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Tuesday with Tara

Tuesday with Tara {take 111}

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Happy Tuesday!

Today I’m celebrating the beauty in simplicity… with a simple floral card and a fun technique with Distress Oxide Inks!

Today I used a floral stamp by Tim Holtz.  Both the image and the sentiment are from the Distress Crayons Watercolor Kit, which was a great way for me to get some of beautiful images I didn’t have yet and try the Distress Crayons.  The technique I used would work with any open design image & Distress Oxide Inks.

I started with very simple stamping on Watercolor Cardstock.  These stamps have floral tops & stems separate, so it was easy to use two colors.

I then took my mister bottle of water and spritzed the images… got some beautiful wicking from these Oxide Inks!

I did a bit of extra blending with a wet paint brush, adding some color around the edges of the card stock as well since it looked so pretty puddled there… I then heated it with my heat tool and re-stamped the images over the blurred background.   I decided to crop my image down to 4×4 so I could layer it onto a square card.  My inky edges were finished by rubbing some Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Ink on my Craft Sheet, spritzing it with water and dragging the paper through the puddles.  I love how the oxide inks sit on top of themselves with new layers, rather than combining together (since pink & green would make mud if they blended)!

I took inspiration from the sentiment and kept things simple… a bit of twine, Stickles & bling finish it all off!

I really like the softness of the watercolor look with this flower- hope you do too!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

Materials Used:

Watercolor Cardstock

Tim Holtz stamps (mine are from the Distress Crayons Watercolor kit, but the same images are in the mini bouquet set)

Distress Oxide Ink in Peeled Paint & Worn Lipstick

Mister bottle

Non Stick Craft Sheet

Cardstock- kraft, olive green & pink

Bling & Twine

Rock Candy Distress Stickles (pretty sure these are discontinued… but I have a stash!)

 

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Tuesday with Tara {take 103}

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Happy Tuesday!

Today I’m sharing with you a quick card set I created together with my mom when she was here visiting last week.  She was needing a variety of cards to keep on hand, so we picked up some basic supplies (a set of ivory cards & envelopes and some cute die cut labels) and set to work!  Mom had never had a chance to play with Color Burst before, so we decided that would be a fun medium to work with!  We used some small pieces of watercolor paper and experimented with a variety of colors & techniques- so much inky fun! The cards I’m sharing today feature one of Mom’s favorite color schemes, teal/aqua & purple.  I hope you like them!

As you can see, we stamped sentiments on the labes and embellished them with some pretties by Prima.
Here’s a closer look at the cards… and my cat who wanted to help with the photos 😉

You can see some subtle patterns in this one from applying an inky stencil and some salt to the paper while it was still wet.  I almost didn’t cover the background at all, it was so pretty!

I had some resist design paper we used for the border on this one, similar to designs you will find in the Prima Paintables pads (which are 40% off right now!). I used some watery ink spots from my craft sheet to add subtle color to the die cut shape.

This final card has a softer look, from picking up color that was left on our craft sheet after applying just a small amount of Color Burst to the paper.  The ribbon was also inked up using that leftover color 🙂

I know this final photo isn’t very good… but I had to share how helpful and accommodating Miss Abbey was while I was trying to take pictures.  LOL.   I have another group of cards I’ll share on another blog post that includes her as well!  Usually I can work around her, but she must have known I needed the photos right away so I could pack up the cards to send home with Mom!  I hope this helps you see how using a few basic supplies can allow you to create a fun variety of cards to have on hand!  Sentiment stamps can be your best friend… and pretty embellishments make putting it all together really easy!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

Supplies used:

Cards & Die Cuts

Watercolor Paper

Resist finish paper (like Prima Paintables here, here, here and here!)

Color Burst brights & Earth Tones

Assorted Sentiment stamps (this one would be great!)

Dusty Concord Distress Ink

Assorted ribbons & flowers from the stash 🙂

Ranger Non-Stick Craft Sheet

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Tuesday with Tara {take 102}

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Happy Tuesday!

Father’s Day is coming up so I thought I’d share a fun masculine card idea with you featuring the popular paper dolls by Tim Holtz, Distress Oxide and a bunch of kraft colored goodness 🙂

I started by working with a variety of Distress Oxide Inks on a #8 manila tag.  I used what I like to call the ‘dip & drip’ technique- rubbing a few colors onto my Ranger Craft Sheet, spritzing with water and dipping the tag into it.  I let it drip a bit, then dried with a heat tool and repeated the process.  The Oxide inks layer beautifully, giving a really funky effect.  I finished off the tag with some brown ink around the edges.  I also stamped a vintage button border in the same brown along the left side and added a few rings of white paint (using a lid as my tool).  The card background is also Distress Oxide, a simply stamped a small dot background onto the kraft card base and a few of those paint rings as well.

I’ve been looking for things to seat the sitting dolls on, and this coffee cup seemed like a fun ‘larger than life’ option- especially for my coffee loving Dad!

I always like to add texture, and this mustache ribbon from my stash, the burlap coffee sleeve and the decorative brads helped to complete this card.  It can be a challenge for a lot of us making masculine cards that aren’t boring, but details like this make it easy!

I hope you got a bit of inspiration for some masculine creations this week!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

Materials Used:

Tim Holtz Paper Dolls

Assorted Colors of Distress Oxide

Sizzix Coffee Die

5×7 Kraft Card

#8 Manila Tag (#5 fits nicely on an A2 card)

Small Dots Background Stamp

Sentiment Stamp by Hero Arts (from years ago!)

Assorted decorative brads from my stash

 

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