Hello there crafty friends! It’s Cheiron Brandon and I have a new tutorial for you using Distress Oxides and rubber stamps to create a fun and easy set of mixed media cards for Christmas. These would be perfect as tags too, and is something kids may enjoy creating with you.  

Step 1: Gather your supplies. Today I am using Distress Oxide Inks in Lumberjack Plaid, Kitsch Flamingo, Salvaged Patina, Lucky Clover and Rustic Wilderness and Black Soot Archival Distress Ink. I am using the Tim Holtz Brushstrokes, Scribbly Christmas and Mini Media Marks stamps. And finally Distress Foundry Wax and Metallic Kraft Stock to make our cards really shine.  

Step 2: Cut Distress Watercolor Cardstock panels and stamp sentiment so you know where to place the rest of your images.  

Step 3: Starting with the largest images, stamp brushstrokes around card panel. Clean your stamp between ink colors. Dry with heat tool.  

Step 4: Stamp circular images from Mini Media Marks set using Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide. Dry with heat tool.  

Step 5: Stamp x images from Mini Media Marks set using Lucky Clover Distress Oxide. Dry with heat tool. 

Step 6: Stamp scribbly images from Mini Media Marks set using Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide. Dry with heat tool. 

Step 7: Stamp dash images from Mini Media Marks set using Black Soot Archival Distress Ink to add some contrast. Dry with heat tool. 

Step 8: Splatter some Gilded Foundry Wax over your panels. I do this by mixing the wax with some Isopropyl Alcohol right on my glass mat and then splattering on with a paint brush.   

Step 9: Heat the spatter with a heat tool (I also cover my greeting with a piece of scrap paper to prevent getting splatter on it).  

Step 10: Take a panel of Metallic Kraft stock and use a blending tool with a sanding disk to Distress the edges.  

Step 11: Adhere your stamped panel to the Metallic Kraft Stock, then adhere the panel to a piece of black cardstock and mount onto card base.  

I hope you had fun creating these cards with me today. I love the simplicity of creating a fun piece of mixed media art to put through the mail.

Cheiron Brandon has been creating handmade cards for over 15 years. She loves to create cards that incorporate Tim Holtz Distress products and mixed media supplies. She has done design work for many companies in the paper crafting industry including Tim Holtz, Simon Says Stamp, Reverse Confetti, Hero Arts, AALL & Create, Mama Elephant, Neat and Tangled, Dina Wakley, and Ranger Ink. She currently contributes a monthly feature to the Ranger Ink and Simon Says Stamp blogs. Cheiron lives in New Jersey and shares her art (almost) every day on Instagram @cheiron and other tutorials on her YouTube Channel.