TFJ: Permanently Perfect

- April 19, 2024

This week at TFJ Inspiration Ave we are creating to the theme of “Premaritally Perfect.” Here we are highlighting Distress archival inks. For this card I am featuring three different ways to use archival inks.

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Materials used: distress archival inks salvaged patina, prize ribbon, evergreen bough, villainous potion, and black soot, distress reinkers mermaid lagoon, prize ribbon, specialty stamping paper, CMS213 perspective, Idea-ology kraft stock cool tones, sand paper disks, Ranger blending tool.

For today’s project we are going to be focusing on Ranger distress archival inks. As of now there are 24 wonderful colors to create with. In this card today we will be looking at three different ways to use distress archival inks.

To start this cared I embossed a base of cool tone Idea-ology kraft stock with the Sizzix 3D embossing folder kaleidoscope.

Next I took a blessing tool and a sandpaper disk to snad the high point of the embossing. The plan is to expose the kraft core under the purple color to prep for the first archival ink technique.

Once the high points were sanded I took the large distress archival black soot ink pad and rubbed it across the top of the card base. This yields a great color contrast to the otherwise plain background.

I am going to be working in three layers for the card. For layer 2 I am going to be stamping with distress archival onto the number background stamp from CMS213 perspective. Using a combination of salvaged patina, prize ribbon, evergreen bough, and villainous potion to creat a marbled looking print.

Below is the finished stamped panel. I love the blend of the distress archival on specialty stamping paper.

I then used some foam squares to attach this layer to the card base.

For the focal point I stamped out the large butterfly from CMS213 perspective using the Tonic stamping platform. I stamped first in distress archival black soot. Then I colored in the butterfly with distress reinkers mermaid and prize ribbon. After coloring with a water brush I then stamped a second time to darken up the butterfly lines using more archival black soot.

For the sentiment I picked one from CMS213 “live your dream with passion”. I stamped with archival black soot and villainous potion. Since the ink pads are so small it is very easy to stamp out single words in one color and then ink other words in different colors. After stamping I went back and blended some distress vintage photo ink over the top and splattered it with water. The water gave a very cool speckled distressed look.

For finishing touches I added some Idea-ology metallic droplets at the corners of the card. The butterfly was attached with some foam squares onto the card front.