Wildflower Bouquet Collaged Birthday Cards

Hello All and happy August! August is the month for Mother's birthdays around here, so today I have my Mother's and Mother In Law's birthday cards made with lots of Tim Holtz botanical goodies.

These are all tag I made during the Distress Sprays demo, and I decided to use them on these cards.

I die cut the Bouquet Thinlits from Tim and Sizzix using two of the tags. I used the Wallpaper for the background of the cards.

I collaged on the Bouquet designs with Matte Collage Medium, and trimmed off the excess. I added on the tags, and stitched around them. Everything got inked using Ground Espresso Archival from Tim and Ranger.

I die cut the flowers from Wallflowers 1 and 2, and the Bigz Large Stems. I inked over them in Oxides and misted with water. I added a few details with markers.

I collaged the flowers on and used Wendy Vecchi's Sunflower Liquid Pearls for the centers and also on the Bouquet cut outs.

I die cut the base of the birds with the text tags and the bodies with another tag from the sprays. I crinkled up a piece of Kraft cardstock, misted it with Walnut Stain Distress Spray, and inked over it with Oxides. Then I misted the whole piece, and rubbed the Archival Ink over it to highlight the wrinkles. Then I die cut the wreaths.

I cut the wreaths in  half and layered them on top of each other. I used the inside of the wreath as a base for the nest, added the bird, and then added the twig parts under the bird to form the nest. Then I foam taped the bird and nest onto the card.

I used Clippings to form my sentiments, inked them, and added to cardstock.

I die cut and stamped a bee from the Entomology Stamps and Dies, and colored them with markers  before adding to the cards.

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Die Cut Machine, Hemp String, Foam Tape, Two Sided Tape, Stamping Block)

-Ranger Surfaces: 8.5x11 Inch Mixed Media Heavystock, Kraft Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Mixed Media Heavystock #8 Tags

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil: Bouquet

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain: Peacock Feathers

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray: Mustard Seed, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Background Stamp: Ledger Script

-Core-dinations Color Core Cardstock: Turquoise

-Ranger Tim Holtz Collage Medium: Matte

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Bouquet, Wildflower Stems 1, Wildflower Stems 2, Funky Wreaths, Feathered Friends, Entomology

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Large Stems

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Ground Espresso

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink: Mustard Seed, Lucky Clover, Twisted Citron, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Worn Wallpaper- Halloween, Clippings Sticker Book

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower

-Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Entomology

-Faber Castell Pitt Pens

Thanks for stopping by today, and as always I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

A Collaged and Glazed Masculine Birthday Card

Hello All! Today, a quick post on this vintage looking masculine birthday card using products and techniques from the Tim Holtz demos. Sorry there are no step out photos due to a broken camera on my phone, but I used my husband's to take pics of the finished card. I'll try to explain the process though as best I can.

 

The hardest part of making this was deciding which ephemera to use, and sorting through all TH stash of it. Once I figured that out and laid things where they would go, the card came together super fast.The list of ephemera packs are listed below.

 

I had a tag from one of the demos that was collaged in Typeset, so I use Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Glaze from Tim and Ranger to color the numbers and letter on the tag. Then I began mounting the ephemera and tag onto brick colored cardstock with a little stitching.

I loved the glazed look so much, I just kept adding to certain parts of the ephemera using Weathered Wood, Antique Linen (my fav), and Hickory Smoke, mostly to numbered areas, and of course on the young lad. It really makes a difference on detail and texture, and helps things to pop. I totally love the clock all glazed over.

I had a few Industrious Sticker scraps so I incorporated the star trim, arrows for the clock, and the letter. I do love those stickers. Then I finished off with string for the tags, and a little more stitching, foam taping on a few things, and a Hardware Head.

Supplies: 

(Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Corner Rounder, Foam Tape, Ink Blending Tool)

-Kraft Cardstock Base, Brick Red Cardstock

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Type Set Collage Paper, Expedition Ephemera, Urban Layers, Salvaged Tags, Ticket Booth, Paper Dolls, Industrious Stickers in Deco Type; Borders, Hardware Heads

-Ranger Tim Holtz Archival Ink: Ground Espresso

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock #8 Tag

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Dabber

-Ranger Letter It Embossing Pen: Medium 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glaze: Antique Linen, Peeled Paint, Weathered Wood, Hickory Smoke

Thanks for stopping by today. Enjoy the week, and I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!