Visit the Craft Barn for a tutorial from Neil Walker and learn to make a beautiful fairy card with a watercolor background using Distress Ink and markers. I love the dimension of the punched out butterflies! Click here for the … Read More ...
Technique: Birthday Card with Water Color Marker Technique
Therese Calvird is guest designing over at the Penny Black stamp blog, sharing lots of wonderful cards and how to videos. One of my favorites is this cute birthday card that she colored using Distress Ink 
. But he didn’t … Read More ...
Project and Technique: Holiday Pinecone Card
Since Tim Holtz’s Distress Ink react with water it’s easy to blend and manipulate the colors together for an interesting water color look like on this lovely pinecone card. Find the directions for this cool stamping technique over on the … Read More ...
Project: Winter Bird Card
Here’s a great technique for adding multiple colors to a solid stamp image. Try stamping with one color of Distress Ink and then dipping a water brush onto other ink pads too apply additional colors, since Distress Inks react with … Read More ...
Project: Pumpkin Centerpiece
Can you believe the pumpkin in this amazing Halloween display is made with a ball of string!? The plain white ball of string has been colored with ink sprays and is surrounded by stamped, embossed and die cut images. The … Read More ...
Project: Stamped Halloween Invitation
It’s time to bring out all those different stamping products! Sannie from Simon Says Stamp used lots of different items in making this cool Halloween invitation like tissue tape, Distress Ink s, die cuts, glossy accents, crackle paint and of … Read More ...
Technique: Stamped Watercolor Look with Markers
This stunning pink peony flower card doesn’t even look like it’s stamped but it actually is! Stamping on water color paper using water soluble markers (like the Tim Holtz Distress Ink markers
) instead of ink pads you can go … Read More ...
Tip: Stamping with Acrylic Blocks
Did you know you can use your clear acrylic stamping blocks as stamps themselves? Apply some Distress Ink and spritz on some water and then stamp for a neat watercolor look. Find out more over on The House That Stamps … Read More ...
Technique: Watercolor Card Background
Since Distress Ink react to water they are perfect to use for a water color card background, smear them on a non-stick craft sheet, spraying them with water and press your paper onto top. Find out more on this technique … Read More ...
Tip: Stamping with Markers Instead of Ink
Nicole Magouirk has a video tutorial showing you how to color your stamps with Distress Markers
for a neat watercolor look.
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Project: Watercolor Look Birthday Card
Learn to make a pretty butterfly birthday card on watercolor paper using stamps from Alley Way, a stencil Distress Ink and markers, the Kraft Paper Stamps blog has a video tutorial.
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Did you know Butterflies are deep and powerful … Read More ...
Technique: Easy Water Background for Cards
Here’s a quick and easy way to make a background look for a cards that looks like water using Distress Ink perfect for summer, beach and nautical themes. The Clips-N-Cuts blog has a video tutorial to show you how.
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New Product: Marker Spritzer
Get more out of your markers using the new Tim Holtz Distress Marker
Spritzer
. This tool gives you a cool air brush effect, this is great to use with stencils! Tim has a video showing how to use this … Read More ...
Project: Paper Banner Card
The Catered Crop has directions for making this lovely Spanish style banner card by stitching, stamping and die cutting on mulberry paper.
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Techniques: Coloring with Tim Holtz Distress Markers
The man himself Tim Holtz will show you his technique and tips for coloring with his Distress Ink in this video from Ranger Ink. This one has tons of helpful info so grab a cup and enjoy!
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