My First Distressed Ink Coloring and a Card for Laughs!

I so love all the cards that I see on blogs that are colored with Ranger Distressed Inks. I finally decided this was something I needed to try myself. I slapped my hand twice when it reached for my Copics last night while starting this Hanglar image. I don't have all the Ranger Distressed Inks, but pulled out what I had dug for my water brush and took a deep breath. I see that this does take a lot of practice, but for my first try I am ok with how it turned out. I really see that I need to work on less ink. Mine turned out a little darker, I was really going for a lighter look. After I finished I remembered a bunch of bottles of distressing ink from Fiber Scraps that I purchased at a Scrap booking Conference, 18 colors I think. Different brand but I am sure it would work the same right? I may try that with the Rangers, as my 6 colors of Rangers were not enough choice for me. Then again I may just get some more Rangers too ;0)

For my layout I used this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge. Loved the sketch, and thought it would work well with my image I had colored. I used a yellow and sage green Core'dinations card stock for my card, with a pattern paper from Fancy Pants. I sanded both of the card stocks to match the distressed pattern. My image is cut with my Nestibilities petite ovals. I love the wide ribbon as the band behind the oval. And then in my squares I used jewelry spacers with yellow mini brads. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and is punched out with a Fiskar's squeeze punch, love that it is the perfect size for these round stamps.

I do have a second card today. I made this one a few days ago. I found some stamps from Rubbernecker stamps that I had never used. I ordered them months ago... honestly I can't even remember when. Feeling guilty that they had never seen ink, I decided to have some fun with them. One thing you have to realize, all the pieces are separate stamps. So you can do a lot of different things with them. And I love the the sentiment! LOL! "Behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry". So true... don't you think. And today I have more than one basket full! Everything is colored with my Copics and cut out. I wanted to create a room feel so I found a scrap of pattern paper that looked like wall paper, then I used a piece of light brown kraft paper stamped with a wood background stamp, then rubbed with a couple different colors of brown ink. I attached all the pieces.

Oh and let me tell you with out my Fiskars fingertip craft knife I would have never been able to cut out the iron, spray bottle, soap box and softener bottle! I wanted the washing machine window to look like glass so I cut a circle out of a transparency and attached over it. Shame you can't see that in the photographs.

I hope this card gives you a giggle as it did me!
Well it is cloudy and drizzling here today, we need some real rain not this yucky stuff. Oh well will cool things off a bit and we do have a chance of rain later in the week. Guess I had better go and sort my dirty laundry and get it done -

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit me, I really do appreciate each visit! Hope you have a great Monday-

HUGs and -