Hi Friends! I’m back with another experiment! I started with a Distress Oxide Resist– the technique where I bring Distress Oxide Spray Stain through a stencil/mask, and then over it with regular Spray Stain- but I didn’t like the end result of this one. Then I had a failed attempt at cutting Tim Holtz Perspective Butterfly Die out of Yupo paper. So I put the two of these together with some molding paste and came up with a cool look!
I decided to film trying this technique again to see if this was a one off or a cool thing to do with my failed pieces of cardstock. I had a few pieces of sample cardstock with varying amounts of the Distress Oxide and regular Spray Stains in similar colors. I used Salvaged Patina and Broken China Distress Oxide Sprays in these samples and some of the browns, like Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo or Ground Espresso, in the regular Spray Stains. In the video I used a Yupo paper cut out that I cut myself on my digital cutter. And I used Golden light molding paste, but I will post a sample of one in which I used Golden Fine Pumice Gel. So if you have other opaque,
pastes and gels, you could try those. The opaque paste will cover up the background, but it seems to reactivate the inks that are under there.
I just bring place my mask/stencil on top of the cardstock and spread the molding paste over the top. In the video, when I was done, I did try to take the cutout and transfer the molding paste onto a different stained piece of cardstock, but I was rushing and didn’t spritz with water so it didn’t work that well. There are other videos where I demonstrate this technique if you’ve never tried it before.
I also decided to show a comparison of spraying the cardstock before the molding paste step (this technique) vs using molding paste over a mask/stencil first and then spraying that with the Distress Oxide and regular Sprays Stains. Again, I used similar colors like Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Spray with Vintage Photo and/or Ground Espresso and/or Walnut Stain regular Distress Spray Stains. If you wanted more precise control, instead of using the sprays, you could use an ink pad.
In the video, I showed a bunch of the end results- some with different masks/stencils, some that had different amounts of the colors. There was one example where I spoke about coloring in the shape using the mask sprayed with the inks, but at this time I haven’t edited that video yet. So look for that in the future 😉 .
This was the sample where I sprayed after the molding paste had cured on a plain white piece of cardstock so you could see the comparison:
I also showed a sample of this technique where I didn’t love the background- it was a mask of a full background and it was harder to see the actual image. However, I loved the way the color came out on the molding paste- I used a combination of Vintage Photo and Ground Expresso, and it cured to a rusty color. Luckily, I didn’t clean the mask/cutout after I had used it to do the molding paste background, so I then sprayed it with the same two spray stains. It came out in a similar color just darker, and layered one on top of the other it looked nice! I could even offset the cutout a bit to let the underlying blue show as an outline around the cutout.
Here was an example where I used Golden Fine Pumice Gel instead of Light Molding Paste. It interacted with the background stains a bit differently, but still cool.
I really liked this experiment and I hope you did too. Enjoy!
