Friday, July 20, 2018

Retro Rubber Challenge #91

I have been having such fun just experimenting with techniques and color combinations for my Distress Oxide inks. When I saw the sketch challenge over on Retro Rubber challenge, I just had to use one of these wonderful backgrounds that came out of my playing around with inks. Here are the results:


Two of the stamps I used were older ones in my collection that I used. One was the little swirly vine from SU and the other one is the sentiment from Sweet and Sassy. I have had both of them for over a year or more. The SU stamp may have seen ink for the first time on this card, while the sentiment from Sweet and Sassy comes from one of my old favorties from them. I use it quite often because they long and narrow and work into my spaces on cards well.

I used 3 old stamps from my stash: Sweet Summer, which was an old Sale-a Bration stamp from SU, an old itty Bitty bg stamp (which are the ink dots) from SU from 2002. I also used this sentiment stamp from Sweet and Sassy Stamps from probaby about 4 years back. I also used an old border punch from Martha Stewart.

5 comments:

Claire Grantham said...

Hi Lizl love your card, I am a big fan of these inky backgrounds. Great use of the sketch. Can you tell us exactly how old your stamps are? Thanks. And thanks for playing along with us at Retro Rubber this time. Claire DT

Jan Clothier said...

I am in awe of your marvellous background as at first glance I assumed it was DSP. Lovely, lovely work! Thank you for joining in with us at Retro Rubber Challenge.

Debbie Mageed said...

So sweet! Love your handmade DSP! Your card just makes me happy and inspired to get my distress inks out to play. Thank you for playing with us at Retro Rubber and hope you will join us again soon.

Lynn McAuley said...

Who needs designer paper when you have oxide inks!! Gorgeous card, Liz!

creative lady said...

Love your background! You are very creative. Love your take on the challenge. Thanks for sharing with Retro Rubber.