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 Spring 2024 - Curiosity Shop #1 Card

Hi Everyone! Thanks so much for all the love on my last post. Today, I have another card made with the new Curiosity Stamp Set from Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous, that is more on the masculine side...I was thinking Father's Day, but really it could be anything. This stamp set is not only yummy vintage but nostalgic and fun as well, and I really had a lot of fun playing with it. It is super versatile and really can be used for so many occasions. Enjoy!

Cut a piece of Kraft Cardstock to 4 x 4 5/8”. Place the paper in the platform and add the bowler hat from the Curiosity Shop Stamp Set, about ½ inch down from the left side. Stamp in Black Soot Archival from Ranger. Clean the stamp off by stamping the remaining ink onto a sticky note, and then cut the hat out. Remove the bowler hat from the platform as you are finished with it. Place the sticky note over the bowler hat and then position the top hat upside down and above and to the right of the bowler hat so that it is still touching in the corner and close the platform to secure. Stamp it in the Black Soot. Clean the stamp off by stamping the remaining ink onto another sticky note, then cut it out. You are finished with that stamp.

Gather Pine Needles, Rustic Wilderness, Black Soot, Scorched Timber, and Walnut Stain Distress Oxides, as well as Picket Fence Distress Ink (which actually is a pigment ink as well so it’s perfect to use with Oxides) and the Labels Layering Stencil. Secure the Kraft card with the hats on the table with scotch tape up at the top, then add the sticky note masks on the hats.  Position the stencil over so the images are evenly spaced and lined up, and then add tape to secure it. Using the smallest Detail Ink Blending Tools, you will randomly ink in the individual label parts with the different colors of it. (Note: I was trying to go for the Starbucks green color, so I started with Rustic Wilderness then added Pine Needles on top and then a bit of Black Soot on top of that and then blended in to get that nice dark green.) The lines between the labels are very thin, so if you get another ink color on top of another, just blend it out with the other color. When finished, remove the stencil and clean it with water, remove the masks, and give this a good dry with the heat tool. 

(I made two of these so you can see the front and back on the same photo.) Use a paper trimmer to cut across the top of the hat paper and stop when you get to the top hat on both sides, and then use scissors to cut around the hat, as seen in the top left.  Flick a bit of water onto this to create a mottled look on the labels as well as to make sure all the ink is set, and dry with a heat tool. Ink around the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink or another brown color. Flip the hat paper over to apply the two sided tape in all the correct places to allow the gift card and coffee lid plug sticks to fit correctly, as seen in the bottom left of the pic with the sticks and gift card used for measuring. You don’t have to use two sizes of tape, but I found that the ¼” and 1” worked perfectly. The main thing is to leave the top hat area deep for the sticks to go into so it will be sort of like a magic hat that holds long items, and to make an area for the gift card to fit into, while sealing up the rest of the border. I forgot to add the small paper punch (1/2”) to make a half circle cut in the middle of the border area for the gift card to allow it to be easily pulled out. Set this aside now.

For the background of the card, cut a piece of SSP to 4 5/8 x 6 5/8”. Directly onto the Glass Mat, apply Gathered Twigs Distress Ink straight from the pad randomly a few times (you will not be able to see it well), as well as Pine Needles Distress Oxide, and Walnut Stain Oxide, randomly in about a 6x6” area, and mist pretty well with water. Take the SSP and run it through the wet inks, and dry a short bit with the heat tool, and then continue to tap the paper into the wet, dry it, tap again, dry until you like the look of it, and then dry completely. Ink the edges well with the Gathered Twigs and bring it onto the surface around the borders a bit. Then lightly mist with water to get the tiniest water spots to really finish off a beautiful marble look. I did two in the photo to show you how different each will be and still be gorgeous. Dry with a heat tool. 

Place the paper into a stamp platform, and taking the number strip image (I only used 1, 2, and 3 so I cut those from the strip to make stamping a bit easier.) stamp the 1 in Pine Needles Distress Ink (I forgot to add it in the photo), and the 2 and 3 in Black Soot Archival. You can do both color at the same time being careful to only apply the inks to the correct numbers. Continue the pattern so that the 1 is skipping around some, and until you have two rows of numbers. Dry this well as ink stays wet longer on SSP. Take a piece of green colored Design Tape and affix it below the numbers and around the back to secure it well. The rest of the paper will not be seen as the hat paper will cover it up. Set these aside for now.

