Distress Ink Backgrounds

 

Georgiana from

Carson's Creations  

asked if it was hard or messy to make the Distressed Ink back grounds

I thought I would show you how easy

they are to make
not messy at all

I start with my ranger craft sheet and

pick my colors with

Valentine's day in mind I pick some pink colors

tattered rose, worn lipstick, picked raspberry, and 

festive berries

now the thing about this technique is you never know

what the out come will be.

next I take the inks pads and 

 

 

I take a travel spritz bottle I fill with water

and some perfect pearl this gives the back ground

a pretty sheen

 

now I use Tim Holtz water color paper

and wiggle it around in the wet ink



now after the first piece of paper there is some ink left on the

craft mat and it's the second pass that sometimes make

a even better background on the second sheet I use

Crafter's Companion

Ultra smooth premium white card stock

since there is less water

 

did another pair used

a little more water on this set

 

to get more effect you can spritz the paper

or sometimes if you want bigger water drops

I spritz some water in my hand and drop it on the paper

to dry them I hit them with my heat gun

then put them under some heavy books to flatten.

 

I will work on some cards with these and hopefully post them this weekend...

 

Give it a try super easy lots of fun

and any colors work.