Use sticky notes or scrap paper to cover all the lifted images as best you can on the AI paper. Place the Fractured Layering Stencil over the center and position it so that you can see as much of the stencil parts on the open areas of the paper. Take a clean Ink Blending Foam and add it the tool, dab it onto the Alcohol Lift Ink pad to pick up the ink, and then start dabbing it over the open stencil areas. You will see the ink lifting away. Once all areas are lifted, remove the stencil and sticky notes and use a paper towel to remove any ink. You should have a lifted fractured area in the center. Wash the stencil and the foam with warm water to remove all the ink and let dry for use another day, and have the stencil ready to use on the next part.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2023 - Foreboding and Obscure Autumn Sketchy Leaves Alcohol Ink Lift Cards
Hi Everyone! The Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween Live is just about to finish up, and of course my mind is up in the clouds in awe of all the makes, as I'm sure yours is as well! It's so crazy to see so many different kinds of makes from five stamp sets! If you missed the original Live the replay will be up soon. Here is one of my makes from the show featuring the new Sketchy Leaves Stamp Set along with help from The Obscure and Foreboding Sets using Alcohol Inks from Ranger. These were a cinch to make and just enjoyable to do. Oh how I LOVE Autumn, and cannot wait for it to arrive. Enjoy!
Cut a piece of Yupo White
Heavystock to 4.5 x 6.5", and another piece that is about 4 x 4".
Gather Rust, Sunset Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Dijon, Lettuce, and Turquoise
Alcohol Ink from Ranger, and apply a small dot of each onto the felt on an
Alcohol Ink Applicator, then pounce the ink onto the paper until covered. You
can blow on a few spots to create tiny circles, fyi. Do the smaller paper the
same and then set that one aside for now.
Place the larger paper
into the large stamp platform, and arrange one of the scrolls and the flowers
from the Foreboding and The Obscure Stamp Sets onto the bottom of the paper so
they will be framing the bottom. Close the lid to secure the stamps. Gather
Alcohol Lift Ink, a paper towel, and cut
a piece of Ivory Heavystock to the same size 4.5 x 6.5 inches and have it
ready. You need to work fairly quickly to do the lifting. Apply the Lift Ink to
the two stamps generously. Close the platform and stamp the images onto the AI
paper, and press firmly and for a few seconds. Open the platform and carefully
remove the paper and place the Ivory Heavystock in exactly where the other
paper was, and then close the platform and stamp to transfer the ink, pressing
firmly and for a few seconds. Open platform and remove the paper. You can stamp
another paper if you wish to get whatever is left over on the stamps. Place the
paper towel in the platform and stamp a few times until all the ink is
transferred to the paper towel, then
lightly clean the stamps with the paper towel, but leave the stamps in place on
the platform. Take the paper towel and place it over the Alcohol Ink paper and
lightly wipe away the ink on the stamped images, revealing the lifted images.
Clean all the ink off. Place the AI paper back in the platform but TURN IT so
that the lifted images will be at the top, and a clean bottom is ready for
more. Repeat all the above steps to lift the ink and transferring it the Ivory.
Finally clean and remove the stamps as you are finished with those.
Take the Ivory paper now,
and cover the images with the sticky note like before, add the stencil on. Use
Gathered Twigs or another brown ink and stencil in the Fractured image over the
center of the paper. Clean the stencil and now you are finished with it.
Take the 4 x 4"
piece with the Alcohol Ink on it and place it into the platform. Select a leaf
from the Sketchy Leaves set, and place it on the paper and close the platform
to secure it. Cut a piece of Ivory Heavystock the same size about 4 x 4"
and have it ready, as well as the Lift Ink again, and a paper towel. Stamp the
leave with the Ink, then transfer to the other paper, and repeat the clean up
like before. Add two sided to the back of both, and then use scissors to cut
the leaves out leaving a small border around. Mount both of these to turquoise
color Metallic Kraftstock, and then cut those out again leaving a border.
Cut and fold two Kraft
card bases to 5 x 7". Ink the edges of the cards with the Gathered Twigs.
Cut two turquoise Metallic pieces to 4.75 x 6.75" and mount to the cards.
