TFJB Inspiration Ave: Distress Paints + Brushstroke Flowers, Mini = A Beautiful Card

Friday, July 28, 2023

Distress Paints + Brushstroke Flowers, Mini = A Beautiful Card

Hello and welcome back to TFJB Inspiration Ave. Today we are creating to the theme “distressed about paint”.

For my project today I have decided to create a card with a distress paint and some fun Sizzix florals. For process video click here.

Used: Distressed paint Brushed Pewter, Squeezed Lemonade, Picket Fence, Kitch Flamingo, Shaded Lilac, Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio, Distress Archival Black Soot, Idea-ology Ephemera and Bouquet Stems and CMS 430 Floral Outlines and Sizzix Brushstroke Minis.

To start off this card project, I’ve pulled in some of my favourite pastel distress colours: Squeezed Lemonade, Picket Fence, Kitch Flamingo, Shaded Lilac, Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio plus a piece of Mixed Media paper.

To start, I decided to use the classic Distress Paint squish technique. Here on the Media Craft Mat I added paint droplets and then spritzed them with water from the Distress Sprayer.

Below are the results from my first swipe with the Mixed Media paper through the paint. I found that adding a dash of Picket Fence helped create some more swirly effects on the paper.

I repeated the swipe, dip and dry techniques several times before the background was completed. For drying I use the Ranger Heat tool.

To finish off the background, I stamped with some Distress Paint Brushed Pewter, using the stamp set Floral Outline CMS430. For stamping, I placed a small amount of Distress Paint directly onto the mat and then I tapped the stamp gently through. This could also be done by brayering paint on with a brayer.

Below are the finished stamping results for the background.

Next I die cut some Brushstroke Flower Minis from Distress Watercolour Cardstock with a layer of double-sided adhesive on the back.

I then coloured the die cut pieces with Distress Reinkers and a Ranger water brush.

Next, I created a landing spot for the main focal point which happens to be a fancy tea cup. I used a larger piece of Idea-ology Ephemera and into the edges with some Distress Black Soot Archival Ink. I also popped the tea cup up in the centre of this pretty butterfly paper with a few foam squares.

Then I added in all of the die cut florals around the tea cup.

After adding the die cut Florals, I noticed that I still had a few spaces that needed filling. So to cover up those gaps, I added some flowers from Idea-ology Bouquet. These I altered with some limited edition seasonal Distress Mica Spray Stains Harvest Moon, Shiny Bauble and Cocktail Party.