Tools for Swatching Crafty Mediums (like Distress Oxides)

[@laurayoumans7119]

That little purple tape smudge guard - GENIUS!!!

[@UARELOVE1010]

Wow! It is beautiful!! I like the way you swatched and organized them!! I would have loved to see photos of your swatches.

[@dktbdt04]

Aw man...I had convinced myself that I didn't need anything from this release. Now I'm back on the fence (although, really, I'm falling over the fence at this point).

[@czdesign]

The fence is a slippery slope!

[@shirleypryor9397]

Kathy, thank you I so needed this technique. Happy happy joy joy.

[@czdesign]

Wonderful!

[@rachelrussell8538]

What do crafters like to do other than craft? Organize their crafts! This is a great set! Probably going to need this one in my stash! :) Awesome video

[@czdesign]

Yeah, I have been guilty of more organizing than creating at time!

[@kjdryzl]

I had to watch this again. I really want todo this.

[@czdesign]

I was just looking at my swatch ring the other day and realizing that I have to update it now because I have four new oxide colors and I'm not sure how to do that!

[@kjdryzl]

@@czdesign Lol! That sounds like a video topic in the making to me!

[@harriettezmalloy7182]

This is AWESOME!!! Love how all of that looks when it’s done. I recently started cutting tags & swatching my inks, markers, etc. This set offers so much help!!

[@stefaniestaniak4329]

Great tutorial. Boy waffle lower sure make organizing so easy. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@czdesign]

Thanks for watching, Stefanie!

[@createdbymo4u]

Just when I thought my organizing was ok .. here comes Cathy!!! 😂😂 Love it .. thanks for sharing!!

[@czdesign]

Lol! Don't you know I'm mildly anal retentive with my supplies? Emphasis on MILDLY!

[@TheLpage]

Wow Cathy, great video and something I find useful and doable

[@debt.8971]

Probably the only thing I like better than crafting...is organizing ! This is great!

[@carollou7653]

Cathy, I like your handwriting! It's uniform, clean and simple! Such a terrific way to make swatches - hard to believe I haven't done something like this myself before now. Off to buy some goodies!

[@mifferss]

Fun!!! Very neat and tidy!! Mine are more like Tim’s.. half sheet of his watercolor paper per ink , punch hole and thread a wire ring through the top. Could see the benefits of this kinda swatch, though!! Great job!!

[@NancyLynn]

Hey Cathy...well girl, this is INCREDIBLY helpful to me and I can't thank you enough! AND look how pretty they look LOL! Really though, TFS Cathy!

[@czdesign]

Thanks, Nancy!

[@1tinac]

Wonderful instructions. Thanks for sharing. Great ideas.

[@czdesign]

Thank you for watching!

[@chrisharman4399]

A great idea, Cathy! Waffle Flower has come up with another hit! Also Kristina Werner did some You Tubes on blending various Distress Oxides, too (awhile back). But I like the neat and tidy way you have completed this task. TFS.

[@czdesign]

Yes! I have her videos bookmarked, because she has so many great combos!

[@Gretchen5ful]

Great video, now it one more thing I can organize, that list just gets longer and longer, still don’t have all my stamps and dies in there envelopes. And I find more to buy when all of these enablers show thing on You Tube! Thanks Kathy!💜🤭🌸

[@spdybug]

SO FREAKIN HELPFUL!!!!! Thank you sooo much Cathy!!!! I just searched my Zigs today after looking at your video from a couple of days ago. Now I am going to do my oxides just like you did!!! So many thanks!!!!! Do inks next!! I want to see how you do inks!!!!!

[@donnamikasa]

Love watching you swatch and I really wish your handwriting was a stamp--it's so cool!

[@czdesign]

Well that is very nice of you to say!

[@cathyjordison2805]

Great idea to swatch your inks. It's nice that you're able to use the new dies to cut out the swatches. Thanks for sharing!💕

[@carolstubbs5684]

I love this, Cathy, thanks for sharing! Great ideas and I always love your clean and simple approach. Also, after the first set of swatches, I had to rewind the video because I heard you say "rusty hinge" 🤣 and now I'm curious to know what you were talking about! LOL

[@jeannienebaker]

Carol Stubbs Rusty Hinge is one of the color names for the Distress oxide inks.