Stamp the sentiment from the Tiny Frights Stamp Set on the lower right corner
of both papers using a dark brown Archival like Ground Espresso. Mount these
the cards. Apply foam tape to the back of the leaves and then mount the
corresponding one to the card fronts. Shake the Unraveled Distress Mica Stain,
and then pour a tiny bit out onto the
white mat. Pick up with the Water Brush and color in some of the images
on both cards, like on the scrolls and flowers, and even on the leaves.
(Paper Trimmer, Alcohol Ink Applicator, Large
Stamp Platform, Paper Towel, Ink Blending Tool w/Clean Foam, Sticky Note, Two
Sided Tape, Scissors, Foam Tape, Detail Water Brush)
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Yupo White
Heavystock
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: Rust, Sunset
Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Dijon, Lettuce, Turquoise
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Lift Ink
-Stamper's
Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Foreboding, The Obscure, Sketchy Leaves, Tiny
Frights
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock:
Ivory
-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Fractured
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink:
Ground Espresso
-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Metallic Colors Kraftstock
-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stain:
Unraveled
Thank you so much for stopping by, and of course for the comments. I truly appreciate all of you who do. I'll be back again on Friday with my other Halloween make that was in the show. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
Friday, August 18, 2023
Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween 2023 - Cracked Sign and Artsy Leaves and Layered Dots Trees in the Colorize Graveyard Pop Up Halloween Card
Hi Everyone! I have a Halloween make that was on the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween Live last week for you today. This one was super fun to make, and was made with the Colorize Graveyard, Artsy Leaves, and Layered Dots Thinlits, plus the Cracked 3D Texture Fade. I haven't made a pop up card in a while, so I thought it was time to do something different and try this again. Hope you enjoy!
Cut and fold Kraft
Cardstock base card to 5 x 6.25 inches with a horizontal fold so the card will
open outwards, with a 1/4 inch center so there is plenty of room for all the
inside parts, and also with a Deckle Cut edge at the front bottom. A lot I
know, but starting here making the planning a lot easier. Take a piece of Gray
Two Tone Woodgrain Cardstock from Ranger, and the Alpha set from the Wood Slice
Thinlits and arrange the sentiment...Enter if you dare, would be great too. Die
cut until you've finished the sentiment. Save the positive letters for another
project.
On the sides of the
woodgrain, use a Deckle Trimmer to cut the sides at an angle, pointing inward.
Use scissors or a regular trimmer to trim the top and bottom. Use a Distress
Tool to distress the top and bottom. Use an Ink Blending Tool and Gathered Twigs
or another brown ink and ink the edges well, and then rub the pad directly over
the top lightly to bring out some more woodgrain. Mount this onto Kraft
Cardstock with Collage Medium, and cut around the Kraft the same as you did the
sign, deckle the sides and straight on top and bottom.
Take the new Cracked 3D
Texture Fade, and working quickly, rub the pad of Hickory Smoke Archival over
the inside raised areas on the Fade. Lightly mist the sign with water, and
place into the Fade and run through the machine. Remove the sign from the Fade,
and use a Detail Waterbrush and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to watercolor in
the letters and around the inside edge of the sign to give it more depth.
Cut Black Kraftstock to
mount on front of card, with that bottom Deckle edge. Sand over the whole
surface some to reveal the Kraft underneath the black, and ink over all the
sanded areas and the sides with Gathered Twigs. Put together the little skull
from the Colorize Graveyard Thinlits with black first, then kraft, then
Watercolor Cardstock. Ink around him and on the raised parts with Antique Linen
Distress Ink. Adhere him in place on the sign. Add Long Fasteners to the
corners of the inner sign (I only did three to make it look like one is
missing) and use the Craft Hammer to give the brads distressing. Rub Hickory
Smoke Archival over the heads of the brads to further distress them. IF leaving
one corner without a brad, use a craft pick to make a hole and distress it up.
Adhere the sign to the Black Kraftstock and then onto the card front.
