Experimenting with Paper

Example #1

It all started with Tim Holtz Lost and Found double sided designer paper.

Dry brush Liquitex iridescent pearlescent paint over the blue designer paper.

White gesso over the iridescent paint.
This was done with a hit and miss technique with semi-dry brush of white gesso. Let dry.
Apply Distress Gathered Twig ink over the gesso,
with an inked foam blending tool, then spray with water and heat set to dry.
Apply Distress RipePersimmon ink over the gathered twig inked piece with an inked
foam blending tool, then spray with water and heat set to dry.
Apply Distress Aged Mahogany ink with an
inked foam blending tool, then spray with water and then heat set to dry.
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I love the results of this and would never dream
 it all started as Tim Holtz scrapbook paper if I hadn't done it myself.

(the color has not be enhanced)

Example #2

Example #3

In example #3; I sprayed Perfect Pearls Mist (Heirloon Gold) over example #2 tag and then heat set to dry.

Update:
This morning, I made this example using white card stock and supplies listed above!

Example #4

The possibilities are endless what you can do with your stamping supplies!

Do you love to play with ink and paper?

Spiral Love Booklet

 
Spiral Love Booklet 
by Judy Cantrell 
I made this booklet over two years ago, although it was never shared on this blog. 

The inspiration came to me when I saw a book that spelled out words in my local craft store. 

Each cover letter has its own pages behind it for jotting down notes or thoughts. I made this heart's gift using a variety of tools and supplies from my stash.

Finished size: 4” x 8”

Supplies:

Cuttlebug heart embossing folder

Vagabond

Base Camp Font Cartridge

Cricut Electronic cutter

Zutter Bind-it-All

Zutter Red Owires; ¾”

Zutter Wire cutter

Perfect Pearl pigment powder

Perfect Medium pad

Detail and dusting brush

Red, black and white cardstock

White copy paper

Paper flower punch

Paper trimmer

Clear Gel tacky glue

 Instructions:

1)    This small booklet comes together using four separate sections. Each letter has its on white pages. 

2)    Cut 8 precise pieces of red cardstock

a)    2 - 2 x 4,”

b)    2 – 4 x 4,”

c)     2 – 6 x 4,” 

d)    2 – 8 x 4.”

3)    Cut white pages slightly small for each 4 sets of red cardstock. I used 10 pages for each section.

4)    Emboss front sections of each red cardstock with heart embossing folder. 

Designers Note: Emboss the red front sections V and E twice.

5)    Use detail brush to apply Perfect Pearl pigment powder to each embossed red cardstock. Use dusting brush to remove excess powder.

Designers Note: Perfect Pearls come in many fabulous colors; I used Perfect Pearl color for this project. Its luster was perfect for this project and doesn’t rub off because it has a binder in it.

6) Arrange red embossed front, white paper and red cardstock for each section.

7) Use Bind-it-All tool to cut holes in each section per instructions of this tool.

8) Use wire cutter to cut desired Owires. Apply per instructions of Owires to bind the booklet.

9) Cricut electronic machine and Base Camp font cartridge was used to cut the word “LOVE” 2 ½.” Adhere the L to the 2 x 4” piece, O to 4 x 4,” V to 6 x 4” and E to 8 x 4” piece. These can be straight across or graduated as I did on this project.

10) Use white cardstock to punch 3 flowers. Adhere to the letter O.

11) I hope you’ll enjoy making this project. Other words and names could be made with a little adjustment.

She Loves Flowers

When I placed my paper doll image on the tag, I didn't like the floral background paper around her face, I was pleasantly surprised how well it looked when I turned the tag upside down!

I used 3D dots to add my Julie Nutting stamped image to my tag. She was stamped on 140 lb.  Strathmore watercolor paper, painted with Niji watercolor crayons, cut out and then dressed in scrapbook paper from my stash; the background portion of tag was made with Prima paper. The sticker flourish is from Prima, flower embellishment from Michaels and tissue tape from Paper Studio. 

