That's Crafty!: September 2021

Hi Everyone

For todays make I have continued creating with some of Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps and Ranger Distress inks and have a mixed media card to share. In contrast to the last couple of projects I've shared using Tim's products that had a real distressed look with layers and texture my card today has a much more contemporary stylised vibe to it.

Hopefully it will go some way to show the versatility of Tim's stamp designs and distress products as they lend themselves to many a creative style

The background.

On a panel of That's Crafty! ultra smooth white card (cut to size) I sprayed some of Tim Holtz Distress spray stain's: Mermaid Lagoon, Salvaged Patina, Rustic Wilderness. As I wanted a central concentration of colour with some white open space around that's where I focused the spraying.

When dry I ink stamped and embossed one of the stamps from Tim's Stampers Anonymous 'Faded Type' stamp set in the centre of the panel. Tim's Black Soot Distress Archival ink with clear embossing powder were used for this.

I caught the edges of the panel with black paint, lightly splattered some of the paint around and then matt n layered it a couple of times before adhering to a handmade card.

The focal feature

I chose one of the many moths and butterflies from Tim's Stampers Anonymous 'Moth Study' stamp set, stamped and embossed it using Black Soot Distress Archival ink with clear emboss powder and watercoloured it with Mermaid Lagoon and Salvaged Patina Distress inks.

After adding a few white pen highlights/marks and some wire antennae the butterfly was adhere to its resting platform - a That's Crafty! Craftyboard circle that I painted black, crackled with some of Tim's Distress Crackle Paste and adhered to a die cut circle painted black.

To finish the card off I added what I thought a suitable quote taken from Tim's Stampers Anonymous 'Tiny Text' stamp set. It was stamped with embossing ink on black card and embossed with white emboss powder.

There is beauty..

...in simplicity

Products used:

That's Crafty! Ultra Smooth White Card

That's Crafty! Craftyboard Circles
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Craft Adhesive
Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Texture Paste
Black Paint
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains: Mermaid Lagoon, Salvaged Patina, Rustic Wilderness
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Mermaid Lagoon, Salvaged Patina
Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Black Soot
Versamark Embossing Stamp Pad
Embossing Powder: Clear, White
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps: Faded Type (CMS397), Moth Study (CMS436), Tiny Text (CMS394)
White Pen
Paper Trimmer/ Guillotine
Heat Gun
Scissors
Paintbrush

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today- thanks for stopping by.

Hope you have a great creative week

Take care

Amanda

(ink-a-pink)

Hi Everyone ,

After having so much fun creating my 'Grave Digger' piece that I shared last week I continued along a similar line of creativity using Tim Holtz products for todays make - a mixed media card that I guess would primarily be considered a Halloween card though personally I can see it being suitable for other occasions too!

The background was 'one I made earlier' from my every growing stash of backgrounds saved 'off the back' of previous projects. it was initially created as a potential candidate for my 'Embrace the Journey' art panel I created last year (see here or here) but it never made the cut.

It was made by applying some of Tim Holtz Distress Oxides to a craft mat, spritzing them with water, 'smooshing' a panel of mixed media paper through the ink, drying with a heat gun and repeating the process numerous times to gradually build up layers of interesting colour and detail.

For this project I worked it a little more in the same way as already mentioned with a couple of Distress inks, a few flicks of 'Speckled Egg' Distress Oxide spray and some white paint splatters.

I then stamped and embossed the skull from Tim's Stampers Anonymous 'Rest in Peace' stamp set in the centre of the panel. I stamped another skull on a spare piece of card cut it out and used it to mask the background skull from the spritzes of Tim's 'Flickering Candle' Distress Mica Stain that came next. to introduce a golden glow to the background.

With the skull mask still in place I then repeatedly stamped the 'lines of text' stamp (same stamp set) down the panel using Tim's Black Soot Distress Archival ink.

The edges of the panel were caught with black paint it being adhered to a piece of greyboard cut to size, mat n layered and adhered to a hand made card base.

Here's some close ups...

You'll notice a couple of the skulls teeth are coloured. They were tinted with distress ink and distress mica stain. From an ideology memo pin I dangled a metal spider. altered with paint and gold wax.

It's crawling its way into the skulls eye socket - an ideal place for her to spin her next web!

I wonder if she dare ....a thought that prompted me to add the words 'I dare you'!

(a Halloween quote chip tinted with Distress ink)

I'll finish off with this shot with the light dropped which if you click on it to view in full allows you to see the layers of colour, the detail, the stamping, the gloss of the embossing and the golden glow and speckles of the mica stains.