DISTRESS OXIDE INKS & SPRAYS ON PHOTO PAPER

Distress Oxide Inks and Sprays are always water-reactive unless you fix them in some way, eg: Microglaze or Fixing Spray. However, if you use the Oxide Inks or Sprays on the shiny side of photo paper, the emulsion coating the photo paper grips onto the Oxide Inks and Sprays and leaves beautifully bright colours when the ink is washed off the photo paper. I have tried this technique with the regular Distress Inks and Sprays and while it works to some extent, the hybrid combination of the pigment and dye ink in the Oxide Inks and Sprays just works so much better. First up below is the cover for this Technique Book and I can't believe it's book #30! 

The size of this book cover is 20cm x 15cm
(or 8" x 6")


"Be in love"
(This is one of the stamps from the Tim Holtz 
Bold Botanicals)


"Live simply"
(Another stamp from Tim's Bold Botanicals
stamp set)


"Bone appétit"


"Cougar"
(This is one of Dina Wakley Half Faces stamp set)


"Cooler"
(Another of Dina Wakley Half Faces stamps)


"Crazy ideas"

DISTRESS OXIDE SPRAYS #1

Our first class back for 2020 is Distress Oxide Sprays.  I have a collection of these sprays, not all of them, but about 70% of them, so I have a pretty good selection of colours to choose from.  I used these sprays, along with the Distress Spray Stains to create these backgrounds and also used the Oxide Sprays to colour the stamped images.  This was done by adding a little of the spray from the tube in the bottle to a piece of acetate and then picking up the colour with an Aqua Brush to messily colour the images.  Messy watercolouring stamped images is so much quicker and easier than precise colouring.  🙂

I used a piece of acetate to mask off the moon section before spraying, then spritzed lightly with water after the sprays had dried.  This causes the sprays to run a little and create the spooky moon effect.

"Already Disturbed"

"Bling out your dead"

"Fear not"

"Hocus Pocus"

 "Pitch Black" 

"Nightmare"

"Explore"

(This one has no moon on it, but I wanted to show the

girls the gorgeous Mercury Glass die-cuts and it does

have a Distress Oxide background)

This is my cover for book #23.  It is 20cm x 15cm (or 8" x 6" if you still work imperial rather than metric sizing).