Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2024 - Boo Sheet Halloween Party Treat Sacks & Tags

And I'm back to show you the last little project to go with the Boo Sheet Halloween Party theme, using the new stamps and stencils from Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous, and seen in the Live last Saturday. I really can think of several other decor pieces to make with these for a party, as the images are so stinking cute. Don't you agree? Enjoy these Treat Sacks and Tags! 

 

(NOTE: The Archival Ink takes a bit longer to dry on the glassine, so take care not to smear it, or use a heat tool to help dry.) Place a white glassine bag in the platform and take the small extra ghost stamp on the lower right side of the glassine just for placement so don't close the lid yet. Take the mini witch's hat, broom, and pumpkin pail from the Mini Bird Crazy & Things and figure out the best placement of them using the little ghost. Remove the ghost and then stamp the mini things in Black Soot from Ranger.  Place another glassine bag in and repeat and do as many as you want. Clean the stamps off by stamping the remaining ink from them onto a large sticky note, and then cut the images out. You are finished with these stamps so remove them.  Place the sticky notes on the images and then add the little ghost on and stamp it in Black Soot over the sticky notes. Place another glassine bag in and repeat and do as many as you want.  Clean this stamp off on another sticky note and cut it out. Remove the little ghost as you are finished with it.  Take the large ghost stamp and place it next to the little witch ghost in the center area of the glassine just for placement so don't close the lid yet. Take the bowler hat and pumpkin pail from the Crazy Things and figure out the best placement of them using the large ghost. Remove the ghost  and then stamp the images in Black Soot. Place another glassine bag in and repeat and do as many as you want. Clean the stamps off by stamping the remaining ink from them onto another sticky note, and then cut the images out. You are finished with these stamps so remove them.  Place the sticky notes on the images as well as the broom sticky note,  and then add the large ghost on and stamp it in Black Soot over the sticky notes. Place another glassine bag in and repeat and do as many as you want. Clean this stamp off on another sticky note and cut it out. Remove the large ghost as you are finished with it. Place all the sticky notes on the images and then arrange the large web over them and close the lid to secure the stamp. Stamp the web in Hickory Smoke Archival Ink. Place another glassine bag in and repeat and do as many as you want. Remove this stamp and add the two sentiments or whatever you want, as well as the bow tie on the large ghost, and stamp them in Black Soot Archival Ink. Remove all the stickys and save for another time. Place another glassine bag in and repeat and do as many as you want, and don't worry about the sticky notes anymore.

 

Take #8 Black Tags for as many of the treat sacks as you are making, and cut off the bottom two inches on each and save those for another project. Place a tag in the platform and add a sentiment from the Halloween Whatnots Stamp Set just below the tag holes. Speaking of the tag holes, I don't like that brownish color for these tags so I color it in with Black Soot Archival Ink, FYI. Close the lid to secure the sentiment and then stamp it with Glacier White Pigment Ink a few times to make it nice and bright. Repeat with more tags and sentiments. Let this ink dry a while or use a heat tool. Take the Mini Jacks Layering Stencil and place it below the sentiment along the bottom border of the tag so that two open pumpkins are centered along the bottom. Using a clean foam and ink blending tool, ink in the solid pumpkins with Glacier White Pigment Ink and then let dry. If you get white anywhere you don't want it use a black pen and Black Soot Archival to cover it up....the beauty of using a black surface.

 

Using Distress Watercolor Pencils and a Detail Waterbrush, color in the parts of the sentiments that you want, as well as oranges for the solid pumpkins with green stems, but I kept the center pumpkin white, as well as the accessories on the ghosts with the glassine bags.  Keep in mind that the pencils will color over the black portions, but again you can use a pen to color them back black on the tags. The water makes the glassine slightly buckle but it will flatten out when dry. See below for the colors I used. For the witch's buckle on the hats, I used Antique Bronze Distress Crayon with the Waterbrush. Use a white pen to add dots in each of the centers of the eyes, as well as add eyelashes to the little witch. Let the bags dry well. Place the face part of the Jacks stencil over the pumpkins and use Black Soot Archival to color them in. Select letters for a name or initials using the Halloween Transparent Tiles and secure those on to the bottom of the tag edge using two sided tape. Crinkle up some Halloween Fringe and use two sided tape to secure it on over the top of letters. Add ribbon to the tag hole and tie it onto the fold down bag through a hole made with a hole punch once your bag is filled with treats. 

