Festively Distressed

Still feeling festive? We hope so! Dreamweaver and Ranger still have two weeks left of our Festively Distressed collaboration, and we are full of distressing ideas...Tim Holtz' Distress Powder ideas, that is. Mixed with our fabulous line of stencil designs and exciting products, your creativity will know no bounds! If you missed the first two weeks, start HERE and HERE!


For our postings this week and next, we are offering you the opportunity to win one of two prize packages, perfectly coordinated for your holiday crafting. Simply leave a comment on each of our Dream Team's posts, and YOU could be one of two randomly selected winners!

The Dream Team have been challenged for the month of November to create something CAS (clean and simple) for the holidays. The extra challenge is mixing the Distress Powders in for the collaboration with Ranger. Think that it's possible? Well...let's see...


Here's what I came up with:

I am a firm believer of, if it doesn't look right, add more to it!!  That's what happened with my card this week.

I started with LJ923 Mittens.   Soap the back of it with Dreamweaver Coconut Oil Soap.  Cut a piece of Double sided tape the size of the stencil.  Pull off one side of the protective paper and place tape on a piece of cardstock.  Peal off the other protective paper and place the stencil over the top.

I then filled in the mittens and ties with Milled Lavender Distress Powder.  Fill in the mitten cuffs with Tattered Rose Distress Powder.  Press gently to make sure the powder covers all open areas.  Tap off excess.  Pull off the stencil and cover the remaining tape area with Old Paper Distress Powder, tap off excess.  Heat until powder is melted.

Well the powders on the mittens lightened up quite a bit, so they were hard to see in the background.

So next I painted different areas on the mittens with embossing ink and added Dusty Concord Distress Powder.  When heating this time it bubbled up to add more texture.  Then paint the strings with embossing ink and cover with Black Soot Distress Powder.  Heat (that one bubbled too!). 

Wasn't quite right so I masked off the mitten cuffs and added some Barn Door Distress ink.   Liked it so added Chipped Sapphire to the mittens.   Not feeling the result, I placed the stencil back over the image and applied Translucent Paste.  I didn't dry totally transparent leaving a milky finish to some of the open areas.

LOVE IT!  The finished result reminded me of coming in from outside on a winter day with snow stuck to your mittens then hanging them in the laundry room to dry.


So tell me what you think in your comment below before heading over to the rest of the Dream Team posts:

Dream It Up! Ranger Ink Blog

Cyndi Bundy

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Kristi Van Doren

Laura Drahozal

Terrece Siddoway

Lee Kellogg

Liz Martin

Cherylynn Moser

Wendy Jordan

The Ranger blog is offering another amazing prize opportunity, just for playing along with the Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Powders and Dreamweaver Stencils and linking your creation on the Ranger blog. You can find more details HERE.

We hope that you have been inspired by our creations, and will continue to follow the Dream Team through the Dream It Up! blog as well as to like us on our Facebook page. We really encourage you to play along with our monthly challenges for more prize opportunities and creative fun!