Distress Watercolor Pencil ATC's by Cheiron Brandon

In this tutorial, Cheiron Brandon teaches you many techniques using the new Distress Watercolor Pencils to create these colorful ATCs.

  • Materials
  • Instructions

Tim Holtz Distress® Watercolor Pencils: Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot
Tim Holtz Distress® Ink Pad: Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot 
Tim Holtz Distress® Mini Archival Ink™ Kit #1: Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, and Spiced Marmalade 
Tim Holtz Distress® Watercolor Cardstock 
Tim Holtz Distress® Detailer Waterbrush  
Tim Holtz Distress® Sprayer  
Ranger Artist Brushes  
Ranger Heat It Craft Tool   
Tim Holtz® by Stampers Anonymous Stamps: CMS394 Tiny Text 
 
Other: 
Tim Holtz® by Stampers Anonymous Stamps: CMS227 Life Quotes, CMS294 Flutter
Foam Tape 
 
Instructions

Hello there, crafty friends. It’s Cheiron Brandon back with another tutorial for you. This month I am thrilled to share a project with a brand new product that I have been loving, the new Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils. Today I am going to share a fun project with you that allows us to create with these pencils in a multitude of ways. We will create a trio of ATCs with coloring, outlining, mark making, and splattering with the Distress Watercolor Pencils. 

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 1 

Step 1: Gather up your supplies. You will want a set (or perhaps all 3) of Distress Watercolor Pencils, some Distress Watercolor Cardstock, and some stamps with a bold sentiment.  

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 2

Step 2: Cut Distress Watercolor cardstock two 2 ½ x 3 ½ (ATC size) and gather up a few colors of Distress Ink. I used Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade.  

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 3

Step 3: Press your inks down onto a Non-Stick Craft Sheet and spray with water. When you see little droplets in the ink, you are ready to ink your papers.  

 


 
Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 4

Step 4: Press your paper down into the ink and lift up. (Don’t move it back and forth, or else you will blend all the colors together) 

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 5

Step 5: Dry with Heat Tool, adding water using a Distress Sprayer to move the color around. Continue to dry until paper is dried fully.  
 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 6

Step 6: Gather the Bold Text stamp and Distress Archival Inks in Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade.

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 6a

Step 6a: Turn over the stamp and ink up, leaving some parts uninked.

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 6b

Step 6b: Press your inked Distress Watercolor Panel Into it. 

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 7

Step 7: Ink the edges of the stamped papers with Black Soot Distress Ink.  

 


 
Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 8

Step 8: Stamp sentiment and butterfly images. Color in with pencils. For the sentiments, trace the sharpened tip of the pencil along one side of the sentiment. Go over images and traced letters with waterbrush to blend.  
 

 


Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 9

Step 9: Cut out sentiment and butterflies. Ink edges of sentiment.  

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 10

Step 10: Use Distress Watercolor Pencils to add marks and texture to cards.  

 

 

Distress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 11

Step 11: Add some water to glass mat, dip end of Black Soot pencil into it and move around. Use a paint brush to splatter it onto the ATCs avoiding the sentiments. Let dry.  

 


IDistress Watercolor Pencil ATCs Step 12

Step 12: Add Butterflies and sentiments to cards using foam tape. 

  

 

 

Cheiron Brandon HeadshotMy name is Cheiron Brandon. I work in the financial district by day and love to play with stamps, ink, and paint at night in my studio. You can find me on my blog at www.cheironbrandon.typepad.com, on my new YouTube Channel, and posting almost every day @cheiron on Instagram!

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