 

 

Supplies:

(Stamp Platform, Scissors, Sticky Note, Water Mister, Detail Waterbrush, Paper Trimmer, Ink Blending Tool, Two Sided Tape)

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set (Halloween 2024): Boo Crazy, Halloween Whatnots  

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot, Hickory Smoke

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Crazy Things, Mini Bird Crazy & Things

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils: Spiced Marmalade, Crackling Campfire, Peeled Paint, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon: Antique Bronze

-Ranger Surfaces: Black #8 Tags

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Mini Jacks 

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Halloween Transparent Tiles, Halloween Fringe, Halloween Trimmings

-White Glassine Sacks A2, Black Pen, White Pen 

 

I'd love to see if you make any of these or add to theme with a whole new make...let me know! Thanks again for all the comments! I'll be back again soon. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2024 - Boo Sheet Halloween Party Favors

Hello again! Here are some party favors for the Boo Sheet Halloween Party, made with the new stamps from Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous as seen in the Live last week. I just totally love the little ghosts, and really tried hard to make time to also make a banner as that would be too cute, but I'll leave that up to you all, as time did not permit. Enjoy!

 

(I only made four but you can make as many as you want.) Cut a piece of White Heavystock to about 6 x 6 inches or so for ample room to stamp four ghosts and their accessories (the top three from the Spooky Spirits Set and the little extra ghost from the Boo Crazy Set), and place it in the platform. Doing one ghost stamp at a time, place one of them on a corner portion on the paper just for placement so don't close the lid yet. Take the mini accessories that you want (hats, pumpkin pail, bows, etc.) from the Mini Bird Crazy & Things and figure out the best placement of them using the ghost you selected. Remove the ghost and then stamp the mini things in Black Soot from Ranger. Clean the stamps off by stamping the remaining ink from them onto a sticky note, and then cut the images out.  Place the sticky notes on the images and then add the ghost on and stamp it in Black Soot over the sticky notes. Repeat this process for all the remaining ghosts. Once you have all the ghosts you want with all their accessories, cut them out.

 

 

Cut a piece of Kraft Cardstock to 2 x 8 inches, and place it in the platform. Arrange four of the 'boo sentiments' from the Spooky Spirits Stamp Set or whatever one you'd like to use, evenly in the center of the paper (so about 1/2 inch wide space for each) and close the lid to secure, and then stamp in Black Soot. Cut these apart in 1/2 inch strips, and add two sided tape to the backs.

 

 

Using Distress Watercolor Pencils and a Detail Waterbrush, color in the parts of the accessories on the ghosts that you want. Keep in mind that the pencils will color over the black lines, so you will need to use a black marker to fix them like I did. See below for the colors I used.  Use a white pen to add dots in each of the centers of the eyes, and a black marker to make eyelashes on the girls. Using more White Heavystock, cut 1/4 inch by about 3 inch strips for the straps that will hold the ghosts on the straws and add two sided tape to them.

 

Ink the edges of the ghosts and kraft sentiments strips with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Take the straws and kraft strips first and wrap one around the straw in half to see where you will bend it so that the wording will be seen about 1.5 inches from the top of the straw. Remove the tape backing and press the wording together around the straw. Use scissors to fish tails the ends and then ink those edges. Take a white strip in the middle and press the middle part around the straw to form it around with arms remaining flat out, and then remove the backing to secure it about 1.5 inches from the wording. Add a ghost onto the arms of the white strip pressing to secure it, and then trim any of the arms hanging off the back of the ghost. Unravel the Halloween Fringe and roll it around your palm to fluff it up. Cut off 2 one inch strips and add two sided tape to the back, and then secure one above the wording and one below the ghost. Repeat for as many as you'd like.  

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Scissors, Sticky Note, Water Mister, Detail Waterbrush, Ink Blending Tool, Thin Two Sided Tape)

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock: White

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set (Halloween 2024): Spooky Spirits, Boo Crazy  

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils: Spiced Marmalade, Crackling Campfire, Peeled Paint, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Halloween Fringe

-8 Inch Black and White Paper Straws, White Pen 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'll be back tomorrow with the last make for this party theme. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2024 - Boo Sheet Halloween Party Invitations

Hello Everyone! How about that Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween Release Live?!! Amazing makes for sure, just a WOW! AND, the new stamps and stencils are so super FUN, and I had a blast making with them! I went all out on a BOO SHEET Halloween Party Theme, as the Boo Sheet phrase is big around these parts, so having a party theme seemed natural. All three of my projects seen in the Live go together and were so easy to make, so I'll start with the invitations first. Enjoy!

