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!

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!