Distress Paints meet Distress Stains (Tutorial)

Marjie here, happy to be sharing some techniques I picked up last month at Ranger U.  Two of my favorites techniques Tim taught were Distress Stains as a blended background, and Distress Paint Marbling.  I made this chunky 3" canvas using the Distress Stains on the sentiment, and the Distress Paints on the canvas itself. 

I started by making two tags using Tim's Blended Stains technique. Squeeze a few colors of Distress Stains onto your craft mat, spritz them with water, and swipe a tag through them. It doesn't look like much to start but dry each layer with your heat tool and then dip again, adding additional Stains if desired.  The layers build up very nicely.

You can also dip/press just a tiny part of your tag (a corner, maybe, or the edges... whatever you feel needs more) adding selected colors as desired.

The Marbled Distress Paints work much the same way.  Apply the paints to your craft sheet, drag your canvas through, dry it, and repeat as necessary. Add Distress Inks or Archival Inks to finish any areas that didn't paint as you may have wished.

I stamped my sentiment all over the finished tags so I could pick and choose the words and color combos I wanted. 

I used a combo of paint and Ranger Archival Inks to stencil on some patterns, making sure to follow them around the sides.  I love that I can use the Distress Paint straight from the bottle rather than needing a sponge or applicator.

Here's the canvas all finished and ready for embellishing:

I used a new Sizzix die that I adore, ran it through my Sizzix Dot Matrix Texture Fade, and topped it with some of Tim's Idea-ology:

The sentiment is a stamp from Tim's Way With Words set... there are so many great stamps in that set.  Different fonts, sizes, etc... check it out here.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.  Please visit my website if interested.

I look forward to sharing more soon!

Marjie

Tim Holtz Distress Paints	Stencil - TCW - Chicken Wire Reversed	TCW Mini Chevron
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Way With Words	Distress Stain - Scattered Straw	Distress Stain - Fired Brick
Distress Stain - Mustard Seed

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