Tim Holtz Distress Ink Color POP: Twisted Citron
Hi readers! Happy Tuesday and happy last day of June! We’re officially past the half way mark of 2015! Can you believe it? The very fun and talented Wanda Guess joins us again this month with the Color Pop feature for May: Twisted Citron! Did you miss a past feature? Check out our archives for the combined Cracked Pistachio and Abandoned Coral feature, Mermaid Lagoon, and Fossilized Amber! Coming up next month: Hickory Smoke! Excited for July’s color? Be sure to tune into our blog on FRIDAY to find out what it is!
It’s Wanda here! Happy Summer! I’m here today with the fourth installment in our Color Pop series – featuring the newest Distress Ink Color! I’m excited to share a project using the color for May – Twisted Citron. This is a bright, clear, happy green. Think margarita green, lime-y and fresh! It’s very strong and vibrant, but it’s easy to tone down with other colors, too. Basically, it’s perfect! With this color, a little goes a long way! I love it. Since it’s Summer time I decided to make a beach-themed card and used the Twisted Citron for some gorgeous tropical leaves.
Green is always a good neutral, and this new green was an easy one to match with other colors. I used pretty Abandoned Coral Ink along with some neutral tones of brown and cream to complete my beach look. I love this color combination! Reminds me of Hawaii. My leaves were colored with the ink pad using a sponge dauber. I left some white space in the center of the leaves. If you look closely, you’ll see that I went back and used the Twisted Citron Marker to make a center vein in each leaf for some dimension. I also put just a touch of Vintage Photo ink on some of the edges.
Something really fun that I thought of was to make my own glitter. I was thinking to myself…wouldn’t it be nice to have Twisted Citron glitter?? So I made some! I took a paper plate and sprinkled some clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter on it. I took the Twisted Citron Spray Stain and made a fine mist over the clear glitter. Then I let it dry and stirred it up with a palette knife. Voila! Perfectly matching glitter! Next up I’m going to make some Abandoned Coral glitter…. After it was dry, I used my new green glitter on the tropical leaves.
My leaves, flowers and shells are cut from Ranger Watercolor Paper. I added Clear Rock Candy glitter to all the pieces except the leaves. I also edged everything with Vintage Photo ink and a sponge dauber. For the background I tried another new technique. I wanted to mimic the feeling of sand. I used the Vintage Photo Marker in the Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer took and made spatters on my paper. Then I took the water mister and let some fine mist of clean water fall onto the spatters. Some of the dots softened and some stayed pretty strong. I love this and will definitely use this technique again.
I used a Flashcard and cut out the word Summer. Then I stamped the hashtag #lifeisgood…and assembled all my pieces onto a kraft card base with a small layer of coral paper.
I’ve made another color swatch reference chart for you to see where the new color fits in with your existing Distress Ink colors. This green is in the Yellow Green family more so than the Blue Green family.
Next up is the rich and mysterious Hickory Smoke… Can’t wait to get my hands on this new neutral. See you next month! Have a great day and happy crafting!
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I love the bright new color. Your card is really cute.
Gorgeous card, love it!!!
Beautiful card!
Brilliant….literally!
I love this color
Beautiful card!
love the new colour
WOW!! I just love this color. It’s perfect for summer projects!
Wonderful card!
Can’t go wrong with these great colors! Beautiful card!
Love it – genius way to get your own desired colour of glitter! Xx
nice bright green, perfect for leaves just like she used here
pretty colour!
Love your beachy card! Those colors are just awesome together. Great job!!
Those colors are great together!! I really love the twisted citron color. Great card.
Beautiful card!
Twisted Citron is my favorite new color. I love the glitter idea.
Love the glitter
That twisted citron is very vibrant
Love this bright color! And what a beautiful project!
Love this bright color! And what a beautiful project!
This new green is so tropical and yummy looking. I love today’s card.
Gorgeous card, OH what a wonderful new green distress color!
Wanda’s card is fabulous! Love my Twisted Citron.
Love this green. Can’t wait to get a hold on some products.
Not much crafting time right now. But… Soon
The green distress ink is really pretty!
Beautiful card !!!
This is fabulous Wanda!! I love your card and you’ve shown off Tim Holtz new color beautifully!!
Lovely card! Fantastic how you made your own perfectly-matching glitter!
I love the bright & happy look of Twisted Citron and the color combo on your card is lovely – totally reminds me of a pretty summer day. Thanks so much for the great inspiration.
Love this color! And the card does full justice to it!
Love this color… one of my favorites so far!
So gorgeous! I just received my order with this color and I’m so excited. I think it is my favorite new color so far. :)
I never thought of custom colour glitter. How awesome!
LOVE it!!!
Gorgeous colors & card! So clever to make your own matching glitter!
Beautiful card! The new color really pops out.p
Fabulous card and I absolutely love the ink! I want this color!
Amazing card! Fabulous shade of green.
This is just gorgeous!
Such creativite ideas love making your own glitter.
I am all for stretching your craft supplies a bit further. This is another reason when I can I buy white or clear glitter in larger containers so that I can create my own colored glitters. I am all about bright and bold colors. Neon distressed inks in highlighter bright colors would be nice.
Beautiful card! Love the bright green! TFS!
Beautiful and bright colors! Love the card. :-D
Love this bright color! Makes the leaves pop. Will definitely be adding this color to my collection
Gorgeous colours! Love the twisted citron :)
twisted citron has fast become a favoruite amongst the distress color, i reach for it a lot!
yeah! #lifeisgood, #colorisadorable and #cardisgreat
Love this new citrus look color! The leaves really popped up the whole design!
Beautiful color and card.