Distress Ink Stenciling (plus Misting!)

foreign erski and this week I'm going to show you how to use some stencils with

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ed inks and this is something I've really gotten into stencils lately and I especially like the ones from Crafters Workshop because they come in so many fun patterns. This is a mini kaleidoscope designed by Rhonda Rhonda Palazzari and it is a really fun kaleidoscope pattern. I'm going to ink this new Hughes hero letterpress paper just to see how it takes the ink and play with it a bit. You can get this in white and then also in cream and I thought it would be fun to play with it today.

It's also a little larger than the front of a standard size card, so I trimmed it down a bit. a little to fit on the front of a standard size card. I'm going to start by simply adhering this to my work surface with some repositionable adhesive. You can see here that it has a very light texture, but one side is a little bit more textured than the other and I think I want to use the more textured side, so I'm going to stick the other side down and I'm just using repositionable adhesive, but really any adhesive would work you just need to have a little bit of grip on your work surface and then I'm going to tape my template to my work surface with some washi tape which, again, you can just hold this on and place the stencil or you can tape it, it doesn't really matter.

It's a personal preference. I'm going to use some orangey reds today, so my lightest color will be dried marigold, then spiced jam, then ripe persimmon, then holiday berries. I'm going to start with my lightest color and then work darker. In fact, I'm going to work from one corner to the other to create a kind of fun diagonal pattern and I'm just going to rub directly onto my stencil so there's no need to shake it or anything about the stencil itself. it acts as enough of a barrier so you don't get any harsh lines so I'm going to start with my lightest color and fill in a little bit of this dried calendula and then I'm going to use a little bit of spiced jam and then we're going to use the the right persimmon and then the holiday berries on the finish and you'll notice that as you work with the darker colors you don't need to press as hard, so always go in first with a light hand and you can always go back and add more color. but you can't take it off if you put on too much in the first place, so now we have this really fun gradient look and it will look even cooler once we remove the stencil.

Oh, nice, now we have our wonderful gradient here. and it looks pretty seamless and you saw there was basically no need to mix so if you're just starting out with

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ed inks this is a really good way to work with color mixing it's pretty foolproof as long as you stick the stencil with tape and it doesn't move, then you're good, so I'm going to clean my work surface with just a good rag and a little bit of water and also my stencil. It's good to clean this before using it on another project and Forget that I put ink all over it now.

I really like the background as it is now, but my goal for the card is to not have such a stark contrast between the color and the white, so I'm going to use this spray from Diane Reveley's dilutions line and I'm going to say that It's pure sunshine and you can see here that it's this nice yellow-orange color. Look, so I think it's going to add a nice little fog to the background and I wanted to do this next. I use my distress ink because it's wet, so it will interact a little bit with the distress ink and you'll see.

It's going to be pretty interesting, so we're going to have a little bit of interaction and I'm spraying most of my spray from the darkest corner so it really emphasizes that gradient and as you'll see, now we have a completely different look that's also really exciting, but There is not such a stark contrast between white and color. I'll let this dry. a few minutes and then we'll be ready to assemble our card so our background is almost dry and I'm going to prepare our little card base so I'm going to use this cornmeal ink from Hero Arts, their Shadow ink and I haven't really used this ink yet, but I know I really like the color, it's a nice deep type of periwinkle and will look great on this light blue note card.

This is also from Hero Arts, their C paper collection. They are the blue ones and I think the blue will provide a really good balance for the orange because it's the opposite color on the color wheel, so I'll just flip my card over to my background afterwards to have the stamp inked and then I'll put a little piece of scrap paper on top to help me press everything down and then you can see we have this really cool tone on tone pattern and this stamp is the lining of the envelope. The background, by the way, is a very nice neutral type, but it still adds a lot. of texture for my feeling.

I want to use this Simon Says Stamp set, it's the Flower Friends clear stamp set and I'm going to use this one, thank you very much, so I think this card would be really good for either of us. Girl or boy, it doesn't matter because we're using a really gender neutral color scheme and it's not like we're using florals or, you know, pink and I'm going to use some navy midtone Shadow ink, which is my favorite. um, neutral ink right now, it's just fantastic. I love this color so much that I'm going to stamp it on this piece of paper that's wide enough for the sentiment, it's about two and a quarter inches wide and then I want to wrap it with some twine.

These are grass clippings from Lawn Fawn, it's their lime color, Baker's hemp and I love these things because they really hold their shape really well when you tie them in a bow, so I'm going to wrap them like three times and just tie it into a little bow and now I can arrange my twine how I want it to look so everything overlaps and just the way I want it, so I'm going to cut a banner end on this part so now I can start putting everything together I'm going to use some adhesive of foam because this will really help keep the background even, even if it warps a little bit, it will help keep the background nice and straight and stable, so now for our finishing touches, I think I'm going to add some Hero Hues gemstones here .

I'm just going to cut them using my X-Acto knife. These are my favorite gems because I mean, look how many come on the sheet now that I added my gems. I think it's the perfect finishing touch and I love all the texture on this card. My final review of the Hero Arts paper is that it's really fun, it absorbed a lot of the color, just like watercolor paper. but it's a lot softer so it's really good between um like the Neenah solar white that I normally use and then of course the watercolor paper which was always amazing with

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but it's not as soft so that it doesn't take the distress ink evenly so I think this is a great middle ground and I really enjoy it and I will definitely use more for the full list of supplies that I used in this video.

Please see the description below. There is always a link to the supplies used and then check out my blog post for more information on this card which is also included in the description below. Thanks so much for looking. If you have any questions, be sure to ask them in the comments and I'll look into it. You again next time in another video tutorial girl.