Going Bird Crazy With Distress Inks And Markers

Posted on 9th April 2016 by Sylvia Ames
Filed under Card Making Ideas, All Papercraft Tutorials

Hi Sylvia here with a fun birthday card made using white linen card, distress inks, distress markers and Tim Holtz stamps and dies.

Firstly I made a card blank 15cm x 15cm with papermilldirect white linen cardstock. Using a blending tool I coloured a central area with wild honey distress ink and overstamped it with the same colour using a number background stamp. The sentiments were stamped in black Archival ink. Using different coloured distress markers I highlighted some of the number nines on the background.

The crazy bird and balloon were stamped onto white linen cardstock and coloured with distress markers and a water brush. I started on the outer edge of the bird, colouring a little and pulling the colour towards the center of the bird with the water brush. Different colours were added and blended together until I was happy with the result. The balloon was coloured in the same way.

Both the bird and the balloon were die cut using matching dies and fixed to the card, a string was hand drawn down from the balloon.

Materials used:

• Papermilldirect white linen cardstock
• Stampers Anonymous Perspective stamp set
• Stampers Anonymous Bird Crazy stamps
• Stampers Anonymous Crazy Things stamps
• Sizzix thinlits die set Crazy Things
• Sizzix thinlits die set Bird Crazy
• Oak House Studio sentiments Look Who Is and Numbers
• Distress inks - wild honey
• Distress markers - festive berries, wild honey, crushed olive, shabby shutters and evergreen bough
• Archival black ink

I hope you enjoyed reading how I created my crazy bird birthday card.

Sylvia xx

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