Monday, May 17, 2010

Distress Ink Tilda

I was playing with distress inks to see what means of coloring I liked best. I don't have the reinkers just the ink pads. I have used a wet brush and picked up the ink off the pad before and that works fine but I read about using a dove blender pen so I decided to try it. I don't know if it was the pad or the rough coldpress paper but that method seemed to be messing up my blender pen. Then I tried stamping the ink on an acrylic block and picking the ink from there with a wet brush. I don't know why but I seemed to get a more concentrated color doing that. 
Here is the card I made coloring with the distress inks.
Tilda's dress is colored with lavender ink, the flowers and cheeks with spun sugar, leaves with peeled paint, face with tattered rose, hair with scattered straw and a touch of brushed corduroy. Tilda's shoes, flowers and kerchief all have stickles on them. Those are purple nail head stickers on the white ribbon. The black dp is from the retired black tie basic grey collection. The flowered dp is from the wisteria basic grey collection. The words are from a retired set from the angel company. Then a few different kinds of pearls are strewn around. Hope you enjoy and found the information on distress inks helpful.

17 comments:

Silvie Z said...

Beautiful card Peggy, I like all the lilac colors on your card and the tiny pearls are so sweet!
Hugs,
Silvie from France

Myrna said...

Super sweet card!

Nancy said...

What a cute card Peggie I love this sweet little Tilda!
Hugs
Nancy

megline said...

Beautiful card Peggie, love the little pearl on the card.
Hugs, Line

Barb Hardeman said...

Gorgeous card, Peggie! The pearl sprays are so so pretty coming out of your bow. Your distress coloring is fabulous!

Cami said...

Beautiful card, Peggy! Your coloring with the distress inks came out beautiful! Thanks for all the tips! Hugs, Cami

Christina C. said...

Cute card, Peggie! I want to try distress inks, but I've been hesitant....I really must get over it and just try it.

Mindy (Scrappy and Piggy) said...

Very pretty! I love this new Tilda.

Leonie said...

Just beautiful. loving you use of the Bg black tie papers very striking and great job with the distres inks!
hugs Leonie

Anonymous said...

Beautiful! You did such a nice job!

Hugs!

Pat

marsha said...

Beautiful Peggie! The colors are so soft, I like the distress ink coloring,

Hugs, Marsha

Candy said...

Great job! Love all the pearl accents and your design paper as well.
Hugs, Candy

Barb F said...

Very pretty!

Maureen said...

Oh Peggie! This is so soft and pretty! Love the colours; and the pearls and ribbon are perfect. Love it!

Christine Riley said...

This is beautiful, I love the ribbon and the pearls.
Hugs, Christine

Deb said...

Peggie, this is beautiful. As you know, I just started using Distress Inks, but I find that if I stamp them on a porcelain or ceramic tile (25 cents each in a clearance bin at Home Depot) this works really well. This is a very fun medium to work with......still like my Copics though!
Hugs,
Deb xoxo

Paula said...

Love the card it's detail is top of the line. I do alot of cross stitch and stamping
Paula