Together By Design Featuring Distress Oxides

Together by Design is a monthly collaboration where a small group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand. Each of us chooses a favorite product and puts our own creative spin on it, showing just how many different ways one brand can inspire. Follow along, explore every project, and discover new designers and new favorites along the way.

This month’s featured brand: Distress Oxides

NOTE: all supplies are linked to multiple sources in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

Here is a list of designers participating this month:

Jessica: www.lovenotesbyjess.com/blog; @jessica.vasher
Jean: www.studio-jd.com; @jean.studiojd
Maggie: www.schoolhousestamps.blogspot.com; @teacher11494
Tracy: https://redsas.co; @redsas

My project got pretty detailed, and I apologize for that, but let’s go ahead and run through the details! I began by creating the background first using Distress Oxide sprays in Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and Broken China. I did also use regular Distress spray in Gathered Twigs. I was drying my panel between ink applications, so that I would get some good color variations. Once I was satisfied with the background, I did some stamping using various Tim Holtz sets from my stash, and trimmed it down using A2 Postage Rectangles. I knew that I wanted some texture as well, so I mixed some Ranger Transparent Texture Paste with some Distress Salvaged Patina Paint and added that through the TCW Mini Well Rounded Stencil. I’m not even sure if this stencil is still available, but any stencil that you love would work just great!

For the focal image, I stamped the Floral Trims stamp onto a panel of watercolor paper using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat set that using clear embossing powder. I then did some watercoloring using Distress Oxide ink pads in Salvaged Patina and Walnut Stain. While I was creating my background panel, I went ahead and created another panel that I used to cut the frame surrounding the floral. That was trimmed out using the same postage set and adhered to the floral.

The background panel was adhered to a black panel for contrast, and then adhered to the card base. I added some bits from the Tim Holtz Curator Ephemera Pack, as well as some Field Notes PET Tape from 49 and Market. The floral was adhered using foam tape and some black butterflies were added to tie in all of the black stamping. The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Theories Quote Chips set that I added some Salvaged Patina ink to and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it a bit of shine.

That does it for this project! I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you’ll stop by again next month to find out what our featured product or brand will be! Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Together By Design Featuring Altenew

This month’s featured brand: Altenew

Here is a list of designers participating this month:

Jessica: www.lovenotesbyjess.com/blog; @jessica.vasher

Jean: www.studio-jd.com; @jean.studiojd

Maggie: www.schoolhousestamps.blogspot.com; @teacher11494

Tracy: https://redsas.co; @redsas

I began my project by creating a large watercolor panel with various greens. The panel also features some stamping, splattering, stenciling and doodling. I made a video of one of my previous panels, if you care to check it out. Once I was done creating that, I die cut several leaves from the panel using the Leaf Mix Die Set from Altenew. My background features a Seafoam panel that was stamped with the Leaf Canopy using VersaMark ink and heat set using clear embossing powder.

I needed a frame, so I had to use one from Pinkfresh, and that was cut once from the same Seafoam cardstock and twice from white cardstock. Those were adhered together and then adhered to the stamped panel. I also die cut some of the leaves from gold for an additional layer.

While I was cutting from gold, I cut the sentiment, which is from the Slim Sentiments Die Set, once from the gold and twice from white cardstock. This is a very long sentiment, so I did some cutting and snipped everything off except thank you so much portion.

The leaves were adhered to the frame using liquid glue, and the sentiment was tucked in before adding some gold metallic pearls to finish up.

That does it for this project! I hope you’ll swing by and check out the other designers posts and give them some love! Join us next month for a new featured brand!