Oh, I forgot, I used a water brush with watercolor crayons to color the flowers and leaves on Prima paper. 

Comments appreciated and always read! 

Life Is Good

Here is another tag using one of the fabulous stamp images by Julie Nutting, papers, flower and trim all by Prima. 

Tim Holtz "life is good" from #155 was inked and added to trim. 

Archival black ink by Ranger was used on all stamped images. 

The finished tag 4 x 8.5" 

Wishing the dress didn't look so pale, it's a lovely green.

Enjoy!

Life Moments

My tag was made with one of the cute little girl stamps from Julie Nutting, two of Tim's strip die cuts and one of his stamps. Other images from Prima 6x6" paper pads. Julie Nutting image was stamped on watercolor paper using Archival black ink. Scrapbook paper from my stash was used for her dress. 

Thanks for Looking and have a nice day!

12 Tags of 2014 ~ January ~ Happy Birthday Tim

Happy Birthday Tim! 

I used many of Tim's supplies on my January tag. 

After viewing Tim's blog post I proceeded making my tag. I had the texture fade embossing folder Tim used but chose to use another texture fade embossing folder. 

Vintage Photo stain was used on background since I didn't have pumice stone. I used mini clip to hold my type charm with the number 7 cut from tickets for Tim's Birthday. 
 Archival black ink was used with image from /CMS#132 on fabric trimming from my sewing stash. 

Click on this link to view Tim's blog post: http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2014-january/

Supplies:
distress paint/black soot, distress stain/vintage photo. distress ink/black soot, ink blending tool, metal foil tape, archival ink/jet black. glossy accents, craft sheet, heat tool, grungeboard, chit chat stickers, tiny attacher, sanding grip, scissors, journaling tickets, type charm, sprocket gear, mini paper clip, stamp/CMS#132 and CMS#058, bigs die/pocket watch frame, movers & shapers die/sized circles, vagabond, #8 manila tag made with bookplate die.

Additional supplies: gears from hardware, and fabric trim.  

Snowman 2

I had fun making another snowman today.

The blue background was made with a few stencils from Dyan Reaveley, paint and my Gelli Printing Plate. 

The snowman was made with my new Cameo, I love this new tool. The scarf, hat, nose were painted with Tim Holtz distress paint.

A piece of green card stock was added to brim on hat.

The eyes were made with a Copic .05 pen.

Coal was made with black card stock. 

The distress inked snow piles were made with white card stock and scissors.
 My Cameo digital tool was used to make the quote Let it Snow! 

Mom's Snowmen

This tag is similar to the one I made and shared a few days ago, this snowman was made with card stock.
The smaller snowman was made with chipboard, both were made with my Cameo and finished by my Mother, Jo.

Snowman Tag

 I used acrylic paint to color this sweet little snowman image made with my new tool the Cameo.  I used Tim's #8 bookplate die and snowflake die on this tag. Distress ink was used over Hero Arts stamped image. Star bling applied to tag using Glossy Accents. 

Paper Tree

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 I saw the beautiful tree from Silhouette blog  

After purchasing the image today, it took about one hour to apply petals on an 8" styrofoam cone. 

Thank you for visiting my blog!

I would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone that visits my blog a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Santa Treat Box

I made these cute little Santa Treat Box to give to grandkids and great grandkids! From there, I had to make my hubby, mother, daughter and SIL, son and DIL and still have a few more to give away this week. 

They are filled with Kisses, Snickers and peanut butter cups. 

Those seen were made from red card stock.
While making these, I came up with an idea to add flocking powder on beards, brim and pompom. To do this, I swirled white glue and then added a pile of MS flocking powder, after 20 minutes the flocking was poured off and set aside to dry. One MS bottle of flocking powder was used on 25 Santa treat boxes. I've also made the Santa Treat Boxes with red plaid paper that seem to be a favorite.

