Ink Blending using Distress oxides

Hi everyone,

I had been away for the weekend and after this short trip, I feel refreshed and as soon as I came back, I found myself in my craft room. I have a step by step photo tutorial for today's card.

Step 1: I started out with blending 3 colours of distress oxides (Picked Raspberry/Fossilised Amber/Twisted Citron) only in the upper region on my white card stock.

 Step 2: I heat embossed some circular embellishments and a sentiment. But, I had messed it up somewhat, as the word "Merry" was too far off and when I tried to remove it using a brush, it just won't come off properly. So, I chopped off this portion completely.

Step 3: I gave some lines to make the balls look like hanging ornaments. I initially used Micron 02 but later replaced it with green marker. I also added some bows at the top of these ornaments.

Step 4: Using the gold cardbase as reference, I glued the 2 panels on a green pastel paper.

Step 5: It still looked incomplete. So, I introduced some red ribbon. It sort of brought the 2 panels together while giving a more festive look overall to the card.

Step 6: At this point, all that was left to do was to add some colour to the ornaments and I was done.

I hope you like my effort. I do believe that card making gives us an opportunity to go back and correct our mistakes, just like I did here, and make something more beautiful than one had anticipated.

Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by
Sweety.

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