Posts Tagged ‘Tim Holtz’

One of the prompts this week was to use the word “mend”. Rather than use the quote provided this week, I went with a bible verse.

I was thinking about the hard work you do in relationships. Tearing down barriers to communication, and mending hurt feelings, etc.

This is the design I did in Photoshop using mostly graphics from Tracy Ann. The notebook paper leaf is from Tangie Baxter’s Art Journal Caravan steamer trunk. I figured if I ever wanted to journal on this I’d write on that cute notebook leaf. I believe the bird house is from NLD and I filled the heart with some ephemera from Tangie’s trunk. If anyone needs to know about the other items I’ll have to go hunting because my computer crashed before I got to the step of recording the kit names.

And here is the art journal page after the hybrid touches. I used the Copic colored Multiliners, Liquid Pearls for dimension, Spica glitter pens, Copic markers/Prismacolor pencils for shading, and Tim Holtz red distress ink for the edges.

Tangie Baxter at ScrapbookGraphics.com is hosting an art journal online “class.” So far there are close to 300 people taking the class. Some people are doing a traditional art journal w/ paints, pens, collage, etc. Others are doing it all digitally. And still others are doing a hybrid approach. My first project was hybrid. I will probably do some of both, especially since I can do digital so much more quickly.

Here is the digital “canvas” I created:

And here is the completed journal page. I colored it with Copic markers and Multiliners. (Having the “lights” set helped tremendously for blending the shading on out.) Then I used Copic Spica glitter pens for highlights. Tim Holtz Walnut distress ink is used around the edges as are his yellow Liquid Pearls on the quote block. And the feet were heat embossed with a shiny metallic blue. A photo would have done it better justice than this scan because there are lots of glittery and shiny accents.

I also chose this 8.5 x 5.5 size because if I do illustrations it will use much less marker ink and take a lot less time. I have an old day planner notebook that I plan to keep them in. I’ll just do hole punches across the top. It was printed on a nice heavy Bristol smooth vellum card stock which holds up really well but actually soaks up too much Copic ink (not ideal for blending.) I’ll need to experiment to find something just as heavy but will work better with the Copic markers.

It appears that this approach to my Hawaii album is going to work. This is my first hybrid layout and I’ve decided I’m in my element! I have really enjoyed doing the artsy side of card making this past year and wanted to incorporate some of that into my scrapbooking. But at the same time I was pulled toward digital scrapbooking. I’m excited that it is looking like my first hybrid experiment is going to be a success!

The waves in this layout were made with a fun technique I read about on a blog yesterday and I think Tim Holtz used it on one of his 12 Days of Christmas Tags. First I placed the Big and Juicy stamp pad face down on a Ranger craft mat, sprayed it with plenty of water, used my finger to swirl the inks, and pressed some glossy cardstock into the ink. As you cover the paper with ink tilt it every which way to get the ink to run around and enhance your texture. I’ve done this before, but the next step was what caught my attention for this particular layout. While it is wet sprinkle some sea salt on the image. The salt is a resist effect, and it pushes the ink away. You can then let it dry on its own or use a heat gun to speed up the process. With a large sheet of paper you may repeat this process several times until your paper is covered.

After my layout was in place I hand cut the waves to fit.

The titles were cut on the Cricut, after welding the letters in Cricut Design Studio, with Opposites Attract and Printing Press. I really liked how the Printing Press type matched the digital ”sun and surf” stamp.

The “manilla folder” was traced from a real folder which is not made of acid free paper. My next step is to figure out how I am going to place my journalling on the folder. Then I’ll distress all of the elements with distress inks and white paint and share my final layout. Hopefully by the end of the weekend.

Hero Arts is having a challenge this week to use up your scraps to make Thank-You cards. I do not have many Hero Arts stamps (yet) but I was given this little birdie stamp at their booth when my sister placed her order at CHA.  I had some of Claudine Hellmuth’s new sticky back canvas that I’d been wanting to play with and thought they’d make great curtains. The window frame and ribbon “curtain tie-backs” were my “scraps”, the rest is paper from Basic Grey. Of course I just re-read the rules and it needed to have a stamped scrap incorporated, so unless I can find a stamped scrap for the inside I guess the little birdy won’t get to compete!

