Garden Bunny Hop - Tim Holtz Sizzix

 I am so happy to have Sizzix invite me back as a guest blogger for Tim Holtz Chapter 1 dies for 2020. Tim and Sizzix have again outdone themselves with some absolutely delightful dies.

 The Bunny Hop dies inspired me to make this piece. My grandmother used to read Beatrix Potter stories to me when I was little, and that memory prompted me to make a mini version of Mr. McGregor’s Garden using Sizzix Tim Holtz dies.

Yes, even the carrots and cabbages are all Tim Holtz dies! I had so much fun working with Tim's dies to make all of the gardeny goodness in this piece. 

 

This was originally made for the Sizzix Making Blog in Jan of 2020, but that is no longer active and I do not have a saved copy of the blog I wrote. So I'm going to do my best with the photos I could find to describe how I made parts of this piece. 

My job in making these pieces was to use dies that were new and promote them. So for these tiny cabbages, I used these two flower dies from Funky Florals. I cut several of each from both green and purple to make both cabbages. I also died some small Idea-ology Baubles with Lettuce Alcohol Ink.

Spray the inked and die cut flowers with water.

Then crinkle them up into balls.

Uncrinkle and then put a bit of Collage Medium in the middle of the flower and add a green Bauble. 

 Now shape the paper around the bauble, folding and crinkling it up toward the top of the bauble so it looks like the center of a cabbage. Add a little more Collage Medium as needed to get the paper to adhere to itself and the bauble.

 They should look like these. Do this to half of the flowers cut.

The second half of the flowers are for the outer cabbage leaves. These start out the same as the others. Wet, crinkle into balls, then uncrinkle. Add collage medium to the center of the flower and put one of the paper wrapped baubles in the middle.

Squeeze the petals up just like you did before. I think if you left it like this it looks like an artichoke. 

Then gently pull the outer petals out and down a little as the Collage Medium dries to form the outer petals so they curl back a little and look like a cabbage.

These cabbages are really tiny because they were going on a garden card with lots of other things and with some carrots I also made with die cuts. to show how versatile a die cut can be rather than reaching for Idea-ology.

 I used these dies from Funky Florals to make carrots. You will need more green paper for the carrot tops and orange paper for the carrots 

 

I took the leaf shape and cut the orange paper from it. then I curled the leaf up using Collage Medium to make a cone shape. 

 When you get all the leaves rolled up you need to add some of the green leafy die cuts into the top of the cone.

 

Trim the top of the cone carrot so it is flat. 

 Trim this fer piece down so it fits the size of the carrot a little better.

 

Glue the green fern piece into the top of the carrot cone with a little Collage Medium and you are done.

 

I have links to some products below, but  since the Funky Florals and many other products I originally used are no longer available, if you don't have the Funky Florals, I have linked to a few options below.

 Thank you!
Tami

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All Bottled Up Tapestry - Tim Holtz Sizzix

I’m so pleased to have been invited back to share a project on Sizzix, The Making Journal using some of the new Chapter 1 Tim Holtz dies. With this project I wanted to highlight the Crochet 2 dies and the Bottled Up die with a textural piece for spring.

The fun thing about this project is that the dies and design are really versatile, changing with the colors chosen and the things you put in the bottles. You could make a bright, summery tapestry, a dark Halloween apothecary tapestry, and a festive, holiday/wintery tapestry. There’s no limit to the uses and themes you can achieve with these two very versatile dies. 

I hope you will take a moment to hop over to The Making Journal Blog for my tutorial on this piece.

Thank you!
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, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!