Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Distress Oxide Watercoloring
Hello crafters, its Nina-Marie Trapani here, bringing a new Studio Monday video to you that features some fun, Distress Oxide watercoloring and stamping!
This technique would be perfect for coloring a variety of backgrounds, but my favorite backgrounds for this are geometric ones, such as the Round and Round Background from Simon Says Stamp.
I stamped the background with a rainbow of Distress Oxide inks. Then – using the same Oxide colors I stamped with – I watercolored the background. Mixing those colors together in spots created new colors, which adds some great variation to the pattern!
After coloring the background, I used the Simon Says Stamp Say It All Friend set to stamp a greeting; I paired that black stamped sentiment with another one, embossed in white on Guava cardstock.
Finally, I embellished the card with a few Ice Crystal sequins.
This colorful, abstract design was so much fun to create, and I hope you will try this technique out for yourself; watch the video below to see exactly how I did it!
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What a fun, vibrant card, Nina – so cheerful!
This is so pretty. I’ve seen a few cards with this stamp, and I don’t have it but I’m thinking it would be fun to create with a circle stamp. I love the no line look you achieved, Nina, and your color choices.
Ooh that’s vibrant and gorgeous!! Love the design! :)
Beautiful card – so inspiring to see what can be done with the Distress Oxides – they are so pretty!
I love that background stamp and the colors you picked! So beautiful!
Everything about this card is wonderful, the design, the colors, the sentiment! Thank you!
Beautiful card! :) Love the look of the oxides.
What a beautiful card! Those Oxide-colours are so great!
Great technique n design!!!
Love the colors in this card!
Such a fun and colorful card Nina-Marie. Thanks for sharing with us.
So vibrant and beautiful design!
I love that background! All those colours and blended so well together. Congrats to all the winners. I love the anticipation of getting mail especially when the contents are going to be a surprise!
My current passion is working with distress oxide inks so this couldn’t have come a a better time! I love the colors and the brightness they bring to your design!
Thank you!
What a bright and cheerful card!
WOW!! Your card looks AMAZING!! Love the vibrant colors! What a fun technique!
What great bright and vibrant colours.
I love seeing card inspiration made with distress oxides because they’re one of my favourite things to use on my cards right now! This background is so gorgeous and I can’t wait to try it with the watercolour paper I just ordered!
An awesome card with such beautiful colours. A great job as usual Nina.
So fun, and I love that it’s so easy to create!
I love this card, Nina! This technique brought back memories from my childhood in the 60’s. We would draw a pattern of continuous/linked circles on a paper and then color in the areas with different colors. The result was always beautiful and unique.
Great background technique!!
Such a fun card!!! Love background stamps and all the techniques you can use them for!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Beautiful, happy colors. Lovely card!
Beautiful! I love the colors!
So super cute! I love the colors!!
I love Nina’s cards!! This one is so bright and colorful. I love the coloring in of the circles with the distress oxides!! Gorgeous!!
Super colorful card! Thanks, Nina, for the great tips for using our Distress Oxide inks.
Beautiful card and beautiful colors. I love that background stamp and those sentiments are wonderful.
Fabulous card!
Great card! Such vibrant, cheerful colors with the oxides…thanks for sharing the card and video tutorial to see how you did the color/blending.
Good video, I only to this point have used the Distress Oxide inks for blending on a background. Have to try watercoloring with them Like the bright vibrant colors. Thanks!
What a cool effect. I like how you made the whole background the same shape, just different colors.
This background is beautiful.
Awesome colors! What a fun technique!
Beautiful card! Thank you for the great tutorial! I enjoyed watching it and learning a new technique!
Love the colors. Cheerful and fun.
This is such a fun encouragement card. Thanks for sharing your tips and the technique video.
Love the colors in this card.
Really awesome background. Love the colors.
Thanks for sharing…
Beautiful!! I must give this a try after my stamp arrives.
Wonderful card, love all the colours – the oxides give such a cool chalky look to it!
Simply gorgeous!!
I love the multicolored card! So fun to use Distress Oxide inks! Thank you for sharing the card.
Beautiful colorful card!!!
So very colorful and love the design.
Love the colors!
Pretty card! Thanks for the inspiration!
What a pretty card! I am getting that background stamp in my latest order. I think I will be trying this soon.
What a fun technique and a beautiful result. I have been hearing the praises of this masking paper by Gina K. and guess I should get me some. Thanks for all you do!