Distress Stripes

I saw a variation of this in one of my Technique Junkies Newsletters and thought it looked very cool and quite simple which made it right up my alley. I used my Distress Markers (which I haven't used nearly enough; darn that not enough time to play with my cool new stuff issue) and the Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper. I tried it on regular white matte cardstock and it didn't work at all. If you are going to use the Distress Markers, you really do need to use the Ranger Paper. It has a coating on it which keeps the ink on the surface.

So, you need three coordinating colours of Distress Markers. I started with the middle colour (light, middle, dark) and drew a few lines in a small area. Then I took the lighter colour and drew lines above and off to the side and I took the dark colour and drew lines below and off to the side of the middle colour. By starting in the middle, I was better able to get it centred. Then I took a mini mister with water and spritzed it to spread the colours. You want to work relatively quick before the markers really dry or else the colour doesn't move very well. When it dried, I just stamped a quick image and saying, mounted it and called it done.

Definitely my kind of card and I do think this might be one of my new favorite techniques.

More Candi

It's been a busy day, and I have a meeting tonight, so just a quick post to show a really simple card I made the other night while I was playing with my Candi.

I've made a bunch of other stuff with it too. So much fun. I love how they're dimensional!!


And if I was debating before about getting the Distress Markers, I'm totally sold now. Of course, watching a video of Tim Holtz using them is pretty good motivation to shift me to the dark side. Yup. Definitely ordering these when they become available. I'll be able to get the sets for sure; I'm just not sure if they're going to make me order the markers in multiples. I'll post cost when I get confirmation. And they're supposed to be shipping in February!!!

Check out the video for yourself!!

Distress Markers

I suck at colouring. I really do. I don't know anything about shading or how to make things look good, but every so often I think I might want to learn.

I've managed to avoid the Copic Craze. Everytime I think about it, I think, why? I can't colour anyway.

So imagine my surprise when I heard that Ranger is releasing Distress Markers and I thought, hmm, that would be cool; I think I want them.

I'm not sure what I would do with them, but I know that Tim Holtz makes awesome stuff and always has lots of instructions, tutorials and projects showing you how to use them. And since I LOVE my Distress Inks, I'm thinking I might just need these!!


They will apparently come open stock and in a set. I don't have a price yet, but when I do, I'll take pre-orders.