[@christineclem1118]

Cathy I just want to say thank you for the inspiration and tips! You are awesome! xoxo

[@czdesign]

Thank you so much!

[@rhondam38]

These are a great way to help with choosing colors! I really enjoy your videos and teaching!! 💝

[@mariaaguila577]

This is a great idea! Thank you!

[@beverlystotz5652]

OMG!!! I just finished swatching all the DO inks AND Kristina Werner's favorite blends (all 28 of them) this weekend. I love the results and they are happily labeled and living in a binder in baseball card sleeves. These products are super cool, but just a tad bit late for me! Thank you for sharing this. I do like the bullet list stamps!!

[@ElleLizzyMay]

Oh Cathy, they are beautiful ❤️

[@melissamcneil683]

What a fabulous idea!! Thanks for sharing!

[@debbiepasker3225]

Looking forward to swatching my various inks and marker sets.

[@Dsiegel7]

I love your videos on your hand writing is amazing lady

[@czdesign]

Well that is kind of you to say!

[@sugarhillcrafter1044]

CZ, I love your technique for swatches! I have the @WaffleFlower stamps for swatches but not the dies! Really need these for my crafting room! @TimHoltz convinced me to swatch colors on my watercolor papers, too, because the colors truly look different on different substrates.

[@czdesign]

They really do look different! I should do that too!

[@pamelasertich9850]

Thank you so much for the detailed video on how to do this. I needed it!

[@BarbieBarbieto19]

We have the same cabinet! 😊😊😊❤

[@1jenniferlala]

So genius- all of it! Thanks, Cathy!

[@traceylandt9026]

Awesome Cathy. You have convinced me that i need to do this. lol. Thank you so much for sharing. T x

[@czdesign]

Having a visual resource is helpful, for sure.

[@megbreiter6314]

Thanks, would like to try this out.

[@czdesign]

Please do!

[@mitzibud6908]

Love, love, love!!

[@charylhodges470]

You can play with copic colors too.

[@czdesign]

Oh yeah! What a good idea, because i really struggle with Copic coloring, in knowing what works and what doesn't. I mean, you could stamp a basic image on the small tags, then list the colors below using the Bullet stamp. LOVE that! Thanks for the idea, Charyl!

[@tracie70]

Great video. Thankful for sharing

[@oltreloscrapdimari]

Adoro i tuoi video😍

[@megs1768]

Saving this! I need to do it!!! THANK YOU!

[@dawnthomas2475]

That is awesome! Thanks for the ideas!

[@victoriakellogg6459]

TFS Cath! Great info Girlie! Hugs my inspirational Friend XOXOXO

[@czdesign]

Thanks so much!

[@bronwyn117]

So cool! Love this!

[@bernadettesikorski3232]

Beautiful ideas...

[@ruth6511]

So cool! I will need to give up my day job 😀

[@traciepond9105]

Thank you for sharing. What is the size of the small rectangles that you applied the distress oxide inks to? I am curious if they would fit nicely on the side of the distress oxide containers. =)

[@czdesign]

It's just under half an inch, so… yeah, you probably could do that!

[@rebekahg187]

Hey Cathy such a great video. I noticed the product you mentioned for cleaning the brushes. How does it work? the silicone scrubber and the jar or cleaner. I am OCD and cant stand to see the buildup of colour on my Taylored Expressions blending brushes. I like when they are clean and pretty looking.

[@czdesign]

It's pretty easy! You dampen the cleaner (it comes like a bar of soap) and then dampen your brush, and rub it over the silicon brush cleaner. My friend Lydia has a video. Here's the link and it should go right to the part where she's cleaning the brushes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWSse42KobSln6M

[@victoriabergesen6775]

I think color swatches are beautiful. I just bought the Waffle stamps set, but the dies are too pricey. I will make something with my paper cutter and scissors. I don't have the complete set, but I have underused my Distress Oxides. The chalky texture is beautiful, but only conveyed in a swatch.

