DISTRESS OXIDES GLOSS

The love for Distress Oxides hasn't gone away, I just keep finding new ways of using these gorgeous ink pads and the depth of colour is just amazing!  Almost all of these cards below have been created using only two colours of Oxides, a couple with three colours  But you still have to be aware if you're working with colours while they are all still wet, that the old rules still apply and if you mix red and yellow you will get orange, blue and red will give you purple.  So try and keep your colours slightly separated unless you are drying in between, then you can layer to your heart is content!

"Still talking"...

(Wild Honey & Black Soot)

"Ruin my life"...

(Broken China & Spiced Marmalade)

"Live in colour"...

(Candied Apple, Blueprint Sketch

& Squeezed Lemonade)

"Dead leaves"...

(Aged Mahogany & Hickory Smoke)

"Subscription"...

(Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber

& Broken China) 

yep, blue & yellow make green!

Finally, this is the last atc from last week's class, "Crayon Melt Background" using the crayons and a heat gun to melt the crayon to get it to run.  Love this technique!!!

"BS"

(white, brown & copper crayons)

CRAYON MELT BACKGROUND

I have previously done classes where we've used either a mini craft iron or a Clover quilting iron to melt both beeswax as well as wax crayons to create a background.  Several people wanted to revisit this technique so I tried to work out a way to do it without the use of the irons.  I think I was successful!  All I used was cheap wax crayons, not watercolour ones though, just ordinary Crayola kids ones, a heat gun and a small, metal palette knife.  It wasn't always necessary to use the palette knife to spread the wax, sometimes I could do it purely with the heat of the heat gun to remelt the wax and get it to drip and run.  But other times if you want specific swirls or more definite strokes, the metal palette knife worked really well.  I even used my metallic crayons with great success.  Like all of these techniques though, viewing on the computer screen just does not do the backgrounds justice, amazing texture, satiny shine and metallic shimmer when gold, silver or copper was used.

"Scars"...

(gold & black crayons)

"Tequila"...

(citrus & pale grey crayons)

"Salty"...

(green-blue & copper crayons)

"Psychic"...

(orange & purple crayons)

"Demons"...

(red & dark grey crayons)