Taking more SSP, about 3.5 x 8.5”, place into the stamp platform, and arrange the typewriter and both pointing hands on, leaving room for two more hands at the bottom. Close the lid to secure. Stamp the images with Black Soot Archival Ink, and then dry with the heat tool. Turn the paper upside down to stamp the other two hands, and then dry again. (I cut mine off not thinking about it being better to leave them in place in case I had to restamp later.) Leave the images in place on the platform in case you have to restamp after coloring them in….always a good thing to do. (HUGE NOTE: I used a Craft Knife to cut around the typewriter parts to insert the paper behind the those parts, BUT if I would have just not inked that top part where it looks like the paper is stopped and left that open, I could have just cut a paper shape coming off that, and wouldn’t have had to use the craft knife and made life much easier.)

(Like my Oxides, I hadn’t used the Crayons in awhile so I decided to use those for coloring this, and there are two shown here, but I only ended up using the left side one.) Using Distress Crayons and a Detail Water Brush, color in the hands with Tattered Rose and Tea Dye by applying some Crayon to the white mat and picking up with the brush. Use Hickory Smoke to color in the suit and most of the typewriter, as well as Black Soot. For the hats I colored in the bands with Pine Needles Distress Ink since it was laying right by me instead of the Crayon. I used Tea Dye on the bowler and Hickory Smoke on the top hat. Back to the typewriter, go over all the metal parts with a little Iron Gate Crayon to add a nice pearly sheen. Tea Dye was great for the inside of the keys for a little aged look. Once dry, use a silver metallic pen for thin metal parts to make them stand out. I also used a gold metallic pen and made some scribbles to make it look like there might be wording on the typewriter. Once finished, I added two sided tape to the back, and thought about restamping as mentioned above, but I thought everything looked ok.

I cut out all the parts, and used a craft knife to cut around the top typewriter parts which was tedious, so please see what I mentioned above about saving myself the time.  I used a black permanent marker to edge all the pieces since they were small and some parts too tight to get a blended tool in there. I cut a small piece of SSP to be the paper for the typewriter that would fit about 2x2”, and stamped the sentiment first from the Curiosity set, and found the word ‘you’re’ on another old stamp on the Stuff to Say set, instead typing it myself on my typewriter which would have been much smaller, and I stamped those in Black Soot Archival. I found the ‘No. 1’ on the Eccentric Remnant Rubs set and added it below. I also added the two extra dots after the sentiment with the black permanent pen. I edged around the paper with the same pen, and then attached the paper to the back of the typewriter with two sided tape, and then I added it to the right side of the card. I used Glossy Accents on all the typewriter’s keys as well. For the fingers, I added a tiny bit of Collage Medium to the coffee lid plug sticks, and then removed the backing of one, and stuck it on above the notch, and then added the finger behind it matching it up and pressed them tightly to seal them together. I did the other the same way, and then added them inside the top hat, pushing them as far as could go and arranging them to look as though they are laying in the hat, then I added the gift card. 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Scissors, Sticky Note, Glass Mat, Tape, Detail Ink Blending Tool, Heat Tool, Water Mister, Two Sided Tape (1”, ¼”), Ink Blending Tool, ½” Small Circle Punch, Detail Water Brush, Craft Knife, Rub On Tool)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Specialty Stamping Paper

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Curiosity Shop

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Labels

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink: Pine Needles, Rustic Wilderness, Black Soot, Scorched Timber, Walnut Stain

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Picket Fence, Gathered Twigs, Pine Needles

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Travel Design Tape, Black Kraftstock, Eccentric Remnant Rubs

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot, Iron Gate

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Stuff to Say

-Ranger Glossy Accents

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte                                          

-Silver and Gold Metallic Extra Fine Pen, Black Permanent Marker, Gift Card, Green Coffee Lid Plug Sticks

Thank you so much for stopping by here today, and for all the wonderful comments on social! Until next time, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

You're A Good Egg Birthday Cards

Hello AND Happy New Year Everyone!!! I have not been here in so so long, and it's really dusty in here. I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday season. Tim Holtz just launched a new release with Sizzix last week where he is bringing back some of the older dies that have been retired but in new sizes, and they are called The Vault Series. He is doing this for the whole year, so if there are dies that you have missed out on in previous years, hopefully the ones you want will be included in this series with just a small size change. It's such a fabulous idea! I have used several of the new sets on these four birthday cards, along with lots of Idea-ology. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Using older papers from Idea-ology, I die cut the rosettes from the The Vault Rosettes Thinlits (3 for each rosette), the seal, and the star, inked all the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink from Ranger, and then assembled them with two sided tape and Collage Medium.

