Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Distress Oxide Watercoloring
Hello friends, its Nina-Marie here with you today sharing inspiration using our Simon exclusive Outline Butterflies background, along with some additional exclusives that we released in our new Blossoms and Butterflies collection!
The card is watercolored with Distress Oxides; not only are these inks amazing to ink blend with, but the rich colors also make for gorgeous watercoloring.
I was going for an ethereal style with this card, so not only did I use a myriad of colors for the butterflies, but also in the background of the card itself. Mixing Oxide inks is extremely easy, so even if you are a beginner at watercoloring, I think you’ll find this Oxide ink watercolor technique super easy and also fun!
To enhance the colors of the butterflies, I used a rainbow of Nuvo Gloss Drops on their wings, and also in the background. For sentiments, I used greetings in both the You Got This CZ Design and our Comfort and Prayers set.
Want to see how I created this colorful encouragement card? Be sure to watch the video below!
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Wow! Wow! Wow! What a wonderful card and colouring!!! Love it!!!
Beautiful! I shy away from painting in general. But I think with the heat embossing and oxide inks, I think I can do it. Thank you for for the inspiration and great how to!
Beautiful card! Love all the colors.
Great cards…an explosion of colors!
Wow Nina-Marie what a colourful card. I love watching you watercolour with these Distress Oxide, they gave a bright awesome effect. Thank you so much for showing this great inspiration.
Live the techniques you used
I LOVE the bright colors and the way you used the Nuvo drops!!!
-Your butterfly card was so festive and made me think of Spring. I have to get more adventurous and try some of these techniques. Thanks for sharing!
Distress oxides are my favorite medium to work with. Between blending, stamping, and water coloring, they are my go-to! I love the bright airy feel of this card. Beautiful!
awesome card
Love the butterflies!
I just started using Distress Oxide inks and I am always looking for other ways to use them. I can’t wait to try this technique! Maybe for my Mother’s Day Card for my mom! Thank you!
What a gorgeous, colorful card, I love the oxide ink watercoloring!
Awesome creation, I love the watercolored butterflies, love the distress oxides!
Love the mix of colors throughout your card! Lovely card!
wow beautiful watercolouring – such a pretty effect!
Pretty watercoloring!
Such a pretty colorful card!!!
Beautiful!!
Wow, your card is beautiful! I’m itching to try watercolouring with my Distress Oxide inks now!
Just WOW! How gorgeous is this? Can’t wait to try this! Thank you for sharing your talents with us!
Love the vibrant colors!
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Beautiful happy card! Thanks for the details.
Needing to get the most recent distress inks. Love the technique and seems really easy to do. Thanks for the video.
Love all these
gorgeous butterflies!
Carla from Utah
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Great colors…the video is so helpful for seeing how to work with such color combos. tfs And I won blog candy! Yay.
This is so pretty – just love the colours
Love the card. So bright and colorful and is sure to lift the spirits of anyone going through a rough time
DELIGHTFUL – LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
I really do need to get some Distress Oxides and enter this MAGICAL CREATIVE world :)
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Wow, what a gorgeous explosion of colours. Congrats to the lucky winners. Hugz
Gorgeous card. The butterflies are the perfect stamp with this sentiment.
Adorable, bright, cheerful panel – what a fun and joyful card!
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beautiful
FABULOUS card
Such beautiful coloring! ❤
Such a bright and beautiful card. I will have to try this with the oxides I have as I love anything with a watercolor look and combined with butterflies..just too pretty!
Wow – so beautiful! I’ve never watercolored with Distress Inks – will have to give it a try!
I love this background stamp and I love this card. So springy!!! Love the colors!!