Tim Holtz Stamper’s Anonymous Christmas 2024 - Holiday Whatnots Home For Christmas Rosette Gift Tags

Hello Everyone. Here is the last project shown on the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Christmas Live, the Rosette Gift Tags made with the Holiday Whatnots and Home for Christmas Stamp Sets. These rosettes will dress up even the most basic packaging, and were so much fun to color with Ranger Distress Watercolor Pencils. Enjoy!

 

Taking a full sheet of the Black Kraftstock (6x8 inches), place it into the Stamping Platform. Arrange any of the sentiments from the Christmas Whatnots Stamp Set that you want that will coordinate with the images from the Home For Christmas Stamp Set, two largest first, about an inch down from the top of the paper spacing them evenly apart, and then the smaller three below about an inch down from the middle of the paper, spaced evenly apart, and then close the lid to secure them. Stamp these twice with Glacier White Pigment Ink from Ranger so they are nice and white. (Note: I always reink my Glacier White Pigment Ink pad about an hour before I stamp if it has been a bit since I've used it.) The ink will stay wet a bit so let this dry naturally while you remove and clean the stamps as you are finished with them.

 

 

Cut a piece of Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper to about 5x5 inches, and place this onto the Stamping Platform. Take all five of the images from the Home For Christmas Stamp Set and arrange them on the paper leaving a little space between each one, and close the lid to secure them. Stamp these just once with Black Soot Distress Archival Ink. The ink stays wet longer on the SSP so leave this to dry a bit or use a heat tool for a quick dry. Leave the stamps in the platform because you will need to restamp the images later after coloring.

 

 

Using Distress Watercolor Pencils and a Detail Waterbrush color in the images and sentiments. The SSP images will be cut out so if you go over the lines it's no problem, but the Black Kraftstock sentiments will not, however if you color over the lines you can cover it up with black pen. The colors I used are Antique Linen, Speckled Egg, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs, Lost Shadow, Lumberjack Plaid, and Festive Berries. Leave the black for now, and cut out the SSP images.

 

Select five designs from the Christmas Kraftstock Paper Stash. Using the rosette dies from the Vault Rosettes Thinlit, Rosette Set Thinlits (comes with two), and the Sizzlit Decorative Strip Snowflake Rosette, from Sizzix, choose which ever you want and die cut 5 sets, one for each SSP image. The decorative strip you need only die cut once, the rosette set needs three each, and the Vault Rosette needs four. Take the Bigz Stacked Stars Die and red glitter paper from the Christmas Deco Sheets which is has an adhesive back, and then add two sided tape to the back of Black and White Dotted Paper from the Christmas Paper Stash, and die cut five sets of the stars as well.  Join all the rosette pieces together with two sides tape and Collage Medium for extra strength, and then add a strip of any Tissue Tape to the back for extra sturdiness so the bends you make won't tear at the score lines, and then add the matching black and white dot to the front of each, again for more security as well as making matches for a cohesive look. 

 

 

Ink the edges of all the stars with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink, and have them ready but don't stick them on anything yet. Make all the bends on the rosettes by bending back and worth, and then join the two ends together with both tape and Collage Medium. Plug in a detail glue gun and have it heating up. Take one of the rosettes as well as a large and medium star of either pattern. Peel off the back of both of the stars and add Collage Medium as well (keeping in mind which size is better for the front and other will be for the back). Push the rosette in on itself and flatten it Kraft side up which is the back, making a circle opening in the middle about 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter and add a line of glue from the glue gun around the hole opening, and then immediately press a star on to help hold it in place, and put pressure on it with your hand for a few seconds. Carefully flip the rosette over using both hands to keep it flat and holding it down (although if enough hot glue it will stay fine), and then add a line of glue from the glue gun around the hole opening and then place the other star over this pushing it down and in place and holding the rosette flat again for a few seconds. The picture shows a rosette front on the left and on the right the back of another. Add a smaller opposite pattern star to the one on the front. Then flip over the rosette and add two more smaller stars alternating the pattern. Do all five rosettes the same. Ink the edges of the rosettes with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

 

 

This picture shows a close up of the front of a rosette without the star on and you can see the glue in the center from the glue gun.

