Doodling with Debby: Quick & Easy Distress Oxide Background
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by! I’m so happy to share the latest Doodling with Debby Feature! Please read on and enjoy!
Hi It’s Debby here and I’m delighted to be joining you with this month’s Doodle With Debby feature. Today I have a video playing with a couple of new products to me – the Distress Oxide inks from Tim Holtz and the Nuvo Jewel Drops. I’m pairing them with one of my favorite stamps, the Leaves Background, and the Big U dies and matching Big U words stamp set.
I started this card with a piece of Neenah Solar White card and stamped the Leaves Background in clear embossing ink before sprinkling with clear embossing powder and heat setting. I then blended Cracked Pistachio, Broken China, and Fossilzed Amber Distress Oxide inks over the card, letting the heat embossed leaves resist the ink. I must say how gorgeously these Distress Oxide inks blend! So smooth and create lovely new colors where the areas of each ink overlapped.
I spritz and splattered the background with water and lifted some of the wet ink with a paper towel to give variation and interest. In addition, I can’t leave an inky background as done until I splattered with a shimmery solution of Perfect Pearls. With the background now complete I cut the panel with a Stitched Rectangle and put it to one side while I worked on the sentiment.
I wanted to keep the rest of the card clean and simple so as not to cover up or compete with the pretty background. I cut one of the YOU dies from the Big U die set from white card and paired it with a sentiment from the Big U Words stamp set. I stamped the sentiment in clear embossing ink and then embossed with white embossing powder before trimming to a skinny strip. I mounted all the elements on the panel foam adhesive and then accented around the sentiment area with toning colors of Nuvo Jewel Drops; Limoncello, Sea Breeze and Key Lime. Finally I mounted the panel on a side folding Audrey Blue card base.
Thanks for joining me today and I’ll see you for next month’s Doodle With Debby feature.
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Debbie,
I love your card today!! These are my favorite kind of cards to make, I love the technique and the Audrey blue has got to be one of my most favorite colors ever!!!
Looks so good! Love the background!
So pretty, Debby!! The more I see the Distress Oxides in action, the more I am impressed! I love the technique you did and can’t wait to use it today – such a great reminder. Thanks for your great video!
Such a lovely card…so soft and delicate.
Beautiful card,nice sprin g shades. Love the background!
A great card. Like a fresh breeze. Wonderful!!
stunning. love the addition of the perfect pearls shimmer!
Gorgeous! Love the soft colours of the oxide inks!
Great card!
Very pretty card! Love the colors
The Oxide Inks are pretty cool. Love your card and technique.
Your card is fantastic! Awesome colors, awesome dies, they are next on my wish list!
Gorgeous !! So much spring and happiness in that card! x
Your card is so beautiful and spring like!!! I really like your background stamp that you used and the distress oxide colors!! Simply heavenly!!!
Great tips, many thanks!
I have the inks. Now to get to trying them.
The colors are so soft and pretty.
the card is beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
Lovely soft colours, looks very delicate!
Very pretty card Debby. The distress oxide inks look easy to blend. Now I need to buy some to play with. ?
How lovely!!
Very pretty card! I can’t wait to use the new oxide inks!
AWESOME background stamped card! I love my Misti & my Distress Inks, both regular and Oxides!
Your sister was correct – this is a wonderful card. The colors are what drew me to it and the great selection of the Audrey Blue cardstock were the perfect frame to set it off. Love this card!
The is simple yet elegant. Great job!!
Love the background!
Beautiful card Debbie, the colours you used look gorgeous blended together and I love the gorgeous embossed pattern!
I love quick and easy … great demo from Debby on this delightful catd!
Such a pretty card! I would love to try some of the oxide inks but my lss sold out in a day! I’ll just keep patiently waiting until they get more in!
I agree with your sister, this card is a favorite of mine as well. I kind of feel “on the fence” about these new oxide inks. I am going to watch your video, and see if you can push me over the edge. Thanks for educating us about new products.
Such a beautiful background!
Everything that I’ve seen with the oxide inks has been awesome. Gorgeous desing Debbie. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks for showing us your pretty card!
Thank you for inspiring me to try something new.
Soooo pretty!
This is so pretty – lovely colors. I love the technique of ink blending over a white image.
Nice design
Beautiful card Debby – thank you for the wonderful video :-)
Beautiful card. Love your use of novo drops and perfect pearls.
What a beautiful technique! Love your results. I must try this!
Wonderful, beautiful colors. I think it is so summery looking and I am very weary of winter. I have ordered some of the oxides. Can’t wait for them to arrive.
Beautiful color combo! Can’t wait to try the inks!
I’ve really gotta get some of these new ink pads, the look is absolutely amazing!
This card is beautiful and reminds me of spring in it’s glorious colours!
Stunning card!! Lovely background!
Such a pretty card!
I love these colors.
So pretty! Debby makes it look so easy. Great job!
Such a pretty card!!!
Beautiful!!! Love the colors:)
I love the colors on the card! Thank you
This card is gorgeous! Love the color ranges, the softness of these oxide inks, and that big YOU! And I love Nuvo drops, too! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!