The window panes were stamped with Ranger’s white Embossing Puffs on a “surfer” paper in Basic Grey’s “Obscure” collection. Then they were placed on a distressed window pane. This basic brown card stock was “weathered” with paints from Adirondack. Rough edges can be acheived with a razor, mine is by Heidi Swapp but Tim Holtz makes one and you can even use a household razor if you are careful! The “wallpaper” is from Basic Grey’s Recess collection and it too has been distressed with paint and the razor.

To make the “curtains” I first painted the Sticky Back Canvas with Adirondack’s Metallics Copper in a swirly motion. Then I stamped some swirly records from a Disney Hannah Montanna set in peach. Next the curtains and all of the other pieces, including the ribbon, were distressed with a combination of Tim Holtz’s Walnut and Old Paper distress inks. It was amazing how distress techniques turned this card from “blah” into “art!”

The bird was stamped in the Walnut ink and colored with Copics. There is not a lot of room for shading so any old marker set will do!

The Fragment from Tim Holtz has a bible verse stamped on the front with Expresso acrylic paint. And the back has a little white paint dabbed on it, still letting the window pane peek through. The text will be a little easier to read if the white has pretty good coverage behind the letters.

Working with Claudine Hellmuth’s new sticky back canvas was so much fun. To make the curtains I simply folded it in a fan, then removed the backing and it kept it’s shape. I pressed down between each fold to adhere and it is sticking very well. I’m not sure how it would hold up in the mail though. You might consider using a hot glue gun to fill in the back of the raised folds so they’ll keep their pretty shape. Next I’m going to try cutting this material in a Cricut and will report back!

This blue and cream paper is from Basic Grey’s new Granola collection. It is beautiful paired with a bird from Tim Holtz’s new Nature grungeboard set.

Grungeboard is amazing to work with. There are limitless possibilities when it comes to altering and embellishing this ingenious material. It is soft and pliable and very light too. The rather large bird does not weigh down the card in the least.

THE BIRD

The primary color used in painting the bird is Mushroom from Adirondack’s Dimensional Pearls. The highlights are achieved with Adirondack’s Metallics Pearl paint and Sandal from the Lights collection.

After the paint dries heat emboss the bird with the tree stamp from Hero Arts’ birds and branch stamp set. Stampendous has a color called Pearl Lustre Sapphire which is opaque and goes quite nicely with the feathery blue Basic Grey paper. Use the outside edges of the tree, it may be easiest to use a tinted embossing powder so you can see where you have already stamped. Avoid stamping the tree trunk. Doesn’t bird look right at home camouflaged in the Hero Arts tree?

THE SENTIMENT

The border stamp is actually a 12? stamp from Hero Arts, heat embossed with Ranger’s white embossing Puffs. It is slightly distressed, but has a very different look from Tim Holtz’s distressed embossing powders. The sentiment is from an acrylic stamp set by PrintWorks and the coordinating flower is a Whisper Prima flower.

ASSEMBLY

This card comes together very quickly. Cut the paper down to fit the card base and then cut along the curve of the floral border stamp. Rough up all of the edges with a distressing razor. Then use Old Paper Distress Ink by Tim Holtz around the edge of the card. Come back around with a thinner application of Denim Dimensional Pearls.

After the patterned papers are adhered decide upon placement of the bird, which will be applied with a dimensional adhesive. But first use Adirondack’s Metallics Pearl to highlight the left side of the bird and the Mushroom Dimensional Pearls to create a shadow under the bird and on the right. No need to apply it to the bottom half of the card. The idea is to make the bird pop off of the blue and white patterned paper.

This uplifting card has a very peaceful mood, thanks to Basic Grey for the beautiful papers that inspired the design!

The inspiration for the color palette is a little strawberry and chocolate ice cream. Whether you are celebrating or need a little comfort ice cream will usually do the trick! So this little card is a great addition to any card giver’s stash.

