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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Thank you so much. I already see what I will be using for Thanksgiving cards!
Thank you so much for the awesome color charts. I have already mentioned your blog to several of my friends. I will be referring to your charts often. Again, my thanks.
Woo! These are so yummy recipes! definitely helps a lot! Thank you so much for wonderful recipes, Shari ans SSS!!!
WOW!! Thank you, Shari, for sharing these distress color combos!! This is sooo helpful! And I love your card (as usual) and appreciate the how-to video. You–and SSS–are the bestest!
Thanks, Shari. I “need” some distress inks but was having a hard time deciding on colors. This will be very helpful now and in the future.
This is wonderful Shari! I always have a hard time finding color combos and this will be so helpful. Tks for sharing!!!
Thanks so much for the color charts, Shari. This is such a big help to me. Love that you can get a second card with your inking, both equally pretty.
Wow! Thank you, Shari! Love your color recipes!
Great technique! Your card is really beautiful, thanks for sharing!
Awesome card and thanks for the color charts. I have a difficult time deciding which colors to use together and this will definitely be helpful. Thanks form sharing.
Linda D.
AWESOME:) Thanks for the index card download!
Thanks but I prefer using my own combinations.
Thank you Shari, you’ve done the hard work for us. I’ve never thought of using these shades of DIPs together and love the idea of working with all of these colours without the worry of knowing if they will work. TFS Karen x
Thanks for these sheets! I love the combinations!
Wow! Thanks for the color charts.
I never make Fall cards/Thanksgiving cards, but you’ve really inspired me.=)
The color combos are great, thanks for making them available to all!
This s SO helpful!!!! Thanks for providing info like this. It is worth so much. I don’t have a lot of time to play around in my craft room and experiment with things. When I go to make a card, I have to just jump in and get it done, so having information like this is such a time saver for crafters like me and it allows us to get wonderful looks on our cards that we normally wouldn’t be able to achieve.
Just what I needed , thanks a million, Shari. Just got a few of the minis and was
finding the blending technique overwhelming. Happy Halloween
These combinations are a great inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, thanks so much!! Great idea, so kind of you! I have bought recently a lot of distress inks, and now I have also the new colours, (I love them!). These combos charts surely will help me to choose colours for watercolouring and ombre! :D
Love your card, it’s just amazing, the leaves are wonderful with the #combo!!! Fabulous inspiration!
Shari, thank you for sharing your creat job!
Thanks so much for these! Love having tools to get the mojo started!
Love the combos, can’t wait to try them all out! Especially #3 for Christmas!
This is great! I will definitely be printing the cards for future reference.
This is the best post I’ve seen….LOVE IT. I have the colors, but lack in the ability to combine the colors. THANK YOU! for such a very informative post. Love your video and card as well.
Thanks, Shari. These combinations are very helpful. I love #10. The video is great too.
Thanks for the color combos – it’s always fun to try something new.
Fantastic video, really enjoyed it and totally inspired. Gorgeous card, thank you so much Shari, I love everything you share, extra thanks for the great resource. My mojo is def coming back!
Thanks for the colour cards … great video too :)
Thank you. Gorgeous card. Just getting into distres inks, so this is going to be so handy for me. Fantastic
Thank you so much for these recipes. It helps n making some great cards.
Great colour combos ….love your card as well
Thank you for the color combos.
Just want to say thanks for these wonderful combinations of colours, am trying them now, and thanks for the colour sheets for printing, just love this, great ideas, I recently took your class on Craftsy Shari and thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a lot, thanks very much for your wonderful ideas,
What an amazing idea and beautiful card. Loving these color charts! Thanks so much! :)
Awesome color recipes! Thanks for making them available…definitely helpful. The Leaves Background card is gorgeous….wonderful colors and fabulous layout.
Thanks for the color combos! Makes it easy when Ms. Mojo decides to go on walkabout!
Thanks so much for the Distress Ink color recipe combos, #4 is a favorite of mine too because it looks great no matter what technique you use!
Thank you so much for the Distress Ink combos – so helpful.
I really appreciate these recipes because I have trouble in this area using my distress inks. Shari’s videos always teach me something new and creative.
Thanks so much, Shari. The swatch cards will be a good prompt on a day when I just don’t know where to start. I really like the card you created with #4, too.
Love the fall card and the great color combinations! Neat process, too!
These colour combos are a great idea. For my next card I can look through to find a combo where I have all the colours and create from there.
Great colour combinations thanks for sharing
WOW thank you for this. I took advantage of the download and I know i will use it.
Great idea! Love this download.
HOW BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! THIS, DEFINATELY makes me want to work on my supply of Distress Inks! LOL ;)
Thanks for sharing.
I love my distress inks (have every pad) & I have a beautiful notebook dedicated to all things distress. In it I have tons of recipe ideas & these will fit in very nicely with them!
THANK YOU! I always seem to be making the wrong choices on my color combos, now I have your guide to help me out. Thanks so much for sharing.
These are some wonderful color combos…thank you for sharing your favorites. I was hoping someone other than me would come up and create these for us. It’s a wonderful gift from you. I am going to print these off for a color booklet and keep them stored with my TH Distress Inks.