Ranger Tim Holtz DIS-19510 Distress Pad, Tea Dye, Brown

Sounds stupid, but it's very black! A little goes a long way. Used sparingly. Still very good quality product

Per all Distress products this is a dye ink designed to give slightly imperfect coverage and then react with added water to give a grunge-y effect. It works well with rubber stamps (red and grey) but less so with photopolymer and not really at all with the cheaper silicone polymer ones. Ideally for Distress you need rubber but don't expect a perfect result like Memento or Archival - this isn't meant to do that. This is a mini-ink pad so you can store round blending foam inside the base and/or store the pad in the mini-ink pad tins. This is advisable for storage as the lids do not lock! The ink is provided on a thick felt pad that gives fantastic direct-to-paper application as well as being great on stamps or with a blending tool. You can dab it onto an acrylic block for "ink smooshing" methods or paint with it using a waterbrush like you would any watercolour or you can use it to colour texture pastes. So versatile! As for the colour - Faded Jeans is a true indigo blue, exactly like a pair of jeans and it sits well with the other blues in the range. Strongly recommended for lovers of Distress who want a true dark blue or indigo or those new to the range.

Great, for cardmaking etc.

Great quality - as always with Tim Holtz. Colour is exactly as expected, and it blends perfectly. Makes lovely vintage looking edges to papers. Recommended!

I'm fairly new to crafting with inks but I've realised that Tim Holtz products, although quite expensive, are very good. I'm very pleased with this item although I wasn't expecting the colour, which turned out to be green. I have since bought 'Vintage Photo' which was more of the colour I had in mind and I checked the colour charts online properly this time! I have yet to try all the techniques possible with these inks but they seem full of possibilities and it will be difficult not to start a collection as they are all so nice! (The fast delivery was excellent and the item well packaged).

Fabulous ink.

I use this in card making, mainly to give a shabby chic finish to paper edging. This works really well.

I bought this colour in the full size version to go with the few mini sets of inks I own by Tim Holtz. This is great to use, blends well & is perfect for giving a subtle, soft, aged look to my projects. The product arrived on time & was well packaged. I would buy from this seller again.