Oxide tags....

Hello friends

Hope you are all good!

Its been another super busy week here.....with not a lot of free time to get inky!

However, I did manage to squeeze in a quick playtime using the Distress oxides....

I love, love, love the effects they give....the best way to describe them is its a bit like adding milk to your ink, they are a real game changer allowing you to create some cool backgrounds!

I had a play on two tags

For this tag I used fossilised Amber, faded jeans, cracked pistachio, 

spiced marmalade and walnut stain

I built up the layers of oxides, I love that they don't mud, 

you can still see the colour onto of each layer.

I then added lots of Idea-ology cogs....these were painted using texture paste 

then coloured using the oxides

The man doll is from the Idea-ology paper dolls....his wings are from the botanical ephemera pack

For the next tag used the oxides to create a background and stamped using a text background. 

I then added a layer of ranger crackle paste and left it to dry.

Next I added some texture using one of Tim's stencils with some grit paste,

when it had dried I used distress crayons and the oxides to colour the paste.

(note: the paste will pick up some of the oxide colour of the background too as it is distress!)

I then painted the girls using distress paint and crayons

I used cracked pistachio, walnut stain and fossilised amber in the oxides

The stars were punched out and coloured the same way

To finish I added some words from the Idea-ology clippings and framed them in a vintage optical slide from my own stash.

These tags were fun to create and were great to experiment with the oxides....

As always please feel free to leave a comment, I really appreciate you popping by

Have a lovely week

Bye for now 

Kaz

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