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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Supplies:

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

-4x5 Inch Chunky Canvas and/or Flat Canvas

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Opaque

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

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Crazing

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

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

-Scraps of yellow and green cardstock

-Ranger Liquid Pearls: Dark Chocolate, Key Lime

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower, Orange Blossom

-Print Out of Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A Vase 

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

Distress Embossing Glaze Blossoms in a Talavera Planter Mixed Media Canvas

Hello Everyone! It's been awhile since I've been here and it's a little dusty. Today I have exciting news...Tim Holtz and Ranger have just added 12 more colors to the Distress Embossing Glazes line, many that we were needing so much! I hope you are watching Tim's Live today so you can see some fabulous ways to use the Glazes, if not be sure to watch the replay. I've used six of the colors on this Mixed Media 8x10 inch canvas to create the Talavera Pottery Planter and centers of all the flowers. I've collected Mexican Talavera Pottery for years and try hard to find the ones that are signed by the Artists. With all the new colors of Glazes it was easy to create a pot that has my favorite colors, all the oranges and blues. The pot below is my favorite one, so I tried to create this one very similar to it. The paneling  as well as decking on the canvas also matches perfectly with the real house, and that is because I used the same colors of inks and paints as the new Glazes, so this new collection was perfect for this project. Thanks so much Tim and Ranger for bringing forth the new colors!

 

 

I used Distress White Heavystock and die cut the largest Oval and biggest Scallop from the Stitched Ovals Thinlits from Sizzix. I placed the Oval under the Flames Layering Stencil from Stamper's Anonymous centering it for the part of the design I wanted and taped the stencil down. Starting with Abandoned Coral Distress Ink, I inked in the top and bottom heart shape using a Detail Ink Blending Tool as it's the only tool I have to get into those tiny parts of the stencil, then I removed the oval from under the stencil and immediately poured Abandoned Coral Distress Embossing Glaze over and then heat set it with the heat tool. I repeated this again with Spiced Marmalade next, then Squeezed Lemonade,  then Mermaid Lagoon, then Chipped Sapphire, and finally Crushed Olive last as there was more to ink with the green. I used a small paint brush to brush off any powder that got on the areas where I didn't want it. For the Scallop I only inked in the half circle areas using Chipped Sapphire Ink and Glaze.

 

 I snipped off a segment of three Scallops for the top of the pot, two for the bottom, and one each for the handles. I used a hole punch to punch off the center of the Scallop for the handles. Then using Collage Medium, I adhered the pieces onto the pot. To give the pot an even more Talavera Pottery look I used a dark blue permanent pen and traced around each part and also added some lines and circle dots. I set this aside for now.

 

 

 Using more White Heavystock with two sided tape on the back (I used two sided tape on all the die cuts), I die cut three of the flower parts (orange ones on lower left corner of the die picture) from the Mini Brushstroke Flowers along with three each of the leaves. I also die cut three of the top flower part from the Blossom Thinlits, three each of the leaves parts, and three each of the centers. I used Ivory Heavystock to die cut three of the base parts from Blossom, and Watercolor Cardstock for the second middle part of the Blossom. Taking only the three bottom center parts from Blossom, I inked over them with Orange Marmalade Distress Ink and then poured the same Embossing Glaze over and heat set. For the top center part I inked them with Squeezed Lemonade and matching Glaze. I did the same for the center rings of the Mini Brushstroke Flowers. At this point I wasn't sure about my flower colors so I set them all aside for a bit to concentrate on the canvas.

 

 

Taking an 8x10 inch canvas panel and the Stripes Layering Stencil with Crackle Texture Paste, I stenciled in the top areas of the canvas about two inches up from the bottom, letting the areas dry a bit, and then continuing in the pattern until the whole top area was striped. When dry, I painted in the area with Chipped Sapphire Distress Paint, and then added Stormy Sky paint to the center area and blended it out to create a halo of color.

 

 Taking a 2 x 8 inch piece of Woodgrain Cardstock, I inked over it with Wild Honey Archival Ink, pressing the ink into all the debossed areas, and then ran the pad of Frayed Burlap Archival over the raised areas. I trimmed this into three graduated widths, and then inked the edges heavily with the Frayed Burlap. I adhered these onto the bottom of the canvas using Crazing Collage Medium and also covered the whole rest of the canvas with it for a beautiful textured sheen. Now I had the outside walls and decking of my house with all the Talavera Pottery that I collect, and it was a perfect match with the real house.  

