Distressed Texture Tag Tutorial

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying summer! Anton took part in a crafts for kids summer activity last week and loved it. Leo has discovered that our red currants are starting to ripen and I bet he will soon have eaten all of them. I am enjoying the light evenings, it hardly gets dark at all this time of the year.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, we have a Distress It theme. Everyone's favourite. Don't miss the fantastic project by our guest designer Beulah Bee.

I, of course, love to distress, so this challenge was almost too broad for me. Finally, I decided to do a chunky tag, and focus mainly on distressing idea-ology ephemera and embellishment pieces. By altering printed papers, ephemera, and embellishments, you can make them more your own and you can make them fit your project. It is also lots of fun. 

My tag started out as an ephemera card from Tim's Collector Ephemera pack. I really like the various papers in this pack. I used the We R Memory Keepers Angle Corner Chomper to cut the angles at the top (I love this tool), and my trusty old Crop-a-dile to cut the hole.

Smear a little gesso on the tag to tone it down.

Stamp a train (or something else), on the tag, once the gesso is dry.

Sand the edges and scratch into the tag with a scratch tool. Ink the tag and you will see that the ink becomes much darker in those areas where you sanded and scratched. The reason for this is that you removed some of the glossy surface of the paper. You can wipe unwanted ink off from the rest of the tag, if you want to.

Paint the train with Hickory Smoke and the smoke with Picket Fence.

I did some more stamping on the tag, sentiments, tickets, stars and arrows. Apply Opaque Crackle paste through the Linen and Industrial stencil on both the larger and the smaller tag. Leave to dry and cracks will appear.

Add color to the crackles with Distress Ink.

Ink a ruler with Ground Espresso. Sand a Quote Chip slightly and ink with Mermaid Lagoon and Ground Espresso.

I inked a little Paper Doll girl slightly and placed her on top of the train with a tiny piece of cheese cloth behind. The mirrored heart was colored with alcohol ink.

The smaller tag was pretty heavily distressed. I added some ink to the boy and his dog and placed another piece of ephemera behind the tag, as well as some more cheese cloth.

The background looks pretty different from what it did when I started, but you can still see some of the original text through all the distressing and stamping.

I used sentiments from the Clippings stickers and had such fun picking some good ones out that fitted with the theme of my tag. I really like these stickers and all the different words and sentiments. The Gumdrop was colored with alcohol ink and fits right into a Charmed Finding.

I hope you will join us this week in our Distress It challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for visiting today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Idea-ology COLLECTOR Ephemera	Tim Holtz Idea-ology PAPER DOLLS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CLIPPINGS	Tim Holtz TRAVEL WAYS	Tim Holtz NOBLE GENT
Tim Holtz CORRESPONDENCE	Tim Holtz LINEN	Tim HoltzStencil INDUSTRIAL	TIm Holtz GUMDROPS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHARMED Findings
Tim Holtz Idea-ology MIRRORED HEARTS	Tim Holtz QUOTE CHIPS	Tim Holtz RULER PIECES	Tim Holtz Idea-ology LINEN RIBBON	Tim Holtz Ephemera Pack EXPEDITION
Tim Holtz SNIPPETS Ephemera	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink TURQUOISE Adirondack Ranger	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink POPPYFIELD Adirondack Ranger	Ranger TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS Mixed Media Palette	Tim Holtz Distress Ink MERMAID LAGOON
Tim Holtz Distress Ink GROUND ESPRESSO	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE OPAQUE CRACKLE	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE
We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER Angle	Tim Holtz TINY ATTACHER Stapler	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER	Tim Holtz Tonic CRAFT SCRATCHER	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5	Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS	Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE
Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET

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