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Experimenting with splatters and distress oxide inks

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I love stamping and by extension, ink pads. I particularly love the Distress Inks and Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz and decided a couple of weeks ago to create a bit of an art journal page using two of my Oxide Ink colours, a chipboard word and some splattering.


I'd cut down a piece of A3 multi-media paper into 4 (essentially four A5-ish sized) pieces and my plan was to make splatters and reveal a word un-splattered on the paper, but it didn't quite happen like that.



mixed media paper with happy chipboard word



First things first. I smushed some ink onto a piece of plastic packaging. I diluted the ink with water and used a cheap-y brush I've had for ages that flicks watercolour etc quite nicely onto a page.




watered down inks
I used Iced Spruce and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Inks
Brush with splattered ink
SPLATTERS!!!

Iced Spruce ink splatters
First layer

Iced Spruce and Cracked Pistachio inks
second layer




I continued to build up layers of splatters until I was satisfied with the result. Then I removed the chipboard word.

ink splatters and silhouette of happy
This is not an ink blot test - or is it?



Well, there were white patches in the middle of the paper where the word had been placed, but I think because it was such a fine script and the ink was probably too runny or simply just not quite right for this kind of technique.

Plus, all the splattering had made the chipboard word a bit too wet and therefore likely to break - and it looked better with the 3D effect. The word kind of disappeared into the background so I darkened it a bit with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and decided to tie in the page.

I'm more than 'happy' when I'm stamping



I've decided to make an art journal of individual pages if they don't quite fit into my book-journal; I'm not sure how I will put them together although a hole punch and some ribbon will probably be involved!


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