Sometimes time spent getting creatively organised is as rewarding as the time you spend working on a project.
That was definitely the case today.
I saw Kristina Werner's new series about Distress Oxide blending combos on Friday and thought, oooh a new way to get more use out of my full Distress Oxide collection and swatch these combinations to try later on.
So I spent some of this afternoon prepping to make some swatches:
I took a stack of Neenah 110 lb in 8.5 x 11 inch sheets.
Cut them in half, then in half again, and half again to get 8 "tag" sized swatches measuring 4 1/4 in. by 2 3/4 in.
I organised my ink chart to work out which colours I'd already used with blending sponges and got the new ones bagged and labelled ready for use.
Then on went the radio and I spent a good time therapeutically recreating Kristina's colour combos.
And here are the week 1 swatches done:
I've labelled the backs with the colours, but have had to redo the two red toned ones as I wanted to have the hole punched in the darker gradient and messed up the first time round. D'oh! It just really started annoying me that I'd made that mistake so out came those colours again!
I use a little x in the top right corner on my ink sheet to keep track of which inks already have blending sponges at the ready, since I currently don't have a storage system where I see all the blending sponges I use at a glance. I'm wondering if coin pocket sheets will ultimately be the best storage system, but am not sure... Anyway, that's a dilemma for another day.
In the meantime I'm looking forward to next week's colour combos already. :D
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