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

Love and Luck Card for Ranger Ink

Just a quick note today to share a link with you to a new tutorial I have on the Ranger Ink website. I hope you will check it out and see my favorite use for Liquid Pearls.

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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For My Love Matchbook

Happy Valentine's Day!  Today I am sharing another CHA project today.  This project has a love theme so I thought it would be perfect for sharing today for Valentine's Day.  

Using the new Matchbook Set die, I cut one of the taller matchbooks from grungepaper.  I colored the grungepaper with Worn Lipstick and Barn Door Distress Stains.  I applied 2-3 coats of the two colors of stain randomly on the grungepaper, drying with a heat tool between each coat.  After the grungepaper was dry, I sanded the surface of the grungepaper with a sanding block.  Sanding gave the surface a very worn soft velvety finish.  After sanding I brushed all of the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I cut a lace strip from manila cardstock using the Vintage Lace die.  I dabbed Old Paper Distress Stain onto the paper lace strips to add color variation.  After drying the strips, I brushed the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I adhered on piece of the paper lace to the underneath side of the front lower flap with SuperTape.  I added a machine stitched line through the grungepaper and paper lace.

After adding my cardstock pages to the inside of the matchbook, I pierced three holes through the assembled book using a Crop-a-dile tool.  I placed brads through the holes, flattening the brads on the back of the book.  I added a strip of paper lace adhered with SuperTape to the back of the book to cover the brads.

 I die cut a heart from grungepaper.  I colored it as before with Distress Stains.  After it was dry, I sanded it a bit more than I did the cover so that it would look more worn and stand out from the cover.  I inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Stain.  I adhere the heart to the cover of the matchbook and sewed around the edges.  On top of the heart, I used my Tiny Attacher to adhere a ticket I made with manila cardstock, the Ticket Strip die, and a blank ticket stamp from the Odds and Ends stamp set.  Like the paper lace, I colored the manila for the tag with Old Paper Distress Stain and Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I used my {beloved} Hero Arts alphabet stamps to add a title to the ticket. 

I attached a ticket to each inside page with a different redeemable gift stamped on each. 

Each of the cardstock pages inside has a row of Xs and Os embossed and stamped along the top edge.  I used the X stitch embossing folder from the Patterns and Stitches Texture Fades set to create the row of Xs.  I used a small letter O stamp to stamp the Os in between the Xs with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I brushed Walnut Stain Distress Ink along the edges and on the raised X border of each page.

I love the way this little matchbook turned out.  It was simple to make and would make such a fun and heartfelt gift for someone.  I am thinking about pretending that the hubby gave me this booklet and trying to redeem the tickets from him!  I really would love to have the maid service and spa day on those tickets!

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Ranger Designer Challenge 2012

I was really thrilled to once again be invited to participate in the Ranger Designers Challenge for CHA-W 2012.  For this year's challenge, we were each provided with a paper mache dress form and asked to use Liquid Pearls on our projects. 

The first thing I did with my dress form was to paint the base.  I used the Jenni Bowlin Ranger Paint Dabbers in Brown Sugar and Malted Milk.  After the paint was dry, I applied Vintage Photo Distress ink.  Finally, I squeezed out some Dark Chocolate Liquid Pearls onto my craft sheet and painted it on over the dried paint to create a shiny glazed finish.

I used cotton quilt batting to pad the top portion of the dress form.  I adhered it with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Matte Multi Medium.  After the Multi Medium was dry, I cut natural colored muslin to fit and again used Multi Medium to glue it in place.  

After the Multi Medium was dry, I brushed over the muslin with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to make the fabric look a bit more vintage.  Finally, I brushed on White Opal Liquid Pearls over the muslin to give it shimmer.

To embellish my dress form, I first gave her a sash made from Tim Holtz's Idea-ology Crinkle Ribbon.  I colored it yellow with Scattered Straw Distress Stain.  After drying the ribbon, I stamped it with the ruler image from the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Curiosities stamp set using Coffee Archival Ink.

At the top of the sash, a cute little blue bird cut from Grunge Board using the Mini Bird Alterations Movers & Shapers die and colored with Faded Jeans and Scattered Straw Distress Stains is perched on the shoulder of the dress form.  The bluebird has a light coat of Broken China Distress Stickles and a shiny black eye from a black Sakura Glaze Pen.  The clear star stick pins are by Maya Road.

The greenery wrapped around the sash and under the flowers is cut from Ranger's Manila Cardstock and painted with Key Lime, Ivy Green, and Avocado Liquid Pearls and then inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  After the Liquid Pearls and ink was dry, the edges of the leaves were accented with Crystal Ice Ice Stickles.  To create the crown for the top of the dress form, I applied a piece of Ranger Foil onto a scrap of cardstock and die cut it with the Alterations Vintage Lace Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die.

To create the Roses, I die cut Tim Holtz Core-dinations Distress Cardstock using the Alterations Tattered Pine Cone die.  I brushed each die cut with Liquid Pearls to create a shimmery glazed cardstock piece.  I used Hot Cocoa, Daffodil, and White Opal Liquid Pearls on the cardstock.  After the cardstock was dry, I inked the edges of each die cut with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I assembled each die cut into a rose shape.  (A wood skewer and a quick drying glue like Helmar 450QD is really helpful in assembling these.) 

After the adhesive on the flowers was dry, I filled the openings of the roses with Crystal Ice Ice Stickles. 

At the bottom of the sash, I added a mini safety pin and a small scissor charm that I created with Ranger Shrink Plastic, UTEE.  The scissor stamp is from Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Art By Hand stamp set.

