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!