Creativations 2018 - Tim Holtz Blog Hop and Give Away!

Welcome!! I hope you are enjoying all the marvelous creations so far! I’m thrilled to be included with this group of insanely talented artists to share a project from one of Tim Holtz’s Creativation 2018 booths. 

I am sharing a card I made from some of Tim’s new Sizzix releases. When I got the die cuts, I just started combing Pinterest for some inspiration. I have an inspiration board that I add to when I get a new stamp or die cut release. It’s a bunch of pretty eclectic images that I use for color, texture or theming inspiration. For this project I was inspired by these images from my board:

I just loved the aged, yet romantic framed mirror and the worn teal frames and felt they should be a Valentine card. 

To make this card I used the following from Sizzix Alterations:

• Stacked Baroque
• Shadow Script 1
• Tiny Tattered Florals
• Funky Florals 2
• Rosette Texture Fade

Additionally, you will need:

• Ideaology Mirrored Sheets
• Gold Metallic Kraftstock
• Ground Espresso Distress Paint
• Peacock Feathers Distress Paint
• Mushroom Alcohol Ink
• Gold Distress Spray
• White Textured Cardstock
• Distress Heavy Stock
• Picked Raspberry Distress Ink
• Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink
• Hand Sanitizer and Alcohol Ink Blending Solution

Begin by cutting the largest Stacked Baroque shape out of the Ideaology Mirrored Sheets. I cut this out on my Vagabond and it cut beautifully in one pass. Then cut the middle size from the mirrored paper as well. 

These pieces will be sticky on the back with a very good adhesive. You want to wear this adhesive away gently in some spots so it looks like an old antique mirror. 

 To do this you can use plain hand sanitizer, a plastic scraping tool, and a felt blending tool. Leave the protective film on the mirrored side. 

 Put some hand sanitizer in a small spot on the adhesive backing and gently scrape it away down to the mirror. Don’t scrape the mirrored paint. 

Now, clean the sanitizer off with water and using the alcohol ink tool with felt and Blending Solution, gently buff away the mirrored paint in that section. Repeat in several places on the piece, especially around the edges. Clean off the back with paper towels and water. This is what it will look like on the back,

 and the front.

Once you have sufficiently worn away the mirror and cleaned up, (because it will be messy but so worth it!) apply some Mushroom Alcohol Ink to a felt covered blending tool and cover the worn away places on the back. Once dry add a little of the Ground Espresso Paint over the worn places on the back as well. Let dry.

Now turn the pieces over and remove the protective film. Cover the mirror with a thin layer of Mushroom Alcohol Ink, then flick some drops of the Blending Solution onto the front of the mirrored piece so it will make little splotches like an old mirror. Set aside to dry.

To make the frame, use the largest Stacked Baroque die and the second largest. 

 

 

Using a few pieces of Design Tape, to keep them from moving, place the smaller die inside the larger one and cut a frame from a piece of gold Metallic Kraftstock. 

Then cut several more from black cardstock to add dimension. Glue the 3-4 black frames together. Run the gold frame through the Rosette texture fade and attach to the stack of black frames. 

Using a piece of blending foam on a blending tool, pounce some Ground Espresso Distress Paint onto the frame. Let it dry a little, the wipe some of it away off the raised areas so the gold will show through. Then dry.

Repeat the paint step again with Peacock Feathers Distress Paint. Let dry a little and again wipe away from raised areas. Dry.

For the assembly, I cut a cardbase from white cardstock to make a 4.25 x 5.5 inch card base. Cut a 4 x 5.25 piece of gold and cream paper from the Wallflowers paper pad. I did a simple stitch around mine on my sewing machine before attaching it. Add a piece of gold ribbon across the center. I dyed some seam binding with Gold Metallic Distress Spray. 
Adhere the large mirror to the center of the card. Add the frame. Then center the smaller mirror, and attach.

I decorated the frame with a few greenery pieces from the Funky Florals 3 die set and few roses from the Tiny Tattered Florals set. Finally attach the Shadow Script “love” cut from white cardstock and Gold Metallic Kraftstock.  I used the white kraft core cardstock from Coredinations.