 

Cut a piece of Kraft Cardstock to 4 x 5.5”. Die cut the paper with the Big Ticket Bigz Die from Sizzix. Repeat for as many invites as you like. Place the ticket in the platform and take the Ghost in the Graveyard image from the  Framed Frights Stamp Set, and arrange it on the very left side of the ticket, and stamp in Black Soot Distress Archival Ink from Ranger. Repeat with as many invites as you like. Leave this in the platform if you can in case you need to restamp later after coloring. If you have another platform add the ticket in it, if not, work from the other side of the platform with the Graveyard safely away from the ticket. Select the '31' from the Sign Painter Set, as well as select images from the Tidbits Stamp Set that go with the theme of the ticket (admit one, see other side, ticket number, arrive at 9 pm, month chart) and place them on the ticket playing with the placement with the '31' first and the other images around them keeping in mind the linear and compartment like style of a ticket front. Once you like it remove the '31' and close the lid to secure the other images, and then stamp them in Black Soot Archival. Repeat with as many invites as you like. Remove the images as you are finished with them, and add the '31' on where it needs to go. Stamp it first in Glacier White Pigment Ink, and then in Spiced Marmalade Oxide Ink. The reason to use the white first is to make sure the '31' is nice and bright orange, but you don't have to if you don't have the white ink. Give the '31' a little heat to dry or let it dry naturally for a bit. Repeat with as many invites as you like. Take a piece of White Heavystock and stamp the pointing finger for as many invites as you need as well as the 'boo sheet' sentiment from the Spooky Spirits in Black Soot Archival. Add two sided tape to the back of this and cut the finger out as well as block style cut the sentiment and set those aside for now.

 

Use the Big Ticket Bigz Die again to die cut White Heavystock tickets this time for as many invites as you need. Place one in the platform and arrange the top three ghosts from the Spooky Spirits Set and the little extra ghost from the Boo Crazy Set in each corner of the ticket so that just half their bodies will be seen and the middle of the ticket is wide open. This is just for placement so don't close the lid yet. Take the mini accessories that you want (hats, pumpkin pail, bows, etc.) from the Mini Bird Crazy & Things and figure out the best placement of them on each of the ghosts, even though you will only be able to stamp them one at a time you need to know the placement beforehand so that middle area will still be open. Starting with one of the ghosts, remove it and leave the accessories in place and close the lid. Don't worry about removing the other ghosts as you won't ink those yet, and they are just holding their places. Stamp the mini things in Black Soot. Repeat with as many invites as you like. Clean the stamps off by stamping the remaining ink from them onto a sticky note, and then cut the images out.  Place the sticky notes on the images and then add the ghost on and stamp it in Black Soot over the sticky notes. Remove that ghost, and then repeat this process for another ghost, but when it comes to the sticky note accessories keep in mind which masks you already have so you don't have to keep cutting more. Again repeat with as many invites as you like. Remove the ghost and then do another until all four are stamped with their accessories. Repeat with as many invites as you like. Then stamp the bows and glasses in Black Soot as well. I missed the bow a bit on one ghost so I drew in a piece of hair to tie them back together. Use a fine black pen to add eyelashes to the girls.  

 

 

Using a permanent bold black pen and a ruler, add lines around the parts of the front of the ticket, and then along the embossed lines border on the white ticket. Ink the edges of both with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Using the wording from the Life of the Party, Tiny Text, and Spooky Spirits Stamp Sets, arrange them on the white ticket center portion for your instructions of the party. Some of the wording I couldn't find in full, so I cut words and letters apart, as you can see, which made for some wonky stamping even though I really tried to line things up, so keep that in mind. Perhaps you can find better phrases to add. Once you like the wording, stamp it in Black Soot Archival. I couldn't find a stamp with 'party' so I used Label Letters to make it. I used a black pen for the question mark as well.

 

 

For the front of the envelopes stamp more accessories and another ghost like you did before using your previous sticky note masks. 

 

 

 Using Distress Watercolor Pencils and a Detail Waterbrush, color in the parts of the images you want. Keep in mind that the pencils will color over the black lines, so you will need to restamp the cemetery part you left in the platform or you can use a black marker to fix them like I did. See below for the colors I used. For the witch's buckle on the hats, I used Antique Bronze Distress Crayon with the Waterbrush. Use a white pen to add dots in each of the centers of the eyes, as well as the 'admit one' and lines around that. Add the pointing finger and Boo Sheet to the cemetery portion.

