Distress Oxide Inks and Wildflowers

I stamping friends, hope you are having an awesome day today.  I have been drooling over all the beautiful cards made in the last two days with the Stamptember Collaboration Stamp set from Hero Arts, Real Flowers Vintage (linked below).  It’s a silhouette set and it reminded me that I had ordered something very similar from Simon last month and have not inked it up yet……Yikes right?  Say Hello to Wildflowers, a two stamp silhouette stamp set.

I decided to use one of my favorite techniques to create the backgrounds, Distress Oxide Ink Blending.  The colors make such fabulous backgrounds.  So, I dug out three and went to town.

Of note – when choosing your colors, think of what color they will create when they overlap….not all colors play nice together as we know.

From the bottom, I started with Carved Pumpkin, then Peacock Feathers and finally Wilted Violet.  Where the Pumpkin and peacock touch, it achieved that beautiful moss green.  When the Peacock and Violet collide, they create that fabulous royal blue.  To me this combo looks like a beautiful sunset, so absolutely perfect for my silhouette stamps.

Both these cards are 10 minutes or less.  Once the background is created, just splatter some glimmer water on, dry it off and stamp the Wildflowers.  Attach it to a folded A2 card base (I did mine in white) and die cut a sentiment.

Need a quick lesson on how to blend the Oxide Inks?  – I have a little video right here

P.S. Glimmer Water:  a small amount of white liquid pearls mixed with water in a Distress Sprayer

 

Beautiful and fast – the perfect combination don’t you think?

 

This is the Hero Arts limited edition Wild Flowers Vintage and you can find it in my list of the Stamptember Collaborations HERE, as well as listed below with the rest of the supplies I used today.

These collaboration stamp sets are all “WHILE SUPPLIES LAST”, and many are already sold out, which is why I’m sharing cards created with the Wildflowers set, as they are so similar, and available as a regular stock item through Simon Says Stamp (linked below for you).

Thanks so much for visiting me today and I hope you enjoyed the project.  I’ve listed the products I used below.  Clicking on the image will take you directly to the product.  Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase through my link, I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.  Thank you so very much for your support, it helps to keep my blog and YouTube channel running and I truly appreciate it.

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for the Distress Oxide Ink and Wildflowers from Simon Says Stamp: