Hand Made Birthday Card with Blended Distress Oxide Ink and Emboss Resist Stamping

Hi Everyone, I used a different technique for this card, the distress oxide ink is blended with a foam ink blending tool directly from the ink pad without adding any water. Before I used the ink I stamped the flower with a watermark ink pad and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I then used three colors of ink starting at the edge with Fired Brick, followed by Spiced Marmalade and finishing with Fossilized Amber to create an ombre effect. These inks blend beautifully together, they are creamier than the original distress inks which seems to make them softer and easier to blend. In fact if  you accidentally get a hard edge of color just keep blending away and it will smooth out and disappear. Using the undiluted ink makes the colors stronger too.

For the rest of the card I smeared a little bit of each color of ink on my craft mat and added a small amount of water then dipped a paintbrush into each color separately and flicked the ink over the card.

I die cut 'Happy' from black card, glued this in positions as shown then stamped 'birthday' in black pigment ink underneath. This was all then mounted on black card and then onto a white A6 card blank.

I'm really pleased with this card and with the way the distress inks blended so well. I hope you like it too, leave a comment to let me know what you think.

Thanks Debbie x

Materials used:

• White A6 card blank and envelope
• White and black card
• Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink pads
• Sunshine Flowers clear stamp set
• Watermark ink pad
• White opaque embossing powder
• Folding heat gun
• Happy stamp and cut set
• Heat resistant craft mat