Thursday, May 5, 2016

Distress Crayon Texture Tutorial

Hi and welcome!! Today I have an art journal tutorial to share with you, made with Darkroom Door stamps, and I discovered a fun texture technique with Tim Holtz Distress Crayons by mistake too, I am calling it the 'accidental paper towel technique'. 

 
Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
I used the wonderful Capture Life set for this page in my large Dylusions journal. This could just as well have been a scrapbooking page. I mix my scrapbooking and art journaling a bit, depending on the theme and what I feel like. At first, I was just going to include just the one newer photo, but then I got the idea of stamping a film strip on acetate and using a bunch of old photos too, since I thought it fit so well with the great sentiment stamp. I also used some other stamps by Darkroom Door.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
My page was first coated with gesso and when that was dry, I scribbled a generous amount of Distress Crayons on top.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
Mist with water to blend the colours.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
The background technique was a fun discovery and totally unplanned. I was planning to mist the background and blend the colours with a paint brush. But I had forgotten to take the first step photo, so after misting some water, I took a roll of paper towels, to just remove the water for the photo. The paper towel roll gave a really cool texture to the background. Roll a roll of paper towels over the misted background. Repeat with more water, if needed.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
Stamp the background with the two sentiment stamps and Jet Black ink.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
Stamp randomly with French Script and the circular stamp from the Photography set. Use second and third generation stamping (stamp on a piece of scrap paper first). 

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
Stamp the Film Frame and the smaller frame from Photography on acetate.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
Distress with Adirondack alcohol ink. I later removed some of the ink, so that there wouldn’t be too much ink over the photos, but mainly around the edges.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
Stamp one of the vintage cameras From Capture Life and three labels from Photography on Mixed Media cardstock and cut out. Ink with Antique Linen and Ground Espresso.

Adhere small photos behind the frames, my photos didn’t quite fill the frames, but I let it be like that since I liked that you could see some of the background. 

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
I was really happy with the texture created with the accidental paper towel technique. 

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
The vintage camera stamps from Capture Life are wonderful. There is a second one too, with a large external flash.

Layers of ink - Distress Crayon Texture Capture Life Journal Tutorial by Anna-Karin, with stamps by Darkroom Door
I also used a small piece of Tim Holtz idea-ology Film Strip Ribbon and a Small Talk sentiment.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a lovely weekend!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Stamps: Darkroom Door: Film Strip frame

8 comments:

  1. Love your happy mistake....
    and the finished project!

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  2. WOW, an other great inspiring project: pinned!

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  3. Beautiful! I love this page, it wpuld be a great design for anyone's photos. Even though there are large stamps used, the photos still stand out. Neat technique with the Distress Crayons, too.

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  4. I still haven't had a chance to experiment with the crayons, so it's great to see this inspiration. Love the vivid colours setting off the great b&w photography elements.
    Alison x

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