Showing posts with label Sizzix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sizzix. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 January 2025

Glitter, glitter everywhere Happy New Year

 Shabby Sparkly Christmas Card

Silent Night, Holy Night.

All is calm, all is bright.

Let's hope that is so for the new year.


I have been using up supplies and going OTT with sparkle and gold but I love it.


A dip and drip background from my left over box


Some tim holtz tissue wrap added using collage medium and applied a gilded accent.


Used stencil to add grit paste and added distress glitter whilst it was still wet. When it was dry I gently brushed off any excess. 


I found a moon that had been made last year for a project where I'd dipped and dripped distress inks, punched the circle and covered it with rock candy glitter.

I used up a row of fir trees that had been cut from Tim's sparkle classic card and used coffee archival to highlight the edges.


I found a gold banner in the bits bag and thought I'd go mad with the sparkle, shine and glitter. I added  'silent night' using Tims remnant rubs. The black writing went well with the black text in the background.


Finally I found some gold stars also in the bits bag, I sanded the points to distress them and blended brown distress ink over them and used them to finish the design.


As I was putting the card elements together and mounting on the card I decided to spritz some Fossilized Amber Spray Spritz behind the trees.



Here's to a happy, healthy and peaceful 2025 for everyone.
Peace of Earth.





Supplies

Tim Holtz      

Collage Medium, Coffee Archival Ink, Grit Paste - Snowfall, Distress Glitter - Tinsel, Gilded Accents, Stencil - Sparkle Fade, Distress Inks, Distress Rock Candy Glitter, Banner from one of Tim's older die sets, an old Tim Holtz star punch, Sparkle Classic Kraft Stock, Sizzix Tree Line die. 

Saturday, 28 December 2024

Peace Christmas Card

 Berry Delicious

Blended pumice stone and hickory smoke distress inks over the card. Made a puddle of each colour and dipped, dripped and dried the distress inks.



I stamped the holly and the berries stamps....

 ....with watering can archival ink ....

.... and stamped the text with coffee archival ink.

Using the watercolour pencils I coloured and painted some of the leaves and all of the berries to make them stand out.
I then grabbed a silver sparkle Sakura Gelly Roll pen and a black unipin pen and added some details.


I found the silver 'Peace', the icicles and greeting in my supplies, added them to the card and mounted onto green cardstock.

This is off to a crafty friend for Christmas 

xxx






Supplies

Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Stamptember 2018, Yuletide CMS356, Letter to Santa CMS053

PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber Fodder Berry Edition 

Ranger - Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils - Forest Moss, Bundled Sage, Iced Spruce, Scorched Timber, Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid.

Archival inks - Watering Can, Coffee,

 Core'dinations colorcore cardstock.

Sizzix Tim Holtz Peace, Wish, Noel

Friday, 27 December 2024

A Winter's Tale - Alison Bomber

 I bought some of Alison's mini stamps in the Country View Crafts Advent sale and I've had fun using this gorgeous image of Star Anise and using it in creating this frame .

Background - a scraped layer of gesso using a palette knife leaving a gap around the edges. Dried, dipped in pumicestone DI, dripped and dried again. Blended gathered twigs around the edges and added some text stamping using hickory smoke.

2nd layer using vellum, tear the edges and stamp with textured stamp from Alison's pressed grasses set, using versamark and embossing powder.

Focal panel - stamped with Alison's Winter Tale stamp in coffee, painted in the image using lost shadow and walnut stain DOs and brown distress watercolor pencils. The image has watery tea dye roughly painted around it and hickory smoke blended around the edges.

The winter greenery was die-cut with white card and snow-tex daubed over it for texture,

I found the snowflakes (which are glued to the underside of the frame) and icicles already cut in a bag ..........

..... and used those with the other miscellaneous oddments to add interest to the frame.







Supplies

Alison Bomber - PaperArtsy  -  mini Winter's Tale stamp,EM90, pressed grasses EAB40

Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Festive Gatherings, Paper Snowflakes,

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress inks - pumice stone, gathered twigs, tea dye, hickory smoke

 Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Watercolor Pencils Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Oxides -  lost shadow, walnut stain

Ranger - Seafoam White embossing powder

Miscellaneous - vellum, star anise, silver berries, twigs, pinecone, 

Ranger Coffee Archival ink

49 and Market Garden rub on transfers

Monday, 23 December 2024

Santa - Vintage photo - Tim Holtz

 Memories of Father Christmas


As a child many, many years ago I can still remember being so excited for Father Christmas coming on Christmas Eve and getting into bed wanting to stay awake to see him. Whilst I lay there waiting I was sure I could hear sleigh bells in the distance. Of course I did fall asleep and I would awake to my pillowcase that I had left out on the end of my bed, being filled with presents and always a satsuma, some crayons or paints and a bar of chocolate.