The image is from SilhouetteAmerica.com

I used my new Cameo!

Finished size 5 1/4" tall. 

Love how these turned out. 

Cute Prima Dolls

I had a lot of fun making this journal page using two of those cute little girls stamped images from Prima.  I've added other stamps from my stash on the page. 

Merry Christmas Tag 12-12-13

A stencil from my new Cameo was used with Evergreen Bough distress ink on a white tag made with a Cricut. 

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Just letting you know I don't get paid to say anything about my tools/stamps/ink/die cutting tools. Just love sharing what I used on my projects! 

The tree blueprint image from Tim's CMS #135 was inked with Archival black ink on white matte card stock and heat set. I used distress markers to color tree and ornaments. Stickles were added to tree. 3D dots were used to apply stamped image to tag. 

 Mowed Lawn distress ink was used to stamp Tim's CMS #155 image, cut out and Archival black was used to stamp Merry Christmas from CMS #155 and then applied to tag. 

Distress ink was added around tag to finish.

I was making this tag last evening when one of our granddaughters came in, she saw the tag and was waiting until I finished it. She said, I want it for my tree.

Good thing I got a photo before it left my home. 

Season's Greetings

I used Tim's bookplate die to make a 14 pt. manila tag it was then covered with a free form holly and berries stencil I made with .005 film and my new Cameo.
Next, I used a foam applicator with peeled paint distress ink over the stencil.
With stencil still taped down add color to berries with fired brick distress paint.
Use Archival black ink to stamp image from CMS #119 Joyful Song on white tissue paper, trim and apply a thin film of Perfect Paper Adhesive (matte) and then adhere across tag.
If you like how the grid design looks on my tag, you can create it with something you may already have in your home, but you have to work quickly because the ink dries to fast. The design was made with plastic grid, I cut it the size of my tag with sharp scissors and then rubbed distress paint in Distress Paint Tarnished Brass on the grid and quickly press down on tag. You might have to practice on a scrap piece of paper before using on your tag.
Die cut one of Tim's carolers with white card stock. Paint with black soot distress stain or paint. Let dry. Apply to tag.
Stamp Season's Greetings using embossing ink followed by black embossing powder and heat set.
Use foam applicator to apply distress ink around tag to finish.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

I made this adorable little tree. 

Tim's rosette dies were used with MS bling on the little tree. Claudine Hellmuth matte multi-medium was used as an adhesive to hold the bling and star. I found a tiny branch on the ground for the trunk. Hot glue gun was used as Tim suggested. This was the smallest vintage spool I had in my stash. I used scrapbook paper with the rosette dies, white dabber paint to edges and glitter on the punched star.

I'm going to use the little tree in a shadow box.

I've made five of these and none of them came out perfect. Each one has it's own personality.

Tim's tree is so adorable.

Heart Book and Memories

I've spent at least one week out of the year with my mother since I've been married. Each time through the years I would fill up the car with supplies, one time I took down candle making supplies, another time it was soap making supplies, another time was spent cleaning and painting ceramics to fire in a kiln, another time we made fabric dolls and rabbits, another time we made large outdoor cut-outs with a jigsaw. These were cut from a 4ft x 8ft piece of plywood.

Over the years we have made many crafty projects together.

 Ten years ago, I used discarded school books to make into heart book using my band saw. Mother and I spent every waking moment on our books using glue, paint, inks and stamps. Sometimes we would look at the clock, it would be 1 am. 

 We started the books on Sunday afternoon when DH left for home until he came back the following Saturday. 

 I can see a lot of improvement I could have made using techniques and supplies available today. 

Heart Book by Judy Cantrell



Do you Write with your left hand?

Do you Write with your Left Hand or your Right Hand?

Take just one minute to leave a comment, it will be fun to see if we are near the national average. The encyclopedia says that 7 to 10% of people prefer to write with their left hand. It is probably the same with stampers.

