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Thursday 30 June 2011

Doodles

One of the things I really enjoy is dabbling with inks, stamps and so on to make backgrounds and/or images and today I had a play with a couple of the new Distress Stains from Tim Holtz.  These come in a bottle with a dabber top which makes them easy to apply and they are of course compatible with other distress products.  I swiped colour onto white card, splashed some droplets of water on and then spritzed a stamp with water and stamped three times blotting with a paper towel, which lifts some of the colour.  I then overstamped one of the impressions slightly off to the side using a matching ink pad; then sponged and blended around the edges with more distress ink pads. The stamp used was a rose from the Doodle Birds and Butterflies set by Chocolate Baroque and the background paper also came from the same source.

3 comments:

  1. Love your spritzing on this card Val it's made a lovely card

    Anne

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  2. very interesting effect there Val - the stains certainly sound a lot quicker to use, will have to add them to the ever-growing list!

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  3. Hi, thanks for your lovely comments about my cards. A pretty card, I like your rose. I bought 3 of the stains last week but not played with them yet. Hugs x ChrisB

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