Thank you so much for stopping by our blog for the CardMaker Blog Hop featuring the Tim Holtz® Distress Crayons! Signature Designer & Creative Director Tim Holtz shares with us this vibrant mixed media card tutorial using the Distress Crayons:
Distress Crayons Tag by Tim Holtz
Im excited to share one of my favorite techniques using the new Distress Crayons. These water reactive pigments have the unique ability to blend, smudge, and layer providing rich color mixed with just a hint of grunge. This technique can be applied to a variety of surfaces including cardstock, wood, canvas and more so lets get started
Step 1: Tear a piece of Tissue Wrap from the roll large enough to cover your surface.
Step 2: Adhere the Tissue Wrap to the surface using Distress Collage Medium and Distress Collage Brush. Let dry or dry with Heat Tool.
Step 3: Apply Texture Paste through a Mini Layering Stencil using a Palette Knife. Select random parts of the stencil to place in various areas on the tag. Let dry or dry with Heat Tool.
Step 4: Apply a layer of Distress Collage Medium using a Distress Collage Brush covering the entire surface including the Texture Paste. Let dry or dry with Heat Tool.
Step 5: Gather various colors of Distress Crayons before you start coloring. I find having them at the ready makes the blending and smudging of colors much easier since Distress Crayons actually have a dry time.
Step 6: Scribble various colors of Distress Crayons on a small section of the tag. Keep in mind that in order to allow the various colors to mix, you need to apply them at the same time like I am showing here.
Step 7: Immediately smudge the colors using your finger. The smooth consistency of Distress Crayons allow for an amazing blendability.
Step 8: Repeat the previous steps working in small areas at a time to allow the Distress Crayons to smudge. Once they dry, they will no longer smudge with your finger and you will need to either re-apply more Distress Crayons, or use water to re-wet the color.
Step 9: Mist a paper towel with water using a Distress Sprayer. Note: A baby wipe is just too wet for this technique, so this allows you to control the amount of moisture applied to the surface.
Step 10: Lightly wipe the paper towel over the Texture Paste areas to react the Distress Crayons and start lifting the color. Note: We are able to lift color because we covered the entire surface with Distress Collage Medium first giving it a waterproof layer.
Step 11: Place a Layering Stencil over the background and rub through the design using the damp paper towel.
Step 12: This is the cool effect you get revealing the Tissue Wrap background.
Step 13: Here I chose another Layering Stencil design
really cool effect.
Step 14: Stamp an image with Distress Archival Ink and dry with a Heat Tool. Its important when stamping over Distress Crayons that you use a permanent waterproof ink.
Step 15: Add a quote using Small Talk stickers by cutting sections apart and adhere directly to the surface.
Step 16: Add various embellishments to the surface using Matte Multi-Medium. I find this adhesive works best over Distress Crayons.
Step 17: Cut a piece of black cardstock for the card base and adhere the tag using Foam Tape.
Close-Up: You see, a tag is simply a surface to work on and makes a great card topper. Try adding scraps of Tissue Tape, Ruler Ribbon, and various metal embellishments to finish your card.
Hope you enjoyed this colorful mixed-media approach to creating a card using the new Distress Crayons. Heres to your creative journey
tim
SUPPLY LIST
Tim Holtz® Distress Crayons: Sets #1, #2
Tim Holtz® Distress Collage Medium: Matte
Tim Holtz® Distress Collage Brush: 1 1/4
Tim Holtz® Distress Mixed-Media Palette Archival Ink Pad
Tim Holtz® Distress Sprayer
Ranger Texture Paste: Opaque Matte
Ranger Palette Knife Set
Ranger #8 Manila Tag
Ranger Craft Sheet
Ranger Heatit Craft Tool
Ranger Adhesive Black Foam Tape
Ranger Mini Multi-Medium Matte
Idea-ology: Tissue Wrap / Melange, Small Talk Stickers, Arrow Adornments, Number Tokens, Star Fasteners, Mini Gears, Ruler Ribbon, Tissue Tape / Symphony
Stampers Anonymous: Stamp: CMS267 Dapper, Mini Layering Stencils: THMS002, THMS008, THMS051
Tonic: Scissors
Black Cardstock
Thank you for stopping by! Here is the complete list of all of the blog hop participants:
CardMaker
Linda Beeson
Lisa Silver
Kim Klinkovsky
Pamela Haskin
Carisa Zglobicki
Dawn Lusk
