Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Summer 2024 - Hodgepodge Note Cards

Hello Everyone! Here is the fourth project I made for the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Everyday 2 Summer 2024 Release, using the Hodgepodge Stamp Set. Since this HUGE stamp has ALL the cool vintage images on it, I decided to do a whole series of Note Cards like you get in a boxed set from a stationary store, that you can just use to say hi or even highlight images on the card front for a particular occasion, all with matching envelopes, and they are super fast to make. These are just two ideas for them, but the possibilities are endless with all the images. Enjoy!

For as many note cards as you want, ink the edges of the cards with Vintage Photo Distress Ink from Ranger. Mount Black Kraftstock to the cards cut to 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches and have those ready, as well as the envelopes. Cut a piece of Kraft Cardstock to 6 x 8 inches. Place the cardstock into a large stamp platform, and add the whole Hodgepodge stamp sheet on the Kraft centering it and close the lid to secure the stamp. Stamp the sheet onto the Kraft with Black Soot Archival Ink.

Cut a scrap piece of paper to the length and width of the envelope when open. Stamp the front of the envelope with the Hodgepodge and Black Soot. Turn it over and place the scrap piece under the flap and then stamp the flap. Place the scrap inside the envelope to protect the inside of the flap and stamp the bottom portion of the back side of the envelope. Ink the edges of the envelope with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Repeat with as many envelopes as you wish. 

Die cut as many of the Photo Border Frames from the Vault Picture Show Thinlits from Sizzix with Black Kraftstock as you want to showcase the images for the card fronts…I used one for each card but you can use as many as you like. Pop out the dots along the border and the center part, but save the center part for your sentiment. Play around with the placement of the frame to find which image you like to highlight to figure out if you are going to cut the Hodgepodge paper horizontally or vertically for the card fronts. You can get two horizontally and one vertically with leftovers to piece together for another.  Select a sentiment from the Floristry set and stamp it in Glacier White onto that center part from the frame. I had several black labels left over from the old Pillow Box Bigz Die and used those to stamp the finger from the Tidbits Stamp Set. If you don’t have that die, there are several die sets that have some including the NEW Vault Pillow Box set.

Sand the edges from the sentiments and finger labels lightly and ink the borders with Vintage Photo. Cut the card fronts taking care to have the image you want showcased in the correct place so you have room for the sentiment, and the size should be 3.75 x 5.25 inches, and ink the edges with Vintage Photo. Add strips of Design Tape where your labels will go. Mount it on the card front, and use two sided tape to adhere the frame and labels. Use a white pen to outline the labels and color in a few things on the highlighted image. 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Two Sided Tape, Die Cutting Machine, Sanding Tool, White Pen)

-4.5 x 6 Inch Kraft Cardstock Note Card Set

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Black Kraftstock, Trims Design Tape

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Hodgepodge, Tidbits, Floristry

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Vault Picture Show

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

Thanks again for stopping by. I've got one more make to show you using the new stamps, and that will be on Tuesday. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Summer 2024 - Sign Painter Embroidery Alcohol Ink Cards

I'm back again this week with another make from the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Everyday 2 Summer 2024 Release, this time with a series of cards made with Alcohol Ink from Ranger, and using the Sign Painter and Embroidery Stamp Sets. I did the Lift Ink Technique with these, and had so much Alcohol Ink left on the stamps that I was able to do three stampings...I could have actually done another I think. What a great way to make several themed cards at once! I absolutely LOVE the artsy feel of these. Enjoy!

Cut a piece of White Yupo to 3.5 x 5 inches. Go ahead and cut at least one Alcohol Ink Cardstock (Glossy) to the same size (I ended up with three.), and set those aside for now. Gather your Alcohol Inks in colors of the sky and grass. I used Shell Pink, Purple Twilight, Aquamarine, Aqua, and Cloudy Blue for the sky, and Limeade, Botanical, Everglades, Bottle, and Clover for the grass area, plus you need Blending Solution, and an Alcohol Ink Applicator with two felts. Apply a clean felt to the tool and taking the sky colors, apply lines of ink of each of the 5 colors on the felt, and then add a line of the Blending Solution to the middle of the color lines. Pounce with over the top area of the Yupo (vertically) covering the white until you like the look. To achieve bubble looking designs, blow on the ink as you pounce to make it dry faster and create the bubbles. Remove the felt and add a clean one. Add the grass colors the same as you did the other and then the Blending Solution. Pounce the color over the bottom area. Cap up all the inks as you are finished with them for now.

