The Artful Maven

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2021 - Halloween Doodles and Bold Frights Cards

Hi everyone! Today, I've got more Halloween. This time two cards made with the new Bold Frights and Halloween Doodles Stamp Sets from Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous. The Doodles are a fav set of mine...so darn cute. Enjoy!

Cut Kraft Cardstock base to 4 x 5.5 inches when folded (times 2 if making two cards). Cut black cardstock mat to 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 and adhere to Kraft base with two sided tape. Ink the edges of the Kraft base with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Set aside. Cut White Heavystock to 3.5 x 5.25 inches for card front. Gather stamp sets and Moon Masks and plan out cards.

Working one card front at a time, place solid Moon Mask in upper left corner. Ink over this and the rest of the paper with Prize Ribbon, Wilted Violet, and Carved Pumpkin Distress Inks with Ink Blending Tools. Keep blending and adding inks until nice deep sky is created. Repeat on other card.

Keep Moon Mask in place and lightly mist Jack-O-Lantern Distress Mica Stain over sky area. Add a drop of Picket Fence Distress Paint to silicon mat and spray a tiny bit of water into the paint and mix. Pick up the watered down paint with a small paint brush and flick over the sky area for some stars. Do the same to the other card front. Clean off Moon Mask. Let these dry a few minutes.

Place open coordinating Moon Mask over the solid Moon area, and lightly ink in with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink. Remove mask and use a clean paper towel and smudge over the ink. Protect the sky area with paper towel and lightly mist Empty Tomb Distress Mica Stain over Moon area. Repeat on other card. Ink the edges of the card fronts with Hickory Smoke, and then dry thoroughly with a heat tool.

Place card front in a Stamp Platform and add the sentiment from Bold Frights in lower right corner. Close the lid to secure the stamp. Rub an anti static pouch over the card front so the colored powder doesn't stick where you don't want it. Ink the stamp with Distress Embossing Ink, and stamp the sentiment a few times until you see a nice wet image. Immediately pour White Embossing Powder over the image, pour off, then heat emboss. Repeat with the other card front using another sentiment.

Place clean White Heavystock in the platform and stamp the images from Halloween Doodles in Black Soot Archival...one skeleton, 3 bones, both pieces of candy, one potion bottle, and three candles. Remove, then stamp the ghost in Black Soot Archival onto white vellum. Cut out all of these pieces.

Color in all the images except the ghost and skeleton using Distress Crayons and a Detail Water Brush, and using the silicon mat as your palette. I used Antique Linen on the candles, skeleton, and bones, Carved Pumpkin on the candy and bottle, and Gathered Twigs and pretty much everything. Adhere the skeleton and ghost to the card fronts on the left, using Clear Foam Tape on the ghost and regular on the skeleton. Cut a 1/4 inch wide x 3 inches or so or Kraft Cardstock, ink the edges heavily with Gathered Twigs and adhere above the sentiment to look like a shelf. Adhere the bones to the shelf on the skeleton card and the bottle and candles to the ghost card shelf.

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Ink Blending Tool, Glass Mat, Water Mister, Small Paint Brush, Stamp Platform, Anti Static Pouch, Heat Tool, Scissors, Detail Water Brush, Clear Foam Tape, Foam Tape)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Black Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock: White

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Mask: Moon (Smallest Size)

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs, Prize Ribbon, Wilted Violet, Carved Pumpkin, Hickory Smoke, Embossing Ink

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stain: Jack-O-Lantern, Empty Tomb

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Picket Fence

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Bold Frights, Halloween Doodles

-Ranger Embossing Powder: White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Archival Ink: Black Soot

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons: Antique Linen, Carved Pumpkin, Gathered Twigs

-Ranger Tim Holtz Collage Medium: Matte

-Vellum

Thank you so very much for stopping by today. I'll be back again soon, but this time with a Christmas make, and then I have a few more Halloween makes. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Tim Holtz Sizzix Christmas 2021 - Christmas Vault Series Metallic Card

Hello Everyone! I'm taking a tiny intermission from Halloween and bringing you some Christmas. Did you happen to catch that Tim Holtz Sizzix Live yesterday?!! WOW! My head is still brimming with inspiration from all the makers...just crazy fabulous! I am also so happy to finally have a Christmas make up. Here is the first of my Sizzix Christmas makes using the new Vault Series, which are smaller renditions of oldies but goodies, which I love revisiting especially in the new size. This card was so easy to throw together as well. Enjoy!!!

