranger blog

using three oxide distress inks:

cracked pistachio, peacock feathers and abandoned coral.
Stenciling was done with sequin waste (circles)
and the cut outs left after die cutting the flowers
with frayed burlap and hickory smoke ink.
Sponged the edges of the layer with vintage photo ink.
I added color to a piece of muslin fabric
by dipping it into the spritzed inks on the craft sheet.

Then I stamped the sentiment on top
and used a mini stapler to attach it to the turquoise layer.

This background here ended up being more green.
The Stampin Up lady stamp was stamped in vintage photo
then sponged in peeled paint around the edges
and old paper ink in the center.

Used Tim Holtz Wildflowers #2 dies for the black flowers for both cards
and twine and raffia as embellishments.

Thank you for visiting!