Welcome to June's technique tute. I'm going to do thing a little different this month and show you a few quick and easy little things using not only the Picket Fence Distress Marker, but also picket fence distress stain, that can make a huge impact on your layouts.

Stamping and Doodling With Picket Fence Marker
To stamp with your picket fence marker, we use it just the same as the other distress markers.. Colour straight onto your stamp. It may look like it has nothing on it but it will appear to have a slight milky colour to it as it starts to dry,

give it a couple of huffs with your breath and stamp away..



The image may not show up straight away, but it will as it dries onto the paper again.
You can do this on both light and dark coloured card stock and papers.

Just a little tip. I tend to colour onto my stamp twice before i stamp onto darker colours, so it turns out a bit brighter white, but colouring once is fine to

You can also doodle straight onto your paper or cardstock or colour in parts of stamped images with the marker to give a nice hand drawn/coloured effect, But just remember, it will go onto the paper clear, and you will start to see the colour as it dries.




Stamping With Picket Fence Stain

This is a really fun technique and looks fantastic.
A quick little note about the Picket Fence distress stain.. As it is a Pigment based stain, it is the only one in the distress stain line that contains a little mixing ball inside the bottle, So make sure you give it a good shake to get it all mixed nicely before you use it.

Make sure you also have your heat gun handy when you try this, as you will need to heat set your stain stamped image fairly quickly.

After you give your stain a quick shake, apply it directly to your stamp, yup swipe it right on over it, the more you apply the more you will get when you stamp,



Stamp your image as usual and make sure that heat gun is handy. The longer you leave it before you heat set the stain determines how bright your white stain will stay. For a really bright white image, heat set straight after stamping. For a more white washed effect let the stain soak into your paper, until the brightness is at your desired result, then heat set.
This is how bright it will be after you stamp. I have used a heavy swipe of stain with this as well.



This is what the just stamped image will look like


This was then heat set about 10 seconds after stamping

You can see the difference in brightness in the just applied stain and the finished image.


If you want a really crisp clean image as apposed to a more washed out type image, don't swipe quite as heavily.

This one i left for an even longer amount of time, aprox 20 seconds and used a very soft swiping of stain onto my stamp



See i told you lots of fun!

Distress Markers
Picket Fence Distress stain

What a fantastic Tutorial Karen, thankyou - if you can teach us this much already cant wait to see what goodness you have up your sleeve after a day with the man himself, Mr Tim Holtz

Must get me some of that Picket Fence......this looks fabulous, Karen.

Thats just amazing Karen... you've used fabulous techniques to create them!! Very motivating!

Love that you can get very different results using the same products Karen - those stains are so versatile

Great tute's

Lovely. I've never used stains so this is all very new to me.

I have never had any luck with white stuff...you make it look like fun so might give it one last try!

Looks great! Thanks.

Thank you so much for all your kind comments ladies, hope you'll have a play, it really is a lot of fun!