Cut more Black
Kraftstock to fit inside the card...top (4.5 x 6 inches with Deckle edge on
top), center 1/4 x 6, and bottom 4.5 x 6 inches. Distress all the surfaces with
the sanding disks, and ink over them with Gathered Twigs. Ink the right and
left edges with Black Soot Archival. Adhere all three inside the card with two
sided tape. Take the white pinked edge Halloween Trim Tape and apply a strip of
it along the bottom edge and trim off the excess. Close the card and use the tape
again on both bottom corners at a diagonal, trimming off excess, and across the
top wrapping around to the back. Using a little Collage Medium is good so none
of the edges come up since there is so much ink on it.
Die cut the Layered Dots
Thinlits, Black for solid, Kraft for small dots, and Black again for larger
dots. Save all the dot pieces for another project like a shaker card. Also save
the the side pieces with the half circle cuts from the Black Kraftstock, as
these will be more headstones. Adhere only the dotted pieces together and save
the black for die cutting in a minute. Select some Artsy Leaves (five of them)
and die cut them using the dotted piece, making sure there are open dots on all
to add some eyeball highlights later. These are the trees. Die cut two of the
stem pieces for trunks using black. Sand the trees a tiny bit and ink over that
with Gathered Twigs. Die cut the same trees using the Black Kraftstock from
before, and then adhere the trees on the coordinating black pieces. This was
just to make the dotted piece less thick for easier die cutting and less stress
on the die pieces.
Cut off some of the
bottom edge on one of the half circle pieces and adhere it to the other half
circle piece so it looks like two rows of headstones like in a cemetery. Cut
the left side at an angle. Sand over it a bit to bring out the headstone
shapes, and ink over the sanding with the Gathered Twigs. Select two of the
trees and the trunks and adhere them to the right side of the top piece so they
will be tall trees in the distance. Adhere the rows of headstones below these
covering up some of the trunk parts. Die cut three gates using Black Kraftstock
and three single gate parts as well. Adhere one gate part to the left side and
two on the right side keeping them in line with the sides and bottom of the
background piece. Die cut the medium circle from the Sized Circles Movers and
Shapers or use another circle. Ink in the moon parts using the smallest Moon
Mask and Lost Shadow Distress Ink. Ink the edges as well. Die cut the 'BOO!'
using the Wood Slice alpha pieces and Black Kraftstock and adhere those on the
moon. Add an Adhesive Spring to the back of the moon and adhere the moon to the
middle top of the top piece. Die cut the urn and both headstones using Black
and two shades of gray Kraftstock, the plant with two shades of green, and
seven dirt/grass pieces using more green.
Adhere the urn and one
of the shortest trees to the left side. Add a grass piece to top of urn and
then the plant pieces on. Adhere more grass pieces along the bottom of the gate
and below the row of headstones. Take the two sets of Remnant Rubs, and cut out
a cat, the large sentiment, some bats, and a headstone title. Rub on the cat on
the gate top on the left side, the bats on the moon, and the sentiment to the
center bottom of the bottom piece. Rub on the headstone sentiment to one of the
headstones. Die cut another skull the same as before, along with one of the
plant pieces using Watercolor Cardstock,
and some cross pieces using gray.
Add cross to top of the other headstone along with a tree behind that.
Add grass pieces in front and behind headstone. Add a part of the white plant
piece behind the headstone to look like arm bones or fingers or whatever and
then the skull to that, so that it looks like the skeleton is peeping behind
the headstone. Add a tree behind that, and grass along the bottom. Use a white
pen to add in eyeball highlights to some of the holes in the trees and on the
cat and skull. Draw in the white lines around the sentiment to help it pop more
on the bottom portion. Take the Collage Medium and add it over the cat to give
it some dimension and make it a little easier to see once the medium dries. Set
this aside for a bit to dry.
Cut
two pieces of Black Kraftstock to about 3/4 x 5 inches. Fold one side about 1/2
inch and secure the fold with two sided tape. Make another fold about 1.5
inches above that. Adhere the 1.5 inch side to the back of each headstone. Lay
the headstone face down on the bottom piece, matching up the tree tops to the
bottom edge of card (along the center and right sides more or less). Secure the
1/2 inch piece to the bottom of the bottom piece with two sided tape, so that
the headstone is now secure to the bottom portion only. Flip the headstone up
straight parallel to the top portion, and figure out where you need to fold the
strip in order to secure it to the top portion. Make the fold and then trim the
piece that will be adhered to about 1/2 inch. Add two sided tape to that piece
and then stick it on to the top portion nice and straight. Fold the card shut
to make sure the headstones are folded flat and not seen, and make any hard
crisp folds to make that happen. Open and close the card a few times to make
sure all pops up and doesn't catch anywhere. Finished. ***I think it would be
great to add an open and closing strap to the front of the card just to make it
more interesting to open, but I wasn't able to make time to do that.
