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What do I need? Colour card with Candied Apple How to create your own
4 and Aged Mahogany Distress
All items at start plus spray stain. When dry, spritz with Aged grungy backing paper
You choice of cream patterned paper Mahogany oxide spray. When dry and
Olive Green Kraft core card happy with the deep colour, die-cut the
Red card Faceted Heart. Build the heart as per the Don’t have the right shade of paper for
Ground Espresso Archival inkpad manufacturer instructions. Attach just your card? Make your own!
Selection of text and floral stamps
Faceted heart die by Sizzix above the lace.
Lace stained with Tea Dye Distress spray stain Lay white card inside
Colour your Quote chips and a cardboard box to
A heart for my Valentine 5 computer generated words with a protect your surfaces.
Spray with Weathered
little Ground Espresso ink, then adhere to
Create a 12.5x17.8cm white card the top and bottom of the card front. Wood spray stain and
1 blank. Cut Kraft core card to t the spritz with a small
card front and sand to distress. Fix to the Use a Sizzix die to make this heart! amount of water.
card front.
Dry it with the heat
tool. Come back in again with the same
Cut patterned paper to 11x16.3cm colour and spray a little more, building
2 and distress the edges. Fix to the up the colour. Blot as necessary with
card front and draw some random zig zag
stitches to replicate stitching with a black paper towel.

ne liner.
Swap to Tumbled Glass
and Pumice Stone
Attach your stained lace just below
3 centre and trim the ends ush. Add spray stains and spray
the strips of jute across the lace and a here and there allowing
bow to the middle. the first two layers to
remain visible. Dry this
layer too and then add
some Stormy Sky. Have
the water spray bottle handy and soften
the colours by spraying and blotting after
each addition.

Finish with a spray of
Pumice Stone oxide
spray. When this
is dry (some things
are best left to dry
naturally and some
benefit from being
hurried up with the
heat tool), spritz with plain water,
allowing patterns to form.

This is the main method
for colouring papers
and you can use them
for backgrounds with
stamps on or for die-
cutting any shapes at
all. For neautral paper,
try Antique linen spray
stain and Old Paper oxide stain. Have fun
and create your own colour combinations
– but always write the recipes down!

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