In the spirit of March, my favorite "green" products! (Part 2)

I'm still "seeing green" around the Shoppe.  I just had to share a few more products along with inspiration on how to use them again this week (don't miss last week's post featuring some of my  other favorite green products).

Product 6: Dylusions Ink Sprays

Dylusions Ink Sprays are a high quality, acid-free, non-toxic concentrated colorant for porous surfaces. The Dylusions Ink Sprays’ bright and vibrant palette will colorize paper, Sticky Back Canvas, wood, paper, clay and more. 

You can spray some on a page in your art journal to make a cool background or leave some white space and be inspired to create a design based on the formation the spray makes.

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Stamp and emboss images on tags or cards and spray color over it.  The embossed area will act like a resist and remain the color of the embossing powder.

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Load up a waterbrush with the spray ink and have awesome “watercolor” like markers for hand lettering and adding details to your art journal pages.

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Products 7 & 8: Distress Paint & Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint

Distress Paints are very fluid water-based acrylic paints for multiple surfaces. Tim Holtz and Ranger developed these special paints to be reactive with water just like Distress Inks and Distress Stains—perfect to accomplish a wide variety of artistic techniques. Distress Paints have a convenient dabber system for easy and mess-free application. Use with stamps, paper, wood, metal, glass, plastic and more for a timeless matte finish on craft projects.

You can use Distress Paints to create awesome backgrounds for your creations. 

By using canning salt with distress paints you can create the cool “splotchy” look (more details here).

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Create an awesome spring themed frame and paint various elements with Distress Paint.  Check out the Ranger Ink Blog for all the details.  

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​Make gorgeous backgrounds to use in your cardmaking by striping on various colors of Distress Paint.  Lightly mist the cardstock (watercolor cardstock works really well), apply stripes of color, spritz with more water and then blend the colors.  

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​And since you are going to want to be sure to get every color of Distress Paints, be sure to download a color chart to fill in and keep handy!

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Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints are artist quality opaque paints available in a variety of bold colors, metallics and neutrals. Richly pigmented, these paints feature a thick buttery consistency that holds brushstrokes, peaks and tool marks and can be easily smoothed.  The paints blend well with other media colors, creating an endless palette.  They come in both 1 oz. and 2 oz. bottles/tubes.

You can create delicious, bold mixed media creations with these paints as you can see in the examples below.

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​And don’t feel limited by the 25 colors that are offered.  You can mix these paints in a multitude of ways to create additional colors.  Download your own color mixing chart here.

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Product 9: Bella Blvd. Puffy Stickers

Much like my love for enamel dots, I love puffy stickers to add to projects.  Bella Blvd. just released an assortment of stickers in star and heart shapes and letters in an array of colors.

They had fun to a scrapbook layout.  Just look at the layering and dimension they add!

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​They work so well on cards with other decorative embellishments.

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​And they add such a sweet pop to a bible journaling page.

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Product 10: Nuvo Glimmer Paste

This product is perfect for the “gimme all the sparkles” motto I have for my life.  Nuvo Glimmer Paste adds a fabulous layer of glitter to any craft project help add a 3D look to your cards or mixed media projects by using a stencil. Glimmer Paste works on a number of materials such as fabric, acetate, glass and wood – they are great for any crafting project, not just paper crafting. 

Nuvo Glimmer Paste can be spread through a stencil using a palette knife to create gorgeous dimensional patterns on cards.  It is such a simple technique, but creates a tremendous impact.

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​Multiple colors can be used together.  When the colors “mush” together you will get amazing results.

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​Create your own “glitter paper” to use in die cutting and other projects.

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So are you now seeing green too?  What are you inspired to try out first (it’s okay to say all of them!)?  See you at Palette & Paper soon!