Today I will show you the second half of the tutorial - how to create your own ink pad with distress inks, heat embossing with distress inks, and creating your own shimmer mist with re-
inkers and radiant pearls.
Let's start with the list of supplies needed to create our own ink pads
Cut out a square of the Cut and Dry felt pad large enough for your image. Stamp the image with archival ink onto the felt side for a pattern of where to put your ink colors.
Apply inks to the pad. You need to work rather quickly because the inks will spread. I started with peeled paint in the center of my leaf and brushed corduroy for the stem plus spiced marmalade for aged mahogany for the tips of the leaf.
Here's what the pad looks like once it's all inked. I stamped it a couple of times on plain white
cardstock for a sample. I store my handmade ink pads in an empty
Sizzix plastic case. I write the names of the colors used on a piece of masking tape and attach it to the
bottom so when I need to
reink it I know what colors is it.
Distress inks stay wet long enough that you can emboss with them. For my tag I embossed the leaves with clear embossing powder. Then for some added detail I stamped the
stampin up script background stamp with archival ink over the entire tag.
Finally, let's make some shimmer mist with re-
inkers, water and some pearl ex or radiant pearls.
Supplies needed for shimmer mist
I filled a mini mister with water about 2/3
rds full and then added a dropper of shabby shutters re-
inker and a pea sized amount of pearl ex.
Here's what is looks like sprayed on just a plain white sheet of
cardstock.
And here it is sprayed on the tag.
I hope you've enjoyed this demo. Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions.
The stamps I used on the demo tags are available from Rubbernecker stamp company as are all of the supplies used.
Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend.
Congratulations to all of the graduates out there!
Cut out a square of the Cut and Dry felt pad large enough for your image. Stamp the image with archival ink onto the felt side for a pattern of where to put your ink colors.
Here's what the pad looks like once it's all inked. I stamped it a couple of times on plain white cardstock for a sample. I store my handmade ink pads in an empty Sizzix plastic case. I write the names of the colors used on a piece of masking tape and attach it to the
bottom so when I need to reink it I know what colors is it.
Finally, let's make some shimmer mist with re-inkers, water and some pearl ex or radiant pearls.
Can't you just picture a nice summer afternoon spent gazing at the clouds in the sky?! The horse stamp is from PSX and stamped in timber brown stazon on very vanilla and colored with Copics. The edge of the panel is sponged with peeled paint distress ink. The mats are chocolate, cool caribbean and patterned paper from My Mind's Eye. I can't remember what company the saying is from. Just a simple Saturday card to share. Thanks for stopping!
I had a card that I made in February of 2006 with this kind of fold and thought I would try it again. The base is 6 3/4 x 10 3/8 folded in half the long way. Then scored at 3 5/16 and 4 7/8 from the same end. Between the two scores you will score at a diagonal starting at the center of the 4 7/8 score line. For folding the 3 5/16 and 4 7/8 scores will be valleys and the diagonal scores will be peaks. For the diamond image panel I stamped the PSX santa hat with palette noir black on shimmery cream cardstock. The hat was colored with a lipstick red copic ma
rker and then covered in frosted lace stickles. The edges were sponged with Tim Holtz antique linen and SU basic brown and then the piece was layered onto red from my LSS. The designer paper is some of the Cosmo Cricket paper I had out from yesterday. I stamped the Studio G Believe stamp on craft paper and colored that with the copic marker too and punched it out using the large oval punch from Fiskars. 
