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!

Stampfest with Lynette

Lynette and I had a great time stamping and visiting on Monday.

We tried a distress oxide background technique

demonstrated by Richele Christensen on the Ranger blog.

Since I didn't have the oxide in peeled paint, we just used the regular distress for that color

along with the faded jeans oxide and cracked pistachio oxide.

After we dried the background with a heat tool
we spritzed a stencil with water
and placed it on the background to "lift off" color.
Our result was not as dramatic as Richele's. 

Perhaps we did not leave the wet stencil down long enough?

Jennifer McGuire has a tutorial for stamping with water for unique backgrounds.
Would like to give that a try.

We sponged ink with stencils and stamped with a manuscript stamp on the background.

Cut Wildflowers #2 Thinlits from black cardstock and attached with glue.
Punched butterflies from Lynette's 2 butterfly punches and attached.

I used a piece of muslin fabric to stamp my sentiment and mini stapled it to the black cardstock.
Lynette used cardstock.
Then the layers were attached with dimensional foam.
I copied Richele's idea and used twine.

I would like to try this technique again adding an orange as shown on Richele's California Art Girl.

Addtional inks used:
distress vintage photo, hickory smoke, frayed burlap
Versafine black onyx

Stamps used:
Tim Holtz cling, saying stuff
Hero Arts H2141 manuscript background