Tammy Tutterow

The Crafters Workshop Blog Hop: Flower Piecing Create Tag

Today I am thrilled to be participating again in another blog hop with The Crafter's Workshop featuring the amazing designs of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  This week we are featuring the Flower Piecing stencil.  For my project I used the small 6x6 version.

 

Be sure to check out all of the blogs on the hop this week: 

• Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
• Tammy Tutterow
• Leslie Jenison

For my project, I decided to use the stencil as a template to emboss foil.  The technique is easy to do and gives a lot of wow to a project.  I used my foil piece on a tag, but it could easily be used on a card front or decor piece.

To begin, place a piece of metal foil tape on a foam pad (the back side of my Rub It Scrub It).  Add a bit of tape to keep it in place.

Place the stencil over the foil.  I added tape to keep it in place.

Use an embossing stylus to trace around the inside edges of the stencil design.  The soft base of the foam pad allows the stylus to press into the metal and create an indention.

After all of the design has been traced, remove the foil from the foam pad.

Use a paint dabber to apply a light coat of paint on to the foil, making sure to get paint into the indentions.

Allow the paint to set for a minute and then wipe it away with a dry towel.  Adhere the foil to the front of the tag (or card front).

To create the tag topper, place the stencil on a scrap of smooth white cardstock.  Use an ink applicator to apply color over the stencil onto the paper.

Cut a piece of the inked paper to cover the top of the tag.  Use a hole punch to punch the hole in the tag top through the inked paper.

To add color to the foil, use alcohol ink markers (I used Copic Markers) to color in the design.

To get bold colors, you may need to apply multiple coats of the marker ink, allowing each coat to dry before the next.

As an added touch, place silver brads through the centers of each of the large flower designs.

Stamp a word on a piece of scrap paper (I used a scrap of vintage ledger paper).  Tear and ink the edges of the paper.  Cut a flower shape from the scrap of the inked paper and attach it with a brad.  Clip the finished word piece to the tag with a mini paper clip.

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The Crafters Workshop Blog Hop: Leaf Grid Faith, Hope, and Love tag

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Tammy

Cocoa Daisy Picnic in the Park Event

I am so excited to have been invited to be a part of the Cocoa Daisy Spring Crop Designer Challenge!  The team at Cocoa Daisy is throwing a fabulous online crop packed with activites all weekend long.  It is sure to be a ton of fun so please go check it out!

For the designer's challenge, I received The Crafters Workshop 6x6 Mini Blazonry stencil.  I used it to create a background for a tag. 

I actually made my tag in my hotel room last weekend when I was in Indiana to teach.  I grabbed a few supplies out of my classroom supplies and sat at the desk in my room expirimenting.  It was torture to watch everyone get inky hands all weekend and not get to play along, so spending a little time with a handful of supplies was a perfect way to end a great weekend.

I began by inking my manila tag with Bundled Sage Distress Ink using an ink blending tool.

I placed my stencil over the tag and dabbed Bundled Sage Distress Stain onto the tag.  After removing the stencil I had a very fluid looking version of the design.

I placed the stencil back on the tag, lining up the openings with the design made with the stain.  I used my Bundled Sage Distress Ink pad to tap ink onto the tag directly from the pad.  I twisted and turned the pad as I tapped.  By twisting and turning the ink pad as I applied it to the tag I was able to achieve a cross hatch type pattern from the lines and edges of the ink pad.

After removing the stencil, I had a cross hatch type pattern on the stained areas of the design.

I inked a large cling mount rubber stamp (Hero Arts Leaf and Floral Background) with Forest Moss Distress Ink.  I placed the stamp on my table face up and layed the tag face down onto the stamp.  I ran my fingers over the back of the tag lightly focusing mostly in the center of the tag to transfer the design onto the tag.  

The stamped image turned out very light around the edges and more concentrated in the center.

I used an ink blending tool to add additional (Forest Moss) ink to the edges of the tag.

