Card with Tiny Toadstools by Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, I'm here with my second inspirational project for our September challenge, Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Before I start to write my tutorial, that for this card I got my inspiration from Kath Stewart who stamped the toadstools on ATCs. Here you can see her cards. But for the ATCs she chose the Label Frames stamp set by Tim Holtz. Me, I chose the old and retired ATC&Corners Bigz die.

For the background I chose one of my old design, a tag as an inspiration. So I stamped the leaves one by one and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Then I blended Ripe Persimmon and Carved Pumpkin to the surface. I inked  the edges with Gathered Twigs. In the end, I spritzed with water. 

I cut out the ATC shape from 300 gsm watercolour paper. I stamped the toadstools with Ground Espresso Archival ink to the ATC and coloured slightly with Distress inks. I spattered with Vintage Photo ink,  and then I blended Distress Glaze to the surface. 

The text was stamped on black paper with embossing ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Nature's Wonder (CMS343)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Toadstools (CMS377)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Text (CMS394)

Sizzix Bigz die, ATC&Corners (657184)

Ranger embossing powder (Princess Gold)

Ranger Distress inks (Ripe Persimmon, Carved Pumpkin, Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn, Antique Linen)

etc.

So if you have an autumn project, please don't hesitate to join our September challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Craft Shop.

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Emboss it

Card with gold and silver leaves

Hello everyone, here is my second project for our September challenge over at the Country View Challenges. The theme is the Leaves begin to fall. My first creation was a tag with gold leaves and I used Tim Holtz's Nature's Wonder stamp set for that. This time I used Tim's Skeleton Leaves dies and not just gold but silver as well. 

First of all, I cut out 5 leaves from 300 gsm paper and painted gold and silver.

I took a 300 gsm watercolour paper and cut out a rectangle panel for my leaves. I stamped the text to the bottom with Ground Espresso Archival ink. I stained it with Antique Linen Oxide ink.

I also splashed the paper with Antique Linen re-inker but when the drops dried they became much lighter than in the photo.

I inked the edges with Brushed Corduroy. I cut out a one size bigger rectangle panel and painted the edges with the same gold I used for the leaves.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Skeleton Leaves (663094)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Text (CMS394)

Ranger Distress Archival ink (Ground Espresso)

Ranger Distress Oxide ink (Antique Linen)

Ranger Distress re-inker (Antique Linen)

Ranger Distress ink pad (Brushed Corduroy)

gold, silver acrylic paint

If you have a project with leaves please don't hesitate to join our September challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Crafts online shop.

Tag with gold leaves

Hello everyone, it's already September and we have a new challenge at the Country View Challenges, the theme is Leaves begin to fall. You have to use leaves as background or leaves have to be the focal point of your project.

Here is my tag with golden leaves.

I started to stamp the leaves from Tim Holtz Nature's Wonder stamp set and heat emboss them with Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder.

Then I inked the tag with Tumbled Glass ink. I added Broken China to the edges.

I also added Brushed Corduroy to the edges.

I spattered the tag with diluted Brushed Corduroy ink and spritzed with water.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Nature's Wonder (CMS343)

Sizzix Movers&Shapers die, Tag&Bookplates (656938)

Ranger Distress ink pads (Broken China, Brushed Corduroy, Tumbled Glass)

Ranger embossing powder (Princess Gold)

Idea-Ology, Small Talk sticker book

If you have a project with leaves, please please don't hesitate jo join our September challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Crafts online shop.

With my tag, I would like to join the current challenge of The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog: De-stress with a little distressing

Autumn box with stamped leaves

Hello everyone, I'm here with my latest make a stamped wooden box with autumn leaves. 

For making this, I upcycled a simple orange container.

First, I painted them white with several coats using acrylic paints.

Then I started to stamp the leaves from Nature's Wonder stamp set by Tim Holtz (Stampers Anonymous). For stamping, I used the Gathered Twigs Distress ink but any brown is okay. Then I heat embossed with Vintage Photo Distress embossing powder. It was really a big job! I stamped and heat embossed 34 leaves, plus the two sentiments!

Then I started to colour the leaves. I used diluted DecoArt Americana paints but the best solution was the DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paints.

When I finished the colouring I spattered the box with diluted brown paint and inked the edges of the box with Ranger Archival ink (Potting Soil).

And in the end, I covered the whole box with a silky varnish. But this is a special vintage varnish that I made by myself, I put Distress ink into the bottle and mixed them. So when I use this varnish my project gets a vintage look.

This box is now in my kitchen and I keep fruits and vegetables in it.

I hope you like it! Thank you for stopping by!

With my project, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Fall/Autumn

ATCoins with leaves and a thanksgiving card

Hello everyone, here I am with the second inspirational project for the November challenge of the Country View Challenges. The theme is: Artist Trading Coins.

For this coins, I cut out the smaller coins with Sizzix Thinlits die, Stitched Circles by Tim Holtz. I stamped the leaves from the Stampers Anonymous, Nature's Wonder set with Ranger Archival Potting Soil ink.

And then coloured the leaves with the following Ranger Distress markers: Barn Door, Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint.

I stamped the hashtag texts with Ranger Archival Potting Soil ink from the Stampers Anonymous Hashtags set.

I inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress ink.

I spattered with Vintage Photo Spray Stain using a brush.

I put a little darker ink to the edges, this was the Gathered Twigs.

I cut out one size bigger circles with Sizzix Framelits die from Kraft Core paper (Nostalgic Selection).

For making these coins I got the inspiration from my coasters I made before with decoupage technique using paper napkins.

