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Using embossing folders and Distress Ink Sharon Harnist made these two beautiful falling leaves cards. You can find directions and more info over at the Taylored Expressions blog.
Heather
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You can find complete directions for making these 3 Holiday cards over on Vintage Muse Designs. Using products from Tim Holtz, with different watercolor backgrounds using Distress Ink and adding scribble die cuts over top Bobbi made these fun cards … Read More ...
The latest Holiday Expressions mini catalog from Close to My Heart is all about the upcoming holiday seasons. It’s filled with items for card making, gift packaging, scrapbooking and jewelry making with clear stamp sets, embellishments and pattern papers. You’ll … Read More ...
The Embellished Dreams blog has a lovely holiday card with a watercolor look made using a resist technique with heat embossing and Distress Ink pads. I love the tip of taping your cardstock down with blue painters tape so your … Read More ...
Here’s a fun Halloween card from Nichol Magouirk, she’s sharing a video showing how to stamp up some cute new Lawn Fawn stamps, how to color them with Zig Clean Color Brush markers and how to make a dark and … Read More ...
Here’s a neat stamping technique with something everyone has around the house, masking tape (or painters tape)! Ink up the sticky side of the tape on an ink pad and then press it on your project. You’ll get a cool … Read More ...
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz are really versatile, not you can you color and stamp like normal with them but they also react with water so there’s a bunch of cool techniques you can do with them. Marina’s Craft Space … Read More ...
The Paper Therapy blog (don’t you love that name?) has directions for making this beautiful nautical card using Distress Ink for a bold sunset background, click here for the how to.
-Heather
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Tim Holtz’s line ofDistress Ink are so fun to work, he’s got amazing colors in stamping ink pads, ink sprays, paints, markers and more, all with a formula that reacts with water so you can do all types of cool … Read More ...
Lee-Anne Cross is sharing a cool technique to get a mono-printed look using stencils. She uses Distress Ink applied over the stencil and then spritzed with water to make her colorful cards. Visit the Splitcoast Stampers site for step by … Read More ...
Each month Tim Holtz shares a different tag with lots of different paper crafting products, ideas and techniques. This month his tag is all about srping flowers. Using Distress Ink Markers Tim will show you a couple of different techniques, … Read More ...
The Altenew stamps blog is sharing a card with a cool stamping technique using Distress Ink . Since these inks react with water you can create an inked background on your cardstock, spray water onto a clear stamp and … Read More ...
Heather from Parker and Molly is sharing a video tutorial making this sweet Easter card. She heat embossed her stamped image and colored it in using a water color technique using Distress Ink , click here to learn all about … Read More ...
Ink pads aren’t just for inking up your stamps, you can also use them to add a vintage stained look to paper and also color plain ribbons and trims. The Simon Says Stamp blog has a step by step tutorial … Read More ...
We spend so much time making beautiful cards to give to our loved ones why put them into a plain old boring envelope? Kristina Werner will show you not only how to make a lovely personalized envelope using Distress Ink … Read More ...
