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Distress Ink pads are great for ink blending, watercolor, backgrounds, adding color, direct stamping, smooshing and more. Jessica Frost-Ballas shares 5 different ways you can use Distress Inks on your cards.
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I love all the layers of die cutting and textures on this fun Dino Valentine card from Audrey! This would be a great card for a boy or anyone who loves Dinosaurs.
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How sweet is this otter Valentine’s Day card? Laura used a background technique using Distress Inks and Micro Glaze for a cool water effect.
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The Distress Oxide Custom Blend Ink Pad is a blank ink pad, you use re-inkers to add your own custom mix of inks for wonderful rainbow and ombre effects. Kristina used hers for a lovely background on this snowman card. … Read More ...
Using stamps, embossing, die cutting, alcohol inks and more Anna-Karin used her paper crafting supplies to create this lovely Christmas wall hanging. It’s sure to brighten up any room for the holidays.
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By roughing up the edges on her pattern paper and adding cheesecloth over top Rachel got a great shabby chic look on this cozy card. I love the punny sentiment too!
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Distress Oxide Inks are very popular for techniques like ink blending but don’t forget it’s an ink pad too and you can just plain ol’ stamp with them. Kristina Werner used several wonderful fall shades of Oxide Inks and leaf … Read More ...
Candice used clear embossing ink over a circle stencil, heat embossed it with white powder and then applied Distress Oxide Inks over top for a great resist technique to make her water bubbles. I love the Beavers and the funny … Read More ...
Simon Hurley has a great tip for getting customized color for your stencil paste. Using Nuvo Glimmer Paste and mixing it with Distress Oxide Inks her got not only great color but sparkle and shine with glitter. He’s sharing a … Read More ...
Amy R will show you how to get a nice dark smudged look around your Halloween images by using Oxide Inks. It’s prefect for backgrounds and adding some aging to the edges of papers. These Frankenstein’s Monster cards are perfect … Read More ...
By combining ink blending and masking techniques Kelly got a lovely spotlight effect for her card background. It’s a great way to highlight an image on your card, like she did on this pretty angel card.
Terri created her card background using Distress Oxide inks in fall colors, adding small amounts of gold foiling over top for the perfect fall look. She’ll show you how to achieve this mottled foil look over on her blog, Waving … Read More ...
Outer Space and Galaxy patterns are really trendy right now on just about everything including cards. Cathy Z used Distress Ink pads and white liquid ink to create her cool galaxy card background.
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Distress Oxide Inks from Tim Holtz and Ranger have probably been the most popular inks I’ve seen in a long time. It’s no surprise since they are so versatile and work with so many different stamping and mixed media techniques … Read More ...
Simon Hurley has 6 great hacks for die cutting. With tips like how to make your own stamps with your die cuts, tricks to make die cutting easier like using adhesive cardstock and Press n Seal and several more great … Read More ...