Using The Vault Bunny + Chick Thinlits, I die cut all the eggs from Manila and Ivory Heavystock, the legs (4 for each) from Kraft, the glasses and face parts from Black, the bows and hats from Christmas Stash, and the balloons from Metallic and Classic Kraftstock. I inked everything with Gathered Twigs. NOTE: For the face I cut off the left side of the that upside down 'T' to make it look like a nose, and for the hat I used one of the triangles from the banner. On the balloon, I used the small highlight in heavystock from the egg and put it in place on the balloon to look like a highlight mark. For the inside of the glasses, I used clear cellophane from a package. The ribbon on the balloon is just silver metallic thread. 

 

I die cut the letters from The Vault Hippity Hop in black with two sided tape on the back and adhered them to the rosettes adding a little Collage Medium for extra security. Using the Mini File Folders, all inked with Vintage Photo Archival, I adhered the letters to the tabs as well.

Taking lots of ephemera and even papers from the Correspondence Paper Stash, I collage all the inked with Vintage Photo pieces to each File Folder. Then I added the die cuts to finish the cards. 

Supplies: 

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Die Cut Machine, Die Pick, Ink Blending Tool, Scissors, Water Mister, Collage Brush)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Black Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock: White, Mixed Media

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Christmas Paper Stash 2017, Collage Paper Stash, Correspondence Paper Stash, Design Tape, Classic Kraftstock, Metallic Colors Kraftstock, Mini File Folders, Palette Ephemera Pack, Memoir Ephemera Pack

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Vault Series 2024): Vault Rosettes, Vault Bunny + Chick, Vault Hippity Hop 

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink:  Gathered Twigs

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Vintage Photo

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-White Pen, Black Pen, Silver Thread, White Mini Pom Pom

 

Thanks for stopping by here today! Again, a very happy, love filled, prosperous, and healthy New Year to each of you! I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Numbered and Tailored Celebrate Birthday Card with Emporium and Bulletin Letters

Hello All and Happy Good Friday! My youngest Sonshine turned 20 today, and this is the birthday card I made for him, using the new Tailored, Colorize Celebrate, and Emporium and Bulletin Alphanumeric Dies from Tim Holtz and Sizzix. I also used the Numbered 3D Texture Fade for the background, which I can't get enough of for birthday cards....just love how it comes out every time. He will love this card I am sure, and it was so fast to make. Enjoy!

 

For the background I used the blue marbled Backdrops Sheet from Idea-ology, cut it to size, misted it with water, and ran it through the machine using the Numbered 3D Texture Fade. I ran the pad of Picket Fence Distress Ink over it to bring out the numbers more. I inked the edges in Black Soot Archival and then mounted it to Silver Metallic Kraftstock, then Black Kraftstock, and finally onto a card base folded and cut to 5x6.5 inches, and all those edges were inked in Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

 

 I die cut the balloons from Colorize Celebrate using Silver Metallic Kraftstock, and the Tailored hat and suit using Kraft Cardstock and all three of the Textile Surfaces. The Textile Surfaces are perfect for this die set if you are looking for a real textural look. I inked everything with Gathered Twigs and assembled all the pieces together. 

I used Silver and Black Kraftstock as well as Kraft Cardstock for the mix matching of the letters and set aside the others that I didn't use for another project as it makes double when you switch out the negatives for another color of paper. Then I adhered everything on the card front. So simple and fast.

Supplies: 

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Die Cut Machine, Water Mister, Ink Blending Tool, Scissors, Water Mister, Stamp Platform, Small Paint Brush, Foam Tape)

 -Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Backdrops Volume #5, Metallic Classics Kraftstock, Black Kraftstock, Textile Surfaces

 -Sizzix Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fade: Numbered

 -Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink:  Picket Fence, Gathered Twigs

 -Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

 -Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

 -Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Everyday 2023): Colorize Celebrate, Tailored, Emporium Alphanumeric, Bulletin Alphanumberic

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Collector 

 

Thanks for stopping by today, and especially for the comments. I'll be back again next week. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!