And that’s it! You have a beautiful Valentine for someone you love.

If you made it this far, thank you! Be sure to leave a comment on each of the blog posts to be eligible for one of the awesome prizes!

Now head on over to the very talented Audrey Petit’s blog to see her fabulous project!

PRIZES, PRIZES,PRIZES!

We have a few prizes to give away and the more blog hop posts you comment on the more chances you have to win! 

Comments must be posted by midnight PST on Tuesday, February 6th. 

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, February 7th on Richele's blog (californiaARTgirl.blogspot.com) 

Paula Cheney

Vicki Evans

Emma Williams

Cathie Parreco

Kaz Hall

Jan Hobbins

Jenny Marples

Tami Bastiaans (you are here)

Audrey Pettit (next)

Mou Saha

Richele Christensen 

Kath Stewart

Cheiron Brandon

Stacy Hutchinson

Chelle Fowler

Zoe Hillman

Joy Kennedy

Bobbie Smith

You Make Me Happy

Today’s blog post features a card made with the absolutely stunning Stampers Anonymous stamp by Tim Holtz called Glorious Bouquet CMS325 with a touch of Ornate Trimmings CMS326, two of my immediate favorites!! Both of these stamp sets will be shipping THIS WEEK! Yay!!

This is a very simple card, but it isn’t quick to make. I stamped  a corner of the Glorious Bouquet stamp onto the corner of some Distressed Mixed Media Heavystock in Ground Espresso Archival Ink. Then I watercolored with Distress Markers in all the various greens and purples. The water coloring is what takes all the time, but it is so worth it! I added one of the sentiments from the Glorious Bouquet set, and added a couple of the Ornate Trimmings stamps along the right side in Antique Linen Distress Ink.

 I LOVE the Ornate Trimmings!! I have so many plans for them! They can be so versatile - lovely, lacy, and feminine or bright, bold, and masculine. Stay tuned for more cards I’m currently working on with this set. If it isn’t on your wish list it should be. :-)

Making Plans with Side Orders

I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed all of the videos and photos from Creativation 2018! What fun and so much great inspiration! If you missed anything, Tim Holtz has a fantastic recap of all of his booths and demos on his blog here.

Today I wanted to start sharing some of the samples I made for some of Tim Holtz’s product lines. I’m beginning with some Sizzix Alterations dies that are released and shipping THIS MONTH!

With so many planner artists out there, Tim added a die called Stitched Slots to his die cut line. This die has several uses.

1. My first thought was that it would be perfect for mini albums. You could tuck additional photos, journaling tags, and souvenir tickets, and other ephemera into the various slot spaces.
2. It could also be put into a card for a loved one with gift cards, notes, even photos.
3. I used it as a place to hold tags and decorative paper clips for a planner exchange. I’m not a planner, at all, so I just pretended that if I was, I’d be in a group that does exchanges and this would be what I would bring to the exchange. :-)

To make my little Planner Exchange Gift , I folded a piece of cardstock and cut out a card using the largest Stacked Deckle die. Make sure you place the fold INSIDE the cutting edge or it will cut out two separate shapes.

Then I cut out three of the next size smaller Stacked Deckle dies out of patterned paper for the front and insides of the card. Adhere them to the front and insides of the card.

Then cut out two of the Stitched Slots. Adhere them to both inside pages of the card. The key to adhering these pieces is that you ONLY PUT ADHESIVE ALONG THE OUTER EDGE, not on the Slots.
Using the Side Order Dies that go with the Sidekick, I cut the various pieces for the shapes I wanted for planners. The only difference when making the paper clips is that you need to cut an additional one of the base shape so that you can sandwich the paper clip between the shape and the extra base piece.

The Side Order dies really are perfect for planners!  And although these are all cut from paper, I was able to cut out shapes from felt, fabric, and fun foam as well. So many possibilities!

Since I knew these would probably take a beating in a planner, I covered them front and back with a layer of Distress Collage Medium.

Then I attached them to various slots along with some small tags, and it is ready to give to a friend for a planner exchange.