Supplies:
(Paper Trimmer, Deckle
Trimmer, Die Cut Machine, Die Pick, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Water Mister, Distress
Tool, Two Sided Tape, Detail Water Brush, Sanding Disk Tool, Craft Hammer,
Remnant Rub Tool)
-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft
Cardstock
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Woodgrain: Gray Two Tone
-Sizzix Tim Holtz
Thinlits: Wood Slice
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs, Antique
Linen, Lost Shadow
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Collage Medium: Matte
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Archival Ink: Hickory Smoke, Black Soot
-Sizzix Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fade (Halloween 2023): Cracked
-Tim Holtz Idea-ology:
Black Kraftstock , Long Fasteners, Halloween Trim Tape, Classic Kraftstock,
Neutral Kraftstock, Cool Kraftstock, Halloween Remnant Rubs, Curiosities
Remnant Rubs
-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Halloween 2023): Colorize
Graveyard, Layered Dots, Artsy Leaves
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress
Watercolor Cardstock
-Sizzix Tim Holtz Movers
& Shapers: Sized Circles (medium)
-Stamper's Anonymous Tim
Holtz Layering Mask: Moon Mask
-Adhesive Spring, White
Pen
Thank you so much for coming by here! I appreciate you all so much! I will be back soon, so until then I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween 2023 - Tapestry and Artsy Leaves Autumn Scene Etcetera Mini Tag
Hi Everyone! I hope you were able to watch the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween Live today to see the mounds and mounds of inspirational projects. It always blows my mind. If you missed it be sure to watch the replay. This is one of my projects that was shown in the Live, an Alcohol Ink Autumn Scene on a Mini Etcetera Tag made from the new Artsy Leaves Thinlits and Multi Level Texture Fade. I am totally in love with this, and wish it was way way bigger, LOL! Enjoy!
I took two of the Gloss
Alcohol Ink Cardstock pieces from Ranger and pounced on Terracotta, Honeycomb,
and Willow Alcohol Ink with an Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool covering the sheets
completely. Then I added Radiant and Envy Alcohol Pearls to the Applicator
along with Blending Solution and pounced that on while blowing with my mouth to
create tiny marbled bubble looking shapes.
I placed one of the
pieces into the Multi Level Tapestry Texture Fade and ran through the machine
twice, then did the other. I rubbed the pad of Peeled Paint Archival Ink
directly over the raised areas, then the pad of Vintage Photo Archival over to
bring out the design even more, then set these aside.
Using another sheet of
Gloss, I pounced on Cloudy Blue Alcohol Ink over the top portion only on a
fresh piece of felt on the tool. Then I added Snow Cap Mixative on the
Applicator and pounced it over the Cloudy Blue to create cloud looking shapes.
I added Aquamarine Alcohol Ink, Tranquil Pearls, and Blending Solution to the
same piece of felt, and on the lower end of the Gloss I swiped the tool over to
create stripes of color for more of a water look. Then I lightly misted a bit
of 91% Rubbing Alcohol in the air and ran the piece through the droplets to
create some water bubbles on the stripes of color.
Taking the Tapestry
pieces, I tore towards me to reveal the white paper core, about three pieces
each, just following the spaces between the round parts. I inked the white
edges with Peeled Paint Archival Ink, except the piece that would be the very
bottom. Then I tore the blue piece between the sky and water, again towards me
to reveal the white core, and inked the water edge only (as the sky edge will
be covered up) with Speckled Egg Distress Archival Ink, as well as that last
piece, so it looks like the waters edge. I took a Mini Etcetera Tag from Stamper's Anonymous and played
with the torn pieces, layering them to make a pattern of sky, hills, and water.
