Tim Holtz Distress Ink Color POP: Wilted Violet!
It’s one of my favorite days of the month! It’s Color POP day! (Happy Halloween too!) I’m here today with the latest installment in our Color Pop series – featuring the newest Distress Ink Color! I’m excited to share a project with the color for September — Wilted Violet. This is the prettiest shade of purple you have ever seen! Clear, clean, vivid, pure color. It is the color of beautiful grapes. I’m hooked for sure! Since it is Autumn, I paired Wilted Violet with warm tones of Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Crushed Olive. This month I thought it would be fun to make a tag instead of a card. I used lots of pretty leaves dies and lots of glitter too.
Have you ever made a rose out of a pinecone die before? If not, I highly recommend it. This is the Tattered Pinecone die, and if you roll it just so, you get a beautiful rose. Here is my pretty violet rose. CLICK HERE for Tim Holtz’s tutorial on how to do this. The part about the roses is at the end of the video! This bright purple flower is the focal point of my tag.
To make my background layer for my tag I first used the Harlequin stencil and inked it with shades of Antique Linen, Crushed Olive and Brushed Corduroy inks. Then I sprayed the tag with water to let those colors run together. After that part was dry I randomly stamped words on the tag with Brushed Corduroy Ink. I then splattered wet ink over the entire tag for some more character. Lastly I inked the edges with both Antique Linen and Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks. To get your tag to lay flat again after all that water and ink, you can put it under some heavy books – or even iron it!
I die cut my Tattered Pinecone Die pieces and my Leaves pieces out of watercolor paper. Then I inked them in pretty Fall colors. For the flower, I saturated the paper with beautiful Wilted Violet ink! I edged the pieces with Brushed Corduroy. After I rolled and assembled my rose, I covered all the pieces with beautiful Rock Candy Distress Glitter. There is nothing in this world that is not made better by Rock Candy Glitter – you can quote me on that! I used some Ranger Glue-n-Seal to secure the glitter. I applied it evenly with a paint brush.
Here is a close up shot of my leaves – all ready for my tag. You can also see in this photo that I hand dyed my own ribbon using the Wilted Violet re-inker ink and some water. So very very pretty. Are you addicted to this color yet?
To finish off my tag, I chose some words from the new Occasions word stickers and also a flash card that says “Autumn.” I inked the edges of all the pieces so they would blend in. The last step was to assemble everything together and glue it all down with some Glossy Accents.
Thank you so much for joining us all year long for this fun feature. The color for October is Carved Pumpkin and my inks are sitting on my desk as we speak. I’ll be back soon with another Color POP! In the meantime, happy creating!
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Gorgeous tag Wanda!! Lovely colors!!
Oh my…breath-taken-away tag! Absolutely gorgeous…that rose is the star of the stage!
~carol
What a stunning tag! Love the fabulous colors!!
BEAUTIFUL tag Wanda!!!
LOVE your SPARKLING leaves and the POP of your PRETTY purple flower, your background is AWESOME too!!!
I definitely need to check out the pinecone die & tutorial :)
Purples are a fav color of mine and this wilted violet color is pretty.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
wilted violet looks like a great color. like your tag.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Love your tag and I too am a believer that a touch of Rock Candy glitter makes everything special! Thanks for the comparison of the purples-love seeing the shades together.
Love this new purple! I haven’t been tempted by any of the other distress ink purples but this one is gorgeous! Really pretty tag!
Gorgeous tag! Beautiful colors
OOMGoodness…love it…so beautiful…love the color combos!! Awesome job!!
This is STUNNING!!!!!! Oh Wanda, I am truly in love with your tag, love the inky harlequin background, the script, the color, the rock candy – it all! WOW!
Love the glitter…beautiful tag!
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! I love this color, and the combination you used on this tag. It it certainty a showcase piece! And of course, glitter always makes everything better when used right, just as you have here. Thanks for sharing your work with us today!
Love the puples and I have 3 of the colors in the range!! Going to play now!!
So beautiful and vivid. I live all the different layered elements
Oh WOW. Gorgeous
Gorgeous tag, just love that pop of purple.
This is such a pretty colour and your tag shows it off well.
I love this color and can’t wait to add it to my collection! The tag is beautiful!
Purple — my favorite color. Love your tag.
Jan B
Love the colors in that tag!! Especially the purple!
So pretty – that violet flower POPS your tage :) Happy Halloween :) Christi
Gorgeous! Definitely inspiring me to create right now!
Beautiful tag – and, yes, wilted violet is such a pretty shade.
Wow, love this color combination for fall – gorgeous!
the lavender/purple/lilac family is one I don’t use very often.
With this combination of shades I’m going to try to put them to use more often.
thanks
Wonderful tag! Love the touches of violet!
This is just too beautiful for words – stunning! Breath taking! Perfection! My favorite rose is the lavender rose (the smell is divine!) so this really speaks to me. Thank you for this gorgeous inspiration.
Really love purple and this is such a fun shade!
What a gorgeous vibrant new color – LOVE it:)
Stunning tag, such a luscious color!!!
Gorgeous tag! LOVE this new color…..what a beautiful shade of purple ♥♥
Fabulous purple shades! Love the Wilted Violet addition!
I love purple but find it hard to use in cards. I really like the ideas for the pops of color.
i love purple and yes i am quite addicted to wilted violet already, Also to glitter and I love how you’ve sprinkled the leaves with glitter, making them look frosty, gorgeous
Wow, the tag is a present in its self. Beautiful.
love the use of stencil on the tag
This tag is so beautiful. You are so talented. Thanks for sharing your project, I love this feature and look forward to it every month. Michelle t
Love your tag, beautiful. I love that color so rich.
Your card is absolutely beautiful! Love the purple rose! Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous tag…beautiful ink color…and amazing idea for the roses! Thanks for sharing!
Your fall tag is gorgeous! Love Wilted Violet!
Lovin the new vibrant colors in the Distress line. This tag is awesome!
What a beautiful color!
Very creative tag!!
Gorgeous tag! Brilliant colors! Well done!
You are so right. Those colors are fabulous together. Beautiful tag. Thanks for the terrific project ideas.
WOW!!! Such a gorgeous color!!! Purple is my favorite color but this shade has knocked my socks off!!!
It’s a purple. Be still my heart. I love anything purple! Great projects.
The wilted violet is such a pretty color. Love it. Love these new Distress colors and am on a mission to own all the new inks, as the budget allows. :) Wanda’s tag is amazing and such a clever use of the pinecone die. I might have to own that, too!