Distress Crayons 3 Ways | Let’s Get Crafty With Caly!
Hi everyone! It’s Caly Person here today!
Today’s card uses fun products from the May 2025 Card Kit – Beautiful and Curious!
I used Distress Crayons three ways to add color. Can you tell from the photo above? I have a video that shares it all and hope you’ll enjoy watching!
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I used Distress Crayons to stamp images from the Beautiful and Curious set. To stamp with Distress Crayons, I scribbled the crayon onto the stamp surface and spritzed it with water to activate the pigment before stamping over the Tim Holtz idea-ology Wallflower paper.
Next, I smudged Distress Crayon colors over the paper by scribbling directly on the paper and blending that pigment out with my index finger – so easy to do! Lastly, I stamped the butterfly image over white cardstock (you can use watercolor paper, too) and added pigment using a watercolor brush pen (you can also use a regular wet watercolor brush).
I sewed my background panel and Shimmer Ice Vellum circle over the ivory panel that I embossed with the Dotted Diamond Embossing Folder. To finish, I attached my butterfly with 3D thin foam squares.
I hope you enjoyed this project! Thanks so much for visiting!
~Caly
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This is just beautiful
What a great collection of ideas! The different ways of using distress crayons, stamping, smudging, and watercoloring are so creative. I especially love how you make it look so easy to blend colour with just your finger, and the way you activate the pigment with a mist for stamping is brilliant. I actually work as a live-in nanny for a family in Dubai, and yesterday, the little girl asked me for some creative ideas for her school’s annual day competition. Your project gave me so many ideas! I’m thinking she could use the crayon-activation technique to make backgrounds for posters, or even design a special card. Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful tutorial.