Tag: tim holtz

  • Seashells…

    Hi crafty friends! I'm super excited to share my project with you this afternoon! I have been in the crafty cave creating a mess and having a good time! I am so inspired by the ocean lately! Today I'm showcasing some new stamps from Tim Holtz – stamps that I have been SO wanting ever since CHA back in January! Sketch images of sea life and sea shells! Can I get a woot woot!!?? So fabulous, really. I got out my new stamp sets and some watercolor paper, and ALLLLLL my distress inks… And this is what happened! 

     

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    The #journey stamp is from a new Tim Holtz set called Hashtags! LOVE. I stamped all my images, including the sentiment, with dark brown Memento Ink. For the little banner, I hand cut it out, with a rough edge and watercolored it to match the rest of the card. 

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    I found this cool new product at the most recent Rubber Stamp Convention….sand in a jar! I spread some around and let it dry at the bottom of the card. You might also be seeing a glimmer of "spun sugar" distress glitter! A pretty, soft pink. I put that on with my finger and swirled it around so it would be 'messy' like sand also.

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    Here is a side view so you can see how I layered my pieces. The sand dollar and sea horse are popped up with foam tape. Everything else is glued down with crystal effects. 

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    Here is a close up of the sand….

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    I started this project by stamping everything on nice thick watercolor paper. Then I used a water brush and my Distress Ink pads to color all the images. After everything was dry, I hand cut out the smaller images. 

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    Here is a shot of the sand container and the spun sugar glitter… yummy! 

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    I like to call this "girly grunge" because I love the look of grunge but I loooooove color too! This is my take on combining the two styles. I probably used twenty colors of ink! I kept adding more and more and more! One trick with watercoloring – let it dry! Sometimes I will really not like how something looks, and then when it dries – I love it! Leave it alone for a minute and then come back to it. 

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    Thank you for visiting my blog!
    Best wishes for a happy week ahead! 

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  • Happy Easter Week!

    Happy Sunday everyone and Happy Easter Week! I hope that you are having a great weekend and I hope that you have great plans for the week ahead and for Easter with your friends and families. I always try to get myself in the right frame of mind during this holiest of weeks. Try to slow down, ponder, and reflect on what is important, and the sacrifices made for me. My life has been so hectic (too hectic) the past couple of weeks. This afternoon I had some time in the craft room and thought it was about time I made an Easter project for this year! 

    My card for today features the awesome Bunny die from Sizzix (Tim Holtz) and a pretty new sentiment stamp I picked up at my local Paper-Source store. I used the grass border die from Taylored Expressions and a nice polka dot embossing folder…. Hope you like it! 

     

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    I used this beautiful aqua blue paper and some bright spring green to offset the brown and white gingham. I used my tiniest oval from my Nestabilities to make the eggs and then used a speckle stamp and some Linen Distress Ink to make them look like robin's eggs! 

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    I just totally adore this sentiment stamp! I used Rich Cocoa Memento Ink. I edged everything with Linen Ink. I made one version of the sentiment using lots of color but it just seemed too busy looking so I left it in all brown. 

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    Thank you so so much for stopping by today! I hope to get back on a more regular schedule of blogging and crafting in a couple of weeks. My first Taylored Expressions Blog Team post will go live later this week too. XOXO 

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