New Toy Tuesday: Distress Paints

Christy Ink & Paper, New Toy Tuesday, Reviews, Stamping Techniques 10 Comments

Surprise! A new Distress product. Distress Paint is the latest line of inky goodness from Tim Holtz, released just weeks ago at CHA2013. Like the ink pads, stains, and markers before them, these are conveniently packaged and expertly marketed paints designed to take your stamping to the next level. They are similar in packaging to Adirondak Paint Dabbers, but these …

New Toy Tuesday: Metallic Distress Stains

Christy Ink & Paper, New Toy Tuesday, Stamping Techniques, Tutorials 5 Comments

I don’t think I even knew these things existed until last week. Apparently they were released at Winter CHA this past year, but I was kinda busy having a baby right around then. It’s a shame I didn’t discover them sooner, because I kindof love them. Much like regular Distress Stains, these are water-based fluid inks that are great for …

Button Card with Pink Persimmon Stamps

Christy Copics, Ink & Paper 9 Comments

Pink Persimmon has a really cute line of ATC-sized stamps that look like vintage button cards. They’re great for ATCs, because those vintage cards are little works of art themselves, and it’s a lot of fun to try to recreate them. I stamped this one onto a sheet of gleaming white xpress-it blending card and colored it with Copics. Then …