Place the Alcohol Inked Yupo in the stamp platform. Take the Sign Painter Stamp Set and gather the first 6 letters of alphabet and first 6 numbers, and arrange them on the Yupo in 4 lines with three letters or numbers in each going in order, and close the lid to secure the stamps. Have everything else ready so you can work efficiently and sort of quickly…pieces of Glossy that you set aside above, Alcohol Lift Ink, and paper towels.

Ink over the stamps well with the Alcohol Lift Ink. Close the lid and stamp firmly and hold for a good 10 seconds on the Yupo. Open the lid and carefully remove the Yupo, setting it aside, and add a Glossy in its place and close the lid and stamp firmly for at least 5 seconds. Lift the lid, admire the print, and then remove this and add the Yupo back on. Ink the stamps lightly again with the Lift and stamp again onto the Yupo like before. Remove and replace with another Glossy. Repeat again if you wish. I could of actually done 4 or 5 total. Once ready, place the Yupo back in and add a paper towel over the top and close the lid and press firmly. You will see on the paper towel that there was still ink on the stamps, which means you could have done more. You can separate the layers of the paper towel and use that on a mixed media piece FYI.  Reposition the paper towel and stamp again. Remove the Yupo and softly buff the Yupo with the paper towels to remove all the Lift revealing a pretty white space behind. Clean your stamps carefully with a bit of water BUT LEAVE THEM on the platform.

This step is just a suggestion and something you can keep in mind for future if you don’t want to do it. You can ink on glossy with an Ink Blending Tool and any transparent ink and still see any image under the ink, BUT sometimes the new inks can color over the images and you might not want that. To prevent any altering of color on the images before inking you can use Watermark Resist to protect the images. To do so, place one Glossy at a time back in the platform and ink the stamps with Watermark Resist from Ranger, and stamp onto the Glossy coating the images on the paper. Remove and do the others if you wish. Lightly ink over the top of the Glossy with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and an Ink Blending Tool, then do the bottom half with Twisted Citron and Rustic Wilderness for a nice blended look. Use a paper towel to wipe off any Watermark Resist. In this photo the 3^rd Lifted piece on the right DOES NOT have the resist and the 2^nd Lifted piece on the left DOES. You can see the difference in the colors on the letters and numbers as the ink altered the colors underneath slightly  and even gave it a cloudy look. So it’s up to you whether or not to do this. Clean the stamps with water carefully but leave them in place on the platform just in case you need them for later to fix things, trust me. 

