The Mini Distress Ink Kit #3 is a rather underwhelming kit when it comes to the colours. Black, browns and beige. This is rather dull and boring, or is it? THE KIT #3 The colours in this kit are:
Black, browns and beige, really unexciting colours and you might think that I would be not too thrilled to use this kit, but I was looking forward to it, since my immediate thought when looking at the swatch was creating mountains and I really wanted to test it. I was a bit annoyed because I already used brown colour combos on two different cards that would be great for this blog post. One of them was a really cool night sky for a Halloween card, which you can see here and then I created a simple background for a Birthday card and the card you can see here. While I used different brown inks for these cards, you can create something similar with this kit as well. This is a very easy going kit, because all the colours work with each other, especially the browns and the Antique Linen. There fore I only made one basic colour combo and then with two backgrounds I did something extra. COLOUR COMBO #1: Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo & Antique LinenHere I did a basic or the typical background, meaning blending inks together creating a simple, solid background. I applied the colours diagonally from the darkest to the lightest. The direction you decide to apply the colours is up to you, you can apply them in a circle, vertically from left to right or horizontally from top to bottom. I applied multiple layers, building up the colours and blending the inks together. I didn't use the Black Soot, just because (in my head) it didn't work with the idea I had for the final card. To make this background into a card I used a stamp with a sunflower and heat embossed it with a golden embossing powder. Then I coloured the flower using the inks. Vintage Photo I used for the leaves, the Walnut Stain for the middle of the flower and the Antique Linen for the petals. The Antique Linen is very light, but I wanted to see how it will look like. As expected it wasn't really visible, so I decided to use golden watercolours from Kuretake. This give a lot of shimmer to the card. For the greeting I picked a sentiment that says With Love and I stamped it with a brown dye-ink, to match the colours of the background. Lastly I adhered the background on top of a card that I made out of a craft card stock. COLOUR COMBO #2: All Inks & StencilFor the next combo I used all the inks. As I said it is very difficult to go wrong with this kit as all colours go together. Therefore to make it more interesting I decided to use a stencil. I started with the Antique Linen and covered the whole panel. It was a little bit blotchy, but since it will be mostly covered due to the stencil, it wasn't important to get a smooth application. Next I placed the stencil over the panel and secured it with a washi. You can use any stencil, I just picked what I had in my stash. I applied the inks creating a circle. First I used the brown inks - Walnut Stain on the outside and Vintage Photo on the inside. And I also added Black Soot around the edges of the panel to make the colour darker. I had to cut the panel by quite a bit because I wasn't careful when removing it. The greeting says Happy Birthday To You, I stamped it and heat embossed it onto a vellum using the Primary Bark embossing powder from Wow. I fussy cut it and adhered it in the middle of the panel, making sure I only add the glue behind the letters. Lastly I adhered the panel on top of a white card base. COLOUR COMBO #3: All Inks & Stencil - Creating MountainsAfter I made a swatch for this kit I immediately thought of creating mountains. Usually I do that with watercolours. These are often monotone, meaning using the same colour in various shades. Most of the time ending in black. You probably can buy a stencil to create mountains, but you can also create it yourself. It's super easy! All you need is a paper - something that you can easy tear up. Tear it up in a way that you create a shape of mountains. So not a straight tear, but up and down, creating hills and valleys. Keep in mind, you will be applying the inks below the stencil. You can create a separate stencil for each mountain, which is something I did, but you can also create just one. I started with the sky for which I used the Antique Linen. For that you don't need the stencil, but what you can add is a circle stencil for the sun or moon. I was going to do that, but then I forgot. I applied the ink at the top of the panel and I stoped about a third way down. Next I used my first stencil and I placed it on the top of the panel. You need to place it in a way you can blend below it. I used the Vintage Photo ink and applied it below the stencil. I repeated this process for the Walnut Stain and twice with the Black Soot. I didn't plan to add the second set of maintains with the Black Soot, but I thought there was too much empty space. Therefore I added one more set of mountains using the Black Soot again. Normally I create these landscapes with watercolours and most of time I paint in trees or to be more precise silhouettes of the trees. I could not resist and decided to paint trees here as well. However, I had two issues. The Black Soot is too light. The re-inker could work, but I don't have it. And I was also worried that even using normal watercolours, I would reactivate the ink. Since Distress inks react with water. My solution was to use a black marker, something like a Sharpie. And I drew a bunch of pine trees at the bottom of the panel. Lastly I adhered the panel on top of a grey card base. I didn't add any greeting as I don't think the card needs it. But if you have a sentiment that fits, you can definitely use it. I hope you liked the cards and will try making them yourself. Make sure you check out my video on YouTube and give it a Like as well. The list of product is down below, where you can also find a few blog posts that I think you might enjoy. And if you have any questions, just drop me a line. VIDEO TUTORIALWatch the video below or on my YouTube Channel. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEPIN MEDid you like the card? I would love, if you pinned it to your board on Pinterest!
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