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I am blogging today on the Sizzix blog and sharing this spooky card I made for CHA featuring the new Tim Holtz Bell Jar die along with new Stampers Anonymous Stamps and Sizzix Stamp2Cut. I hope you will stop by and take a peek at the details! You can find it here: http://sizzixblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/so-spooky-tim-holtz-bell-jar-stamp2cut.html.
I love this little project so much! It is another project I created for the Tim Holtz Idea-ology booth at CHA Summer. I love how the elements came together to create such a pretty little display piece and I love that it features my all time most favorite photo of Emma.
The base of the pieces is a wooden wall plaque. I found these plaques in the Target Dollar Spot a couple of years ago. They had printed images of jungle animals on them. At only $1 each I grabbed quite a few knowing they would be great bases for projects. (In place of a wooden plaque, you could substitute a small stretched canvas.)
To cover the plaque, I first applied adhesive sheets to the back side of a piece of patterned paper from the Holidays Past Paper Stash. I placed my plaque face down onto the adhesive on the back of the patterned paper. After wrapping the paper around to the sides of the plaque, I trimmed away the excess with a craft knife. After trimming, I sanded all of the edges and inked them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
I dyed Crinkle Ribbon with Brushed Silver and Broken China Distress Stains. I combined it with brown and white Paper String and wrapped it around the wooden plaque tying it off in a bow off center to the left.
Above the ribbon, I added two stacked layers of Grungeboard, each covered with patterned paper and adhered with adhesive foam squares to add extra dimension. I added metal Corners to the bottom layer. On the top of the top layer I adhered my photo.
I added a File Tab to the lower Grungeboard piece. I hammered it a bit with a Texture Hammer to give it some age.
I used Paper String wrapped around the top Grungeboard to tie an Ornate Plate over the photo. After tying the Paper String in a knot, I unraveled the ends to add extra dimension.
I filled the Ornate Plate with a piece of Grungepaper covered with patterned paper. I placed a Chit Chat sticker inside the center and added Tiny Attacher staples to each end.
On the side of the Ornate Plate, I added Festive Foliage pieces that I colorized using embossing powder. To learn the technique I use to colorize metal embellishments, check out this tutorial: http://tammytutterow.typepad.com/tammy_tutterow/2012/01/tuesday-tutorial-enameled-idea-ology.html.
Below the photo I added Alpha Tiles to spell out the word Believe. The sweet photo just says "Believe" in the magic of Christmas so I was so glad that it fit so perfectly. (You can read the story of the photo here: http://tammytutterow.typepad.com/tammy_tutterow/2010/12/be-flabbergasted.html). I sanded the edges of each tile before adhering it to the plaque.
This finished project makes me smile so much that I think I may leave it out year round. I think it turned out as a lovely way to display such a special memory.
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Today I am sharing a tag I created using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Stamp2Cut for the eclips machine along with the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Royal Script stamp set.
I applied streaks of Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, and Barn Door Distress Stains to a #8 manila tag. While the stains were still wet, I added streaks of Picket Fence Distress Stain over the other colors. I misted the tag with water to blend the colors and blotted the surface lightly with a dry towel. I dried the tag and misted over it with Pewter Perfect Pearls Mist.
After drying the tag again, I stamped the script stamp onto my tag using Black Soot Distress Ink. I also blended Black Soot around the edges of the tag.
I stamped the wings and two crowns on white stamping paper using Jet Black Archival Ink. I cut the wings and one crown out using the eclips and Stamp2Cut. I cut the second crown out using the pieces feature (the lower part of the crown and the Fleur-de-lis at the top).
After cutting the pieces out, I colored them using Antique Linen and Scattered Straw Distress Stains. After drying the pieces, I misted them with Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mist. I dried the pieces and added a light edging of Walnut Stain Distress Ink to the edges. I dried the pieces again and applied Distress Embossing Ink over the entire surface of both pieces. After applying clear embossing powder to the ink, I melted the powder using a heat tool.
I adhered the wings to the tag first. I adhered the full crown over the wings using adhesive foam squares. I adhered the Fleur-de-lis to the tip of the crown using a small sliver of a Zots adhesive dot. To adhere the lower part of the crown, I placed an adhesive foam square in the center and quick drying glue to the sides to that they would adhere to the base crown below. I added a small dot of Barn Door Distress Stickles to the jeweled areas on the front of the crown.
To finish the tag, I added a Tattered Banner cut from manila cardstock. I colored the cardstock with Antique Linen and Old Paper Distress Stains. After drying the stain, I edged the banner with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and added a phrase with my trusty old Hero Arts Printer's Type LC alphabet stamps and Jet Black Archival Ink. I adhered the banner with a strip of adhesive foam and a Tiny Attacher
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I made this frame for the Tim Holtz Idea-ology booth at CHA. I simply love the way it turned out! It is so soft and shabby looking and features one of my favorite photos of my sweet little Emma. It was taken the day she learned to ride her bike without her training wheels, such a sweet, sweet memory.