Place one of Glossy pieces (probably the 1^st Lifted piece) into another platform if you have it. If you don’t have another, there is probably room on the other one for one of the flowers. Take the Embroidery Stamp Set, select a flower and place it on the Glossy where you want it and close the door to secure it. Stamp the image in a light colored ink so that you can see all the parts of the image on the paper just for reference to help on the next part. I used Frayed Burlap Archival Ink. Leave the stamp in place as you will stamp your final image in Black Soot when you finished with the next part. Repeat on the other Glossy pieces or if room on the platform add another flower for the other pieces, like I did. For the YUPO, the paper is too dark for Frayed Burlap so you will have to use Black Soot, and then restamp in Black Soot later on again as the ink will be pretty covered up after the next part. Even though the stamps have flowers, I thought it would be fun to make Alcohol Ink splatters behind them for a more artsy look. Back in the day we used Compressed Air in can to splatter out the Alcohol Ink for flowers, sunshines, fireworks, or abstract pieces, but Tim has a special blower that makes it a lot easier and controllable and less frightening as the canned air was violent, LOL! But it was fun. I started with a sunshine first opposite the top of the flower. Using Dandelion Alcohol Ink, I added one drop to the paper where the center would be and then used the Alcohol Ink Air Blower to move the color around with the intent of getting it to be a circle with splatter lines coming from all around the border. I guess I pump too hard because that rarely happens, and it is usually misshapen. So I add another drop and try to get it to blow another way, and continue until I get a nice sunshine look. Once I do, I add one drop of the Blending Solution to the very center and just let it do its thing, no blowing this time.  It will make a perfect circle as long as your paper is flat and on a flat surface, and it will spread evenly pushing the ink underneath as it goes to create a darker border of color and rim of the sun. So cool, right?!! When you do this on the Yupo it will be much easier as the ink moves well on the paper and pushes any other ink out of the way so it will only take a drop or two. Once your sun is added, work on the flowers. I used Flamingo Alcohol Ink on all the larger flowers. Add a drop at a time where a flower will be (that is why the stamped image is there so you know where the flowers will be.) and blow to create the splatters. The bigger the flower the more ink added to make it larger. Once you like the look, you can add that drop of Blending Solution to the center to create a halo of color behind where the flower will be if you want. Do all the flowers you want. Since the flowers are all on one side of the paper I tried to balance it out by adding splatters of green on the other side for a leaf feel, and I used Limeade. Remember the ink moves easier on the YUPO so it doesn’t take much and the splatters really travel. As you can see on mine, I got a little crazy and covered up a lot, my Flamingo turned a deep purple with the ink underneath. I loved the color, but wanted you to note the change in color as I didn’t use another color. To help bring my resist back on the Yupo, I restamped the letters and numbers with the Lift Ink one time on the Yupo only and used a scrap paper for the lift. That is why it’s good to leave those lifted stamps in place until all is said and done. Once you have all the flowers, stamp the flower again this time Black Soot, as well as the sentiment.

I wanted more color and detail, especially on the Yupo as all the stems and leaves were lost on the dark background, so I decided to paint with the Alcohol Ink. Using a palette with tiny open wells for the ink, I added a few drops of Limeade in one and a drop of Blending Solution and mixed it up with any Alcohol Ink Paintbrush (bristles are more stable for Alcohol Inks than regular ones are) and started on the stems and leaves. The Flamingo from the flower bursts mixed in to create an olive green which I loved so I continued to pull in the pink, and colored all the stems and leaves that way. On the Yupo the ink will like to spread so work in the thinnest lines you can especially on the narrow parts. Since the Limeade turned olive with the pink, and the pink on Yupo was now dark purple I decided to color in the flower petals with a light pink pulling in the darker, so I used Shell Pink only. It made red on some and hot pink on some and then dusty pink on the Yupo. I added Dandelion to the centers of the flowers. I had to restamp the flower on the Yupo as I covered up some of the stamp with the ink. I also used a black pen to touch up some stamp lines on a few places. Using a white pen of choice (I like a Gelly Roll) add some highlight lines on the flower petals and dots to the centers of the flowers for a little detail. Outline the letters if you wish and any leaf areas to finish up. Mount the cards on black cardstock leaving about 1/16 inch border, and then white cardstock leaving the same border amount, and then onto a Kraft Cardstock card base cut and folded to 4 x 5.5 inches, or just use a white card base instead of Kraft and having to mount white cardstock. 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Alcohol Ink Applicator, Ink Blending Tool, Alcohol Ink Air Blower, Detail Paint Brush, Alcohol Ink Palette)

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Sign Painter, Embroidery, Floristry

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Yupo, Alcohol Ink Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: Shell Pink, Purple Twilight, Aquamarine, Aqua, Cloudy Blue, Limeade, Botanical, Everglades, Bottle, Clover, Dandelion, Flamingo

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Blending Solution

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Lift Ink

-Ranger Watermark Resist

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Rustic Wilderness

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Frayed Burlap, Black Soot

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Black Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media Heavystock: White

Thank you so much for stopping by. I've got two more makes to show you, and the next one will be on Saturday. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Summer 2024 - Deconstructed Birthday Card

Hello All! I'm back with another make from the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Everyday 2 Summer 2024 Release. This is a masculine birthday card made with the Deconstructed Stamp Set used in a slightly different way, as I saw the larger circle as a cake on a plate, with the smaller circles being cupcakes around the cake, and all with sprinkles from Ranger Stickles. LOL! I'm a bit strange I know, but it makes sense to me. Enjoy!