I love the finished look of the background.  It has so many layers and so much depth.  I love that it was created with only two ink colors.

To embellish the tag, I added an ornate plate that I painted with a Snow Cap Paint Dabber.  I applied the paint to the plate and let it set for several minutes.  I used a dry cloth to wipe away some of the paint.  After the plate was fully dry, I tapped the surface with my green ink blending tool transferring some of the green ink (Bundled Sage and Forest Moss) from the foam pad onto the metal.  I heated the piece to dry the ink.  

I colored a piece of Crinkle Ribbon with Bundled Sage Distress Stain.  After misting the ribbon with water to blend the stain, I dried it with a heat too.  I tied the plate to the tag with the ribbon.  I added a trinket pin and a bauble which was colored with Lettuce Alcohol Ink.  

Finally, I inked the edges of a Journaling Ticket with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I slipped the ticket behind the frame and stamped the word "renew" on the ticket through the opening.  The word renew seemed quite appropriate after spending so much time at the computer and not enough time with ink on my hands.  It felt like a renewal to get lost again for a even just a few minutes with stamps and ink.

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Sunday Stamping: Take Your Sweet Time

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Tammy

Sunday Stamping: Imagination is Boundless

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Tammy

Sunday Stamping: Look Ahead

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Tammy

Sunday Stamping: Make Each Day Count

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Tammy

Sketch Support: Fully Alive Art Quilt

It is one page week at Sketch Support this month.  Today I am sharing a fabric project I created based on this week's sketch.

The inspiration for this piece came from a watermark on a photo I saw on Facebook.  The photography buisiness is called Fully Alive.  I love the thought of those two words together.  This year I have been really trying to work on being healthier and trying new things, to be more fully alive.  I decided that it would be fun to make an inspiration piece to remind me of this new motto.

For this piece I used fabric to create a quilted piece.  The background fabric is plain creme muslin that I misted with Daisy Yellow and Blue Skies Glimmer Mist.  I also brushed the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

The next layer above the muslin is Sticky Back Canvas.  The next layer is printed cotton in a robin egg blue color with small brown random dots.  I love this fabric!  I found it at Joann's in their quilting fabric area.  It comes in several colors.  The top layer, the one with stamping, is Sticky Back Canvas.  Each layer of fabric has a layer of batting under it and is edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

On the top layer, I added several layers of stamping and colors.  I started by stenceling a branch using the Crafter's Workshop Birds of a Feather stencil with Lettuce and Meadow Adirondack Color Wash.  I added spritzed of Daisy Yellow and Blue Skies Glimmer Mist to the background.  Next, I added stamped flourishes with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a stamp from the Tim Holtz Fabulous Flourishes stamp set and then stamped over it all with the Slight Alterations stamp set.  I followed up with my favorite Hero Arts letter stamps for the phrase which I stamped first in Vintage Photo and then a second time in Black Soot.

I added a additional color to the flourishes with my Letraset Promarkers.

The border is vintage handmade lace with a layer of plaid ribbon over the lace.  I brushed both with Vintage Photo Distress Inks.  For embellishments I added a die cut Grungpaper bird colored with Distress Stains.  I did it as a bluebird as a nod to happiness, which is my word for this year.  (Incidentally, alive was my word for last year, but it seems to keep creeping into projects this year.)  I added flowers, stars, and leave from Prima.

