Last fall just before Thanksgiving, I made a home decor piece with the Tim Holtz Sizzix Chapter 4 Christmas die set called Deck the Halls. It had some Pinecones and greenery in the set, but when I got it to make samples, I didn't have any artwork with it, so I was trying to decide what it was supposed to be by just looking at the dies and decided it was corn. Well, later, when I got the artwork and realized it was a pinecone, I had a good laugh , but already had corn in my head so I had to make that project.
So of course, when I saw that Tim Holtz and Sizzix had released a larger version for the 2020 Chapter 3 Christmas dies, called Festive Trims, I had to make some bigger corn.
These place setting cards or menu cards are very simple to make. It is just a piece of Watercolor Cardstock or white heavy cardstock folded in half. Then I used some Distress Woodgrain Cardstock that I had on hand to cut the deco frames. The Deco Frames die is a Bigz steel rule die, so I also cut one out of chipboard to add dimension.
You could also make your own woodgrain by following this tutorial using the Woodgrain 3D folder.
To make the corn from the Pinecone die in Festive Trims, you basically just need to color all the parts as shown in the photo above. I cut the pieces from Distress Mixed Media Heavystock and then colored the greenery and the piece that looks like a canoe with Scattered Straw and Fossilized Amber. I colored the base of the pinecone the same way, but added some Wild Honey. Then I colored the criss-cross piece with Wild Honey, Fired Brick and Aged Mahoghany. I put some on my craft mat and then just picked the color up with my water brush and tapped it on in little blots until it was all colored. Once all the parts are colored, then edge with a bit of Walnut Stain and assemble.
Then using any alphabet, put the menu items or people's names into the center of the frame.
You can do the same thing for Christmas, Hannukah, or even just a winter cocoa night depending on the color scheme you use when making the actual pine cones.
I hope this encourages you to look at your die cuts a little differently and see if there are other occasions where they will work.
I'm thankful you chose to visit today!
Tami
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With the coming of springtime there are always new possibilities ahead. On this card, Mr. Cottontail ponders what wonderful new things await him.
I used several new dies released from Tim Holtz Sizzix Chapter 1 for 2019 and some paper from the Ideaology Wallflower Stash.
The Timekeeper clock was cut from chipboard and Distress Woodgrain cardstock.
To make the hands stand out, they were stained brown, then covered with
Distress Collage Medium and then had Picket Fence Distress Paint rubbed
into the depressed areas so that they would stand out from the
clockface. They were attached to the card in the middle with a Long
Fastener.
The lavender or salvia, which ever flower you choose it to be, is from the Wildflower Stems 2 die set. I cut several out of Distress Mixed Media Heavystock and then colored it with Distress Oxides in Bundled Sage and Shaded Lilac.
I bunched them together and then tied the stems together with a piece of Eclectic Elements Craft Thread.
Cottontail was cut from chipboard for a base and then from natural canvas that I adhered to the chipboard base. The canvas bow is colored with Distress Oxide in Shaded Lilac
Because both the Timekeeper and Cottontail dies are steel rule dies,
they can cut a variety of things that the thinlits just can't.
Everything from chipboard to fabrics, leather, thin wood veneer, thin
sheet metal, it really is amazing. And the detail that Tim and Sizzix
have managed to get with a steel-rule die is remarkable. Truly
remarkable!
I finished the card off by cutting the word POSSIBILITIES from the Traveler Words die set. I cut it directly out of the background Wallflower paper and layed it over a dark brown mat.
This one was actually a really simple card. No techniques, just a lot of fun cutting these lovely dies and layering them on a card.
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog.
Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links
below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you
choose. If you wish to purchase something
from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small
percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This
helps me to defray the costs of this blog and the ideas and tutorials I
post here, and your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