 

 

Take the sentiments and use a paper cutter to cut them apart about 1/8 inch out from the words and make the cuts slightly slanting out from the top so it's just a little wider at the bottom. Use scissors to fish tail the ends for a ribbon look. Use a white pen to add a border on the ribbons, and to add detail work to the letters. Cut out the images if you haven't already and ink the edges with Gathered Twigs. You can add more details with the white pen. Use Glossy Accents on any bits on the images that need shine, like the car windows, the glass on the snow globe, the berries in the stocking, the ribbon on the present, and over the ornaments. Let dry. Add two sided tape to the portion of the ribbon above the sentiment as well as Collage Medium, and adhere the ribbon to the back of the rosette so that only the sentiment is showing behind it. Place pressure on it or use a weighted objects on it for a few minutes. Add foam tape to the back of the images only in the center where it will adhere to the center of the star and add those on each one.

 

 

Cut strips of Black Kraftstock about 1/2 x 5 inches (or use one paper and cut after you've stamped like I did) and stamp the 'to' and 'from' in Glacier White from the Festive Print Stamp Set. Fish tail the ends and punch a hole at the top. Run string through the top hole on each rosette and add the black 'to from' on it and tie in a knot to hang the rosette from. If you used the Vault Rosette there are no holes, but you can punch one at the top or punch one on each end like I did for a decorative look. I also stamped the same sentiments from the rosettes onto the kraft wrapped present and kraft paper sack to match the rosette, and colored them in to match before adding the rosette tag on.

 

 

 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Die Cut Machine, Craft Pick, Two Sided Tape, Glue Gun, Ink Blending Tool, Mini Hole Punch, Stamp Platform or Two if you have another, Scissors, Water Mister, Detail Waterbrush, Foam Tape)

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Christmas Kraftstock (2017), Christmas Paper Stash (2019), Christmas Deco Sheets, Christmas Design Tape (2019), Black Kraftstock, Twine String

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Stacked Stars

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Vault Rosettes, Rosette Set

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Sizzlit Decorative Strip: Snowflake Rosette

-Ranger Tim Holtz Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set (Christmas 2024): Holiday Whatnots, Home For Christmas  

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot

-Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils: Antique Linen, Speckled Egg, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs, Lost Shadow, Lumberjack Plaid, Festive Berries

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Festive Print

-Ranger Glossy Accents

-Black Pen, White Pen, Kraft Wrapping Paper 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and for all the comments here and on social media. I'll be back again in a few weeks. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Stamper’s Anonymous Christmas 2024 - Santa Visit Christmas Postcards

Hi and happy October...less than three months until Christmas! Yikes! That made me a bit anxious, so it's a good thing to have some Christmas cards made already, and these postcards made with the new Santa Visit Stamp Set from Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous (plus a few older sets) are assembly line style so you can make a slew of them! AND...these can actually be mailed as a large postcard (they are 5x7 inches) without an envelope for $0.73 in the U.S. I believe. Almost all the Christmas cards I've made in the past are always too thick or too heavy and have to be mailed as a package, so these flat postcards are a money saver too. LOL! That sounded a bit like an infomercial, sorry, but it's true. Enjoy!

 

Taking Ivory Mixed Media Heavystock cut to 5 x 7 inches for as many postcards as you want to make (This is assembly line card making, so go ahead and make a slew of cards.), place one into the Stamping Platform. Arrange the 'postcard and stamp' from the Santa's Visit Stamp Set at the top right corner, and the 'deliver to' from the Scenic Holiday Stamp Set in the lower right corner and close the lid to secure the stamps. Stamp these in the same color of Archival Ink from Ranger, and repeat with as many as you want this color. I used Hickory Smoke first, then changed to Peeled Paint, then Vintage Photo, and then Barn Door, doing two of each color. Remove those as you are finished with them.

 

Take the 'arrow with correspondence and address' stamp as well as the 'stars' from the Correspondence Stamp Set, and cut the address part away from the other, and cut off one of the stars. If you have a problem cutting your stamps then just mask it off, or use another. Add the 'correspondence' below and to the left of the 'postcard' and the 'address' to the right with the star in the center so that the star with just be on the left edge of the 'deliver to' box. Add the 'arrow' stamp below the star. Add the 'special delivery' sentiment below the box. Using the same ink colors as the others, stamp these onto the cards, EXCEPT do not stamp the end part of the arrow. Just don't ink that part yet. If you have a shade darker ink in Archival use that to make these stand out just a bit more. For example, I stamped in Hickory Smoke, then stamped again with just a lightly inked Black Soot, Peeled Paint then again in Rustic Wilderness, Vintage Photo and then Ground Espresso, and Barn Door and then Vermillion. I had to use Vermillion as there is not another darker red in the Distress Archival yet. You don't have to do this, but it does just make these pop a little more from the others. Once all are stamped, remove all the stamps, BUT this time add the arrow back on below the other so that it matches up, and then stamp the whole thing so that it forms a dividing line between the correspondence and address. Do all the cards and then remove it. Add the letters "NICE" from the Sign Painter set going diagonal inside the 'deliver to' box, and stamp all the postcards in Frayed Burlap Archival Ink with them, just dark enough to be seen, so it looks more like a watermark. You are finished with all those stamps. You need fine point pens in the same color as your ink to make the lines inside the 'deliver to' box. I only had these pens and found out later that they are not permanent and waterproof and that could be a problem, so if you have permanent use those. I also just got the Media Ruler and used it for the first time here, and WOW it made this so much easier. Using the side with the holes that are 1/4 inch apart, I made dots in the holes with the pen on each side of the box, and then just drew the line across to the other dot using the ruler. They came out perfect and this was fast going.

