Friday, March 23, 2012

Faux Leather with Distress Stains

Supplies: Perfect Ink Refresher, Distress Stain, Distress Ink, Perfect Pearls, Kraft Cardstock.

1.Take a piece of Kraft cardstock and Perfect Ink Refresher from Ranger.

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2. Spray the cardstock with the Ink Refresher. Rub it into the card stock.

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3. Crumple the cardstock up. Do this until you are happy with the creases.
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4. Flatten the cardstock on your work surface.

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5. Choose a Distress Stain...here I use Fired Brick
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6. Take your Distress Stain and completely cover the card stock.

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7. Dry slightly . Take your Distress Ink and add color to the ridges. I just lightly rubbed the pad directly to the paper.
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8.Take Perfect Pearls (here I used Heirloom Gold) and using your finger rub into the paper.
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1 comment:

Margie Higuchi said...

I haven't tried this technique yet - VERY COOL~! Definitely on my list to try...thanks for the great step outs! TGIF!!