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

Album of Secret Dreams....

Welcome everyone and lovely to see you! A special welcome also to new followers, thank you so much for wanting to be part of my crafty journey.
A friend of mine is expecting a baby girl (yes, she knows it's going to be a girl), and I decided to make her a little album to keep some notes on all her secret dreams for her new baby. It's baby number 3 and it's easy to get caught up in other things being busy all the time, so I thought maybe this would help....

The stamps on the cover are from Alpha stamps. All the stamps on the inside are  from the Tim Holtz Tiny Things set. I also used some images from Nicecrane The Kewpies baby collection of round digi stamps for embellishments.

All right, here goes and beware, photo rich post!......

 The background to the pages on the right was made with the help of Distress paints, Inks and Stains. Texture, stamps and sometimes rub-ons were added to further decorate. I also used paper serviettes to make the backgrounds more interesting.

 The pages on the left were made with the help of some 6 x 6 papers, stamped, inked and for most of them I added a little journaling pocket made with the very cool seed packet die loaned to me by the lovely Brenda

 All the words come from Tim Holtz chit chat stickers.

 Here you can see one of the cute Kewpie babies, not my usual style but I did think they were fun :)

 I added texture to the pages in various ways, either with texture paste through a mask or with an embossing folder.

Well, there you have it. The album is actually very small, each of the pages is only two by four inches and the whole album was made out of two pieces of A4 Kraft card, folded and cut like the Mr Holtz  "W" album. There are also plenty of other videos to be found that describe how to do this, so I am not going to bore you with a long explanation.

Well, hope you like this little album, thank you so much for visiting and have a creative week!