Cut a piece of Kraft Cardstock to 4 x 5.5”. Place the paper in the platform and add the round blueprint image from the Deconstructed Stamp Set, and arrange it in the middle of the Kraft. Stamp in Vintage Photo Distress Ink from Ranger a few times until nice and dark and then remove and pour Clear Embossing Powder over the image and then heat emboss with a heat tool. Clean the stamp off by stamping the remaining ink onto a large sticky note, and then cut the image out just around the smaller circles and don’t worry about cutting off any numbers or straight lines, and set this aside for now. You are finished with this stamp. Using the Vintage Photo Ink and an Ink Blending Tool, ink over the border areas of the paper randomly for a distressed look, and then in the larger circle in the very middle, coloring it in pretty well for that chocolate cake look. Lightly mist over the paper with water to create a mottled look, and dry slightly.

Pounce an Anti-Static Pouch over the paper, and then add the paper back on the platform. Take the Happy Birthday phrase from the Floristry set and cut the words apart. Position them in the center of the circle, Happy above the middle line, and Birthday below it. Stamp the words several times with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide until seen brightly (leave the stamps on the platform), and then pour Speckled Egg Distress Embossing Glaze over. Heat emboss this. If you want the words even brighter, like I did, add it back in the platform and stamp the wording a few more times and then lightly add heat to seal in the ink. You can do this as much as you want until the desired look is achieved, then you can remove the stamps. 

Add the paper back in the platform, and place the sticky note over the circle blueprint, and then position the two rows of numbers from the Deconstructed set at the top of the paper. Close the platform to secure, and then stamp them one time using Speckled Egg Distress Oxide. Leave the stamp in place but lightly clean the stamp off with a rag or paper towel, and give this paper a quick dry. Pounce the Anti-Static Pouch over it. Place it back on the platform with the mask, and as best as you can only ink the numbers you want highlighted with the same ink or use more sticky note to cover up the numbers you don’t want before inking…I did the 8 on the top row of numbers, and the 5 in the bottom for an 85^th birthday. Remove masks and paper and pour Speckled Egg Embossing Glaze over the numbers you just inked, and heat emboss. If you have powder where you don’t want simply use a paintbrush to remove excess. Move the stamp to the bottom of the paper, and repeat what you just did. You are finished with those.

Using an Embossing Dabber (Distress or Emboss It from Ranger), carefully rub it in the center circle of the card only over the letters and images. Immediately pour Clear Embossing Powder over and heat emboss to give a glazed chocolate cake look. For the little circles, or cupcakes, use a ½” hole punch on a thicker piece of cardstock to use as a stencil to fit over the circles so you can keep them perfectly neat using the embossing dabber. I punched two just to keep things cleaner so the fluid didn’t build up too much on the cardstock and get under the stencil. Fill a couple in at a time, and then immediately pour on Vintage Photo Embossing Glaze, and heat emboss. Do all the little the circles the same. 

Using the pad of the Speckled Egg Oxide, apply a bit of the ink onto the glass or silicon mat. Using a small angled brush or even the Detail Water Brush, pick up some of the ink and color in the thin circle about the cake, now the plate, coloring in darker closest to the cake and lighter going out to have a shadow look. While it’s drying, cut your papers for base card and mat…Kraft base card cut and folded to 4.5 x 6”, a brown cardstock mat cut to 4 3/8 x 5 7/8. Ink both of the edges of these with Vintage Photo, and mount the brown on the base card with two sided tape. Cut a blue (think Speckled Egg or slightly darker) cardstock mat to 4.25 x 5.75. Mount the card front onto this and then add foam tape the back, and mount this on the card front. Using Ice Blue or similar color of Stickles add dots to the cupcakes and cake for a Sprinkles look. Let dry thoroughly. 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Heat Tool, Scissors, Sticky Note, Ink Blending Tool, Water Mister, Two Sided Tape, Anti-Static Pouch, Small Angled Brush, ½” Hole Punch, Foam Tape)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Deconstructed, Floristry

