Fun with Distress Stains!

Fun with Distress Stains!
Originally uploaded by HikerCynthia

I *finally* got some of Tim Holtz's Distress Stains! I had to order the darn things because no one around here carries them. Bah! I also ordered two rolls of his Tissue Tape.

And then I played.

This is another page from my art journal. I simply dragged two of the Distress Stains (Broken China and Faded Jeans) down the page, after I had covered the page loosely with Gesso.

The way cool thing about Distress Stains is that that work just like Distress Inks, just in a bottle like Ranger's paint daubers. That means, when you spray water on the Distress Stain, it reacts just like the Distress Inks.

So I did that too.

I also sprayed it with some blue homemade spritz spray.

Then I stuck a few pieces of the Tissue Tap on the page, distressed them with more Broken China, and then outlined the shapes in both a black Pro Pigment pen and water color crayons.

I also picked up a funky Inkadinkado rubber stamp set and stamped a few of those rounds shapes in Broken China and Black Soot.

For a final touch I stamped SKY, using my brand-new Michael's Dollar Bin stamps in Faded Jeans. I used a chunkier font for that and I think it would have come out clearer if I had used a skinnier font set.

The journaling is all about a verse from Psalm 2 in the Bible that says, "He Who sits in the Heavens laughs..."

Seriously, seriously love the way this came out!


~Cynthia
PS: Big thanks to Paula (aka Journal Artista), who showed this technique on her UStream show!