[@nancyrankin3823]

Great tutorial! How do you add the new colors when they come out?

[@czdesign]

Wellllll… good question. What I have done is just slap em down the best I can. Honestly? I haven't updated this in a while! I feel like it's better to do when you have all the colors. lol!~

[@norinemueller4588]

Awesome thank you

[@terriannvalentino8826]

Does Lydia have a video for the brush cleaning you can link to?

[@czdesign]

Yes! This video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWSse42KobSln6M Right at the 9:30 mark is where Lydia talks about the cleaner. That is how I learned about it!

[@colors4u682]

Do you use Spellbinder Platinum 6 as your die-cutter? I’m trying to put together a kit for my adult daughter for her birthday. Thank you so much.

[@czdesign]

I do! It's a wonderful die cutting machine, plus it folds up and it's pretty in any craft space. I've had mine for four years and I used it all the time! I bought an electric die cut machine which is also wonderful (Gemini Jr) but I do like having my Platinum 6!

[@abolalola7]

what beautiful blending! I love Waffle Flower products and these just went on my 'next to buy' list!!!! Thanks for sharing this idea - I've been trying to catalog my inks with swatches, but this is waaaaaaay simpler than the method I'm using! I LOVE how clean and simple this is! Also, do you find the Copic Hex chart useful - I've been thinking of getting one, but I've swatched my colors out in a notebook that I refer to... just curious :)

[@czdesign]

I do find that chart helpful, I mean, presently, it's the only marker reference I have. But I might be using the waffle flower stuff to create small swatches now!

[@abolalola7]

Cathy Zielske thanks for answering my question!

[@pamelasertich9850]

Where did you purchase the tool for scrubbing your brushes with that soap? I have the soap and would love one of those scrubbers but I don't know where to get one.

[@czdesign]

Picked it up on Amazon! Here are some to look at: amzn.to/34dwBrV

[@colors4u682]

Are there colors in card stock to match the oxide colors? Thank you.

[@czdesign]

Ranger doesn't make matching papers but you can match all kinds with other cardstock manufacturers!

[@kaymcclurg6011]

This is an awesome idea...well done...how long did it actually take you to finish this project?

[@czdesign]

It took me part of an afternoon! I had to make swatches of everything, and I let the swatches dry before I wrote on them.

[@elisacordova2194]

Great 👏🏼👏🏼

[@colors4u682]

Do distress oxides on card stock fade?

[@czdesign]

I am not 100% sure on that. IF they were in direct sunlight, they might. I keep my swatch rings out of the light.

[@colors4u682]

What brand pen are you using…the black ink.

[@czdesign]

It's a Copic Fineliner!

[@colors4u682]

Thank you, Cathy. I’ll have to get a black Copic for a start.

[@K.Taylor56]

Hi Cathy.... it's almost a year and a half later and I am wondering if this is still a system you use personally? TIA !

[@czdesign]

Yep. I have my swatch rings hanging inside my big cabinet. When I need to spec colors, I use it! I still have barely touched the potential of my Oxides!

[@K.Taylor56]

@@czdesign thank you so much for taking the time to respond ! Appreciate what you do very much.

[@pammcnulty6514]

The color swatches for each is necessary...the blending swatches? Might be a deep Rabbit Hole? or Might be fun?

[@czdesign]

I think it is a rabbit hole, but a fun one for sure!

[@LauraAnn77]

Do you still like these brushes?

[@czdesign]

Yep. I now have the ones from Taylored Expressions, ones from Simon Says Stamp and ones from Picket Studio Fences. I bought a WHOLE mess of blending foams and tools when I first started making cards back in 2017, and I never touch them. The brushes have helped me get better at blending. Plus, the are easy to clean!

[@darladoxstater8528]

The plural of "medium" is "media."

[@czdesign]

Duly noted.