This is my first play with the new Ranger Tim Holtz Distress
Oxide Inks. I am absolutely thrilled with them! Apologies for the shadows - trying to show the gold around the panel edges.
My camera is not doing justice to the iced spruce colour. In the photo below I have deepened the image to try to get the effect - it is actually a gorgeous soft greenish grey.
I pressed iced spruce and vintage
photo inks a little bit apart onto my craft sheet, spritzed with water and
pressed smooth white cardstock onto the inks. Heated dry with the heat gun, and
re-pressed to fill areas that needed more colour. Re-heated to dry, then
splashed water droplets, heated again.
Used a Richard Garay embossing folder for the pine branch
background (Lumberjack series - Pine Needles), then leaving the embossed card
layer in the folder I sponged more iced
spruce ink over the raised areas, then some fossilized amber where the sun might be hitting the tops of the
branches.
I applied Rub’n Buff ‘Gold Leaf’ (remember this stuff ?) around the edges of
the layer. Used StazOn Jet Black ink to stamp the wording and dragonfly (from
Creative Stamping Issue 41 – UK series) onto clear film, coloured behind the
wings with Copic markers (orange and blue/green), cut out and adhered with
Glossy Accents dimensional adhesive, then adhered layer onto black American Craft card base.
