Friday Focus - Seasonal Distress Stains

Hi, it's Sue here and for today's Friday Focus I've been playing with the fabulous Seasonal Distress Stains! If you've used the Distress Inks in these colours you'll know how gorgeous and vibrant they are, and the Distress Stains are just as wonderful !

I've used the jumbo tags from Linda's Funkie Junkie store, these tags are great as they give you so much more space to play with and the quality of the card is excellent. I love blues and greens so decided to use these colours from the Seasonal Distress Stains.

I applied the different colours to the tag and I also added some Picket Fence, then spritzed it with water and let the colours run into each other.

I then used a Dylusions stencil and Peacock Feathers Distress Stains and stencilled the pattern with the stains.

I wasn't sure if it would work, but I'm quite pleased with the result !

I did some doodling around the stencilling and also blended some Seasonal Distress Inks around the tag. They blend so beautifully with the stains !

I did a little more stencilling, this time using Salty Ocean Distress Ink.

I then took some paper flowers and coloured some completely with Distress Stains and some I added splodges of Distress Stain and then spritzed with water and let the ink marble into the flower.

I used seam binding for the ribbon and different colours of Distress Stain.

Spritzed it with water and let the stains blend with one another.

This is the finished tag, I did some stamping over the background and some faux stitching around the edge. I die cut the bird cage coloured it with Distress Stains and stamped over it and added some Liquid Pearls. The little bird is made from shrink plastic and the little peg has been coloured using Distress Stains.

Here's another tag, this time using the reds, yellows and oranges, there's even some Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves in there !

I hope you've enjoyed this Friday Focus and remember that the Seasonal Distress Stains will have 15% off in Linda's Funkie Junkie Boutique for one week.