tim holtz distress marker magic...

I love to play & experiment 

with Ranger products...

sometimes things don't work 

like I thought they might...

and they get trashed...

and sometimes 

I happen upon something really cool...

today I'll share a cool discovery...

keep in mind that these new distress markers 

are a water based product...

meaning that they are meant for porous surfaces...

like paper, art parts, specialty stamping paper etc...

and don't work on slick surfaces...

or do they work on some???

I designed some of my 

 Blossom Bucket resin embellishments 

in neutral light colors, 

with the idea that they can be easily altered

  using tim's adirondack alcohol inks...

it works great...

and they look very cool...

so that's PLAN A...

but being a LOVER of all things distress, 

I HAD to try the distress inks on these pieces...

I used the distress inks with the blending tool, 

with not much success...

but I don't give up easily...

so...

I decided to try to alter these resin pieces with

the markers...

I took photos along the way &

 I am VERY HAPPY to report that 

they work like MAGIC!

here's my cream colored resin bird, 

right from the package...

nice flat back, for easy gluing, 

with lots of detail & dimension on the front...

he can be used AS IS...

or...

Here comes PLAN B...

 in the photo below, 

you'll see that I inked the body 

with the scattered straw marker & 

the wings with tumbled glass...

then dried him lightly with the heat tool...

don't over cook him!

you can also just let him sit in a sunny window to dry...

if you are a patient person...

now he looks like this...

then I added faded jeans to accent the wings...

and wild honey to add shading to the head & body...

and lightly dried him again...

now he looks like this..

then I added more shading 

with the rusty hinge marker...

dried that, 

then added saffron archival 

to accent the head & belly area...

& french ultramarine to darken the wings...

to apply the archival inks,

 I tapped a paper towel onto the pad, 

then tapped it on the areas 

that I wanted to highlight...

then I dried him again...

 looking good...

but I still wanted to use my stamps on him...

 I used my mini patchwork stamp 

with monarch orange archival 

to add the mini polka dots 

& then dried the ink...

I just tapped the area of the stamp 

that I wanted to use 

onto the orange pad, 

without using the acrylic block...

this makes it very easy to stamp tiny areas...

to add the finishing touch, 

I tapped the coffee archival pad 

directly on the wings

 to aged them & dried them...

and here's the end result...

a simple transformation, 

that took less than 5 minutes to complete...

hmmm...

I might add a bit of 

rock candy distress stickles to the wings...

that thought just popped in...

so no photo of that...

with lots of awesome distress markers

to choose from, 

the possibilities for colors and 

color combinations are endless...

the thing that I LOVE 

is that you can customize these embellishments 

to any color you need for your project...

we have more neutral embellishments 

that can be altered with these awesome markers...

or  PLAN A...

the alcohol inks...

now I want to alter these...

and these...

and THESE...

and for sure these...

but I have to pack for 

this weekends classes at

Everything Scrapbooks & Stamps,

before I can

make art!

wendy