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Distress Ink Watercoloring

24 Feb

I posted an in-progress photo of this card on instagram a few days ago and mentioned that no matter how many amazing coloring mediums I discover, distress inks will always be my first love and it’s SO true.  Don’t get me wrong…I love my watercolors, copics, and colored pencils; but distress inks are just SO much fun!  Don’t believe me?  Let me try to convince you! 😉

Distress Ink Watercolored Emma Background by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

*Sigh*…rainbows just make me happy! 🙂  I started by stamping the beautiful Emma background onto watercolor paper with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.  Next I smooshed distress inks onto my craft mat, wet my watercolor paper, and watercolored the panel.  I added several layers of color and dried each layer with my heat gun.

After I was happy with the saturation of color I flicked water onto the panel and then blotted it off after 30 seconds.  I trimmed down the panel, adhered it to a white card base, and then added spectrum noir clear sparkle all over the stamped design.  Finally I adhered stick-it adhesive to the black cardstock, die-cut the Hand-Lettered Greetings sentiment and then adhered it to the card.

One quick trick…when you have an intricate die like this one sometimes when you run it through the machine you’re left with lots of little fuzzy bits sticking to the die.  You can spend hours trying to remove all of the bits with a nail file or tweezers (like I sometimes do) or you can adhere it the card and then firmly wipe it down with a swiffer cloth.  This seems to work best when the intricate die is firmly attached with stick-it adhesive.  The die doesn’t move at all and the swiffer cloth easily cleans up all those annoying fuzzy pieces.  See?  Nice and tidy! 😉

Distress Ink Watercolored Emma Background by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

Oh and I added a little spectrum noir clear sparkle to the die-cut word, too!  You can never have too much sparkle!

Thanks so much for visiting today and have a fabulous weekend!!

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Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp EMMA BACKGROUND SSS101692 Hey Love
Simon Says Stamp HANDLETTERED GREETINGS Wafer Die SSSD111630 Diecember
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger TDP40088
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad FESTIVE BERRIES Ranger TDP39969
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Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN Ranger TDP40132
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad SEEDLESS PRESERVES Ranger Fall TIM32847
Crafter’s Companion CLEAR OVERLAY Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens SPECNSPACLE3
Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets
Tim Holtz 8.5 X 11 DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK Ranger TDA53927
Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK Black8
Stick It Adhesive LARGE SHEETS 5 Pack SK310
Sizzix BIG SHOT PLUS MACHINE Gray And White 660340
Ranger Studio Paint ARTIST BRUSHES Brush BRU40842
EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002
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Categories:
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distress ink, rainbow, simon says stamp

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  1. Tracey McNeely says

    February 24, 2017 at 11:41 am

    Beautiful card and watercolouring Jess!

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  2. Michele F says

    February 24, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    They really are my fave, too, Jessica … you’re really creating masterpieces with those background stamps!!! This one… exceptional!
    =]

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  3. Terrie says

    February 24, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    This is such a lovely card!

    Reply

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