Enhance Your Craft Projects with Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker 1/2-Ounce - Vintage Photo Review

I use this ranger ink pad on almost all of my paper projects to trim the paper for a pop. With a spare bottle I can use my old pad for many more months.

I find Distress ink pads a little drier than some other ink pads on the market and Reinker solves this problem. I can only add a little bit at a time so I never end up with a sloppy ink pad (resulting in blurry lines when I print on paper).

Old paper has become my favorite color for distress ink as it gives the edges of the paper a slightly aged look. It is very thin, clean, gray-green. Not brown at all, but gently accentuates and complements the brown tones of tea- or coffee-colored paper. The ink pad I first ordered felt dry to the touch right from the start so I ordered this refill to hydrate it and it works great. I hope they resell it.

I bought this Water Face Paint (straight brush for water diluted ink). I found out about it through Magnolia magazine. Like most Tim Holtz inks, most do not exactly match the color on the bottle label. Make sure you do an image search on google first and use the color's name to find a few swatches to make sure it's the exact color you really want.

I love Distress Ink. I've been using it since it debuted and this is only my third remake in this colour, Vintage Photo, one of my favorites. And I do an average of 200 card/media projects a year, most of which involve distress ink in one technique or another. Very durable and I love the amber bottles, they don't fade the ink so don't need to store them. in a cardboard box for fear of slight damage. I also love pipette tips. I use distress ink to create beautifully blended backgrounds, for…