Some of you asked me what the ATCoins are for. So for example, like here, you can put them on a card.

The background of this card was made with the Autumn Layering Stencil using Antique Linen Distress ink and a sponge.

I hope you like my project!!! Thank you for stopping by!

And if you are in the mood of creating ATCoins, please don't hesitate to join our challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

With my coins, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Thanks/Thanksgiving

November Link Party #45 of the CropStop.

Autumn card with scarecrow by Tim Holtz

Last year I made an autumnal canvas with the scarecrow by Tim Holtz. And I was really pleased with the design that I figured out at the time. 

So I decided to make a card with the same design with some slight changes.

As for the background...

Here I chose a 300gsm mixed media paper and I glued wrinkled tissue paper with decoupage glue to the surface.

Then I painted with acrylic paints.

Then I added a layer of Distress Collage Medium Matte. This is good for protection and for me, it makes easier to adhere the elements.

As for the tree...

I cut out twice the tree from thick brown cardstock and I stamped the woodgrains on from the Birch and Pine set with Ranger Archival Potting Soil ink.

As for the scarecrow... 

I have good news! I can give you a step by step tutorial about how to give your silhouette scarecrow a personality :-)

1. I cut out the base from kraft paper.

2. I took a patterned paper and cut out the scarecrow. Then I cut the part which was perfect for clothes.

3. I took a cream colour paper and cut out the scarecrow, then cut off the head and the lower hay part. (I always brown inked the edges of the new part before I added to the base.) 

4. I cut out the hat from patterned paper and added orange ink with a sponge.

5. I glued the hat on the basic.

6. For the eyes, I used the middle part of the smallest flowers from the Funky Florals #1 set.

7. From an orange cardstock, I cut out a small triangle. That became the nose.

8. I drew the mouth with a pencil...

9. .. and when I was satisfied with the result, I drew it with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen (F size).

10. Then I changed my mind and I put other clothes on my scarecrow :-)

11. And I added a little flower to the clothes.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Funky Florals #1 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Scarecrow by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Sentiment Words by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Small Tattered Florals by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Bigz Die, Branch Tree by Tim Holtz

Idea-Ology, Mini Fasteners

Idea-Ology, Big Chat Stickers

Ranger Distress ink pads (Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed)

I hope you like it!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!

With my card, I would like to join the CropStop Link Party #43: Anything goes

Autumn tag with MFT Jumping with joy stamp

Here is a little tag with a lovely girl by the MFT. I made this for the Monday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp where the theme is: Thanks/Thanksgiving.

I coloured my images with Faber-Castell Polychromos and Caran d'Ache Pablo Picasso pencils. For the fallen leaves I applied masking. 

And let me show you my photo of dead leaves when the first chill arrived in Luxembourg.

Autumn card with glitter pumpkin

Hello everyone, I'm here again with my second inspirational piece for the October challenge of the Country View Challenges. The theme is: Mixed media with autumn hues.

Well, for this challenge, I made this card:

For making the background I used acrylic paints, after drying I stamped a couple of times with a grass stamp.

Then I put a layer of matte Collage Medium by Ranger, Tim Holtz.

I cut out the pumpkin from a thick paper, painted orange, and after drying I smeared Ranger Glossy Accents on the surface and sprinkled it with Ranger Distress Glitter, Spiced Marmalade. I put it aside to dry.

I cut out the leaves with Sizzix Thinlits die, Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz and coloured with Distress inks.

I coloured a piece of cheesecloth with the same inks.

I cut out the text with Sizzix Thinlits die, Alphanumeric 3/4" tall by Tim Holtz from a pre-inked paper.  When I glued the text onto the card, I put Ranger Glossy Accents on the top of each letter.

I put two fasteners to the corners as embellishments.

At this point, I still wanted to put something on the right side corner on the cheesecloth. I tried spiders, but I didn't have the perfect size spider... and after I found this fly in the bag I had received from Brenda Brown last year. And this was just perfect! Thank you, Brenda!

And if you have any mixed media creations in autumn colours, please don't hesitate to join our October challenge where a lucky crafter can win a £20 voucher!


With my card, I would like to enter:
- the October challenge of the A Vintage Journey: Crazy for autumn colour!

- the Frilly and Funkie challenge: 'Tis Near Halloween

Canvas with scarecrow and tree

Two days ago my daughter asked me to make her something, a decoration on her wall. She didn't mind if the theme was autumnal or Halloween, but it couldn't be scary.

And because I haven't used the Scarecrow die yet, it was time to create something with it. And to make it more child-friendly, I gave this scarecrow a personality.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Branch Tree by Tim Holtz (656929)

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Scarecrow by Tim Holtz (662382)

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz (660955)

Sizzix Thinlits Die, Small Tattered Florals (661806)

So this is a little (13x18cm) canvas. 

First I adhered a napkin paper with decoupage glue with creating many wrinkles during the process.

After drying I put a layer of white acrylic paint (DecoArt White Wash).

After drying I coloured with watered acrylic paints (DecoArt).

After drying I tried to colour slightly the wrinkles with light brown Derwent crayon.

The tree was painted with acrylic paint, all the other elements are inked (Ranger Distress).

The pumpkin is from Brenda Brown when last year I won a giveaway on her blog. It was perfect here, so thank you, Brenda!

With my canvas I would like to join the following challenges:

- Monday Challenge of Simon Says Stamp: Not a card

- A Vintage Journey: Crazy For Autumn Colour

- Creative Artiste Mixed Media: Anything mixed media goes (31)