Ink blending techniques

Create soft, blended backgrounds easily with these 5 tried and true tips for blending distress inks (and other inks too)!

Hi all! Remember the #2015bestnine on Instagram? I never posted it since I preferred to show you my favourite projects. The hashtag though, showed me that you really, really like my ink blending ba…

I'm over at the Magenta blog today, and you can see that post here. My go-to simple but beautiful card usually involves Distress Ink or Distress Oxide Ink blending. It's easy, fast, and always gorgeous. This sort of colorful background is always perfect paired with an amazing Magenta stamp, like the stunning English Garden set designed by Nathalie. The beautiful style of this set will work with any sort of card. I made a birthday card, but it would work for Thinking of You, Sympathy, Just a…

In this video I’m going I am going to talk about ink smooching, smooshing or smudging techniques. Some of these techniques you may already know or have seen ...

Hello, welcome to my blog! I have two cards to share with you today. I love ink blending but for these cards I took it just a step further. Both were done the same way using the same colors, but the fun of this layering ink technique is that no two cards will look the same! I began with Bristol Smooth white card stock, and added a light layer of inking in Twisted Citron and Tumbled glass Distress Oxide inks. Next I stamped and embossed clear the leaf images over the inked panel. Lastly, I…

At the Creativation show this past January, Tim Holtz introduced a really cool technique you can do with Distress Oxides. He was playing around with different substrates for Distress Oxide, and tried the inks on glossy paper, specifically the Ranger Alcohol Ink Cardstock. It seems like Tim Holtz will try anything with his products, including licking the paper (not recommended). He found that the oxidation of the inks was especially pronounced on the glossy cardstock, (that's when he licked…

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Distress Inks, by Tim Holtz are some of my favorite inks to use. They are water-based dye inks that have incredible color stability. Unlike other inks, Distress Inks react to water. It means that wate

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