Oxide Ink Easter Egg Cards
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by the blog today! Please give a big Simon welcome to our special guest designer, Heather Ruwe! She did some very cool and clever outside-of-the-box thinking using brand new oxide inks! Be sure to read on to learn how to create this cool concept for yourself and enjoy!
Hello and welcome. I’ve been having so much fun playing with the new Distress Oxide Inks. I’ve been experimenting and creating many backgrounds. The finished look reminded me of Easter eggs after they have been color dyed, which inspired these cards…
I applied the ink to a craft sheet and then sprayed with water. I swiped a piece of watercolor cardstock through the ink and dried it with my heat gun, spraying with water as it dries.
I wanted to make an egg shaped card but didn’t have a large egg die, so I used the largest balloon of the Simon Says Stamp’s balloon die set. After die-cutting the backgrounds, I trimmed off the end piece off the bottom of the balloon and turned it upside down, creating an egg shape!
I white heat embossed a sentiment from the Easter Greetings stamp set on to a strip of black cardstock cut with the stitched banner die. I also die-cut some hearts and dry embossed them with an embossing folder. I finished the cards with a sprinkling of clear sequins.
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Heather for being our guest!
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Love that Heather thought outside of the box by using a balloon diecut for the egg shape … I don’t have an egg diecut either and this hack is genius!
Such a great idea with the heart and sentiment in the wonderful easter egg!
great card
Cool card. Love the results you get from the oxide inks. VERY INSPIRING:)
I want to get the Oxide Inks. They look so cool on dark card stock!
Great ideas Heather!! Love your Easter card!!
I have to wait, but I will get my hands on these new inks. They look amazing!!!
LOVE the Eggs. These new Oxide Inks are amazing. Such cool backgrounds.
Thanks for sharing with us!
Love the variety with oxide inks!
So pretty
YEA! A great adult card using Easter Eggs!
Love the balloon idea.
Love these ideas! Thanks for sharing your beautiful Easter egg cards. The balloon idea is great. Can’t wait to try these new inks!!
Beautiful backgrounds & wonderfully creative use of the balloon die!
I love the oxide inks on these eggs!! And I’m so excited to win some blog candy!!!
Heather, love how you made an egg shaped card and the coloring effect is beautiful!
Very pretty and thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Heather these turned out “eggcelent” I am so excited about these oxide inks. Have some on the way. Thanks for sharing.
Such a nice idea!! Beautiful cards! Congrats to the winners!
Oh, this is SO pretty!
Thanks for sharing.
Love the fun look of this card. Colors are so pretty.
This is simply wonderful. Very clever idea and it came out beautiful. You are really creative.
These are so much fun! I love that you used a balloon die for the egg shape.
Seems like a simple technique and the results are fab.
Oh Heather, these are beautiful! I totally want these Oxide Inks!
A HUGE Congratulations to the lucky winners! WooT WooT!!!
This is so Pretty!
Pretty results and clever way to use your dies.
Love the easter egg!!!
really pretty
Gorgeous-LOVIN’ the oxide eggs!!!!!
BEAUTIFUL egg cards!!! Love what you can do with oxide ink:)
Amazing colors.
So pretty! The distress oxide backgrounds look fabulous!
I love those eggs cards! I have the balloon dies so thanks for the inspiration!
These are so pretty and so easy to do. Nice!
Cute card! Thanks for the inspiration to use dies in another way!
Super cute cards! Those inks are delicious. Love the colors ♥
Great ideas, beautiful colors! Thanks for the inspiration!
First of all, I saw my name on the special blog candy prize list and I want to say THANK YOU!
I love this cute and very clever idea to create Easter Egg cards from Heather. I needed some inspiration and these are beautifully created.
These are so festive and pretty! Genius way to create an egg!
Amazing background and such a clever hack for the shape! Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day!
Very clever!
SO FUN!! LOVING LOVING LOVING my Distress Oxide Inks and have ENJOYED Playing with Them!! THANKS for sharing and CONGRATS to ALL of the LUCKY WINNERS!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!!
Fabulous colors! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love this idea! Wonder how it would work on real eggs?
Very creative! Lovely card, great colors, great texture.
Gorgeous cards!!
Such beautiful Easter cards, Heather! I love the colors and the creative use of the balloon die.
Super cute cards. I like seeing how other crafters think outside the box and then share their ideas.
Never thought of spraying water while I dried the inks…love the look. Also, what a great idea to use the balloon die! It worked great!