Distress Color Combos
Hi everyone! Happy Friday!!
I have something a little different for you today. I’ve been playing with my Distress inks, some new, some old and came up with 12 color combinations for you to try. I’ve added in some holiday colors (#1 and #3) that look great together, also colors that blend well and some awesome gradients you can use for an ombre look.
One of my all time favorite color combination is #4. It uses some of the older classic colors of Distress. These colors blend really well when overlapped and look great together side by side. I like them for their warm tones.
I’ve created a quick card to show you how these colors look on paper using the Leaves Background stamp and a little water misting.
I’ve used the mini’s for my card but remember all the Distress products that are available including Paints, Markers, Stains, Sprays and full size ink pads. You can view my video below or on our YouTube channel.
If you’re interested in playing with some combinations, I’ve put together 3 downloadable sheets that you can save, printout and cut to 3×4 cards to use for a reference!
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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a creative weekend!
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Lovely card. Thanks for sharing this very pretty technique. :-)
I am soooooo color combo challenged…these sweet combinations are a life saver! Thanks :)
I do like distress inks! your leaves look wonderful.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
I love these combos and I was just wondering how best to save them, when I saw you actually gave us some downloadables! Thank you! Off to do just that!
How awesome!! Thank you Shari for those fantastic color combos!!! Great inspiration!!
Love love love the combos. This is great. Makes it so easy to create and not get mud!
…and I got so excited I forgot to say how pretty your card is using one of those color sets!
Like TH Distress Inks also. My fav go to Distress Ink is walnut stain.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Wow! Thanks for such a valuable resource! I recently made 20+ invites for my reunion using distress ink blending. Wish I had the list then!
This is so YOU Shari. I have always loved this technique of yours :D TFS
What a great reference. Thanks for sharing. I love #4 also. #10 is quite nice too. Great card.
I just love this card and this gorgeous technique! What a treat for a rainy Friday! :)
Thank you bunches for the color combos. I am so ready for breaking out of the same ones I naturally gravitate to. #9 just shouts fall to me but my fav is #2.
Lovely card Shari. Thank you for the color combo recipes. #s 2, 8 and 10 are my favorite. Will you do more when the rest of the colors come out? Please say you will. I’d like to see some more recipes with SSS inks as well. They are very helpful. Have a great day.
BEAUTIFUL card Shari – LOVE the colours and your positive & negative sentiment die cuts too!!!
Your “inky recipes” look fabulous too, I look forward to trying them all :)
LOVE that card, the design and layout is fantastic! (may have to ‘borrow’ it sometime!) ;)
Thanks for these recipes and I look forward to watching the video!
WOW! You’ve eliminated the guess work for us! These combinations are amazing. Thank you x a million and one!
~carol
Love recipe #3, opens up the “Christmas mood”!
Great color combo’s and inspiration! Thanks for taking the time to put these together and share with us!! This makes a great printable resource!!
You are awesome! I love this! To be able to print them out and look at them when needed is brilliant! Love your card too – so pretty! Thank you, Shari! ♥
Great combos – lots that I wouldn’t have put together but can’t wait to try now.
thank you so much. this was a great idea and i am sure i will refer to it often!
Wow this is awesome!! Time to get busy in my scrappy room. Thanks for the tip!
love distress inks! there are so many ways to mix them! thanks for sharing these tips.
Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing the color combinations. That is so useful!
This is beyond awesome! Thanks so much. Pretty card, too. Michelle t
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it!!
What a great idea and thanks for sharing this with us. I’m certainly going to give some of these combos a try! Beautiful card too!
Thank you for the wonderful recipe cards.
Cool card! Thanks for the info on the color combos.
love this idea of combinations
cool recipes, they will help a lot when deciding which to sue, thank you!
Wonderful card! Good info on the color combos!!
Oooohhh! This is awesome! Color combination is not always an easy issue and this guide is really HELPFUL! I love your color combinations and I will definitely use them for my projects! Thank you for the printables!
Great color combos!
Pretty card. Love the technique. Thanks for the recipes.
These swatches are gorgeous! It makes me want to run from my office, jump in my car, peel out of the parking lot and go home to craft. :-)
These color combo cards are SO useful. Thank you for taking the time to share your findings with us:)
Shari, thanks so much for the fun video and the quick and easy card tips. I am always looking for ways to stretch my Distress Inks and this is perfect. And I love that you can get 2 cards out of it. Perfect time saver! Thanks so much and have a great weekend!
Thanks so much for these distress swatches. How do you do it??
Love this post, thanks so much
Beautiful card!!! I love the distress inks..though need the “new” ones!!
This is so strange. Two days ago I googled distress ink combinations! And here you are with a blog post and download all about it. These will be very well used. Thank you so much for mind reading,
Hugs
Hazel xxx
Gorgeous! Thanks so much for the ink combos! Im always looking for new colors to blend!
Gorgeous card! Thanks so much for the color combos – I love my distress inks but always second guess which colors to use together so these are such a big help!!
Fabulous! Gorgeous card Shari! LOVE that you did this and are sharing! TY so much!
Thanks, Shari, for sharing your great color combos and your beautiful card!
Gorgeous card. As usual.
These color combos are a great help. Beautiful card!