Make Your Own Design Papers with Stencils & Distress Inks

Hi there, Susanne here with a new tutorial on Distress Ink & Oxide backgrounds! I love making my own papers for greeting cards or other paper projects and today I am sharing some Spring-themed handmade design papers made with a variety of our stencils.

All the stencils I’ve used are listed at the end of this post. It’s an easy process – it might need a little bit practice in the beginning. I am picking my stencil, ink it up with a mix of Distress Inks and Oxides, add water with a spray bottle, turn the stencil around and press it to my paper. I am using a kitchen roll to soak up the excess. It’s easier to watch the process in the video I’ve linked below.

These are the inks I’ve used for today’s papers.
Distress Inks: Victorian Velvet, Crushed Olive, Bundled Sage, Picked Raspberry, Walnut Stain
Distress Oxides: Broken China, Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot, Mustard Seed

Hier ist das Video auf deutsch: https://youtu.be/CTInyNjxe3w

If you want to switch things up after your first layer of ink is dry, you can align the stencil again and apply some ink through it with a blending tool. I demonstrated that in the video.
Here are some close-ups of the backgrounds I made: