tim holtz distress saltwater taffy: playing with paint

Hello creative friends! I have another make with the newest Tim Holtz Distress Color, Saltwater Taffy. This one seemed to be a favorite, and was super easy to make, although it would be impossible to recreate in the same exact way. I think my next approach to this technique will involve painting several panels like this at once. 

To create this card, I cut a panel of of Distress White Heavystock and painted over it with Saltwater Taffy Distress paint. Then I dried with a heat tool. If you have not used this paint before, you should know that once your dry it with your heat tool, it is permanent and will not re-react with water or other paint colors. Then I added some more layers to the paint. First I added my warm colors (Mustard Seed, Fired Brick) and painted them on loosely with my paint brush in different areas. If there was an area of too much color, I gave it a little spray with water using my Distress Sprayer. Once that layer was dried with my heat tool, then I added a layer of cool colors (Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Seedless Preserves). You can keep building alternating layers until you get a result you like. 

Once the panel was completely dry, I cut the Bold Text 1 Make a WIsh sentiment out and then put the letters back in and placed some tape across the back to hold them in. For me, this was the easiest way to add the white letters. I cut the Bold Text 1 sentiment out of white cardstock, and simply adhered them to the outline I had already cut. That’s it, super fun to create and simple! 

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