Creative Chemistry 101- Perfect Distress Mists

This technique involves the Distress Stain Mists that we had previously worked with on the layered misting technique.  The Distress Re-inkers are combined in a mini-mister with water and in this case, Perfect Pearls.  The mini-misters are then used to spray color onto the tag. 

Getting a good picture to represent the metallic sheen was difficult.  I caught a couple of pearlized sections in this photo.  The pearls tended to concentrate where the ink pooled.  This "girlifies" the layered misting technique.

Just a note, the tag on the right was made with the left over spray on the craft mat after making the tag on the left.  The colors were more blended and were on the brown side of the spectrum, but still created a beautiful tag.

Andie

Creative Chemistry 101- Watercolor Technique Using Distress Ink Re-inkers

One of day 4's techniques involved using Distress Re-inkers (you know, the bottles of ink with droppers to add ink to dry ink pads?) as a type of water color medium.  First let me disclose- I am not a "colorer" (Tim's term which fits right into my world view!).  While Brandy has enthusiastically and quite successfully embraced the Copic marker phenom, I have resisted.  My capabilities of coloring began and quite abruptly ended with 3rd grade art.  I've never thought of myself as particularly artistic.  So the thought of using a water brush and "painting" the Re-Inker on a stamp image was daunting.  Have a look at my first go and laugh out loud.  That's what I did! 

So, when Brandy and I got together this weekend to craft I humbly requested to borrow some supplies.  Surprisingly, with the right stamp (simple is better for us non-colorers) and a little more variety in the colors of re-inker available, I was able to create something a little more resembling cute.

This dress was colored with Brick Red, Rusty Hinge, and Antique Linen Re-Inkers.  A much more acceptable result.

The second tag used Broken China, Brick Red and Antique Linen Re-Inkers.  Yeah, a non-colorer actually producing something worth keeping.  Hooray!

Andie