Playing with my new Oxide inks

Hello friends, hope your day is going well. Like many of us I am sure, I succumbed and ordered some of the new Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks recently released at Creativation, and this was my first chance to have a play with them.

I made two projects, playing with some of the different colours and using glossy photocard that I had lying around.

As you can see this is a little book I will keep by my bedsite to note down some of my dreams. I am facinated by dreams and decided I would record them for a while. Anyway, onto the project.

I played around with various colours, old and new. For this background I used Broken China, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs and a tiny bit of Aged Mahogany. I also used tiny bits of gold acrylic paints.
I embossed it with a very old Tim Holtz embossing folder and then went over the raised bits with normal Distress ink in Ground  Espresso.

I then spritzt with some water and finally rubbed over it all with Distress Micro Glaze, trying to follow a technique Tim demonstrated during a video from Creativation that I watched. Going over it with the glaze is meant to bring back some of the oxidised colour. Tim used Alcohol Ink card, which I don't have, so that's why I used the glossy photocard, but to be honest, it did not work very well.
Anyhow, I decided to use the card for the cover of this little book.

It has two signatures and following a tutorial I found on youtube I adhered them together using some ribbon before adhering the endpages to the cover.

I then covered the insides of the cover with some bits of design paper and some washi for extra strength, as the paper of the signatures that I used is quite thick, almost like thin card.

I decorated the spine with two hinges from an ancient stash of grunge card stock I still had lying around from years back. I embossed them with Ancient Silver EP to give them a metal look.

The front was decorated with a Gypsysoul lazer cut chipboard piece, also partly embossed with the ancient silver ep.

I also made a quick card still, with slightly different colours.

The chappy in this paperdoll image looks rather dapper and full of himself, but I think his lady, with her subtle smile is quite the match for him...

A word band, the letters highlighted with Distress Crayon.

The embossing here was also done with the help of a Distress Crayon.

Well, that's it for now. Hope you get some crafting playtime, and thanks for your visit like always!

xxxxx