Tim Holtz - Gradient - Grunge Technique - Hello Multilingual

Created: April 13, 2020
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All card are 4.25 x 5.5" landscape or portrait mode done on 110# Staples white cardstock. 

This was the basic technique... Press Distress stamp pad onto craft sheet. I used Distress Ink pads (Candy Apple, Crushed Olive, Salty Ocean). Misted with water and pressed 110# Staples white cardstock. Partially dried and pressed into remaining droplets on craft sheet. Repeated a couple more times, semi drying between pressing.

Trimmed down and wrote out the word "Hello" using a 3.8 Parallel pen and Sumi ink in a kind of bone hand. Added white gel pen dots.

This was the Grunge technique... Press Distress stamp pad onto craft sheet. I used Distress Ink pads (Worn Lipstick, Crushed Olive, Salty Ocean). Dragged the tip of the glass dropper from a Distress reinker "Vintage Photo". Misted with water and pressed 110# Staples white cardstock. Partially dried and pressed into remaining droplets on craft sheet. Repeated a couple more times, semi drying between pressing.

Trimmed down and wrote out the word "Hi There" using a 3.8 Parallel pen and Sumi ink in a kind of bone hand. Added white Prisma colored pencil highlight and graphite shading.

This was my 1st attempt at the Grunge technique... I got larger blobs than I had wanted, but then after looking at it for a while I started to like it... Press Distress stamp pad onto craft sheet. I used Distress Ink pads (Worn Lipstick, Crushed Olive, Salty Ocean). Dragged the tip of the glass dropper from a Distress reinker "Vintage Photo". Misted with water and pressed 110# Staples white cardstock. Partially dried and pressed into remaining droplets on craft sheet. Repeated a couple more times, semi drying between pressing.

Trimmed down and wrote out the word "Namaskar" using a 3.8 Parallel pen and Sumi ink in a kind of Foundational hand. Edged the trimmed down piece with a black bullet tip Zig marker.

This was my 2nd attempt at the Grunge technique... I got a bit better but still some larger blobs than I had wanted. Press Distress stamp pad onto craft sheet. I used Distress Ink pads (Worn Lipstick, Crushed Olive, Salty Ocean). Dragged the tip of the glass dropper from a Distress reinker "Vintage Photo". Misted with water and pressed 110# Staples white cardstock. Partially dried and pressed into remaining droplets on craft sheet. Repeated a couple more times, semi drying between pressing.

Trimmed down and wrote out the word "La Orna" using a 3.8 Parallel pen and Sumi ink in a kind of Italic hand. Edged the trimmed down piece with a black bullet tip Zig marker.

This was the Gradient technique... Spray Distress ink onto craft sheet. I used Distress Oxide Ink "Ground Espresso" (didn't have any regular sprays...) Misted my c/p watercolor paper (rougher side) with water. Tapped my brayer (I used a large one for this piece) into the ink then brayered onto my paper. Repeated and also tapped into the droplets, drying between layers. I didn't like the results so set it aside... Then came back and brayered some "Salty Ocean".

Trimmed down and wrote out the word "Hola" using a 6.0 Parallel pen and Sumi ink. Added gold gel pen outline. Hit the edges with a Krylon gold leafing pen.

This was the Gradient technique... Spray Distress ink onto craft sheet. I used Distress Oxide Ink "Ground Espresso" (didn't have any regular sprays...) Misted my 110# Staples white cardstock with water. Tapped my brayer (I used a small one for this piece) into the ink then brayered onto my paper. Repeated to cover the whole piece of paper. Tapped into the droplets, drying between layers. Spattered some Gansai Tambi "Starry Colors" gold.

Trimmed down and wrote out the word "Yasou" using a 6.0 Parallel pen and Sumi ink. Added white gel pen highlight.