 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Die Cut Machine, Stamp Platform or Two if you have another, Scissors, Sticky Note, Ruler, Water Mister, Detail Waterbrush, Ink Blending Tool, Two Sided Tape)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Big Ticket

 -Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set (Halloween 2024): Framed Frights, Spooky Spirits, Boo Crazy  

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Tidbits, Sign Painter, Mini Bird Crazy & Things, Life of the Party, Tiny Text

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink: Spiced Marmalade

-Ranger Tim Holtz Heavystock: White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils: Picket Fence, Spiced Marmalade, Crackling Campfire, Peeled Paint, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke, Tattered Rose

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon: Antique Bronze

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Label Letters Stickers

-A2 Kraft Envelopes, Black Pen, White Pen 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all the comments! I'll be back tomorrow with more Boo Sheet Party goodies. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Sizzix Autumn/Halloween 2024 - Halloween Brooches

Hello Everyone! I'm back again with my other make from the Tim Holtz Sizzix Autumn/Halloween 2024 Live, the Halloween Brooches. I really want to thank you all for all the wonderful comments on the Autumn Brooches...my cup runneth over. I had no idea that the reason I made the brooches (in honor and remembrance of my Mother) would resonate with so many of you. It makes my heart glad. These Halloween brooches are made the same as the Autumn, with many layers, and then with resin, but I did add some more bling to this set. There were many more designs that I wanted to do, especially with the ghosts, but I ran out of time...so I will probably make those sometime soon. Enjoy, and again a HUGE THANKS!

This picture is pretty much a culmination of several steps, but you know after the last tutorial for the Autumn Brooches that you have to plan what you need out first, and that takes a bit.  This time I only used Metallic Classics and Colors with Deco Sheets. I added two sided tape to the back of what I would be using, and then started die cutting the parts I wanted from the Vault Foliage Wreath, Fright Night, Gothic Portraits, and Wicked Thinlits as well as the frames from Vault Boutique for the cat/moon and silhouette girl/witch hat, and the banner from that set for the word wicked.  I die cut the same pieces again for about three layers to add to the thickness of the piece but I didn’t adhere them, and then I die cut the same again BUT from the backside of the Kraftstock with the two sided tape side up for the backing of each piece so that the backside of the brooch looks nice and finished. Once I die cut I started playing with the pieces to figure out the layout and size of the brooch always keeping in mind the closeness of the parts so that the pin wouldn’t show through from the front, so I kept the pin handy to help guide myself.  I layered the pieces and kept them close together to add to the sturdiness of the brooch as well, 3 to 4 layers is what most are. I also used a bit of Collage Medium on the border parts to make sure they stayed in place with all the layers. On the two cat pieces I added green rhinestones behind the slit in their eyes. For the Deco Sheet detail parts like the witches hair and clothing, I just die cut the entire piece and cut around the parts I wanted and just stuck them on…same for the inside of the words. I just free hand cut the inside parts, fyi.

Once all the layers and pieces were on then I added the backing so that all the pieces are covered with metallic paper on the back and Kraft is not showing. For the pieces that won’t be showing on the back, you don’t need to add a backing of course, but make sure to add a bit of Collage Medium to those pieces to make sure they stay in place. I use Metallic Leafing Pens and permanent markers to color the sides to match the fronts so no Kraft paper was showing.

Here are the pieces with all the layers adhered up a little closer. I should have taken a picture of the backs as well, sorry. But they are just solid metallic paper with no detail parts. The pin will not be adhered until the very end.

Some of the Droplets were not the color I needed so I dyed them with Alcohol Ink. If I had to do a lot I used a cup with several drops of the ink, if only a little I just colored them directly with a Qtip. I did the same with plain clear rhinestones as well. Then I adhered all the bling with Glossy Accents. The bling takes a while to do, but it’s so worth it. 

For the wicked brooch and the spider web as well, I wanted Antiqued Gems hanging down. In order the color the stones inside the bezel, I used pliers to open them up to remove the gems. To color them without moving and touching them, I punched holes in a strip of paper with a regular hole punch and added feet below it with foam tape so it was raised up. Then I added the gems into the holes, and placed a drop or two of Alcohol Ink on them and let it dry. This worked perfectly.