 

 

Add Santa's words from the Santa's Visit set to the middle left side under the 'correspondence' and stamp them in Black Soot Archival for all the postcards, nice and dark. Remove it, and then add Santa to the lower left so that only 3/4 of him will be stamped, and then use Frayed Burlap Archival so you will have that watermark look. After you've stamped all the cards with him, stamp him on a sticky note for masking, and cut around the side that you need masked and not everything else. (NOTE: I wondered what Santa would look like in Barn Door so I did try that on one card only just to see, but ultimately I wanted a watermark look, so this defeats that, but I went ahead with just that one card.) You can remove the Santa or leave it in just in case you need to restamp any after the coloring (like I did), so if you have another platform use it, or just be brave and remove him. Add the tree stamp to the left of Santa just above him, and then mask Santa off. Stamp the tree in Frayed Burlap Archival for all the cards. (Again, I stamped that one card's tree in Peeled Paint.). All the stamping is done now.

 

Using Frayed Burlap Distress Ink and an Ink Blending Tool, ink around the edges of the cards bringing the ink in especially in the open areas for a vintage look. Then flick water drops on for a mottled look. NOTE: Like a big dummy I didn't test the pens I used for the address lines, and sure enough as I was inking, the pen ink started to smear. They are not permanent. So I had to cover them up with sticky note before flicking the water on. These are as good as trash for me, and I will not be using them again. So make sure you use permanent ink or cover your lines up like I had to. Live and learn for me, and it's always important to know your mediums.

 

 

Using Distress Ink straight from the pad, apply it to the glass mat and squirt water into it to dilute the color down well. Use an empty Detail Waterbrush to pick up the diluted ink, and color in portions of the Santa, Tree, and Holly at the top, but you can color in the Holly much darker as it's technically a part of the postcard. The goal is to get the ink soft and pale for a watermark look, so the lighter the better and don't worry about details in this kind of watercoloring. I started with Tattered Rose for Santa's face, lips, and hands. This really set the tone for the watermark look, and I really loved it. Speckled Egg for the glasses, Peeled Paint and Rustic Wilderness for the tree, holly, gift sack, and present, Barn Door for the suit and ornaments, Hickory Smoke for the belt, Fossilized Amber for the buckle, ornaments, and tree topper, Vintage Photo and Frayed Burlap for the chair, and Picket Fence for the hair. 

 

Restamp Santa (and the tree if you want) with Frayed Burlap Archival to bring him back into focus. Then you are finished with stamping. Draw a line around the open parts of the perimeter of the card using the same color of pen as the stamped ink. Stencil in holly with the Tiny Holly Layering Stencil using Barn Door and Peeled Paint Distress Ink and Detail Blending Tools. Use a small paintbrush to paint in Sparkle Texture Paste on all the fur areas. Add Glossy Accents to all the berries, ornaments, and Santa's glasses.

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform or Two if you have another, Media Ruler, Sticky Note, Scissors, Water Mister, Detail Waterbrush, Ink Blending Tool, Detail Blending Tool, Small Paintbrush)

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media Heavystock: Ivory

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set (Christmas 2024): Santa Visit  

-Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Scenic Holiday, Correspondence, Sign Painter

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Hickory Smoke, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Barn Door, Black Soot, Rustic Wilderness, Ground Espresso

-Ranger Archival Ink: Vermillion

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil (Christmas 2024): Tiny Holly 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Frayed Burlap, Peeled Paint, Barn Door, Tattered Rose, Rustic Wilderness, Speckled Egg, Hickory Smoke, Fossilized Amber, Vintage Photo, Picket Fence

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Sparkle

-Ranger Glossy Accents 

-Permanent Fine Point Gray, Green, Brown, Red Pens, White Pen

 

Thank you so much for stopping by here, and for commenting! I so appreciate it. I'll be back again next week with another Stamper's Anonymous Christmas make. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!