Cut and fold a Kraft Cardstock base card to 5 x 6.5 inches, and ink the edges of the card with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and an Ink Blending Tool. Cut an Ivory Heavystock mat to 4.75 x 6.25 inches and adhere it to the card front with two sided tape. Cut a piece of champagne/platinum colored Metallic Kraft Stock to 2.5 x 4 1/8 inches for the upper right of the card, and one 2 1/8 x 4 1/8 inches for the lower left side of the card. Cut Kraft cardstock to 1 7/8 x 2 1/8 for the upper left, and one 2 x 2.5 inches for the lower right. Lay these on the card front just so you can see the layout of the card design. Die cut one gent, 2 wreaths, 1 little bows, and one lady from Kraft Cardstock. Die cut one lamp stand, 2 little bows, both faceted stars, 'Christmas', and one large bow from the champagne Metallic Kraft Stock. Fold the stars so they are ready, and affix the large bow together using Collage Medium. Add 'merry' from the Seasonal Chit Chat Stickers to Ivory Heavystock, cut around it, and adhere to the same Metallic Kraft Stock, and cut around it for the sentiment. Lay all the die pieces where they will go as shown so you know the layout of the card.

Remove all the pieces from the card front and lay them somewhere safe and positioned like they were on the card front to make it a little easier and help you find things. Take the two Metallic panel pieces and working one at a time, mist lightly with water and lay inside the Arched Texture Fade. Run through your machine three times for nice deep embossing. Do the other panel. Ink the edges of both pieces with Vintage Photo Archival and then run the pad over the top of each piece to further bring out the raised edges. Using Archival on the Metallic pieces ensures the ink not coming off. Add two sided tape to the back of these and secure on the card front where they go.

Take the two Kraft pieces and lightly stamp part of the Advert background over them in Gathred Twigs Distress Ink. Ink the edges of those and secure them on the card front where they go using two sided tape. Take the gent and lady, and stamp over them using the Music background stamp and use Vintage Photo Archival this time to make the image darker. Ink the edges of both of these people in Vintage Photo as well and adhere them to the card front using Collage Medium. Stamp over both wreaths using the Advert background picking out a good part of the design to see on the wreaths and using Vintage Photo. Ink the edges of those, and set those aside for a bit. Ink the edges of the faceted stars and large bow with Vintage Photo as well.

Ink the edges of the light post and two tiny bow with Vintage Photo, and then adhere the light post next to the lady with Collage Medium. Adhere the wreaths (one on the gent and one on the lamp post) with Collage Medium, and then the bows on the wreaths. Ink the edges of the little Kraft tiny bow and cut it in half. Adhere it to the back of the lady's dress with Collage Medium. Adhere the 'merry' to the top right side of the Kraft panel in the lower right. Then adhere the 'Christmas' below that and over to the left some with Collage Medium. Use a paper towel to make sure there is no Collage Medium showing on any of the Metallic pieces to look cleaner. Finally use Collage Medium to adhere the large bow below the sentiment, and the two faceted stars to the upper left on the Kraft. You will probably need to hold the stars down until they are secure, or use hot glue to make this some easier.

Taking a medium and three small Mirrored Stars, drop Silver Mixative over them to cover completely and then drop a little Mushroom Alcohol Ink over that and let them dry. Adhere the medium star to the grouping of faceted stars, and the tiny ones on the chest of each person, and one for the dot of the 'i' in the word. Use Platinum Stickles on the word, the bows, the wreaths, the scarf, the hats, and anything else you want bling on. Let dry.