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Clear

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink: Speckled Egg

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glaze: Speckled Egg, Vintage Photo

-Ranger Emboss It Dabber

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Classic Kraftstock, Neutral Kraftstock

-Ranger Stickles: Ice Blue

Thanks so much for all the lovely comments on social media! I'll be back again this week with another make. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Summer 2024 - Floristry Card Set

I'm blowing the dust off this blog...it's been a minute. Hello friends! This week was the launch of the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Everyday 2 Summer Stamp Sets, and the LIVE is currently on showing all the sets as well as samples from the Makers. I'm always awestruck with the creations, and it amazes me that you can do so many things with the same set of stamps. I created five makes for the LIVE, and the first one is made with the Floristry Stamp Set, stamped on Black Kraftstock with Glacier White Pigment Ink from Ranger, and then inked over to show color, plus colored in with the new Distress Spritz.  I love how these came out. Enjoy!

Cut a piece of Black Kraftstock to 8 inches.  Place the paper in the platform and add the flower image from Floristry, arranging it in the middle but more tilted like in a diamond shape. Stamp in Glacier White Pigment Ink from Ranger a few times until nice and crisp and bright white. Add a sentiment on both ends about 1 inch from the edges, and stamp those with the Glacier White, leaving all the stamps in place, just in case you need to restamp later.  Let this dry thoroughly or use a heat tool. I add two sided tape to the back before adding the wet color so the paper remains flat and does not bow up, fyi.

Using Detail Blending Tools, apply Distress Archival Ink to the white areas, starting with the leaves so that it is easier to make out all the flowers for later. I started with Crushed Olive on all the leaves, then added Rustic Wilderness over in the more shaded areas of the leaves, and then blended in Peeled Paint. I just dabbed the color on with the tool.

Apply the ink to the flower areas next. I used Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Dusty Concord, and Kitsch Flamingo. I also randomly color in the letters as well. When all are colored in give this a quick dry with the heat tool. 

Using the new Distress Spritz colors that coordinate best with the colors of ink (Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet), shake them up and get them ready to use along with a Detail Water Brush that is empty…you don’t need any extra wetness. Doing one color at a time, pour out a bit onto the glass or silicon mat (about a pea size) and pick up the color with the brush and color in the flowers first this time, trying not to go over any black areas if you can. Finish using the color on random parts of the letters of the sentiments. Wash out the color and then move on to another color, doing all the areas that you can with it so you don’t have to go back for more. Once all the flowers are colored move on the leaves. When all is colored in, add a little heat to make sure all is dry. 

Using a white pen of choice (I like a Gelly Roll) add some highlights on the flowers and leaves to help define them especially if you painted over the black areas like I did. If you stay on the colored areas with the white pen those are your highlights. Outline the letters if you wish and any leaf areas as well. Using a regular paper trimmer, cut the card in half so that each are 4 inches long and are now separated. Cut and fold two card bases to whatever you like…I used 4 x 5.5”. Ink the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink or another brown. Cut two white mat pieces to be flush with the top and showing 1/16” on the sides and bottom, so 3 7/8 x 5 3/8”, and add this on the base card using two sided tape. Using a Deckle Trimmer cut the flower card to 3.75 x 5.25” so that when you mount this just a bit of white mat is showing around the sides and bottom, but don’t add it yet. Add a piece of Tissue Tape to the bottom of each flower card so it’s between the words and bottom edge. I used the dots from the Trims set. Using a sanding tool, barely sand off the side edges and bottom to reveal the Kraft paper under the black. Ink those sanded sides with Vintage Photo. Then mount the flower card on top of the white mat. 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Heat Tool, Two Sided Tape, Detail Blending Tools, Detail Water Brush (Empty), White Pen, Deckle Trimmer, Sanding Tool, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool)

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Black Kraftstock, Trims Design Tape

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Floristry

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Rustic Wilderness, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Dusty Concord, Kitsch Flamingo

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spritz: Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media Heavystock: White

Thank you so much for stopping by, and for all the comments here and on social media. I'll be back again soon with another make from the LIVE. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!