Tammy Tutterow

Tutorial: UTEE Faux Porcelain Mother's Day Card

I have a new tutorial posted today on the Ranger Ink site!  You can find it on the Ranger site in the project section: http://rangerink.com/?ranger_project=faux-porcelain-utee-mothers-day-card.  I hope you will stop by and take a look!

Let Your Heart Sing

Today I want to share a little mini book I made for CHA.  Yes, CHA back in January.  I actaully still have projects from the show that I haven't blogged.  It has been a while so I hope I can remember all the details. . .

The outside covers of the book were cut from grungepaper using the Baroque die.  I used the small magnet Movers & Shapers dies placed in the Baroque die to cut the holes for the binding ring.

I colored the covers with streaks of Faded Jeans, Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Picket Fence Distress Stains.  After streaking on the color, I misted the stain with water to help blend it.  After drying the stain, I misted it with Perfect Pearl Perfect Pearls Mist.  After drying it again, I added Walnut Stain Ink to the edges.  I die cut a piece of printed tissue paper, ripped it in half horizontally and adhered it to the front.

I also cut covers for the backs of the grungeboard covers from coordinating cardstock and inside pages from plain cardstock.  I inked the inside covers and pages with both blue and brown Distress Ink.

At the base of the embellishments on the cover is a bird and branch cut from the Bird Branch die from grungeboard.  I colored the bird with Faded Jeans and Scattered Straw Distress Stains and the branch with Vintage Photo Distress Stains.  After drying both, I added Tumbled Glass and Walnut Stain Distress Stickles to the bird and branch.  To add an eye to the bird, I added a black dot with a journaling pen.  I gave the eye and beak some shine with Glossy Accents.

On top of the branch I added flowers and leaves cut with the Tattered Floral Garland die cut from Kraft Core Cardstock.  I painted the leaves with a glaze made with Avocado Liquid Pearls.  (Click here for a tutorial for making a glaze on the Ranger site.)  I also added a glaze to the flowers with Opal Liquid Pearls.  I love that the Kraft Core cardstock gave me different colors to work with from one piece of cardstock.  For the flower centers, I painted the tops of brads with yellow paint.  After they paint was dry, I sanded each brad to distress it and dabbed brown Distress Ink onto each one.

I rolled some of the leaves into cones to add extra shape and dimension.

In addition to the flowers and leaves, I added a Tattered Banner die cut, cut from manila cardstock.  I inked the banner with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  After inking the banner, I misted it with Perfect Pearl Perfect Pearls Mist.  After drying the mist, I inked the edges again to create a bold edge. 

To add the  phrase, I used {my beloved} Hero Arts Printers Type stamps on small squares of cardstock.  I cut the S for sing out of grungepaper.  I colored it with Peeled Paint Distress Stain.  After drying the stain, I inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I topped the letter with Crushed Olive Distress Stickles.  To color the plastic Alpha Parts, I tapped white paint onto the flat surface of the letters.  I carefully dried the paint with my heat tool.  I tapped Peeled Paint Distress Stain onto the paint.  I carefully dried the stain with my heat tool.  I topped each letter with a light coat of Glossy Accents for some shine.

I love all of the dimension of this finished book!  It definitely takes a place on my "most favorite" projects list.

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For You Embossed Kraft Core Tag

I am blogging today on the Sizzix blog and sharing this tag that features Core'dinations Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Cardstock.  I hope you will stop by and take a peek!  http://sizzixblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/for-you-tag.html

You Warm My Heart

I really wanted to post a new project today but I am fighting such an ugly headache that I can't seem to wrap my brain around forming words into cohesive sentences, let alone any kind of detailed project explanation.  Needless to say, the project I planned to share today isn't going to happen.  It is just far more involved than I can explain today.  Instead, I decided to share a project from CHA that didn't need much detailed explanation.  It is pretty simple, but I hope that you find inspiration in it.

I made this card for Tim Holtz to demonstrated the Kraft Core papers.  I wanted it to looke like a well worn, well loved patchwork quilt.

I used a Fiskars punch to cut different colored squares from Tim's Kraft Core cardstock.  I sanded each square with a sanding block and distressed the edges of each with an edge distresser tool.  I inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I wanted the center of each square to look puffy or raised so I adhered each square to the front of a pre-made card using a Zots Craft Adhesive Dot in the center.  The Zots Craft are thicker than regular Zots, but not quite as thick as the 3D Zots.

Before sewing, I tucked a paper lace strip under the bottom row of patches cut from Kraft Core paper and the Tim Holtz Vintage Lace die.  After adhering the squares and lace, I sewed around the edges of each square.

After each square was sewn, I sanded each square again, in some places, actually sewing through the stitches, making them look very worn and frayed.

I wanted a subtle sparkle to the card, so I misted the surface with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist.

I die cut a small Grungepaper heart using the Tim Holtz Mini Hearts Movers & Shapers die.  I colored the heart with Barn Door Distress Stains.  After drying the stain, I misted the heart with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist.  I dried the heart again and inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I adhered the heart to the front of the card with a 3D Foam Square.

I topped the heart with a simple banner cut from the piece of white Kraft Core paper.  I stamped the phrase on it with Jet Black Archival Ink using Hero Arts' Printers Type LC alphabet stamps.  I added two small mini pins at the end of each banner.

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