Distress Mixology No. 3 Inspiration - Gentlemen

Hello friends! Today I’m sharing what I created using the Distress Mixology No. 3 palette. It’s a beautiful combination of greens and purples. The Distress colors I used are Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves and Villianous Potion. If you want to see the results of all the experiemnts I completed using this combination, see my blog pot here.

I find that using these color palette combinations with dies are my favorite way to come up with something to create. I could use them as backgrounds but it’s a bit more challenging and fun to see what I can come up with using dies. I usually create a quick background that coordinates with the dies I’ve cut and that’s exactly what I did for this project. See below for a full tutorial.

By creating a background using the lighter colors of the palette, Bundled Sage and Shabby Shutters, I was able to cut the gentlemen out of my experiement result cardstock pieces making them pop against the background. I’ll show you how I put it all together. Let’s being.

I chose to make a background using Bundled Sage and Shabby Shutter Distress Spray Stains and Oxides. This created a light background that made the die cut pieces pop. For the stamped images I used Villianous Potion, Peeled Paint, Seedless Preserves and Forest Moss Distress Inks. I chose to use the Distress Inks because as I was creating the background I didn’t care if the images became a little distored if they were hit with water, I actually l like that. If you want your images to stay clear and crisp, use Distress Archival Inks instead.

I chose Stampers Anonymous stamp sets Eccentric (CSM448) and The Inspector (CMS465) for my background images.

I chose various images from the two stamp sets and stamped them in different ink colors in random areas.

I added a bit of stenciling between the stamped images. I didn’t want the stenciling to cover any of the stamps so I created a barrier using torn notebook paper. By tearing the edges of the notebook paper before laying them on top of my background, I was able to get more of an organic look instead of one where the stencils turned out with straight lines along the edges.

I followed the same process for all the stenciling that I wanted to apply to the background.

After finishing all the stenciling, I allowed the background to completely dry before moving on to the next step.

When the grit paste used for the stenciling was completely dry, I applied Black Soot Distress Crayon pigment between the pattern of the stencil and smoothed it out with a water brush.

To create the gentlemen, I cut two of them from a couple of the Distress Mixology No. 3 experiement pieces and the third from black cardstock. I inked on a script image to all three using Picket Fence Distress Ink and Black Soot Distress Archival Ink.

To finish the card, I adhered the gentlemen to the center bottom of the card front. The gentleman cut out of black cardstock was adhered using 3D foam pieces to give some dimension. I added a few pieces of Idea-ology, a bit of burlap string and a sentiment to finish it off.

I hope you enjoyed Distress Mixology No. 3’s inspiration. If you’re following along and creating something with these color palettes, I’d love to hear from you!

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