The background is a single color application of a little trick that the Hero Arts blog is featuring this week. It is simple to do but it may take a few tries to get the shape you want, in this case the shape is that of a single scoop of strawberry ice cream.

DISTRESSED BACKGROUND

1. Press Tim Holtz’s Tattered Rose distress ink pad face down on your craft mat, turn the pad about 20 degrees and press again in the same spot, repeat once more. The idea is to avoid an unsightly square shape and keep the ink blot small enough in proportion to the stamp.
2. Spritz the area liberally with water and swirl it around with your fingertip to get rid of the square edges.
3. Place your paper face down and twirl it around. Try to avoid having the entire surface touch the table at once if you are trying to acheive a roundish shape. Plan on having to throw away a few tries! Use your heat gun to move the ink around and dry “drips” into the freeform design. Keep at it with the remaining ink until it takes shape.
4. Using a dry paint brush apply Adirondack’s Metallics Copper paint around the edges then accent it with the Metalics Pearl paint.
5. Add a little flair to the corners with the sparkly pearl paint.
6. Apply Aderondack’s Expresso paint around the edges of the card base. Use an angled feather like stroke with your dry paint brush and go back over the edges to make sure they are well covered.

ICE CREAM IN GREEN CARNIVAL GLASS DISH

1. Stamp the ice cream sundae stamp with a non-solvent ink like Brilliance. Make sure it is dry so your marker tips will not get discolored.
2. Color the dish all over with a light blue (Copic BG10).
3. Shade the lines with a light green (YG11).
4. Use a darker green to place a thinner line of shade (G02).
5. Blend all over with the light blue.
6. Add some mottled highlights with the colorless blender.
7. Use three shades of brown to color the chocolate ice cream (E33, E35, E37), three shades of pink (R20, RV02, RV13) to color the strawberry, a medium and a dark brown (E37, E29) for the syrup, and two shades of red plus a light grey (R24, R37, C3) for the cherry. Use the colorless blender to add some shine at the top of the cherry.
8. Color the whip cream with a Versamark embossing pen and use Rangers white Embossing Puffs to accomplished the raised effect.
9. Cover the glass dish and the cherry with Ink Essentials Glossy Accents.

ACRYLIC ACCENT

Remember that acrylic paint is an opaque medium and when working on the backside of the acrylic accent you will work from light to dark. On the front side work from dark to light.

1. Stamp “BFF” on the front side of the acrylic shape with the Adirondack Expresso acrylic paint. Set aside to dry before proceeding to the next step.
2. Use the Pearl paint dauber to highlight the letters from the backside. Let it dry.
3. Dab the copper paint around the edges of the back side.
4. Add the three white highlights to the front.

FLOWERS

The flowers are plain cream paper flowers by Prima from thier Black Tie Collection. It is not a ”bleed-proof” paper so markers will bleed a bit and you can plan on a loose water color look. If you would rather have a more tight painterly style then choose acrylic paint. These flowers were done with Copic markers.

1. Color the flowers with markers to draw out your favorite colors from the patterned background paper.
2. Add some Stickles to the petals, most of the glitter will settle into the debossed swirls.
3. Use dimensional pearls paint for the centers of the flowers, or rhinestones would be a nice option too.

Assemble the artwork on a patterned paper, this is Basic Grey. Tuck the flowers in as you place it on the card base. Use a dimensional adhesive for adhering the ice cream centerpiece. Then as a finishing touch set off the white space with pearalicious stamped swirls!

Yesterday I made the embossed pumpkins by applying Tim Holtz’s spiced marmalade distress ink to the front of the Cuttlebug folder. But I did not end up using it and it was too cute not to use. It turned out to be a nice “tone-on-tone” effect with the peach colored card stock.

This card was going to have some Spellbinder Shapeabilities metallic embossed leaves on top of the “stripes.” But it looked too cute just like it is. So, now I have five beautiful leaves to use in yet another fall card!

