Hello there crafty friends! It’s Cheiron Brandon and I have a new tutorial for you featuring the newest colors of seasonal Distress Crayons. Today I am using the Halloween color sets #5 and #6 to create a trio of notecards perfect for saying thank you during the fall season. They would be great to make a whole set of these for a hostess gift too! 

Step 1: Gather your supplies. I used Distress Watercolor Cardstock, Distress Texture Paste Opaque, Distress Collage Medium, Distress Crayons Halloween Set #5 and #6, Distress Oxides in Villainous Potion, Crackling Campfire and Ground Espresso, the Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Berry Leaves and Note Quote Stamps.  

Step 2: Cut 3 panels of Distress Watercolor Cardstock to 3 ¼ x 4 ¾ and apply Distress Texture Paste using a Palette Knife.  

Step 3: Use your palette knife to remove any paste hanging over the sides of the panels. Let the panels dry completely.  

Step 4: Once your texture paste is dry, apply a thin layer of Distress Collage Medium over all of the panels and let dry completely. This will allow the crayons to blend more easily over the surface.  

Step 5: Color your panels by adding color using the Distress Crayon. I like to blend them with my finger, I also use a baby wipe nearby to dampen my finger and make the color move even more around the paper.  

Step 6: Continue building layers and blending until you achieve your desired look. I tried to use all of the colors to get different looks.  

Step 7: When you are done blending your panels, ink the edges of each one with Black Soot Archival Ink using a foam blending tool.  

Step 8: Adhere the panels to a 3 ½ x 5 notecard and choose colors to stamp your sentiments. I used Ground Espresso, Crackling Campfire and Villainous Potion.  

Step 9: Stamp the circle and the sentiment in each color using the Note Quotes stamps.  

Step 10: Cut out your sentiment and some leaves in coordinating colors to go with your card.  

Step 11: Adhere the sentiments and leaves with Distress Collage Medium and let dry.  

I hope you had fun creating these cards with me today. I love the look and texture you get with these Distress Mica Crayons on top of texture paste and hope you will too!

Cheiron Brandon has been creating handmade cards for over 15 years. She loves to create cards that incorporate Tim Holtz Distress products and mixed media supplies. She has done design work for many companies in the paper crafting industry including Tim Holtz, Simon Says Stamp, Reverse Confetti, Hero Arts, AALL & Create, Mama Elephant, Neat and Tangled, Dina Wakley, and Ranger Ink. She currently contributes a monthly feature to the Ranger Ink and Simon Says Stamp blogs. Cheiron lives in New Jersey and shares her art (almost) every day on Instagram @cheiron and other tutorials on her YouTube Channel.