An Easy Distressing Method for Your Banners, Cutouts & Cards

One of my Castle Keepers showed me a neat little tip the other day when were getting ready for the reception /shower in our backyard.  She had learned it from a local scrapbooking store.

You’ll need a stamping pad (any color). Take the edge of whatever you’re working with and dab it on the stamping pad. There is no right or wrong. If you only want the edges distressed, just lightly dab the edges. If you want some of the face marked, like in the picture below, you would just make sure the stamping pad hits more than the edge. Very simple and like I said, no right or wrong.

I also did the distressing technique using the stamping pad on our banner “Love is Sweet”.

I used the black stamping pad to dab the edges and a bit of the face of the letters. I love how it turned out.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out all the hearts, letters and flowers.

Do you have a favorite distressing technique that you can share with us?

And now I have some exciting news. Audrey (my 8-year-old) and I are flying to Illinois tomorrow to see my parents and meeting up with my sister who’s flying in from Pennsylvania and bringing her 7-year-old daughter. The last time we went was in October and my sister and I brought our boys who are close in age. That’s when we gave mom a surprise birthday tea party.  We’re looking forward to a good time together!