 

I decided on orange for the Mini Flowers, so I inked over the petals of all of them using Spiced Marmalade Archival Ink, and inked the centers with Vintage Photo. Then I adhered all the parts together. Using Wild Honey Distress Paint I added stripes to the petals, and dots to the centers with Walnut Stain Distress Paint. I brought the pot onto the canvas to figure out sizing and position of everything, and then cut stems from White Heavystock for the three Mini groupings of flowers and cut the ends into strips for each flower stem, and two thicker for the large Blossoms that I know would be seen. I painted the stems and base leaves with Crushed Olive Distress Paint, and inked in the other parts of the leaves with Crushed Olive Archival Ink. Even though it's the same color, there still is slight difference on the leaf parts to give the look of texture. I adhered the stems into place first with the Crazing Collage Medium, added the pot, and then added the Mini Brushstroke Flowers and leaves, coating all in the medium.

 

 

For the large Blossoms, I adhered the three petal parts together and the centers as well, but I did not add the centers on yet. Taking Antique Linen Distress Paint, I randomly painted in the Ivory areas in the center and into the open parts on the petals. Then I used Picket Fence to paint in a few stripes on the top petals for some texture. I adhered the centers into place, and used the Walnut Stain Distress Paint to add tiny dots on and around the centers. I also created a petal from the negative die cut pieces. I figured out the placement of the flowers and leaves and then adhered the leaves on covering them with the Crazing, then I added the Blossoms. I signed the canvas and then coated the whole thing again with the Crazing. 

 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Scissors, Die Cut Machine, Die Pick, Detail Blending Tool, Small Paint Brush, Heat Tool, Hole Punch, Palette Knife)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock: White, Ivory

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Stitched Ovals (Largest and Biggest Scallop Trim), Blossom, Mini Brushstroke Flowers

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Flames, Stripes

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Crushed Olive, Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glaze: Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Crushed Olive, Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Crackle

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky, Crushed Olive, Wild Honey, Antique Linen, Picket Fence, Walnut Stain

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Woodgrain Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Wild Honey, Frayed Burlap, Crushed Olive, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo

-Ranger Tim Holtz Collage Medium: Crazing 

-8x10 Flat Canvas Panel, Dark Blue Permanent Pen

 

Thank you so so very much for stopping by here today. I hope you are inspired to use the new goods. Until next time, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Sizzix Christmas 2022 - Mrs. Claus's Holiday Modern Festive Bouquet 8x10 Mixed Media Paintings with Paperwhites and Poinsettias

Hello Everyone, and so sorry it's been so long! I promised these canvases two months ago, but life has been crazy and I even broke my left big toe right before Thanksgiving, so I am super behind on the crafting. I started these two Christmas canvases (made with A LOT of Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, 4 new and 3 old) back in October, and had to put them away a few times, and then get them out to work on a couple of things at a time. I imagined that if Mrs. Claus had a little bouquet in her kitchen during Christmas that this is what it might look like...a little Mason Jar filled with a fragrant Paperwhite bulb, a few colorful Poinsettias, Winter Greens from outside, and dried oranges with cinnamon sticks for even more of a Christmas smell. It makes her happy! Anyway, it was a long process but so very enjoyable, and this tutorial is probably the longest one I've done (LOL), but I finally finished and the pink poinsettia one is on it's way to a friend and the red one is now being displayed in my dining room along with the other two paintings I did this year (the Van Gogh inspired ones). There are a few things I don't like about the design of these, but for the most part I am super happy about how they finally turned out. I hope something in them inspires you. I don't know if I'll be back here again before Christmas due to time, so if I am not I want to wish each of you a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season filled with love, laughter, and joy! Enjoy the tutorial.

 

To keep the canvases slightly different and so that I would know which is which, I used a green stripe Christmas Backdrop for one and a red stripe for the other as table clothes, cutting each about three inches wide, but not adhering yet onto the 8x10 inch canvases. I choose a green and red flowery Backdrop and cut them into strips for the wallpaper background, and planned out what I would do.

I painted both canvases with a watered down Peeled Paint Distress Paint from Ranger, and let it dry completely.

I inked the edges of all the strips of Backdrops with Vintage Photo Archival Ink, and then adhered the strips of Backdrops to the top portion of each canvas keeping a one inch border between each, using Crazing Collage Medium. On the Peeled Paint open areas I stenciled in the Tiny Poinsettias Layering Stencil from Stamper's Anonymous with Crackle Distress Texture Paste, using strips of paper to mask off the Backdrops so I wouldn't get any Paste on them. I moved the stencil to a new spot and continued the pattern of poinsettias, and let it all dry.