----------Supplies----------

• Fabric: Printed cotton and muslin: Joann's Fabrics; Claudine Hellmuth Sticky Back Canvas
• Ribbon: BasicGrey
• Lace: Vintage
• mists: Adirondack Color Wash Lettuce and Meadow; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Yellow Daisy, Blue Skies, and Vanilla Breeze
• stamps: Tim Holtz Slight Alterations and Fabulous Flourishes; Hero Arts Printer's Type Upper and Lowercase and Playful Letters
• stencil: The Crafter's Workshop Birds of a Feather stencil
• markers: Letraset Promarker Primrose, Powder Blue, and Burnt Siena
• stains: Tim Holtz Distress Stains Wild Honey, Broken China, Faded Jeans
• ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot and Vintage Photo
• flowers,stars, and leaves: Prima Homespun Bittles, Galaxy Stars, and Fabric Leaves
• misc: Tim Holtz Grungepaper

We Were Born With Wings {fabric art journal}

I have been daydreaming of making this fabric book for a long time.  I just seemed to be bogged down with so many other things that I hadn't found a chance to sit down and do it.  Finally I did it and I am so in love with the way it turned out!

For this fabric tag shaped book, I decided to center it around lyrics of a favorite song on my workout play list.  It is a song called Alive by Superchick.  If you are curious, you can listen to it on You Tube here.  The part about "we were born with wings, we were made to fly" always sticks in my head.  I love the thought of being strong, taking charge, and using my wings to fly.  As I sat down to make this little book I decided to make it very art journal like and use the song lyrics for the text.

I started out with a tag shaped book that I made from muslin and my own pattern.  The great part of making this book from scratch is that I could stamp, stencil, spritz, and get all sorts of inky on a flat piece of fabric rather than trying to do all of that to a premade book.

I decorated the cover with several different elements.  I stamped a background using Tim Holtz's Papillon and Slight Alterations stamps with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I added a tree branch with the Birds of a Feather stencil by The Crafter's Workshop.  I used Lettuce and Meadow Color Wash for the the green on the branch.  I added a spritz of Yellow Daisy and Blue Skies Glimmer Mist to add a bit of background color.

To embellish the branch, I colorized pieces of Tim Holtz Idea-ology Foliage with multiple colors of Distress Embossing Powders along with a touch of Ranger Bridal Embossing Powder.  I added glitter stars, velvet leaves, and crystal dangles by Prima to the clusters of flowers.  I also added a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Philosophy Tag with a Memo Pin.  I dabbed the metal tag with an Adirondack Snow Cap Paint Dabber and then melted Bridal Embossing Powder onto it.  

I took one of the black and white moth stickers from the Crowded Attic Salvage Sticker book and adhered it to a smooth piece of white cardstock.  I trimmed the moth out, cutting away the extra border space on the sticker.  Because the antenae really couldn't be cut out, I cut them off and replaced them with a thin piece of floral wire.  I also gave the moth color by using my Letraset Promarkers, which are excellent for coloring on slick surfaces like stickers.

I have a mad and serious love for these letter stamps by Hero Arts.  They are single letter wood mount stamps.  I love that they are a classic typewriter style font.  I love to stamp and make the letters akew a bit.  They seem perfectly imperfect that way.

In addition to adding the distess embossing powder to the metal leaves and flowers, I also added Distress Embossing Powder to the metal grommet that I added to the book cover.

I finished off the cover with a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Swivel Clasp embellished with a Chain Tassel, pearl Baubles, and a Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden butterfly clip and some crinkley dyed seam binding.

Tomorrow I will be back to share the inside of the book.  I think it is kind of a different look for me, kind of more random and artsy.  I can't wait to share it!

----------Supplies----------

• book: my own pattern cut from creme muslin and spritzed with Walnut Gold Glimmer Mist
• stamps: Tim Holtz Papillon and Slight Alterations; Hero Arts Playful Letters, Printer's Type LC, and Printer's Type UC
• stencil: The Crafter's Workshop Birds of a Feather
• embossing powder: Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powders- Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmelade, Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw, Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Faded Jeans, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen; Ranger Ink Bridal Embossing Tinsel
• ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo and Black Soot
• mists: Adirondack Color Wash Meadow and Lettuce; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Blue Skies, Walnut Gold, Yellow Daisy
• paint: Adirondack Snow Cap Paint Dabber
• markers: Letraset Promarkers
• embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Foliage, Philosiphy Tags, Memo Pin, Swivel Clasp, Baubles, and Chain Tassel; Prima Marketing Galaxy Stars (I used white), Velvet Leaves, Holiday Lights Crystal Sprays; Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden Metal Charms; Dritz Grommets
• stickers: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Crowded Attic Salvage Stickers
• ribbon: dyed and crinkled seam binding