Once I knew the pattern I set these aside, and painted the tag hole with
Fossilized Amber Distress Paint, to mimic the sun.
I took another piece
of Gloss Cardstock and added Deception, Scorch, Splendor, Radiant, and Envy Alcohol
Pearls to the Applicator with Blending Solution and pounced it on covering the
piece completely. Then I took all 9 of the solid leaf (now tree) shapes from
the Artsy Leaves Thinlits, and die cut all of them with this piece. I set these
aside.
I took a piece of Gray
Two Tone Woodgrain and added two sided tape to the back. I laid the stem (now
trunk) pieces that I wanted to use (two different ones) and die cut them,
repeating until I had 9 total. I took a Hickory Smoke Distress Watercolor
Pencil and Detail Waterbrush and created lines on each that look like
Birch/Aspen tree trunks. I set these aside.
Taking another piece of
Gloss Cardstock, I pounced on Willow and Everglades Alcohol Ink to half the
sheet, and then Envy Alcohol Pearl and Blending Solution over the top. I added
two sided tape to the back. I die cut two of the leafy stem looking pieces
three times each, so that they might look like pine trees. I set these aside.
I decided to paint the
background of the Etcetera Tag, so I painted the edges only with Walnut Stain
Distress Paint. When dry, I added two sided tape to the back of the sky, hills,
and and water and adhere those on the tag, leaving a border, and punch a hole
where the tag hole is using a hole punch. I adhered the tag hole over using
Collage Medium. Then I added some more Vintage Photo Archival Ink around the
sides to further darken the border. I selected phrases from the Clippings
Sticker Book, inked the edges with Vintage Photo Archival, and mounted those
onto Kraft Cardstock, cut around them and inked those edges the same. I took 6 Tack
Nails and nailed each of those onto a corner point on the very edge of the tag
around the pieces about half way in, using a Mini Craft Hammer, but first
adding a tiny hole with a Craft Pick to make hammering them in a little
easier.
Here is a side view so
you can see the nails a little better.
I shook the Gilded
Foundry Wax up well and added a tiny drop to the white mat, and then using my
finger, I dotted each nail head with the Wax. Then I heated up the wax with a
Heal Tool to melt and set it.
I inked the edges of
the trees with Crackling Campfire Archival Ink and Adhered them in place with
two sided tape and foam tape in spots. I added the white trunks on each tucking
the ends under the hills. I used Vintage Photo Distress Archival Ink to color
in the bottom part of the trunks on the pine trees and then adhered them in
place. I adhered the wording on as well with two sided tape. Then taking some
Jute String, I wrapped the string around the top part of the nail heads and
then went on to another continuing to wrap until I ended up where I started and
then I tied a knot. Finally, I added more Jute String to the tag hole.
Supplies:
(Alcohol Ink Applicator, 91%
Rubbing Alcohol in Sprayer, Die Cut Machine, Die Pick, Scissors, Ink Blending
Tool, Paintbrush, Hole Punch, Water Mister, Two Sided Tape, Detail Water Brush,
Mini Craft Hammer, Heat Tool, Foam Tape, Jute Twine)
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol
Ink Cardstock: Gloss
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol
Ink: Terra Cotta, Honeycomb, Willow, Everglades, Cloudy Blue, Aquamarine
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol
Pearls: Deception, Scorch, Splendor, Radiant, Envy, Tranquil
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol
Blending Solution
-Sizzix Tim Holtz Multi Level Texture Fade (Halloween
2023): Tapestry
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Archival Ink: Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Speckled Egg, Crackling
Campfire
-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol
Mixative: Snow Cap
-Stamper's Anonymous Tim
Holtz Etcetera Tags: Mini
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Paint: Fossilized Amber, Walnut Stain
-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Halloween 2023): Artsy Leaves
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Woodgrain: Gray Two Tone
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Watercolor Pencils: Hickory Smoke, Black Soot, Vintage Photo
-Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Collage Medium: Matte
-Tim Holtz Idea-ology:
Clippings Sticker Book, Tack Nails, Jute String
-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft
Cardstock
-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress
Foundry Wax: Gilded
Thank you truly for stopping by today! I will be back soon with a Halloween make from the Live. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
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