So it's time for another E-Team blog hop! Are you ready??
Daisy has challenged the team to show you how we use Ranger Distress Stains this time!
Now, I have to confess I'd never used this product until I pulled out my 2 bottles to play around and decide what I would do for this challenge. We'll talk more about that in a minute! First let's take care of the blog hop business:
- Visit each blog and leave a comment for a chance to win 1 of 4 prizes.
- 3 winners will be randomly selected from the E-Team blogs to each win a $20 eclectic Paperie Gift Voucher.
- 1 winner will be selected from the eP blog to win a small assortment of Distress Stains and some more surprises!
- Comments will be taken Friday, July 29, to Sunday, July 31. 1 comment per blog, please. Winners will be posted Monday, August 1, on the eP blog.
- All Distress Stains at eclectic Paperie are 10% off!!
Ok, so let's see what I came up with.
First I followed the instructions to shake the bottle and then I swiped the color onto some white and some kraft cardstock scraps. Wow! I LOVE the smoothness of the application and the beautiful saturation of the color.
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At the bottom of the white cardstock, you can see where I swiped the Peeled Paint ink pad over the paper for comparison. See the difference?
I immediately thought it would be great to swipe over some patterned paper or other inked applications and use as a base for a sentiment.
Well, I had planned on making a framed layout for my friend Karen's birthday, so I decided it would be a great project to try out the Distressed Stains on. I started with a 12 x 12 piece of pale aqua cardstock. I spritzed it with Timberline and Bronze Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists. I clear embossed some small butterflies, stenciled a larger butterfly with dimensional paint and spritzed it all with a couple of colors of Ranger Distress reinkers mixed with water. I stamped a few other butterflies, words, and backgrounds too. Then I decided that I wanted the larger effortless beauty sentiment to be highlighted and used to "anchor" the layout. That's where I used the Peeled Paint Distress Stain to swipe a couple of times across the bottom left corner.
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I really love how the stain pops against all the softer glimmery colors, while still allowing some of the glimmer to show through. (Click on the photo to see it larger.) And it provides a smooth, even base over those colors for the sentiment.
Next I started my process of building the layers to create my cluster surrounding my photo, literally using several scraps from my stash. Speaking of which, after I took the first photo below, I couldn't find my photo!! I almost panicked until I turned the page over. Ha! There's my photo! How did it get stuck there?
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Here's a closeup of my flower arrangement.
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And here's the finished page. I used the Peeled Paint Distress Stain to color the grungeboard alpha letters too.
I did want to point out that I wanted to highlight that effortless beauty sentiment even more, so I stamped it again on a piece of the white cardstock swiped with Peeled Paint Distress Stain and popped it up over the original stamped sentiment.
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I did frame the layout and gave it to Karen last night. She loved it! Oh! I found that if I used a 12 x 12 deep frame made to hold a t-shirt (from Michael's), it's a perfect fit and protects the dimension of the page as well.
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So then I wanted to give the Weathered Wood Distress Stain equal time! I also wanted to see how well the stain worked over embossing. I stamped and clear embossed this ferris wheel image on a piece of vintage looking text patterned paper, then swiped the Distress Stain over it. After it dried, I swiped it a few more times to intensify the color. Pretty cool!
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If I was going to make a vintage looking card I needed my seam binding to look vintage as well. I laid the seam binding on my craft sheet and swiped the Distress Stain across it. Great saturation and a beautiful complimentary shade of the blue!
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Here's my simple vintage inspired card using the Weathered Wood Distress Stain to highlight the image and to dye the seam binding.
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I have one more little tip. You may already be aware of this little trick but I thought I'd show you anyway! When you have a sentiment that is too long to fit on a particular die cut like on the Sentiment Flag (from Lil' Inker Designs) above, you can mask off part of the sentiment using any kind of tape. Cover the part you DON'T want to stamp with tape, ink your sentiment, REMOVE the piece of tape, and stamp! That's what I did to make the one long sentiment fit on the flag above. With tape, inked:
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I also played a little more with the embossing and Distress Stains. I also stamped the ferris wheel after inking it with the Peeled Paint Distress Stain. I see all kinds of projects using these Distress Stains in the future for me!!
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Now it's time for you to move along and see the beautiful and inspiring projects the rest of the E-Team have created for you! Here's a list of those participating members:
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E-TEAM
Linda Ledbetter
Micki Harper
Sherry Cheever
Daisy Sparks (eP blog)
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Don't forget to leave one comment on each blog! And thank you all for taking the time to stop by today! See you next time!


BUTTERFLY LAYOUT
- Stamps: Vintage Butterflies, Large Polka Dot Backgrounder (CHF)
- Paper: 12 x 12 pale aqua, old olive, kraft, Mariposa Stack (DCWV), Fine & Dandy True Blue (My Mind's Eye)
- Ink: Ranger Distress reinkers - Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint; Ranger Distress ink pads - Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen; Versamark; Versafine - onyx black; Timberline & Bronze Glimmer Mists (Tattered Angels)
- Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
- Other: Ranger mini-misters, ink blending tools, butterfly stencil, Texture Magic Dimensional Paint (Delta), Ranger clear embossing powder, Heat-It Craft Tool, leaf mask (Heidi Swapp), oval punch, Grand On The Vine border die (Spellbinders), Prima flowers, Damask Die (QuicKutz), ribbon, butterfly punch & iron gate border punch (Martha Stewart), label stickers (7 Gypsies), dry wall mesh tape, corner rounder punch, Zva Creative crystals, plain mixed minis grungeboard (Tim Holtz Idea-ology), ribbon for flower center, Scor-Tape, foam mounting tape, Glue Dots, Quickie Glue Pen, glitter
FERRIS WHEEL CARD
- Stamps: ferris wheel (Michael's $1 bin), Pinwheels Stamp Set (Lil' Inker Designs with ag designs)
- Paper: kraft, black, Classic K Margo mat pad (K & Company)
- Ink: Ranger Distress Stain - Weathered Wood; Versamark, Versafine - onyx black
- Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
- Other: Ranger clear embossing powder, Heat-It Craft Tool, seam binding, vintage button, corner rounder punch, Sentiment Flag die (Lil' Inker Designs with ag designs), foam mounting tape