Art Journal: Acts of Kindness

Today I am sharing another recent page from my art journal.  The phrase stamp is another from the Suzanne Carillo collection from Art Gone Wild.   It arrived in my studio at the same time I was reading about kindness.  I admit, I am the worst about thinking about and meaning to do kind little things for others but not getting to them because of the stuff in every day life, letting the moment pass without following through on the kind deed.  For me, I have felt both the joy of recieving an act of kindness, and the disappointment of being on the recieving end of someone's never followed through grand intention.  As I continue to think about happiness in my art journal, I was inspired to create a page to feature this quote because I believe a great deal of happiness can be given and recieved through acts of kindness. 

The base page is one of the pages with printed dots on it that came in the binder I am using for my art journal.  I applied bands of Ranger Adirondack Color Wash in blues and greens across my page.

Because of the light in my studio, they look really bright here.  I blotted away the excess with a paper towel.  I used a heat gun to help speed up the drying.

I placed a stencil (The Crafter's Workshop) over the page and applied more Color Wash over the page, applying greens over the leafy area of the design and blue over the bird.  I used the heat gun again to dry the ink quickly.  

Next, I used Ranger's Jet Black Archival Ink to stamp a flower design (Suzanne Carillo Noel Medallion) randomly on the stenciled area.  I used the Perfect Pen and an assortment of Perfect Pearls to add some shimmer the flowers.  I added some freehand lines with Stickles to create a vine connecting some of the flowers together.

I added embossing powder to several metal flowers and brads (Tim Holtz Idea-ology Foliage).  To add embossing powder to the metal pieces, I hold a piece with a pair of tweezers and heat it with my heat gun.  Once it is hot, I dip it face down directly into my jar of embossing powder.  I then heat the piece again to melt the powder.  If I like the effect, I stop, if not, I dip it again.  I really like the Distress Embossing powders for theis because of the texture they create.  I like to add a touch of sparkle to the pieces, so after I have the pieces covered, I lay them on my craft sheet and sprinkle them lightly with an embossing powder with sparkle in it (Ranger's Bridal embossing powder).  I then heat the pieces on my craft sheet until the powder melts and blends with the Distress Embossing Powder.  For the brands in the center, I used Bridal only and just held them with my tweezers, heated, dipped, and heated until I liked them.

I applied a thick generous layer of Clear Rock Candy Stickles over the sillhouette of the bird.  I love the way it dries so chunky and flakey looking and adds so much color variation and depth to the color of the bird.

The quote is stamped in Ranger Jet Black Archival ink on a scrap of paper from Basic Grey's Basics 6x6 paper pad.  The edges are inked in Black Soot Distress Ink.  I added a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trinket Pin to the top to "attach" the strip to the page.

----------Supplies----------

• stamps: Art Gone Wild Suzanne Carillo Collection- Acts of Kindness and Noel Medallion
• stencil: Crafter's Workshop Paradise (TCW186)
• patterned paper: Basic Grey Basics White 6x6
• Ranger Adirondack Color Wash: Denim, Sailboat Blue, Stream, Meadow, Lettuce
• ink: Black Soot Distess Ink, Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink; Perfect Pen
• stickles: Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Clear Rock Candy, Stardust
• embossing powder: Ranger Ink Embossing Tinsel- Bridal; Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder Antique Linen and Tattered Rose
• Perfect Pearls: Pink Gumball, Blue Raspberry, Mint
• embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Foliage and Trinket Pin
• adhesive: Therm O Web Superstick
• tools: Ranger Craft Sheet; Heat-It Craft Tool;