Distress Techniques Book

A couple of weeks ago I spent a lovely day at Art From The Heart with pal Catherine on the 'Distress Techniques' workshop run by the amazingly talented Kaz Hall. What a day!

I have about 7 pads of distress ink and know there's lots you can do with them as a medium but don't really do that much with them....so an ideal workshop to attend :)

We made this lovely tag book using a different technique on each one. On the reverse I've stuck the instructions Kaz gave us which outlines how to achieve each effect - good for future reference.

I do get rather over-excited at workshops as I only get to attend a couple a year. So I'm very grateful to Sandra who was sitting opposite and noticed that the example tag book was in 'threes' so said she was only changing colour combo every three tags. Genius. Mine may have been a bit all over the place if she hadn't said that.

So, onto the book. Here's the finished article. I added the charm and links when I got home, plus finished off the last set of heat embossed tags as we didn't get that far in the class.

**Disclaimer: I have no idea why some of the photos are in random orientations and I can't seem to fix it!**

THE FULL BOOK AND COVER:

THE INK TECHNIQUE TAGS:

THE DISTRESS PAINT TAGS:

PLAYING WITH THE STAINS:

AND FINALLY INKS AND HEAT EMBOSSING:

(the green one has distress embossing powders, the others use translucent lilac shimmer embossing powders)

(a close up - tag was inked, then embossed with the lilac shimmer but you could also use clear, then inked around the edge on top once dry)