Distress Ink Halloween Card + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today featuring one of the new stamps & coordinating dies – Halloween Friends.

I’m also going to share a simpler and faster way to create ink blended backgrounds and will talk a bit about ghost stamping! I filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the process from start to finish and explain everything in detail.

Watch the video above I Watch the video in HD on YouTube

Instead of using a piece of white paper to create my Distress ink blended backgrounds I’ve been using colored cardstock. The trick is simple, pick the color of cardstock to match the lightest color on your future ink blended background. So here, to create a background going from black to purple to light purple for this Halloween card, I used light purple cardstock as my base.

By the way, you’ll still be able to add water to your backgrounds, done on colored cardstock, to have Distress inks move and react like they usually do on white, and it will take you significantly less time (and ink!) to blend a background. It took me a little over 3 minutes to create a background for this card (while it usually takes no less than 10 minutes if I start on white).

Another trick I am sharing today is cutting critter silhouette out of black cardstock to use a shadow or create the illusion of having multiple critters on a card. This doesn’t work everytime and on every card, but it does look fantastic on those cards where the background is dark.

The last tip for today is to try using watermark embossing ink over the ink blended background to create ghost stamped images. Stamping with this kind of ink will create slightly darker transparent impressions that look like shadows or ghosts!

Pretty Pink Posh: Distress Ink Halloween Card + Video

Pretty Pink Posh: Butterfly Hexagon Shaker

Halloween Friends stamp set
Giving Thanks stamp set
Versamark: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Heat Tool: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Copic Markers: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

I hope you’ve enjoyed this card and video!

11 Comments

Another adorable card! Thank you, Yana! Love the idea of using colored cardstock for the background, I am going to have to try that! I also love the idea of creating the shadows with the black die cut!

A great idea Yana, to distress ink colour on coloured cs. The thought has never occurred to me. An awesome, etc card.

GREAT IDEA USING COLORED CARDSTOCK TO START YOUR BACKGROUND WITH. THE CUTEST CARD EVER.😀

What a great tip! Using the lightest color card stock of the combination of inks you will use will really speed along the process. I never thought of that! TFS! Love your card!