I love this old photo of Santa, a name change? I've used it with Tim Holtz goodies in a collaged panel.

It was a lovely surprise for me this morning to see that Tim Holtz had added it to his Instagram story today. How exciting is that?

I used several papers from an old 12 x 12 pad from Tim and parchworked them together and stitched around the edge. The frame was discarded from a photo frame so I just painted it with glue and sprinkled distress rock candy glitter all over it ad blended some walnut stain around the edges.

The rest were bits and pieces from one of Tim's ephemera packs, snippets from tubs and bags in one of my Christmas boxes.



xxx



Supplies

Tim Holt papers, ephemera, stamp, dies, glitter and photo


Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Frostie the Snowman - Tim Holtz

 Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul

I had a playtime using the new TH Sparkle Fade stencil and some Distress Watercolor Pencils to create some small backgrounds and I chose 1 to create my first card from the new Mr Frostie set of TH stamps.







Supplies

Distress Watercolor Pencils - prize ribbon, weathered wood, tumbled glass, kitsch flamingo.

Distress inks - pumice stone, dried marigold, blueprint sketch, walnut stain

Archival ink - watering can

Distress Spritz - weathered wood, fossilized amber

Distress Mica Spray - antiqued bronze

Distress Paint - pine needles,

Sizzix thinlits - festive gatherings


Friday, 6 September 2024

Using lace and buttons - Country View Crafts challenge August 24

Lace and Buttons on a greeting card was the theme over at Country View Challenges for August, but I'm a bit late posting this. It was my first contribution to the design team inspirations.


A piece of corrugated cardboard box was used to mount the focal image and embellishments and give it some height.
I found three buttons in my button box and added 2 layers of lace, one bought lace and the other a diecut from TH Crochet Thinlits.
I distressed the real lace a little with distress ink and added some threads around the buttons.

I really rather like this shabby vintage card, I'm sure it will come in useful.




xxx

Materials

3D textured impressions embossing folder - LACE - Eileen Hull

Layer Frames - MONTAGE - Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits - GARDEN GREENS and CROCHET - Tim Holtz

Paper Dolls - POSES - Tim Holtz

Distress inks (Victorian Velvet, Worn Lipstick, Dried Marigold, Walnut Stain)and Distress Spritz (Barn Door) - Tim Holtz

Rock Candy Glitter

Lace, threads, buttons - etc my own stash

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Coffee time for CVC

My turn to share a project at the Country View Crafts Project Blog and I have made a card for all you coffee lovers out there. Tim's freshly brewed die is one I have wanted for ages but Susan has been waiting for more stock from the USA so our lovely Trace very kindly cut me some to play with.


All the process steps are over at CVC if you would like to see more photos and details.




Thanks for stopping by today and if you are a Starbucks coffee lover like me I think you might like this card.

Look out for a special post coming up later with a give-away.
Have a great week ahead.

hugs Brenda xxxx



Update - copied from CVC

My card today is for all you coffee lovers out there. As soon as I saw the die last January at CHA I knew I would probably buy it, but I didn't order it early enough and Susan was only sent a few instead of the bigger number she normally orders and those went to the lucky people who had got their order in early. However our lovely DT member Trace had been one of those who had managed to get it and she very kindly cut me some so I could have a play whilst I was waiting for mine to come over from America.
Process steps
Distress card with antique linen and pumice stone distress inks.

Blend pumice stone around the edges and blend antique linen through a stencil.
Die-cut the coffee/frappuccino cup in cream card and daub picket fence distress paint over, spritz it with water and heat dry. This gives a nice mottled effect to the cup and lid.
Blend pumice stone around the edges of the cup and lid and walnut stain round the edges of the sleeve.
Take the sleeve button and blend the brand new and gorgeous hickory smoke stain over it, heat dry and blend walnut stain DI over the top. Using the brand new punch from Tim Holtz and a piece of sprayed card from my oddments box I added a lovely pop of green and a link to my favourite coffee house.
Put the coffee cup together and go back to the background - add some remnant rubs.

 
I hadn't got a picture in my head of how this card was going to pan out and just started to gather things to put together - a piece of chevron framework and some bunting made from the green card I had used for the star.

  
As I put it together I also added some rock candy stickles to the lid ...

...and inked the bunting pieces adding them to a piece of coloured bakers twine.

With no metal or dimensional embellishments this card is flat and safe to put in the postbox.

Thanks for stopping by today and if you are a Starbucks coffee lover like me I think you might like this card.