 

Once the Paste was dry, I laid the stencil back on to the strips of Paste and inked over the flowers with Fired Brick Archival Ink and the leaves with Peeled Paint Archival, using the strips of paper to mask off the Backdrops again. To clean the stencil from the Archival Ink, I misted it with 91% Rubbing Alcohol and and the ink was all gone. 

 

To further enhance the design of the Mrs. Claus's wall paper, I used a Marvy Gold Leafing Pen to add stripes on both sides of each Backdrop strip, and added gold to the centers of all the flowers. 

To make the wallpaper blend in and not be overly jarring to look at (as it's pretty ugly) so the bouquet is center stage, I watered down Pearl Metallic Paint Dabber and painted it over all the wallpaper to tone it down and give it a nice cohesive look. 

 

 I took the strips of striped Backdrops and laid the Pine Patterns Thinlits over the largest open area on the stripes to create a pattern, and ran it through the die machine, but the paper was not thick enough to emboss the pattern. So I added two sided tape to the back of the Backdrops and tried again, and this time the paper was thick enough to emboss the designs. I liked the pattern and decided to add color into the recessed Pine Patterns, so I inked over the die pieces straight from the pad, using Vintage Photo on the acorns, and Peeled Paint Archival onto the greenery, and laid them into the already embossed designs, matching them up and ran it through the machine again to add the colors. 

I inked the edges of the papers with Vintage Photo Archival and adhered the papers below the wallpaper to look like a table cloth, using the Crazing Collage Medium, and then I added the Collage Medium to the whole canvas nice and thick in an 'x' like pattern to give the look of paint texture. I inked over the edges of the canvases heavily with the Vintage Photo and Ink Tool. I wanted the gold to be more prominent in the background, so I recolored over the gold areas with the paint pen again. The backgrounds were now finished. 

For the vases, I cut two pieces of Idea-ology Masking Sheets to about 3 x 4.5 inches (two for the two vases as I made two canvases). I inked over both pieces with Cloudy Blue Alcohol Ink vertically with the Felt Applicator, and then added more ink on the felt and inked horizontally about 3/4th up the mask creating a hard line of ink so it looked like a water line. I added two sided tape to the side with the ink, covering the whole mask, and trimmed it down to the size of the mask leaving the backing on (the white paper is under the mask so you can see the inking, and the other has two sided tape already).  On the Trinket Frame Bigz Die from Sizzix, I thought the first frame (the one on the left) looked like a Mason Jar if the bottom portion was trimmed down. Do you agree? I laid the Mask down over the first frame (tape side down) and die cut it, so that the water line would be just below the lip of the top part of the frame. Then I did the other mask.

To make the masked frames look like Mason Jars, I trimmed the bottom off, curving it slightly, and also trimmed the tiny lip off the top. They are now Mason Jars! I'll keep the outside of the frames for another project, as always. For the wording on the jars, I selected the 'Holly Jolly Christmas' saying from the Festive Overlay Stamp Set, and placed it into the small Stamp Platform along with the jar. I stamped the sentiment in Salvaged Patina Archival a few times, and then sprinkled Clear Embossing Powder over. I let the Embossing Gun heat up pretty good and then embossed the sentiment as quick as it could melt as I was scared the mask part might warp, but it did not (the two sided tape backing is the key I think), holding it with tweezers. When the embossing was cool, I stamped the sentiment over the embossing again to darken the sentiment as much as I could get it. I inked the edges of the jar heavily with the Salvaged Patina and let it dry good.

 

 Aren't those jars the cutest?!! (Note: My original plan was to adhere the bow around the jars, but it covered up too much of the sentiment, so I decided to add the bow in the bouquet instead.) I die cut the Colorize Bow Tie with dark red Kraftstock for the base pieces of the bow and ribbon,  and used sticky sided red velvet for the other parts. I adhered the parts together, and set it aside since I decided not to use it on the jar.

 

 For the swag insert for the bouquet, I added two sided tape to the back of Distress Watercolor Paper (I used Distress Watercolor Paper for all the pieces.), and using the dies from the Modern Festive set, I die cut the orange slice, both acorns, the stripey lines part, and the pine branch times two. All of these will go onto a branch piece that I'll show you a little further down. I painted the wheel part of the orange with Wild Honey Distress Paint, and the stripeys with Orange Marmalade. When dry I added the stripey parts to the wheel part. Then I punched a hole in the center of the wheel part (so I would see more white underneath), and adhered this to the white base part. Then I painted over more Watercolor Paper with Orange Marmalade and adhered the slices to add, cut around the slices leaving about 1/8 inch border of orange. I did this to make the orange slices just a little bigger. I used Antique Linen on parts of the white paper to give a little depth to the slices. I painted the pine branch with Pine Needles on the needle parts and Walnut Stain down the the center. I did this times two of course.