For the mirrored hearts and stars I just dropped Alcohol Ink directly on them.

Another pic of coloring the bling with Alcohol Ink.

I mixed 1 ounce of Ice Resin as directed and poured it over the pieces on a baking cooling rack I have designated for Art, with a piece of wax paper underneath. I tried to do as heavy as a coating as I could and I kept these on the rack over night, moving them around every hour using a craft pick so they didn’t get stuck in place. By morning they were dry and not stuck in place. The bottle says they totally cure after 48 hours.

While the resin hardened I made pillow boxes with the words cut out in the centers to house most of the brooches but some are too big to fit. I added clear packaging material under the word opening.  For all the brooches I cut black tags to fit them and added Kraft colored words to the tags. Once the brooches were dry, I used pliers to bend the hook of pin in a little more so that there wasn’t more tension to secure the pin in the closure hopefully alleviating people from pulling on the pin too much to latch it. I added the pins to the back of each brooch so they wouldn’t be seen using lots of Glossy Accents. I also used tiny letter metal stamping punches and a Craft Hammer for my initials onto Metallic Kraftstock, and added those to the back of each piece for my maker marks, and then I coated the whole back with more Glossy Accents for added strength again, and let them dry. Once dry, I measured and marked where both ends of the back of the pin would be on the black tags and punch holes for them, and then used scissors to cut a line between the holes. The back of the pin just pushes through the line into the holes and stays in place. Then the card with the brooch fits into the pillow box, well at least the smaller ones anyway.

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Die Cut Machine, Die Pick, Scissors, Standard Premium Crease Pad)

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Metallic Classics Kraftstock, Metallic Colors Kraftstock, Christmas Deco Sheets, Halloween Deco Sheets, Metallic Droplets, Mirrored Hearts, Mirrored Stars, Antiqued Gems, Jumprings

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Autumn Halloween Vault Series 2024): Vault Foliage Wreath, Vault Fright Night, Vault Gothic Portraits, Vault Wicked

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Glossy Accents

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: Dijon, Limeade, Everglades, Purple Twilight, Boysenberry, Slate, Pitch Black, Gold Mixative, Silver Mixative

-Ranger Ice Resin

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Vault Boutique, Vault Pillow Box & Bag

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Black Cardstock

-1 Inch Brooch Pins, Gold, Silver, Copper Metallic Pens, Microfiber Cloth, Various Sizes Flat Rhinestones and Pearl Halves, Containers for Ice Resin, Metal Letter Stamps and Hammer if Desired, Clear Packaging

Thank you so so much for stopping by, and for all the comments! I'll be back in a few weeks. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Sizzix Autumn/Halloween 2024 - Autumn Brooches

It's already August and Autumn will be here before you know it, so I love that Tim Holtz releases products early enough to be in hand before the season. Today was the Live for the Sizzix Autumn/Halloween Dies. If you missed it, watch the replay, or just watch it again and again because the makes were crazy outstanding and inspiring from the Makers! I'm always in awe and my head explodes with ideas after every Live. I'd like to give you a little personal side note as to why I made Brooches for not only Autumn but also for Halloween (Don't be surprised if you see some for Christmas!) with the new Dies, and YES they are made with paper.  My Mother and I shared a love for vintage jewelry and especially brooches. We gifted each other many over the years. She passed away in January of this year, and I was entrusted to clean out her house. When I came to large collection of jewelry, so many pieces were brooches of course. Memories flooded back, and I found so much joy in them. I researched every single piece and discovered some valuable pieces as well as learned so much. My love for them was renewed, and I decided to start making my own, but I had no idea where to start and didn't know how I was going to shape real metal. Then Tim sent the dies, and I decided to try making one brooch with the dies and PAPER. I started with several layers of metallic paper, and it proved sturdy but not quite as I would have liked, so I thought I'd coat it in resin, and WOW it worked! It was not only sturdy, but I think it will last years. Next thing I knew, the one brooch turned into many and I just couldn't stop making them. Each one brought joy and strangely enough a closeness with my Mother. It was absolute therapy. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did making them.  

