Saturday 29 June 2013

Distress Inks Mastered!

Well done to all our new recruits on Wednesday night. You did a great job on your first Distress Ink cards. And here are the photos to prove it! 



Thank you to Kay for her beginner's demo - exploring stamping, distressing edges and the basics of matting and layering.


Michelle demonstrated a double resist technique, first stamping and embossing plain card. Then adding colour distress ink. Then stamping and embossing again, before finally adding a dark colour distress ink. Very effective results! Click here for a tutorial.






And finally the distress inks and water demo. We looked at three techniques with water :
  • stamping an image with distress inks and either spritzing or blending the colour with a wet paintbrush

  • inking up an acrylic block then spritzing the block with water and stamping






  • inking up card with distress inks then spritzing a stamp with water and stamping to create a watermark image (didn't get any piccies!)
 Click here for 'How to guide' for each water technique.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful examples, thank you for sharing my daughter's card here.

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  2. Thank you for your comment. I was really impressed with her card - colours, layout and general composition. Well done!

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