I painted the base pieces of the acorns with Ground Espresso and the top parts with Walnut Stain, and then adhered those together when dried. I coated the orange slices and acorns with Matte Collage Medium and sprinkled Rocky Candy Distress Glitter over the top, for a sugared look, and let them dry. For the cinnamon sticks, I painted a piece of Watercolor paper cut 2x8.5 inches with Walnut Stain, and let it dry.

I cut the paper in half length wise, and then a 1/2 inch off of each of those. The 1/2 piece is for the thin stick, and the other is for the double curled stick. To curl the paper easier, I misted it with water and started at one long end, rolling it with my fingers over the mat, until it was rolled up tight. I inked the edges using Vintage Photo, and added a little Collage Medium to seal the edges.

For the greenery parts, I added two sided tape to the back of more Watercolor (cut to about 5x7 inches) and die cut the parts shown from both the Modern Festive and Holiday Brushstroke 3 sets (two sets of berries on each as well), and I did this 4 times (two sheets per canvas), but I left the pieces inside the negative base to make painting and handling a little easier. I painted the Mistletoe with Squeezed Lemonade first, then Twisted Citron on the edges, and Mowed Lawn on the leafy parts, and the berries for it are Antique Linen. The holly branch is painted the same as the Mistletoe, but the leaf is edged in Squeezed Lemonade as well as the veins and the main part is Rustic Wilderness, and the berries are Lumberjack Plaid. The juniper branch is Evergreen Bough and Pine Needles. The long fluffy branch is Forest Moss and Peeled Paint. The short fluffy branch is Pine Needles and Evergreen Bough. The other pine branch (same as in orange slice swag) is Rustic Wilderness and Mowed Lawn. All of them have Walnut Stain centers. Once dry, I laid the jar where is will go as well as the orange slice parts (not removing the backing yet) so I could get an idea of how the bouquet will be arranged. I used a die pick to help remove the greenery parts from the negative, and removed the backing on only the long and short fluffy pieces first and adhered on the canvases with a little Collage Medium for extra stay power. I only did those two pieces so far.

 I die cut one of the branches from the Branches Bigz Die for the orange slice swag, and painted it with Walnut Stain from Watercolor with two sided tape. I adhered it on next (one on left side of one canvas and one on right side of the other), and adhered the pine branches with acorns on top, and orange slice to the top. I added the long spruce branch to another on the swag. Using more Watercolor I cut a stem looking piece about 5 inches long for the main stem of the Paperwhites, and painted it with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn. I adhered it to the middle of the bouquet using the jar as a guide as it's not stuck down yet. I added another pine branch piece to the top of the long fluffy branch for some fullness. Then I added one of the holly branches to one side of the Paperwhite's stem with two holly leaves, and added the red berries, and then one of the mistletoe branches to the other side with the white berries.

 

Using Twisted Citron and Walnut Stain paints, I extended the stems of the branches and added in more under where the jar will go, so you will be able to see them like they are in the water in the jar. I painted some scrap Watercolor with Lumberjack Plaid and used a  5/8 inch hole punch to punch several circles to use as cranberries in the jar of water. Silly probably, but Mrs. Claus likes the Martha Stewart style!!! I removed half the backing on the jar and added the cranberries (color side up) to the sticky about half the way up. Then I finally removed the rest of the backing and added lots of Collage Medium as well and stuck the jar in place. I added the other holly branch and berries on so that some are on top of the jar like they are spilling over, and added the other mistletoe branch and berries to the other side, again like they are spilling over. I added another piece of greenery to the bouquet over the Paperwhite stem.

 

 (Note: I printed off a picture of Paperwhites from the internet for a guide to paint by.) For the Paperwhites, I die cut 10 (5 for each canvas) flower bases from Modern Festive, and 10 circles from sticky Watercolor, and painted them with Antique Linen. I used scissors to define the petals a little by cutting them apart some. I die cut 5 sets of the 3 stamen center parts from the Festive Bouquet set, and painted those with Mustard Seed Distress Paint. Using the largest balled stylus from Tim's Flower Shaping Set and the base foam part, I rubbed and moved the stylus in a circular motion to cup the circle parts up and the petals on the flowers as well, so they would all have some dimension and depth. I painted some Picket Fence stripes on all the petals and centers as well for a little detail.

