Saturday 3 April 2010

Gotta love distress inks

Today I had a play with my new distress inks that my lovely Hubby bought me for Easter. I tried the technique that Lucy showed us in our last class where you blot the ink pads on a craft sheet, spritz with water then dab your tags or paper in it and pick up the various inks.
These were my first attempts and I had great but messy fun doing them -they look a little sludgy in the picture but that's my dodgy camera not the inks ,they came out much more vibrant looking in real life.
Now I just have to decide what to stamp on top and in what colours etc.-Where's Lucy when I need her ?

4 comments:

  1. Hi, I'm here! These have turned out brilliantly. Each one is different and so vibrant. I would probably stamp with black now, or maybe a sepia text or background stamp then black. Any images go really. It can be quite nice to do some flourishes or something around the edges then your central image, maybe a saying or something. But really anything goes now you have got your base sorted,

    Lucy x

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  2. These tags look fantastic. This is such a great technique. I love how random the results are. I can't wait to see how you choose to use them...

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  3. These tags are just lovely!!! The sky's the limit on what you can do with them now! Stamp, collage, embellish to within an inch of their taggy littly lives--just have fun!!!!!

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  4. These are just perfect Jude! Distress inks are the best!

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