Oxide Ombre by Nikki Acton

A relatively simple Birthday card today – which is appropriate as it is my birthday!

Well this isn’t my usual colour palette – but I rather like it! I took three colours of Distress Oxide – Candied Apple, Seedless Preserves and Wilted Violet. I used Tim Holtz Tiles stencil to to create a red/purple background – blending one colour into another with Cut and Dry Foam.

On a separate piece of card I had added Grunge Paste through another stencil and allowed to dry. I added the same three colours of Oxide and spritzed heavily with water to allow the colours to blend. This was just experimenting really but I decided to die cut some butterflies from it. I added a little extra ink around the edges too.

For my matt layer again I used the same three colours and spritzed to achieve that speckled ‘oxidised’ effect. To finish I added a birthday sentiment and some stars (from Rubber Dance – Textured Flowers stamp set).

 See you next week!

Nikki

Addicted to Art.

Supplies

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides – Seedless Preserves, Candied Apple, Wilted Violet

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil – Tiles

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil – Latticework

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set By Tim Holtz – Mini Detailed Butterflies

Rubber Dance Unmounted Stamp Set - Textured Flowers (Star stamp used)

PaperArtsy Eclectica³ Emma Godfrey - Mini EEG18

Cut and Dry Foam