Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Use A Distressing Technique

Welcome to the monthly Let's Craft Together Blog Hop, thanks for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship through our love of stamping and our admiration of each other's style of crafting. 

The challenge this month it was my turn to choose the theme for the challenge and I thought it would be fun to create a project using distressing techniques. I used to do this style of card all the time, but not so much recently.

I chose the gorgeous Delicate Dreams DSP as the starting point of my card, then added a number of different distressing techniques.  Firstly I spritzed the smaller piece of DSP and then crumpled it up in a ball, flattened it out and kept doing this until it was well and truly distressed some of the edges tore a bit more than I had planned but it was a trust the process moment! I let it dry well and then added Crumb Cake ink to the edges and across the centre using a Blending Brush, accentuating the crumpled look. I also added Crumb Cake to the blue floral layer after running the blade of my scissors along the edge to give it an aged look. Another technique I used was to splatter Crumb Cake ink across the blue floral DSP to make it look stained.  

Finally I created a faux suede look for the sentiment banner by running the banner over my bone folder to really break down the fibres so that the cardstock splits and can be torn in half, leaving the slightly fuzzy side showing which creates the suede look. Again I further distressed the edges with Crumb Cake ink and stamped my sentiment directly onto the banner, this gave a slightly blurred look which was perfect for the distressed feel of the card. I finished the card off with some Pressed Flower Motifs embellishments, with their aged look they were perfect for this card. 

I hope you enjoy hoping around the other design team members to see which distressing techniques they have used on their projects this month.  If you can think of any others that I haven't used please let me know in the comments below. 

Happy Stamping

Monique