My answer:

I do most things with either hand but write best with my left hand.
When I started to grade school I was the only one in our little school left handed, they said I was going to be right handed, so during class for two years they tied my left hand behind me with a belt. 

Have a nice day!

Watercolor Card

This card was made using a stamped and watercolored image from Stampsmith and diamond stamped background from Staving Artstamps. The sentiment is unknown.

My Grandmother

This is my beloved Grandmother. When we got off the school bus we would stop in to see her and my grandpa. I have fond memories that are dear to my heart. I recall helping with the quilts that hung from the ceiling, making pulled taffy, sewing, she taught me to crochet, feeding gold fish in the pond and so, so, so many more memories. 

My Mother and Dad lived down the road from our Grandparent's. Some days it would be almost dark when I would go home. I was the middle child two older and two younger brothers and sisters.

When my grannie pass on, I was one of two grandchildren in the will; I received her treadle sewing machine. My grandparents had seven children and 22 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. 

My grandmother was a creative person, she handmade all the gifts for Christmas. I still have all the things she made me for me; even the little dress she made when I was born. 

Happy Birthday

The burlap texture fades emboss folder from Tim Holtz was used for the background of this card. The colors were created with watercolor crayons and a waterbrush. Hearts in Touch Vinca flowers were inked and colored with Copic Markers. The stamp Happy Birthday from Hearts in Touch was inked on vellum. Vellum adhesive was used to apply to card front. Home cartridge from Cricut was used to make the motif.

Stamps Happen Card

I would like to share two pages from my mini-book made with the stamps from Stamps Happen.

The first page 80164 Feather Bonnet, the second page 80426 New York Socialite

The Bind-it-All was used on this mini-book.
Artist chalks were used to color.

Celebrate the Season

I used distress ink with a stencil on the 14 pt. heavy duty manila tag, next I ran the holly embossing folder through my die cut machine, next I colored the raised images with distress inks and then used distress paint on berries. 

3D Die cuts were added to finish.  

December 2013 Tags by Jo Adair

My mother can't wait to see what Tim shares each month, she is 88 years young and still collecting Tim's products. We spent most of one morning working on our tags a few days ago.
Since her netbook doesn't have a way to upload artwork I told her I would upload it here on my blog.
My mother used Tim's tag die to make manila tags and then completed tags using Tim's dies, stamps, distress inks, paints, embossing powder and more from her stash.
I spoke to my mother this morning, she was busy making more tags using the stamp; A Joyful Christmas
She sends out handmade tags and cards throughout the year to family and friends.

You can view Tim's 12 tags of 2013 for December here:

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-december/

Update:

 My mother won on Tim Holtz blog for her 12 Tags of 2013 for December.

12 Tags of 2013 ~ December

Welcome to my blog; Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
This month I made three tags using Tim's techniques.

I made these tags using my mothers supplies of Tim's dies, stamps, embossing powder and distress inks.

I have the frosted film, its at my home 103 miles away. 

The only supplies I brought on this trip were distress paints and some stencils.  

Along with the distress painted poinsettia on second tag, I used clear film that was heated to curl in ventilated area. You know how it is, you finish a tag and have paint on your fingers and the next thing you have it on my tag. I decided leave as is. 

The first and second tag was made with the same distress paint, fired brick. The light color flower was made to look like a peppermint poinsettia. Love those distress paints.

Update:

    

I inked and embossed a few of my mother's Tim Holtz stamps on manila tags before coming home yesterday. This tag was finishing today using my supplies:

TH frosted film, TH Holly die, TH distress ink,

Archival ink; coffee, olive and sepia.

Red beads and trim inked with distress inks
Clear film

My cordless hot-glue gun was used to apply the embellishments on the tag.

This one is my favorite of the three tags! 

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Thanks Tim! 

Merry Christmas! 

Check out Tim's beautiful tags for December: http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-december/