My brother-in-law has a beautiful (and huge) white dog that is half wolf and half Alaskan Husky, he dwarfs his German Shepherd work dog! I really struggled coming up with a manly birthday card, it is just so much easier to make girly cards, isn’t it?! I wanted to use the Adirondack Paint Dabbers that I got from Tim Holtz’s class. I started with the Basic Grey blue/green circles paper as my inspiration and decided Eric would like an outdoorsy theme.

While at CHA I was drawn to all of the designs using butcher block paper, so I used that as my base and mimicked the circles by blotting my Hero Arts “watercolor  circle” stamp with the Adirondack “Aqua” paint dabber and “Lettuce” Earthtones dye ink.

Next I picked up on the vertical lines in the Basic Grey print by embossing a velum rectangle with the new Cuttlebug forest branches folder.  And stamped one side of my background with the Tim Holtz catails stamp in copper embossing powder.

The dog is from Cricut’s Paper Pups cartridge and the happy birthday, grill and beer bucket stamps are all from Studio G. They look great in the copper embossing powder on the velum. The finishing touch was the dog’s collar which I colored with the Versamark pen before embossing and his party hat, also Studio G from the recent January pack.

All of the pieces were distressed first with Tim Holtz’s Vintage Photo distress ink and followed up with Black Soot on the very edges.

The card itself is made from the new “Heritage” fall colored 8.5 x 11 DCWV card stock. I am really looking forward to giving this to Eric and hope he does not see it on my blog first!

For those that don’t know, Tim Holtz is an designer and educator for Ranger Industries. He taught two classes today at CHA, it was very difficult to get into the classes. Lisa and I were a couple of lucky and excited gals.

The class was super fast paced and Tim was very entertaining. When we got there we had a huge bag of product waiting for us. Plus, thanks to Stampers Anonymous we also got one of Tim’s brand new stamp sets!!!

Tim packed eight techniques into two hours, each tag was made with a different technique. Each of us had different color samples as you can see in this picture showing both of our tag sets. Mine is in the ring provided and Lisa’s is spread out so you can see them better.

I’ll bold some Tim-isms that I captured, hoping to share a bit of his larger than life personality along with a few of his tips.

• You can use the paint daubers on any surface. You need to prime it properly the first use by pressing down on the head and at the same time squeezing the paint. Don’t bang it on the table trying to get the paint flowing, they are not hammer paints!
• Die inks are translucent while pigment inks are opaque which means you can layer pigment inks. But they dry very quickly, so never throw away the plastic vapor barrier. Yes, you can emboss with dye inks, IF you are like Indiana Jones!
• Ink the stamp before you stamp the ink. Contrary to common belief you do NOT have to store ink pads upside down because ink pads are a suspended medium. If you press the stamp into the pad it will put ink in recessed areas. Just, “tap, tap, tap and you’ll never have any weird little whoies.”
• On using the pigment pens, they are pigment so they also dry quickly. You have to work fast, scribble, blend, scribble, blend. Don’t just scribble, scribble, scribble, scribble and think hmmm, maybe I should blend this. It will already be dry. We smeared it on the back of a transparency to highlight some words.
• On working with the color washes. First emboss your image, then spray a couple of colors, one dark and one light. Then you press it with a craft iron (2 x hotter than normal irons), between some newspaper, until you see the stamped image. When it is done the newspaper will come right off. So, don’t think it is like a Band-aid and that if you rip it really quick it will be ok. It won’t. Just iron it some more until you see the pattern soak into the newspaper.
• Glossy paper behind a vellum accent acts like a light box, it just makes the image pop. You can glue vellum on glossy paper. BUT, put the glue on the paper, not on the vellum. And we’re not stuccoing a house, so if the glue clumps, thats too much!
• Helllllo Captain OBvious! I can’t remember why he said this, but it made me LOL!

We were at my neice’s wedding last weekend so we just celebrated Father’s Day with the family today. This card came together really quickly. I used the Zoobaloo cartridge to cut the card, featuring the perfect paper from DCWV’s Old World Stack.

Next I stamped the Monkey with a Versamark pad and used two Tim Holtz distress powders, “Peeled Paint” and “Pine Needles“. The Versamarker worked perfectly for the leaves.