Did you know that the Picket Fence Distress Ink has some special features?
Tim Holtz Distress Inks are dye inks especially made for those vintage, distressed, stained and aged effects often used on scrapbook pages and craft projects (learn more about the properties of Distress Inks here). The Picket Fence Distress Ink is in fact a pigment ink, but it is still water-based and water reactive like the other Distress inks.
This means that it will show up on dark backgrounds.
Let’s discover the properties of this special Distress ink:
Ranger describes it as a fade-resistant, pigment ink.
It is available in a square, 3-inch ink pad and a re-inker. The Distress ink pads are distinguishable from the Distress Oxide ink pads as they are black, and the Oxide ink pads are grey. The large as well as the small ink pads are stackable for easy storage.
Stamping with Picket Fence Distress Ink:
Distress ink stamps well, the image is however not solid, but distressed. Distress inks are matt inks and not metallic, so no shiny image. I used black cardstock to show the properties of Picket Fence Distress Ink as it is a white ink and will not show up on a white background!
As expected from a Distress Ink, the dried stamped image is affected by water, spreading the ink everywhere. The alcohol did move the pigment a little, but not much.
Other uses for Picket Fence Distress Ink:
This ink is water-based and can be used to blend with water to create beautiful splats and it can also be used as a watercolour-type paint.
A both gel medium and gesso are white products, I decided not to do the “Can it colour gesso and gel medium test” with the Picket Fence Distress ink. I do however suspect that if you coloured the gesso or gel medium with another colour of Distress ink, the Picket Fence will lighten that colour when added to the mix (but again, I haven’t yet confirmed this)
Distress ink is a wet ink and it works well when doing ink blending, stenciling and chalking.
Because it is a wet ink, it can be used to heat emboss with. When I tested this, it gave a pretty good result.
Picket Fence Distress Ink basically has the same properties as the Distress Oxide Inks (being a pigment ink with water reactive properties). Some people say it was in fact the start of the idea of the Distress Oxide inks. There is not a Picket Fence Distress Oxide Ink available as the Picket Fence Distress Ink already does that job!
The Picket Fence Distress ink will lighten any Distress Oxide or Distress Ink already applied to a page and will work well when creating an ombré effect.
My Conclusion about Picket Fence Distress Ink:
The special properties of Picket Fence Distress Ink lends itself to some fun techniques:
Distress ink has so many uses, and it was fun to learn more about this special Distress ink colour! Go and play with your inks and try new ways to use Picket Fence Distress ink on your future scrapbook pages and craft projects.
PLEASE NOTE: All the opinions are my own. None of the products have been sponsored.