Making Memories Distressing Kit

by Making Memories

Product Features

• Designed to use on everything from paper to embellishments this distressing kit is the first and only of its kind
• Compact portable and stocked to the hilt with all the tools you will need to sand scrape stipple and sponge your way to shabby chicness

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 2.2 x 7.9 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FWAEFE
• Item model number: MM23554
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,055 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing (See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing)
  • #22 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing > Scrapbooking > Kits

Product Description

If you are into all things aged this kit is for you. Designed to use on everything from paper to embellishments this distressing kit is the first and only of its kind. Kit includes-sanding block with 3 grits steel wool, 2 pads emery board, 3 boards each with different grit, stipple brush, foam brushes 1 and 2, wide chalk, 3 colors ink sponges, 3 colors exclusive edge scraper, bone folder aging dye, 2 single use pouches paint comb pounce wheel chalk brushes, 3 sandpaper, 3 sheets (1 each of fine medium and coarse grit). It is compact portable and stocked to the hilt with all the tools you will need to sand scrape stipple and sponge your way to shabby chicness.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great kit to take your scrapbooking to the next level, February 1, 2011

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Talvi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Memories Distressing Kit (Kitchen)

Most people start out scrapbooking with very simple layouts and of course limited tools. Scrapbooking is very expensive and it takes a long time to build up your tools and learn how to use them effectively.

This kit by Making Memories is a nice comprehensive kit to take your scrapbooking to the next level and expand your creativity and includes 33 pieces. Here are some of the items included:

Ink (black and brown), 3 Stains

I make a lot of mini albums and ink is as essential for me as paper. Inking not only gives you a beautiful aged look, it also gives you a uniformity that brings the whole album together (in the same way using coordinated papers does). Brown ink is my most commonly used, but you'll find you really expand your repertoire once you get a feel for inking (such as a reddish brown for Christmas, a light blue for a baby boy album). Inking is also great when paired with patterns and embossing to enhance the depth of the embossing.

Sanding Block and Emery Boards, Sanding Files

With a little practice, distressing can look fantastic and enhance an antique look. I recently went to a class where everyone was making a vintage Christmas album (vintage papers were big this year) and everyone was passing around the sanding block that only one person at the table had thought to bring. The coordinated paper and sticker set from Bo Bunny was beautiful, but the stickers were a little shiny and didn't look quite right with the vintage inked papers. Once everyone saw how naturally the sticker fit on the page after she had sanded it, everyone followed suit.

Emery boards and sanding files are great as well and especially useful when you embellish chipboard with patterned paper. Once you glue the paper onto the chipboard, you just sand the paper away and match the edge of the paper to the edge of the chipboard. I'll attach a picture that uses both the ink and sanding.

Effects Paints

You can really have fun with these! You get pearlized, glittery, and clear paints. Use them on paper, flowers, embellishments, anything to add pizzazz. Use it consistently and it again can tie your pages together.

You have a couple of other items here as well, including an edger and brushes. So this is really a great experimentation kit to give a try and it will lead you in new directions.

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to distress, December 23, 2011

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B. Rackley "Sierras Creative World" (Over the Rainbow .. far away) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Memories Distressing Kit (Kitchen)

Every thing needed for distressing items in one box. I did not have to shop all over looking for what I thought I would need. This kit includes:
One large sanding block, a coarse grit for rougher, worn look and finer grits for a smoother, finished look.
Emery board, standing files , four from very thin for tight corners to large flat file. Made well, not cheap that bend and break.
Ink block, edge scraper, paints (pearl, glitter, clear) Liquid stains with dauber tops Ocher, Moss and burnt sienna, brush handle and foam brush tips, small foam applicators.

Everything needed to distress your craft items.

Give 5 stars and highly recommend

4.0 out of 5 stars All Included, October 28, 2011

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lldeb - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Memories Distressing Kit (Kitchen)

I have not had a chance to use any of the products yet, but it has everything included for any type of distressing project possiblility.