Direct to Paper Branched Out – Tutorial #252

I love Tim Holtz Distress Inks and can spend hours whiling away smearing ink on card stock and creating backgrounds for silhouette images.  Here is one I put together this morning.  I hope this tutorial inspires you to smear some ink today.  🙂

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Started with a 4″ square piece of Whisper White card stock.  Used the edge of the Broken China Distress ink pad and smeared it across the card stock.  This technique is called “Direct to Paper”.

Added Faded Jeans Distress ink with the corner of the pad.

Added a little bit of Brushed Corduroy using the corner of the pad.

Added Black Soot Distress ink using the edge of the pad and a light touch.

Added Weathered Wood Distress ink using the edge of the pad in the sky area of the card stock.

Added Scattered Straw Distress ink using the edge of the pad in the sky area of the card stock.

Stamped the Tree from the Stampin’ Up Branched Out Set with Basic Black ink.

Stamped the leaf stamp from the Branched Out set with Old Olive ink on the left side of the tree.

Added some more leaves with Handsome Hunter ink in the middle of the tree.

Stamped some more leaves with Basic Black ink on the right side of the tree.

Put some highlights in the leaves on the left side of the tree, out lined the left side of the trunk and added a few grasses at the base of the tree with a white gel pen.

Teamed the main image panel up with a few card stock panels and left off embellishments.  Some times embellishments take from your design instead of adding to.  I felt that was the case with this piece today.

This is the finished card measuring 5.25″ square.

Until my next post. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

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Michelle

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