Hey everyone! Happy Satur-YAY! We're celebrating the weekend by getting our craft on. And today, I'm going to give you a look at the Ranger Distress Oxide Inks. You're going to love these inks!
The Distress Oxide inks are a unique fusion of pigment and dye ink. They're water reactive like traditional Distress Inks. The pigment ink properties of them make them better for stamping and make blending easier (for those of you who are blending challenged like myself).
Here are the top reasons I love Distress Oxide Inks
- They're water reactive, making them perfect for techniques, watercolor and more.
- The pigment properties of this ink make it great for embossing.
- The opaque nature of these inks leave you with beautiful, solid stamped images.
- The vibrant colors are true to my favorite original Distress Inks and make rainbow blending a breeze.
- They blend like butter.
- When sprayed with water, the inks create an oxidized effect and leave you with a velvety, chalk like look.
- The pigment properties keep these colors true, even on dark card stock.
In the video tutorial below, I'm going to take you through some of the basics of the Distress Oxide inks and walk you through a couple of projects. Be sure to check that out! I think you'll find it very helpful.
I created two types of backgrounds. The first background I created by pressing my paper in to wet Oxide Ink on my craft mat. I then layered some ink blending on top to intensify and add color in areas. I dropped some water droplets on top of my background to lift color in random areas.
The second background was created with ink blending. This technique is definitely more controllable and predictable than the first technique. I actually did my ink blending on traditional Neenah Solar White card stock. I wanted to use this particular card stock to show you that blending is easier with these. I find it very difficult to achieve a smooth blended look on traditional Neenah card stock...so if I can create that smooth look with the Oxide Inks on Neenah...I've found the holy grail of ink blending.
I finished both of the cards off with a misting of Sparkle Shimmer Spritz to make them very sparkly. This can be tricky. You don't want the mist to be so heavy that you move the ink. Make sure you spray in light mists from high above to avoid reactivating your Distress Oxide Inks. I love the super shimmery effect you can achieve with this Spritz.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you've enjoyed this look at the Ranger Distress Oxide Inks. And I hope I've inspired you to get in your craft space and get creating. There's no better way to celebrate the weekend.
Until next time, I hope you have a fabulous Satur-YAY!
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