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I just keep doing it! I know it doesn't look good on everything... so I have been avaoiding anthing that wont look good DTP! How saad is that. I am not a Messy girl, Promise. Laugh all you want Lana! LOL!
So... I am openly challenging myself to do a few NON-DTP cards in the next few day!
You are not alone! I think we need to start a rehab group! LOL! DTP Anonymous! I have found myself doing the same thing! LOL Your cards are really cute though so don't go cold turkey on it! Maybe that should be a challenge for the week!
Oh no girls, don't stop. I just bought a bunch of decorative scrapbook paper and it all looks grunged up. It's awesome. Some of my customers totally freak when I'm finished with a card and then get out my chocolate chip ink pad and go town on that card. Some tell me it looks like I dropped the card in the mud and made a mistake. I told them it's all the rage and to get with the times......not literally but my customers have to live with my fettishes at the moment.
My name is Keri and I am a distressing addict...I cannot stop..I distress EVERYTHING...Now when I make things, they don't look "finished" until they have ink smeared and swiped on the edges...serious problem....
I told them it's all the rage and to get with the times......not literally but my customers have to live with my fettishes at the moment.
Hahahaaaahahahaaa..... I wanna know when you get a new fettish!! You are right in style!
I was this way when I painted too! I loved the depth it brought to the Item I was working on.
I need to get clean..... totally being a dirty girl with DTP!
This is one of my fav techniques, you can either do a little or a lot and I just LOVE it. Keep the movement going girls, we can spread it from coast to coast. LOL :lol:
If there are those of you who are not sure about DTP, there is a solution for you. It's called the DTP early detection test. Be careful though because it only takes one time, you know. You may think you may be able to fool around with it one time and not have anything happen, but then BAM, you've gone and done it. Simply dip your paper in and if it comes out blue and you like it.....well then you've gone and done it. You're hooked to DTP. :shock: :lol:
If there are those of you who are not sure about DTP, there is a solution for you. It's called the DTP early detection test. Be careful though because it only takes one time, you know. You may think you may be able to fool around with it one time and not have anything happen, but then BAM, you've gone and done it. Simply dip your paper in and if it comes out blue and you like it.....well then you've gone and done it. You're hooked to DTP. :shock: :lol:
My name is Keri and I am a distressing addict...I cannot stop..I distress EVERYTHING...
Oh, Keri, I feel your pain! :lol: I'm struggling with this addiction too. Well, not struggling, perhaps--wallowing in it is more like it.
Lisa, we LOVE your work! You just keep going with that addiction, girl! I mean, what if Picasso had said, "That's it! I'm getting back to basic figure drawing! No more freaky cubed people for me!" :lol: (Though I have to admit, I'm an Impressionist sort of gal, myself. . . )
Michelle is right on the nose... beware of the addiction!
I have a little trick I do with DTP..... A little secret. Hmm.... wonder if I dare share???
Ok.... Its all in how you hold the paper and ink pad! I actually round out in a bend, my paper. I make sure I have the right end of the ink pad too. One end has less plastic and the ink is closer to the edge! then I gently... with a baby's Kiss style of touch, dab unto the pad.
I'm fairly new to SCS, so I went to Lisa's gallery, and OMG, you rock! You are a very talented stamper! So, whatever you are doing, keep it up!
Oh, and WaterPixie- you made me laugh harder than I have all day when I read your tag line about Kip!! That is the funniest movie! Thanks for making my gut hurt...
I did it!!! I made a card with out DTP!! I sponged it..... speckled it.... STILL LOOKS a BIT Dirty!!!! hahahahaha.... I guess i am just subing my DTP!!! hahahahaahahh
Felt good to know I could.... Now back to my addiction!
I am FINALLY getting the hang of DTP!!!! LOL I was soooo not good at it a while ago...and so I wrecked about ten cards...but I guess it is something that you get better at with time!! LOL cause now I too am getting it to the point where I am almost ready to share in the gallery!!! LOL
One of my best customers and a great friend is a CM consultant. She invited me to a "crop-in" weekend, and though I couldn't go for the entire weekend, I went for about 12 hours. Probably a *really* good thing for all of the CM gals that I didn't stay...especially the other CMCs!
When I whipped out my Basic Black pad and my Basic Brown pad, started stippling ink on the Canvas background stamp with a sponge and took it to paper, they were concerned...especially after I proclaimed that I had discovered the perfect way to make paper look "mouldy" like it had been up next to wet fabric in the attic! They couldn't figure out why someone would actually *want* to distress their paper to look like that!
Well, you can certainly guess that when I went DTP a few minutes later those raised eyebrows went directly to mouths open in horror when I got out my Craft Vanilla and Craft White pads and started smashing and streaking them across black Bazzill (gasp!@) textured paper...why on *earth* would someone want to trash not one, but two perfectly good pieces of paper like that?
Well, suffice to say that four hours later, I was finally finished and they all did stand around open mouthed and the monochromatic masterpiece I had finished. My girlfriend just laughs at me - she knows exactly what to expect. But doggone, I am bound and determined to cover tables all throughouut northern Illinois in ink and introduce stamping vernacular to the vocabularies of scrappers everywhere!!! ~ Kaylyn
__________________ Hi...My Name is Kaylyn...I'm An Alphaholic.
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I also love DTP. I hate seeing plain edges. If I DON'T DTP, then I've got to just sponge around edges, otherwise they look . . . well, you know. I do scrapbooking as well, and our scrapbook leader always DTP's also. It's everywhere.
HELP!!! I am addicted to DTP!!!
I just noticed I changed from the "Glitter Queen" to the "Inking Addict." Does that have something to do with DTP? 
