CC 102 Week 1 More Distress Paint Techniques

I haven't had time to post lately due to an illness in the family but am going to get caught up over the next couple of days.  I've really enjoyed this class each time I have had to work on it.  I am starting to warm up to the distress paint.

Marbling Technique

To create this type of look apply various Distress Paints to a craft sheet and spritz with water.  Swipe your tag through the paint until covered.  Spritz tag with water to blend and marble. Dry with a heat tool.  I probably would try to break up the Frayed Burlap area a bit more if I did this again but it displays the technique.

Colored Crackle Technique

To create this look paint Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint onto image die cut from grunge paper.  After it is dry apply Distress Paint to the surface.  The paint provides a matte crackle finish as opposed to a shiny crackle created with distress ink.  I'm not a huge fan of this technique because it always seems to make the die cut curl.  They never lay flat.

Altered Surface Technique

Several things happening on this tag but the focus of this technique is to alter a surface using the paint.  The "Adventure" is a plastic word that has had Distress Paint applied to it.  If you want your distressing to be more prominent then you should paint the entire surface with a light color and then add the other colors.  I didn't.  The scribbles in the background are also done with distress paint.  The image is stamped with ink.  And naturally, the colored background is Distress Ink swiped on with a blending tool.

Eroded Metal Technique

This one is a bit tricky but looks pretty cool.  Apply various colors of Distress Paint to a tag.  Blend it with a blending tool.  I spritzed my tag with water a bit too so that the paints would move better.  Dry the tag.  Apply a layer of Metallic Distress Paint over the entire tag and spritz with water.  Start drying until some but not all areas are set.  Place a paper towel over the top of the tag, press down and quickly lift up.  This should remove the metallic paint in several areas allowing the color to show through.  Make sure you have all of your stuff ready to go because the paint dries quickly and you could wind up with a paper towel coated tag.

Stamping Resist Technique

You won't really understand why by looking at this picture but I have fallen in love with this technique. It's going to be a future blog post of it's own.  To create this look you apply paint directly to a stamp.  It works really well with detailed stamps.  My first stamping is in white at the top of the tag.  I had too much paint on the stamp so it's blurry.  The second stamping is in white at the bottom of the tag and worked better. I then applied red, blue, and light brown inks to the tag with a blending tool.  The image is stamped in black Archival ink and is the same stamp that I used for the background.  This one looks a little wonky but trust me this is a great technique.

Industrial Technique

Apply foil tape to a tag and run through an embossing machine.  Swipe Black Soot Distress Ink over the surface and then wipe off/polish the surface.  The paint will remain in the crevices to highlight them.

That's it for Creative Chemistry 102 Week 1 techniques.

Enjoy playtime!

-R