TFJ: Distressed About Paints?

- July 28, 2023

Hello and welcome back to The Funkie Junkie Inspiration Ave. Today we are creating to the theme “distressed about paint”.

For my project today I have decided to create a card with a distress paint and some fun, Sizzix florals. For process video click here.

Used: Distressed paint brushed pewter, squeezed lemonade, picket fence, Kitch flamingo shaded lilac, tumbled, glass and craft pistachio, distress, archival black soot, Idea-ology ephemera and bouquet steps at CMS 430 floral outlines and Sizzix breaststroke minis.

To start off this card project I’ve pulled in some of my favourite pastel distress colours: squeezed lemonade, picket fence, Kitch flamingo shaded lilac, tumbled, glass and craft pistachio and a piece of mixed media paper.

To start, I decided to use the classic distress paint squish technique. Here on the media craft mat I added paint droplets and then spritz them with water from the distress sprayer.

Below are the first results from my first swipe with the mixed media paper through the paint. I found the adding a dash of picket fence helped create some more swirly effects on the paper.

I repeated the swipe dip and dry techniques several times before the background was completed. For drying I use the Ranger the tool.

To finish off the background, I then stamped with some distressed, paint brush pewter, using the steps at floral outline CMS430. Four stamping, I placed a small amount of distressed paint, directly onto the meet him up and then I tap the stamp gently through. This could also be done by brayering paint on with a brayer.

Below are the finished stamping results for the background.

Next I die, cut some brushstroke flower minis from distress, watercolour cardstock with a layer of double-sided adhesive on the back.

I then coloured the die cut pieces with distress, re-incurs, and a Ranger water brush.

Next, I created a landing spot for the main focal point which happens to be a fancy tea cup. I used a larger piece of Idea-Ology ephemera and into the edges with some distress some black soot archival ink. I also popped the tea cup up in the centre of this pretty butterfly paper with a few foam squares.

Then I added in all of the diecuts florals around the tea cup.

After adding in the diecuts florals, I noticed that I still had a few spaces that needed filling. So to cover up those gaps, I added some flowers from Idea-ology bouquet. These I alter with some distress, make a spray, stains, harvest, moon, shiny bauble, and cocktail party.