Happy Tuesday! And Happy upcoming Thanksgiving weekend! I’ll be celebrating the Canadian holiday here in the US this weekend, though I’m not sure what we’ll be eating since there is a national turkey shortage… there will be something related to pumpkin pie though, for sure 🙂
I wanted to share with you a fairly simple card for Thanksgiving that features a Distress Paint RESIST technique. Distress Dabbers are great for this because they are water resistant once they are dry, and the format makes it fabulous for spotlighting specific areas on a stamp. In this first photo you can see how I’ve used a few neutral colors to paint up the background stamp:
Here’s how the stamping turned out- I misted the stamp lightly after the first impression to get two great stampings!
Once the paint is dry it is set and ready to resist your water based Distress Ink! You can use whatever inking technique you desire, then mist a cloth or paper towel and lightly rub over the painted image to reveal the resist. The inks will appear as if they are behind the paint 🙂 Another thing I did on this card was use Distress Inks to color some cardstock before die cutting Autumn leaves to add to the card. I inked the edges of my leaves with new Hickory Smoke Distress Ink 🙂
… and here’s my finished card! Of course I added some Stickles Glitter Glue, Crackle Paint & Crinkle Ribbon to finish it all off!
Here’s a close up for you of the Crinkle ribbon & leaves 🙂
I hope you got a bit of autumn inspiration and can create something festive this week! Happy Thanksgiving!
Inky hugs,
Tara
