I don’t know about you but I do enjoy
getting messy with inks. Just make sure you haven’t got a cat hovering about
like mine leaving inky paw prints everywhere!!
What I like
about distressing is that no two cards look the same, I like unique.
This first one is using the Elizabeth Bennett stamp by Indigoblu.
I used a blank Kraft card which is a natural texture that I love and then cut a piece of white card
just 1/2cm smaller for the front (I
find this easier when inking otherwise you can
end up with ink over the whole base card. I heat embossed
the Elizabeth stamp with a clear embossing powder first and then I ran the top
part of the card through a Tim Holtz embossing folder on my Bigshot. Then came the fun
part using Tim Holtz Distress Inks, (the colours I used were Dried Marigold and
Tumbled Glass) I blended these randomly over the whole card. To embellish I cut a strip of Tim Holtz Idiology paper and edged in Walnut
stain and glued this to the right bottom corner of the card. Then
I embossed two flowers
(different sizes) from Indigoblu’s ‘Live Laugh love’ stamp set, and coloured
these with the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then cut out. I made a bow with
ordinary thin garden string and mounted the flowers over the top using my heat
gun. The outside edge was
distressed using my scissors and inked
with Walnut Stain.
For this one I had a script stamp but I didn't want to use the whole script so I masked part of it with a sticky note and inked the part that was left and then randomly stamped this over the card masking different parts of the stamp as I went, I think this turned out really well. The flower stamp I used was quite fine so I used a white embossing powder to make it stand out more. Then I blended Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Shabby Shutters and Brushed Corduroy over the whole card. The butterfly border was made by stamping a small butterfly repeatedly on a narrow piece of blank card and this I inked with Shabby Shutters. Distress the outside edges of the whole card as above.