Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Spring 2025 - Components Collection Inspired Ectcerta Tags

Hello All and Happy Spring to you! Today, Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous have brought back old stamps and stencils for us to remember and love yet again, or for newbies to fall in love with for the first time. It's such a genius idea as I know with me, I have forgotten or haven't used soooo many stamps from the past, so I love revisiting them again. Since some of the Component stamps and sets they were created with were in this re-release, I decided to recreate them as best I could and on #8 Etcetera Tags in the bright fresh colors of Spring. Enjoy!

 

 

I painted over all the tags in Picket Fence Distress Ink from Ranger first then let that dry, and then added the other paints to create a sundown looking sky with bottom grassy area. 

I stamped the script in Glacier White Pigment Ink for the Flutter. 

 I stamped the wheat/cattails image in Peeled Paint Archival and the floral edge in Rustic Wilderness.

 

 Then I painted in all the images and borders. I did this same thing for all four.

For the Sparrow that I made into a Robin, same thing as before. I stamped the edges in Glacier White, and the foliage in Rustic Wilderness, and the bird branch in Wild Honey.

 

Then I painted the images. 

 

 For the Tatoo, I stamped the foliage in Rustic Wilderness, the bird in Faded Jeans, and the flowers in Villainous Potion. The lace was stamped first in Glacier White.

 Then I painted it in.

The numbers in Glacier White, the butterfly and crown in Black Soot, and the foliage in Rustic Wilderness.

 More paint, and the edges in Black Soot instead of Picket Fence like the other three. I used a Letter-It Pen in Gold for the crown.

 

Supplies:

(Stamp Platform, Regular and Detail Paint Brush, White Pen)

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Etcetera Tag: #8

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Picket Fence, Broken China, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, Wilted Violet, Walnut Stain, Tea Dye, Mustard Seed, Walnut Stain, Tea Dye, Wild Honey, Pumice Stone, Black Soot

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Components Collection Stamp: Flutter (COM022), Tattered Sparrow (COM031), Tattoo You (COM032), Fairy Garden (COM029 

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: French Marketplace (CMS071), Nature's Discovery (CMS049), Nature's Moments (CMS001), Shabby French (CMS087), Urban Tapestry (CMS061), Floral Tattoo (CMS059), Urban Chic (CMS086) 

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Rustic Wilderness, Peeled Paint, Wild Honey, Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso, Villainous Potion, Faded Jeans, Black Soot 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Letter-It Metallic Pen: Gold

Thank you all so much for stopping by. I'll be back again soon with some Easter makes from the re-released stamps. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault 2025 - Floristry Sidekick Side-Order Van Gogh Inspired 3 Sunflowers In A Vase

WOW, this blog is very dusty. Hello All! I hope this post finds each of you doing so well! I have not been creating much this year due to some medical issues, but I was fortunate enough to get to create a little something for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Spring Vault Launch. There are two parts to this launch with 5 sets out today, and the next part will come out on the 31st. The first five sets are the Vault Edge, Vault Industrial, Vault Atomic Retro, Vault Noteworthy, and the Sidekick Side-Order Vault Floristry, and I've used the last two to create another Van Gogh inspired Sunflowers piece, this time a 4x5 inch canvas, and using his 3 Sunflowers In A Vase as my guide. (If you missed my other two Van Gogh inspired pieces, click here for The 12 Sunflowers and here for The Poppies.) Enjoy!

I actually made two at the same time....one for Sizzix and one for home that I framed from a gorgeous little frame I found at an antique mall. 

I used this image as my guide with the dies from the Side-Order Vault Floristry to create both canvases much the same as I did the others. 

 

(Note: It's good to print off the Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A Vase for reference while you work, or have the pics on your phone to use for detail work.) Take a 4x5 inch canvas (I did 2, a chunky and a panel.) and using a palette knife, apply a thin layer of Opaque Distress Texture Paste from Tim and Ranger,  to the whole canvas dividing up wall (vertical lined pattern) and where the table part (about 1 inch wide horizontal line pattern) will be. Let the canvas dry about an hour.

 

Paint over the top textured area with Broken China Distress Paint. While the paint is still wet add a bit of Picket Fence Distress Paint here and there vertically (using the pic as your guide) creating stripes of color while blending them for a soft striated look. Using Scorched Timber Distress Paint, add a line of paint where the blue ends, and then dashes of Vintage Photo, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, and Rusty Hinge filling in the whole bottom area, again using the pic as your guide. Let the canvas dry. 

 

Free hand cut the vase (about 1.5 inches tall) from scrap cardstock and add two sided tape to the back. Using the Distress Paints, Broken China, Picket Fence, Scorched Timber, Twisted Citron, and Peeled Paint, try to recreate the look of the vase in the pic. Begin die cutting the leaves and stems using scrap green cardstock backed with two sided tape, from the Floristry Side Order. Use either Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, or Scorched Timber to paint in the leaves and stems, following the pic.

 

Emboss the vase with the Honeycomb looking Texture Fade, and then use a bit of Scorched Timber around the edges of the vase. When dry, apply Collage Medium to the canvas where the vase will go, remove the backing and stick it on, coating it with Collage Medium as you go. When dry, play with the arrangement of leaves and stems to see where they will go, and begin to stick them on with the Collage Medium as well.

 

 

Add two sided tape to the back of light and dark yellow cardstock scrap, and begin die cutting all the flower petals and centers using the Floristry Side-Order, as well as the circle from Vault Noteworthy for a few more round center pieces. Begin to layer the petals and centers by removing the backing and sticking them together until you have all three flowers with a look similar to the pic.

 

Adhere the flowers on covered them with Collage Medium. When dry, use the paints to add more detail all the parts.

 

Finish off the canvas by adding dots of Ranger Liquid Pearls in Dark Chocolate, Key Lime, and Wendy Vecchi's Sunflower, and Orange Blossom to the centers of the flowers. Let dry, and then coat the whole canvas with more Collage Medium (Crazing if you have it.).

 

Supplies:

(Palette Knife, Medium and Small Paint Brush, Scissors, Two Sided Tape, Side Kick Die Cut Machine, Die Pick)

-4x5 Inch Chunky Canvas and/or Flat Canvas

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Opaque

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Broken China, Picket Fence, Scorched Timber, Vintage Photo, Squeezed  Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Crazing

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Sidekick Side Order (Spring 2025): Floristry 

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Spring 2025): Vault Noteworthy 

-Scraps of yellow and green cardstock

-Ranger Liquid Pearls: Dark Chocolate, Key Lime

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower, Orange Blossom

-Print Out of Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A Vase 

Thank you truly for stopping by here today, and for the support. I so appreciate you all. I will be back again soonish. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!