Add two sided tape to the back of Silver, Light Gold, Dark Gold, and Copper Metallic Kraftstock, and then start die cutting the parts that you want from the Vault Foliage Wreath Thinlits as well as the two pumpkin parts from the Vault Wicked Thinlits.  You will also need to die cut the same pieces again for about three layers to add to the thickness of the piece but don’t adhere them yet, and then die cut the same again BUT from the backside of the Kraftstock with the two sided tape side up to be able to back your pieces so that the backside of the brooch looks nice and finished, MINUS the detail pieces like the centers of flowers and leaves as you don’t really need to have those on the back.  Do not add the backs on the pieces yet though. Start playing with the pieces to figure out the layout and size of the brooch you want keeping in mind the closeness of the parts so that your pin won’t show through from the front, so keep a pin handy to help guide you, as well as when to add another layer so the depth makes sense for a 3D look. You will want to layer the pieces and keep them close together to add to the sturdiness of the brooch as well. Add a bit of Collage Medium to the detail parts to make sure they stay in place. This is the hardest part of making the brooches as it takes some thinking and planning. 

Once you figure out the depth and closeness of the pieces and have added all the layers, then you can add the backing so that all the pieces are covered with metallic paper on the back and Kraft is not showing. For the pieces that won’t be showing on the back, you don’t need to add a backing of course. 

Here are all the pieces with all the layers adhered on up a little closer. I should have taken a picture of the backs as well, sorry. But they are just solid metallic paper with no detail parts. The pin will not be adhered until the very end, so don’t worry about those now.

Since the edges of the pieces are brown from the Kraft, I used metallic leafing paint pens to color the edges. I used a tiny craft Qtip with the paint from the pens to get into the tiny open areas. Doing this also allowed me to see all the edges were adhered down well, so when they were not I added a bit of Collage Medium to fully secure them. 

Some of the Droplets were not the color I needed so I dyed them with Alcohol Ink. If I had to do a lot I used a cup with several drops of the ink, if only a little I just colored them directly with a Qtip. I did the same with plain clear rhinestones as well. Then I adhered all the bling with Glossy Accents.

Another picture of using Alcohol Ink to color the bling.

Same as 5 and 6. Alcohol Ink is so versatile.

I mixed 1 ounce of Ice Resin and poured it over the pieces on a baking cooling rack I have designated for Art, with a piece of wax paper underneath. I tried to do as heavy as a coating as I could and I kept these on the rack over night, moving them around every hour using a craft pick so they didn’t get stuck in place. By morning they were dry and not stuck in place. The bottle says they totally cure after 48 hours. 

While the resin hardened I made glassine sacks to house the brooches using the Vault Pillow Box Thinlits, making a window with the pumpkin die, and adding clear packaging material under the pumpkin opening. I had to use the Premium Crease Pad for the sack die with the thin glassine so the folding creases didn’t get cut all the way through.

I used pliers to bend the hook of pin in a little more so that there wasn’t more tension when it gets secured in the closure, hopefully alleviating people from pulling on the pin too much to latch it. Fingers crossed. I added the pins to the back of each brooch so they wouldn’t be seen using lots of Glossy Accents. I also used tiny letter metal stamping punches and a Craft Hammer for my initials onto Metallic Kraftstock, and added those to the back of each piece for my maker marks, and then I coated the whole back with more Glossy Accents for added strength again, and let them dry.

Using the same Vault Pillow Box Thinlits, there is a card to die cut that fits into the sack. I die cut 6 of these, one for each as a holding card for the brooches. I measured and marked where both ends of the back of the pin would be and punch holes for them, and then used scissors to cut a line between the holes. The back of the pin is just pushed through the cut line into the holes and it stays in place perfectly. Then the card with the brooch fits into the sack. 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Die Cut Machine, Die Pick, Scissors, Standard Premium Crease Pad)

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Metallic Kraftstock, Metallic Droplets, Christmas Droplets, Halloween Droplets, Mirrored Hearts, Kraft Glassine

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Autumn Halloween Vault Series 2024): Vault Foliage Wreath, Vault Wicked

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Glossy Accents

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: Sandal, Latte, Dijon, Ginger, Teakwood, Sunshine Yellow, Valencia, Botanical, Gold Mixative

-Ranger Ice Resin

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Vault Pillow Box & Bag

-1 Inch Brooch Pins, Gold, Silver, Copper Metallic Pens, Microfiber Cloth, Various Sizes Flat Rhinestones and Pearl Halves, Containers to Dye In and for Ice Resin, Metal Letter Stamps and Hammer if Desired, Clear Packaging

Thank you truly for all the comments on the Live and social media. I totally appreciate all of you! I'll be back again next week with the Halloween Brooches. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!