I added the circle to the centers of the flowers, and then the stamen to the centers of the circles for a Paperwhite look. Then using Yellow Flower Soft fluffy stuff that I had in my stash, as well as this cool pointy curved tool that I found at a junk shop years ago and have never used (I have no idea what it's really for.) I scooped up the Flower Soft and laid it into the centers of the stamen with some Collage Medium for a more realistic look. This tool was perfect to do this. Once dry, I adhered the flowers on to the upper center of each canvas.

 

 (Note: I printed off a picture of pink and red poinsettias from the internet as a guide to paint by.) For the poinsettias, I used sticky Watercolor and die cut 1 large and 2 small from the Festive Bouquet set, and the poinsettia and leaves part from the Holiday Brushstroke 3 set (times 2). I also die cut the regular leaf from the Festive Bouquet set that will be cut into two parts. I adhered all the parts to the petals on the flowers. One little poinsettia will go on top of the large, and then one little by itself, and the leaves on the other will be colored like poinsettia petals instead of leaves, fyi. For the pink poinsettias, I painted the whole thing with Kitsch Flamingo first. Then I added Antique Linen to the edges and made some veins. Then I added Lumberjack Plaid coming out from some of the veins here and there. Once dry, I used a white pen to add more detail veins on each petal. For the red poinsettias, I painted the base of each flowers with Festive Berries, then added Lumberjack Plaid to all the raised parts and made veins with it. All the centers where painted with Twisted Citron, and dots of Mustard Seed to the stamen. Then same as the Paperwhites, I added Flower Soft to the stamens. The leaves were painted with Twisted Citron and Rustic Wilderness.

I adhered the cinnamon sticks on finally, criss-crossed, and added the bow on top. Then I adhered the poinsettias on each, with the leaves on the bottom one, and one leaf cut off for the small poinsettias up top. I added a little more detail with Rustic Wilderness to more of the greenery and some Lumberjack Plaid to the bow. I used some Pitt Pens for a little shadow under the jar and some of the petals. Then I coated the whole canvas with lots of Crazing Collage Medium to create more texture and sheen. Once dry, I added dots of White Opal Liquid Pearls  to the white berries, and dots of Garnet to the red berries. I signed each, and framed them. I altered with Distress Paint as well...Ground Espresso the pink poinsettia one and Black Soot to the red poinsettia one...painting it on in the recessed areas and then wiping off the excess.

Paperwhites and Pink Poinsettias

 

Paperwhites and Red Poinsettias

Here it is in my dining room with all my other paintings, a Sunflower painting my son did when he was in third grade,  and a painting my Mother In Law did years ago. 

Supplies: 

(Paintbrush, Water Mister, Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Two Sided Tape, Ruler, Scrap Paper, Scotch Tape, Palette Knife, Die Cut Machine, Alcohol Ink Applicator, Stamp Platform, Tweezers, Heat Tool, Die Pick, 1/2 to 5/8 Hole Punch, Sizzix Flower Shaping Tool) 

-8x10 Inch Canvas Panel 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Peeled Paint, Antique Linen, Wild Honey, Orange Marmalade, Pine Needles, Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Forest Moss, Rustic Wilderness, Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Picket Fence, Kitsch Flamingo, Festive Berries 

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Christmas Backdrops, Mask Sheets, Classic Kraftstock 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Salvaged Patina 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Collage Medium: Crazing, Matte 

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Tiny Poinsettia 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Crackle 

-Ranger Paint Dabber: Pearl Metallic

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Christmas 2022): Pine Patterns, Colorize Bow Tied, Holiday Brushstroke 3, Modern Festive  

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Trinket Frames, Branches 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: Cloudy Blue 

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Festive Overlay 

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Clear 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Rock Candy Glitter 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Woodgrain Cardstock 

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Festive Bouquet 

-Ranger Liquid Pearls: White Opal, Garnet 

-Light Green, Dark Red, Gray Pitt Pen, Marvy Deco Color Premium Gold Pen, Red Velvet, Flower Soft Yellow

That was a doozy! Thanks for staying until the end, and especially for the comments! I hope I'll be back before Christmas as I'm still working on a lot of stuff, but with the time being what it is I'm not sure I will be. Stay safe and healthy everyone, and I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!