Welcome back to our distress week. I have lots of fun things to share today, with a variety of distressing styles and TWO videos!

First, how about a little fun?  Remember that we recently celebrated our 1st anniversary of this blog?  And that Hero has been around for 35 years as of this year?  Well, a few weeks ago at Ranger U, I ran into two of our favorite industry friends - Tim Holtz and Claudine Hellmuth.  We had fun putting together this “Happy Birthday, Hero Arts” message…

Next, let’s get distressing!

I thought I would share a video showing some fun techniques to get a distressed look.  This card features distressing and stamping on Hero Arts flowers and a fun resist method with Distress Inks.  No worries - it is simple and addictive.  Just check out this video…

Card by Jennifer McGuire
Supplies:

• Heart Flourish
• NEW Clear Design Friends (greeting)
  
• NEW Designer Woodgrain (background)
  
• Walnut Ink, Tattered Rose, Scattered Straw and Tea Dye Distress Inks
• Versamark Ink and White Embossing Powder
• Soft Sand Shadow Ink
  
• Hero Arts Meadow Flowers and Clear Buttons
• Cream Notecard
  
• Other: Fiskars corner rounder, vintage textbook paper, jute, office tag

Next, how about an example of distressing using bright colors?  While at a stamping retreat this weekend, all of my friends joined in on the fun of distress with me. Jana Millen created this beautiful card, and it is proof that distressing can be colorful.  She softened all the edges of the card with colored Distress Ink, which gives it a soft and inviting look.  I love how she even added Distress Embossing Powder to the pearls to change their look, too.

Card by Jana Millen
Supplies:

• Heart Flourish
• NEW Mother’s Day (greeting)
  
• Pearls
• Hero Arts Notecards
• Diamond Stickles (rubbed on butterfly wings)
  
• Broken China Distress Ink (inking on edges of card),  Shabby Shutters Distress Ink, Staz-On Black Ink and Versamark (to emboss pearls and flourish)
• Other: Cuttlebug embossing (dot background), Ranger Distress Embossing Powder (on pearls), Ranger Embossing Powder (on flourish), Bazzill cardstock (butterfly), Paper Studio Butterfly Punch, Ranger Inkssentials Foam Ink Blending Tool

Distressing isn’t just for cardmaking.  Here is a great layout by Nichol Magouirk.  Isn’t it so soft and pretty?  I love that she individualized each die cut shape by stamping on them with Design Block stamps and a bit of distress inking…

Layout by Nichol Magouirk
Supplies:

• Clear Design Fancy Friendship
• Clear Design Hugs and Hearts
• DesignBlock: Old Letter Writing
• DesignBlock: Four Leaf Grid
• NEW Dots and Flowers (on the big heart)
  
• NEW Dot Flourish Border (on the heart on the right)
  
• Walnut Stain Distress Ink, Baby Blue Shadow Ink and Memories Black Ink
• Other: Making Memories patterned papers, American Crafts ribbon, buttons, string, Quickutz Silhouette die cutting machine, brad
  

I hope our examples are showing that there are many ways to distress.  Be sure to come back tomorrow for another video and more fun…

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