- stamps - Tiny Text (Tim Holtz)
- card - very vanilla, watercolour
- distress oxide inks - abandoned coral, worn lipstick, spun sugar, scattered straw, rustic wilderness, speckled egg, evergreen bough, vintage photo, ground espresso
- other - plaid slimline die (Pink and Main), Big Shot, Bloom Colorize die (TH), blending brushes, sponge dauber, Dimensionals, craft foam
Friday, January 29, 2021
With All Your Heart
Friday, January 22, 2021
Unsupervised - CAS on Friday Challenge #197
Hi all and welcome to another CAS on Friday challenge. This is challenge #197 and our theme is ANIMALS.
- stamps - Crazy Cats, Snarky Cats (Tim Holtz)
- card - crumb cake, soft sea foam, watercolour
- other - box die, Big Shot, aqua painter, sponge dauber, Dimensionals, craft foam, Sahara sand marker, stitched rectangle die, Glossy Accents
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Let's See How Long I Can Keep This Resolution...
I'm not usually one for making new year resolutions but this year I'm giving it a whirl. It's a crafting resolution, so I figure it should be easier than the regular kind, lol! Due to shipping delays etc etc (*eye roll*), many Xmas goodies I ordered didn't make it in time - arriving either far too close to Dec 25th to be used, or not arriving until well after the Big Day. Sooooo, rather than having them gathering dust, I resolved to make at least one Christmas card per month.
My January card is done and we're not even halfway through the month, so I'm doing well so far. Let's see if I can keep it up - maybe you can remind me if it's getting close to the end of the month and you haven't seen a Chrissie card up here!
For this one I've used a number of Tim Holtz products (no surprise there, methinks). The first time I tried this die I was 'not happy Jan' but I stumbled across an excellent YouTube video which made it much easier to piece together and my second go was a snap. There's still a few small errors, but hey - live and learn, right? I was making it late at night so I've given myself a pass on those.
I'm very pleased with my night sky - it came out even better than I was hoping, to be honest. First time using the splatter brush (for the stars) and boy! you get so many splatters from just one go! Pretty sure I'm hooked on that thing now.
Materials used:
- distress oxide inks - chipped sapphire, blueprint sketch, black soot
- card - whisper white, soft suede, cinnamon cider, crushed curry, garden green, white glitter, gold foil
- other - Holiday Village die (Tim Holtz), blue alcohol marker, coloured rhinestones, picket fence distress paint, splatter brush, Big Shot, double-sided adhesive sheets, blender brush, heat tool, water spritzer
Friday, January 8, 2021
Poor Ted - CAS on Friday Challenge #196
Welcome to the very first CAS on Friday challenge for 2021! I hope you all have a wealth of wonderful crafting goodness ahead of you in this new year.
- stamps - Itty Bitty Greetings (SU), Get Well Soon (LOTV)
- card - pistachio pudding, watercolour
- ink colours - strawberry slush, baked brown sugar, Baja breeze, pistachio pudding, petal pink, so saffron, smoky slate
- other - aquapainter, craft foam, Dimensionals, pennant punch, stitched rectangle die, Big Shot, pool party and Sahara sand markers
Thursday, January 7, 2021
The Professor is in the House
Today I had the pleasure of a few hours playing with distress oxide inks, trying to create a rusty, grunged look. I experimented with a few colour combinations then picked one for the background of my card. Here tis:
Pretty much all Tim Holtz products here, but SU officiandos may spy the brass 'Hodgepodge Hardware' piece from quite a few years ago.
- stamps - The Professor (TH)
- card - early espresso, very vanilla, watercolour
- oxide inks - vintage photo, walnut stain, spiced marmalade, cracked pistachio, antique linen
- other - Gearhead dies (TH), Big Shot, Mechanics 3D embossing folder (TH), tag die, Mini Stencil Set 1 (TH), blending brush, distress micro glaze, vintage photo archival ink, Hodgepodge Hardware, Dimensionals, Stamparatus, Delicata celestial copper ink
- o Cut a piece of heavy watercolour cardstock using tag die
- o Ran vintage photo oxide ink pad dry across tag surface; spritzed with water to move ink around
- o Dried
- o Decided it was too dark so did same with antique linen oxide ink; dried
- o Spritzed with water and applied kitchen towel to absorb moisture, thus also lightening the colour; continued this until happy with amount of colour; dried
- o Stencilled vintage photo oxide ink through Industrial mini stencil over whole tag
- o Inked edges with vintage photo archival ink
- o You could use metallic embellishments, but I made my own
- o I covered a piece of heavy watercolour cardstock with Delicata Celestial Copper ink then cut a number of cogs of various sizes using Gearhead dies
- o Each cog then had black soot and vintage photo archival inks applied in a random manner, as well as cracked pistachio distress paint applied in smudges using my finger
- o Stamped onto watercolour cardstock using ground espresso archival ink
- o Fussy cut by hand
- o Decided it was a bit stark (bright contrast to my background) so used waterbrush to lightly colour with antique linen oxide ink (except his goggles)
- o Adhered him to base of tag, cutting off excess, applying adhesive only down the centre of the image so I could lift the edges to adhere some cogs underneath