I used a clearance aisle box style photo frame from Target for the base. I covered it with paper from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Crowded Attic Paper Stash using Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi Medium.
When I re-covered the frame, I did it with one piece of paper wrapped around to the sides. (You can see this demonstrated in a down-loadable tutorial I did for BasicGrey found here: http://blog.basicgrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BG-12-Days-of-Projects-Day-4.pdf .) I love using this technique because it keeps the pattern of the paper continuous on all each side. After I sanded and inked the edges, I added Box Corners to each of the front corners of the frame. I heated the corners with my heat tool and sprinkled them with Enamelware Embossing Powder to add a touch of color to them.
To embellish the frame, I first dyed two strands of Crinkle Ribbon using Broken China and Peeled Paint Distress Stains.
I used a Ranger Jenni Bowlin Malted Milk Paint Dabber to apply paint into the engraved words of a Word Band. After the paint was dry, I used a Sanding Grip to distress the surface of the metal.
I fed the Word Band onto the ribbon and then wrapped the frame with ribbon and tied it in a knot.
I added a Wire Pin to the knot in the ribbon.
I added several different elements to create a cluster by slipping them under the Word Band and Crinkle Ribbon.
First I added an embellished Ornate Plate (see my tutorial for Enameled Idea-ology for details http://tammytutterow.typepad.com/tammy_tutterow/2012/01/tuesday-tutorial-enameled-idea-ology.html). I inked and stitched two Chit Chat stickers to a piece of natural colored Sticky Back Canvas and placed that in the center of my Ornate Plate. (By the way, you can die cut that to fit perfectly by using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Tag and Bookplate Die.)
I adhered the elephant sticker from the Lost and Found Salvage Stickers to a piece of cardstock. I added a File Tab to the edge of the sticker and slipped the assembled piece behind the Ornate Plate.
Along the right side of the embellishment cluster I added an Alpha Card with the letter E.
Finally, to finish off the cluster of embellishments, I stacked enameled Foliage pieces and adhered them into place.
I have made tons and tons of frames throughout the years and I have to say that I think this one might just be my absolute favorite one. I absolutely love the shabby softness of it. It is a perfect compliment to my sweet girl Emma.
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This post has been moved to my new website. You can now find it here: http://tammytutterow.com/2011/12/papillon-utee-pendant/.
Thanks!
Tammy
A while back I shared a pendant I made using shrink plastic and UTEE. Today I am sharing another shrink art and UTEE piece that I like to think of as the mother of all charm necklaces! I made this piece for CHA-Summer for the Ranger booth and just got the ok to blog and share it. It has been killing me to not share it!
When I was working on samples for CHA, I had an assignement to work with Shrink Art Film. I hadn't used it since I was a kid playing with Shrinky Dinks in the kitchen. The second I stamped, colored, cut, and shrunk my first shape I was hooked all over again. There is just something that feels like magic while watching Shirk Film do its thing.
Not only was I shrinking, I was also dipping. Dipping? Oh yeah, dipping my little shrink charms in UTEE. I had been talking with Tim Holtz about Shrink Film when he shared a tip with me about dipping charms in melted UTEE. He told me I would love the result. Love was an understatement! I was wow'd and amazed and totally addicted. Doesn't it remind you of art glass?
When I say I stamped every single stamp I own on shrink film, it would not be an exageration. I made charms for days. I simply could not stop. After I made a charm out of every stamp, I looked at what I had done, and while they made me super happy, I wondered what to do with them all. I am pretty sure every single sample I sent to the show had a UTEE shrink charm on it. Still I had a huge pile of them so I decided and hodge podge junk charm necklace would do the trick. So there it is, a necklace chock full of total randomness. It is quite a curious thing!
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS089 and Curiosities CMS104
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous The Girls CMS020 and Hero Arts Printers Type Lower Case.
Stamp Set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Purely Random CMS088
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS089
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Oddities CMS083 (I think this is my favorite one!)
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Visual Artistry Stamps: Life's Possibilities
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Curiosities CMS104 and Hero Arts Printers Type Lower Case
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Oddities CMS083 and Curiosities CMS104
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Curiosities CMS104
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062
Stamp Set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Purely Random CMS088
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS089
Stamp Set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Purely Random CMS088
Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Visual Artistry Stamps: Lost and Found
Intrigued? My plan is to do a tutorial for Tuesday to share how I made these. I might even bust out the video camera and do it as a video! So if you love this look and want to know more, Tuesday is the day to be here!
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