Like many crafters I love my Tim Holtz Distress Inks for papercrafting and I have collected quite a few from the various ranges.I love Distress Inks because they are great for stamping but also painting with if you use a water brush.
The problem however with the inks is that you cannot get a true colour representation from the lid of the ink pad. To rectify this, I decided to make a colour swatch which I will keep with my inks and can reference when stamping but something that I could also add to as I purchase more inks - which I most definitely will! The colours all together just look so pretty!
To make a colour swatch like this one you will need:
- Distress Inks
- Distress Inks Blending Tool
- Blending mat
- Small rubber stamp
- White stamping card
- Shaped punch
- Hole Punch
- Ribbon
- Pen
1. First of all punch out the shape of your choice in the white stamping card for how ever many inks you have.
2. Using the blending sheet and the blending tool ink the card shapes making it darker around the edges and gradually lighter in the centre so that you can see the range of colour shades you can create with one ink pad.
3. Using the rubber stamp, stamp the image in the centre of each colour swatch so that you can see what a stamp in each colour will look like.
5. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for each ink that you own.
6. Punch a hole in the corner of each shape.
7. Arrange the colours into groups - eg all the blues, greens etc and then tie a ribbon through to create a loop. Alternatively you could add the cards to a metal ring but I think a pretty purple ribbon is the best option!
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