Merry & Bright…and a little Speckled Egg

Hello there and happy Wednesday!

I am back today with the 4th and final example card that I created for the new Distress Color, Speckled Egg. Tim introduced the new color a few weeks ago on his Facebook Live. Speckled Egg is such a beautiful color and is perfect for not only spring and summer..but also, winter!

I used it with a few other colors of the Distress Embossing Glazes by sprinkling it on some Distress Crackle Paste that had been applied through the Pines Layering Stencil THS096 with a palette knife. The colors combined together created an icy wintery look, perfect for Christmas!

So, let’s get to it!

I applied Distress Crackle Texture Paste onto a piece of Distress Watercolor Paper through the Pines Laying stencil using a palette knife.

I sprinkled the wet texture paste with Speckled Egg, Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, and Peeled Paint glazes. I used this same technique in the tutorial that I shared entitled “Use Your Wings”.

Simply sprinkle the wet texture paste with little pinches of the colors, then tap the underside of the paper to distribute the powders, then tap off any excess.

Set the paper aside until dry, then heat emboss with an embossing gun.

Here’s a little close-up of them before they were embossed.

and the crackly goodness after…yum, I love crackle!!

You might notice that the little fragments of trees that were on my paper are removed on my final card. I removed them after the trees had dried, but before they had been embossed. I simply used a exact-o knife and gently scrapped them off.

Viola! the perfect tree background!

The crackled pines background was spritzed with water then both the regular and oxide Speckled Egg sprays then dried. Then the paper was dipped into some Walnut Stain Ink that had been smooshed onto a craft mat and spritzed with water to create tiny droplets ink. The paper was then dried with a heat tool.

The greeting came from the Festive Overlay Stamp Set CMS357.

I stamped the phrase using both Speckled Egg and Peeled Paint Oxide Inks by using my stamp platform.

I added the peeled paint oxide ink onto the “may your season be” and the dots next to the “and”, then it was stamped onto the paper. I left the paper in place then cleaned off the stamp, then I added Speckled Egg oxide ink onto the rest of the phrase.

I removed the paper from the platform, then sprinkled the entire phrase with Clear Embossing Powder then embossed it with my embossing gun.

The phrase was then blended with Speckled Egg Distress Ink.

I cut a piece of paper that had been embossed with the 3D Lumber Texture Fade. The lumber paper was spritzed with both water and Walnut Stain Spray Stain.

I cut a snowflake out of watercolor paper using the Flurry 2 thinlet, spritzed it with Speckled Egg Spray Stain, then spritzed the snowflake with Resist Spray and sprinkled it with some Clear Rock Candy Glitter.

I spritzed a piece of watercolor paper with water and some Walnut Stain Spray Stain, dried it with my heat tool, then randomly stamped the Speckled Egg Oxide ink using the Perfect Plaid Background stamp CMS383. I spritzed the paper with water to activate the oxide, then dried it with my heat tool again.

I stitched around the pine layer of the card, layered them pieces together and adhered them with both foam tape and adhesive.

With that..my card was complete.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, have a great rest of your week!

Creatively Yours,

Stacy

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Gather Your Supplies-

Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous- Pines Layering Stencil THS096, Festive Overlays CMS357, Perfect PlaidsCMS383

Tim Holtz/Sizzix- Flurry 2, 3D Lumber Texture Fade, Vagabond

Tim Holtz/Tonic- Stamp Platform, Tonic Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Tonic Shears

Tim Holtz/Ranger-

Distress Sprays- Speckled Egg Spray Stain and Oxide Spray, Walnut Stain

Distress Ink- Speckled Egg Ink and Oxide, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint Oxide

Distress Embossing Glaze- Speckled Egg, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain

Distress Tools/Mediums- Distress Sprayer, Media Mat, Heat it Heat Tool, Blending Tools, Distress Collage Matte Medium, Foam Tape, Distress Watercolor Paper, Hickory Smoke Archival Ink

Other- Sewing Machine, Thread