Kath Stewart used Distress Ink Pads and dies from Tim Holtz for this wonderful Hello Autumn card. Using the small ink cubes and swiping them across her paper is a simple but effective way to create a colorful card background … Read More ...
Distress Inks and Foil Cards
Amy R. added beautiful splashes of fall colors over top of foiling for this amazing Autumn Leaves Cards. Using Distress Oxide Inks and water she loosely water colored and splattered over the foiled leaves designs, which really adds a lot … Read More ...
Stencil Distress Card Background
Kathrin created this wonderful card background with Distress Inks and a Stencils. She first ink blended her cardstock with fall colors, then she placed a baby wipe over top, then a leaf stencil and then she embossed it in her … Read More ...
Halloween Cat Cards
How fun are these snarky Halloween Cat Cards from Keisha!? I love her beautiful card backgrounds, she ink blended with distress inks with stenciling over top for lots of depth. She then stamped the images (new from Tim Holtz) in … Read More ...
Tombstone Halloween Card
EEKK! I love this spooky Halloween Tombstone card from Lauren! She used dies from i-crafter adding color and distress with inks. The little touches of moss she added finish this card off perfectly. She’s sharing step by step directions for … Read More ...
How to Watercolor with Re-inkers
Did you know re-inkers aren’t just for re-inking your ink pads? You can also use many of them alone as a a way to color or paint! Mansi used her Distress Re-Inkers to watercolor this beautiful Slimline Card. Using … Read More ...
Thanksgiving Distressed Stamped Tag
Explore the world of Tim Holtz Distress with this vintage Thankful Tag tutorial by Paula Cheney. Use various mediums and surfaces to create layers of texture and dimension in this autumn inspired project. Where would you use it?
Looking for … Read More ...
Vintage Strawberry Tag
I love the sweet old fashioned look of this Strawberry Tag from Anna-Karin. She stamped the strawberries and flowers directly onto pattern papers that have a vintage look and then colored in the images with colored pencils. It really gives … Read More ...
Coloring Embossed Sentiments
If you’re new to coloring stamped images Cathy has a great tip. If you heat emboss your stamps it gives you a little raised “edge” that helps hold in the color so you don’t color outside the lines. She used … Read More ...
Inspiring Umbrella Card
I love this inspiring card from Chari Moss! The sun and umbrella have a watercolor marbled look that she achieved using an ink smooshing technique. This is a great way to add color and texture to your die cut images. … Read More ...
Product Review: Distress Embossing Glaze
The new Distress Embossing Glazes from Tim Holtz are translucent colored embossing powders that add a glossy shine to your mixed media and paper crafting projects. They come in many coordinating colors to other products in the Distress Line and … Read More ...
9 Techniques with Distress Oxide Sprays
Distress Ink Oxide Sprays from Tim Holtz
are so versatile! Laurel Beard has 9 different ways you can use these sprays on your cards, they work perfectly on their own as colorful backgrounds and you can use them with stencils, … Read More ...
Card Making – Tulip Card
I love all the layers and depth on this beautiful Tulip Card from Jules. She used Copic markers
to color her tulips and Distress Oxide Ink
and a stencil for her background. The frames and layers of metallic gold paper … Read More ...
Tulip Card with Easy Watercolor
Amy R used Distress Oxide Ink Sprays for a quick and easy watercolor technique. These Tulip stamps look so pretty with the soft watercolor design and the loads of splatters add a trendy look to them. I love how she … Read More ...
Mixed Media Mother’s Day Cards
Using supplies like Distress Ink, pastes, ink spray, metal embellishments, paper doll images and more Shari Carroll created these amazing mixed media cards. I love how she created her backgrounds at the same time from one sheet of paper, just … Read More ...