Party Like a Dinosaur -- Tim Holtz Sizzix Chapter One 2019

 How much fun would it be to have a T-Rex celebrate your birthday with you?  This card is chock full of fun product from Tim Holtz, foremost the fabulous Prehistoric dinosaur dies and the Splat die from the new Sizzix Chapter One 2019 dies.

I had a ball dressing up the Prehistoric T-rex so he was ready to go to a birthday celebration. His hat and balloon are from the Sizzix Birthday Sideorder released in 2018.

The dinosaur was cut out of a piece of dark green faux leather vinyl that I found in the upholstery section of JoAnn's.

Because the dies are thinlits you need to get the thinnest faux leather you can find and cut it on a Chrome Precision Plate.

I ran the die through the Vagabond several times. Then because the faux leather has a knit material on the back there will be areas still attached by threads.

You just need to take the Tonic Snips (the new fabric scissors from Tim's Tonic Haberdashery line will work perfectly for this job!) and run them around the back of the shape trimming the threads.

Then you will see that there may be some fuzzy threads around the edges. I just took my snips and trimmed the fuzz off the back.

I highlighted the texture on the faux leather by rubbing some Black Soot Distress Paint into the vinyl and wiping off the excess.

I just love how it turned out!

All of the papers are Distress Mixed Media Heavystock and are colored with Distress Oxides.

I cut the splat out of a piece of heavystock, then I colored all the pieces with Distress Oxides.

After all the pieces were colored, I took a piece of scrap cardstock and adhered the inked splat pieces to it. Once that was done, I applied Glossy Accents around the outside edge of the splat and then filled it in carefully. If you get a bubble or two, just leave them. Don't try to pop them. Tim's advice was not to freak your freak about it and just leave the bubbles. They will either pop on their own or not, but you make a bigger mess trying to pop them.

I ran the green base through the Ink Splats texture fade. Then I popped it up and put the dry Ink splat inside to adhere it.

Then ink each of the pieces for the hat and balloon, as well as the sentiment. Attach all the pieces as seen in the final picture.

I hope this card inspired you to want to try a couple of dies that you might not think of using at first, but that can make a silly, happy celebration card.

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to party like a dinosaur!
Tami


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