Tim Holtz Distress Ink Color Pop: Fossilized Amber!
Hi readers! I sure hope you’re loving this fun feature as much as I am! We’re back with the awesome Wanda Guess for our monthly color POP series, and this month she’s spotlighting Fossilized Amber! Next: Twisted Citron! If you missed our features on Cracked Pistachio/Abandoned Coral or Mermaid Lagoon, be sure to check them out!
It’s Wanda, and I’m here today with the third installment in our Color Pop series – featuring the newest Distress Ink Color! I’m excited to share a project using the color for April – Fossilized Amber. This is a rich, deep, warm, golden yellow. Perhaps the color of sunflowers? That is what inspired me! So I made a card with some bright and cheerful flowers.
This ink color was an easy one to match with other colors – since yellow goes with almost any other color. But, I wanted something special, and something maybe not obvious. Well, it came to me – Picked Raspberry! And, yes, I love these colors together now! I used the Fossilized Amber Ink pad to stencil my background paper with the Typo Stencil. I also used the ink pad to color my Tattered Floral Dies. I used the Fossilized Amber Spray Stain to color in some Tim Holtz Gumdrops for the centers of my flowers. I like to show you different ways to use each medium. The spray stain is dark and pigmented and it drenches on the color.
I’ve made another color swatch reference chart for you to see where the new color fits in with your existing Distress Ink colors. Here is the entire Distress Ink Yellow color story.
To make my background paper, I taped my stencil down to some watercolor paper and used a sponge dauber to ink it. Then, while the stencil was still on the paper, I misted the entire thing with water – to soften the edges of my stenciled images. Then I spattered some Vintage Photo ink and also edged my paper with the Vintage Photo ink. This gives me a nice base to work with. You can see I put my stencil on at an angle for some visual interest.
I die cut my Tattered Floral die pieces out of Ranger Watercolor paper and then applied ink from the ink pads. Here you can see my color choices. I die cut the word ‘beautiful’ from a TH word die and then added my stained gumdrops and my small word stickers. I decided to pop the card by using a layer of pretty raspberry cardstock behind my images.
Next up is the gorgeous Twisted Citron! (Editor’s note: Available to reserve now!!) Since the moment Tim announced he was doing a new color each month, I have been hoping for a bright citrus green! Yahoo – can’t wait to get my hands on the new color. See you next month! Have a great day and happy crafting!
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Thanks for reading today and thanks so much to the awesome Wanda for this inspiration today!
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You left a little sparkle in my day Wanda! Thanks for sharing your talent!
I am going to purchase all the new distress inks….just because I love distress inks. I don’t own all the previous colors but have most of them. Never would have thought to use Fossilized Amber with Picked Raspberry, but it proves the distress colors can all work together. Thanks Wanda!
ooh, like this mellow yellow~
Beautiful card , inspire me to make something similar too , love the distress ink colors !
This is a beautiful card, I just love Tim Holtz’ products, and the new colour is superb just cannot wait to get my hands on it, the 2015 stamp colours have all been beautiful so far, and I love them!!!!!
I love the fossilied amber ink. I love the shades. Very striking with the picked raspberry. Love the card. Thanks for the inspiration and sharing..
Beautiful card. This yellow is perfect for those flowers.
Love your card and the color combination you used. The fossilized Amber distress ink is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
Such a beautiful card. I love the vibrant colors.
Wow,what a beautiful card, LOVE your colours!
I’m sure I’ll end up getting all the new colors since I use distress inks a lot. I think the fossilized amber is one I’ll use a lot. And I love the card!
Since my favorite Distress Ink color is the Wild honey and I see that Fossiled Amber is more yellow, but close, this color is a “must have” for me! I just love to use yellow and orange whole year trough; it brightens every creation!
Love the new Fossilized Amber. Such a rich yellow that goes perfectly with the rest of Tim’s distress line.
Love the beautiful card.
Today’s card inspires me to use more yellow on my projects. This card is very stunning.
I used Fossilized Amber myself today on Tim Holtz’s Flower Garden stamps. Love that tote bag. I’m hoarding my Correspondence paper so far!
This is so pretty. I love how all of the Distress colors just go together. And how when you think there can’t possibly be a reason why I need another yellow ink pad, Tim goes and does this!
Great color combo on your pretty card!
Love the color combo on this one!
This is another must have color! cannot wait till it arrives locally!~kim
beautiful card – love that fossilized amber – it is such a lovely vintage color. . .
Of course this ink is a must have! It is a lovely shade of yellow and will go well with so many others!
this is simply awesome!! I just cannot stop looking at it…
Firstly I just love Wandas card – bright and cheerful and thank you for the instructions. As for Tim Holtz’s Inks – I’m addicted – I use them so much and am slowing building up a stock of all the colours…and what a fab idea to showcase the range of colours on a swatch, so handy to quickly pick just the right shade – I have little smears all over my work pad – I’m onto this idea.
Wowowoowowwow!! I LOVE this Card and the New Color!! I can’t wait to add it to my collection!! Thanks for sharing and have a Fabulous Weekend!! ;)
Wow!! What a gorgeous card! I’m really liking the new distress colors.
Love the vintage look of your card, love the new color and thanks for the detailed instructions. TFS
Those flowers are gorgeous! Love the the color combo!
I love the colors used on this card! Tim Holtz is awesome. I will have to check out the Fossilized Amber.
Love the swatches of color that you’ve been sharing, Wanda!! Your card is beautiful, love the mix of colors, just awesome!!!
Yes, of course this is a color for me! So far, I’ve had to get every new color! I can’t wait to see what’s next for June!
This color is fabulous!! Yep, definitely a must have!! I love it with the reaspberry color!! Great project!
The amber pairs so well with the colors Wanda used on her card. So pretty!
Thanks for showing how to use the various mediums. Very pretty!
Love, love, love this new color. It’s so much fun to see the new colors each month.
Love that this color is so rich yet bright and cheerful!!
It’s Tim Holtz! I love it all.
I LOVE this color! I love amber so this color will be a welcome addition to my stash!
I am working on sunflowers cards for an event. This new color is just what I need!
Wanda, you picked the exact right die cut word: beautiful. Your card is so bright and the colors are fabulous. Yes, Fossilized Amber is a must. (I already bought it). Thanks for sharing the fabulous project.
Beautiful card, love the color combination.
Wow – this is absolutely gorgeous!!! Really has inspired me to get out my stencils and Tim Holtz distressed ink pads!!!
Yes, this is a must have colour for me. Basically anything Tim is a must have! I follow the blog by email.
Such a beautiful card! I couldn’t have thought of this great color combination of Picked Raspberry with Fossilized Amber, but it is awesome and Fossilized Amber is a must have color for me! (as every distress ink color is!) Thank you for the inspiration!
Love, love, love this color!
I haven’t really been drawn to this type of work before now, but this is so inspirational!
Love the colors!
what a stunning colour. It is the such a rich looking colour.
SO GORGEOUS!
Absolutely LOVE these colours together! What gorgeous pops of colour!! The whole set of distress markers is on my “want/need/must have/to get” wish list!! Also the ink pads and everything else!! Unfortunately it will take quite a while to get them all!!
Amazing card Wanda! Love the stenciled background and gorgeous flowers! Love this series of projects with new colors each month!