Hello Scorched Timber

Hello my friends, we're celebrating 20 years of Distress, we started in 2004 with a brown and how fitting that we are completing the Distress palette in 2024 with a brown. Tim Holtz and Ranger recently released Scorched Timber and what a gorgeous dark charred brown it is too. After swatching and labelling the Scorched Timber bundle, I decided to have a play, mix it up with other colours and woohoo, I love how it sits so nicely with Wild Honey.

I trimmed Distress Watercolor card to 4" x 5.1/4", smooshed Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink on to my Tim Holtz Media Mat, pulled the panel through the ink, dried and tapped back in to pick up the remaining droplets. I repeated the process with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and Distress Oxide Ink, spritzed with water and dried.

I inked one of the images from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Floral Outlines with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and stamped randomly on the background.

I stamped the images from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Field Notes with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and Distress Oxide Ink.

I die-cut Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Wildflowers and Bold Text Thinlits from Distress Watercolor card and fixed to the panel with Distress Collage Medium. I coloured the centre of the flower lightly with Scorched Timber Distress Oxide ink and the circle from the "O" with Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink using the fabulous and oh so cute Tiny Blending Tools.

I die-cut the Bold Text Thinlits again from Distress Watercolor card, coloured with Scorched Timber Distress Ink using the Tiny Blending Tool and fixed on top of the letters to create dimension.

I die cut the bird from Distress Watercolor card using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Lovebirds Thinlits, coloured with Wild Honey/Scorched Timber Distress Oxide inks and darkened the edges using Scorched Timber Distress Ink. I die-cut the bird again from Distress Black HeavyStock, trimmed the body from the coloured bird and fixed to the black bird.

I fixed the bird on the panel with foam squares, coloured the beak and added an eye and dots to the bird and flower centre using a Sakura Black Glaze Pen.

I love how Scorched Timber goes with Wild Honey and with another 70ish colours in the palette at my fingertips, this matching up adventure may take some time.

Hugs Kath xxx