At the base of my dress form I added a banner that says "She dreams of roses in the winter" using my beloved Hero Arts Printer's Type Lowercase Stamp Set.  The banner was cut from manila cardstock with the Tattered Banner Sizzlets Strip Die and colored with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I added two Idea-ology Mini Fasteners on each end of the banner.

I really love the finished piece.  It really symbolized a bit of me that dreams of my spring garden during a cold midwest winter.

(Note: Hot Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Daffodil, Key Lime, Ivy Green, and Avocado Liquid Pearls are new colors that will be shipping in February.)

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Eye Totally Love You

I feel bad. . . I totally skipped this week's Tuesday Tutorial.  I am STILL dealing with this cold and STILL have a bad toad voice.  It is going on three weeks.  I am personally done with it, but it seems it isn't done with me.  I really feel that the UTEE Shrink pendants need to be shown in a video, so unfortunately, until I can talk clearly, I am going to have to table that tutorial for another week (fingers crossed).

In the mean time, I am sharing another tag that I have been saving for a bit.  This tag was a sample at the Ranger Ink book at CHA Summer.  I haven't blogged many of those projects and have been saving them as fill ins here and there when I have a lazy week.

For this tag, I began with a plain manila #8 tag.  I applied a heavy application of Picket Fence Distress Stain to the entire tag.  While it was wet, I crinkled and bent it a bit to create some cracks in the surface.  After drying the tag, I inked the edges of the tag with Vintage Photo Distress Ink using an ink blending tool. 

Next, I stamped the large eye chart image from the Tim Holtz Oddities stamp set using Jet Black Archival Ink.  I really love how stamping over the Picket Fence Stain gives the stamped image a softer look.  It is still sharp but looks aged and faded.

After drying the tag, I misted with Biscotti Perfect Pearls and then dried it again with my heat tool.

To embellish the tag, I used some twill tag letters that I have had in my stash for several years.  I believe they were made by Adorn It (Carolee's Creations).  They would be very simple to make using stamps and wide twill.  The tags were a plain off white.  I misted them with water and and then a dabbed on a bit of Victorian Velvet Distress Stain.  After drying the tags, I lightly tapped them with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to add a bit of age to them.  I adhered the letters to the tag with Zots.

I wrapped Trimmings ribbon that I dyed using Victorian Velvet and Bundled Sage Distress Stains around the tag covering the top of the fabric letter tags.  To dye the ribbon, I misted it with water, tapped on Distress Stain, wrinkled it up and then dried it.  After drying I tapped on some Vintage Photo Distress Ink with my ink blending tool.

I die cut a heart from red Distress Cardstock.  I sanded it lightly and then misted it with Bronze Perfect Peals Mist.  After drying the heart, I applied Vintage Photo Distress Ink to the edges and tucked it under the ribbon.  I secured it with a adhesive foam square on the back.  I cut a small flag from a scrap of vintage ledger paper and stamped the word "totally" on it.  I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and pinned it to the knot of my ribbon.

I stamped the eye from the Oddities stamp set on a piece of shrink film.  I stamped the image on the front of the film using black Staz On ink.  I colored the back the image on the film with Copic Markers.  I cut the stamped image out and shrunk it using my heat tool.  After it cooled, I clipped it in place with the round top of the memo pin.

I love how fun and whimsical this tag turned out.  I love that the tag itself looks like it could be cut from a vintage eye chart.  The products I used really combined to give a very vintage look.  I think the combination of embellishments are fun in the way they combine to create a phrase.

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Skipping Stones Designs: Christmas Song Blog Hop

Today I am excited to be taking part in a blog hop with the team from Skipping Stones Designs as a guest designer.  They are celebrating the release of the new Christmas Song stamp set.  If you are following the hop, you should have come from Kandi Phillips's blog.  Next you will head to Karen Baker's blog.  For your hopping convenience, I will also include the list of all the hop participants at the end of the post (before the supplies).

If you are stopping by today for today's Tuesday Tutorial, I will be back a little later today with it so please check back in a bit.

For the hop, the team at Skipping Stones Designs is working with the new Christmas Song and their Sketch 97.  I will be the first to tell you, I am card challenged.  I am not sure why, I just struggle with making them.  Maybe it is because I am not a card giver, I don't know.  I made several cards for the challenge, attempting to stamp the entire face of the card.  I hated every one.  I took a break and started playing with ATCs instead, and ended up creating one with the featured stamp set that I really liked.  That is when it kind of hit me, that a card really didn't need to be an elaborate production at all, that it could be as simple as an ATC on a card front.  And like that, the card I battled with for hours was done.

To create the ATC, I started with a manila ATC blank.  I stamped the phrase I wanted to use in Black Soot Distress Ink and added clear embossing powder.  

After heating the embossing powder, I stamped the tree on the card with Pine Needles Distress Ink.  I added clear embossing powder to the wet ink.  Where the tree overlapped onto the already embossed words, I used a dry paint brush to brush it away and then heat set the powder.  Next I used an ink blending tool to lightly apply Pine Needles to the inside of the tree.  I love how the embossed outline, while stamped in the same ink, looks like a different shade of the same green.  I used an ink blending tool next to apply Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to the edges of the card.

After heating the card to dry the Distress Ink, I misted the entire surface with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist to add sparkle and create some movement in the ink.  I blotted the card with a dry cloth and then heated it to dry.

To create a banner, I stamped a sentiment on a scrap of manila cardstock using Black Soot Distress Ink.  I added clear embossing powder to the text and heat set it.  I trimmed the strip to fit my card.  I liked that by stamping it first and then cutting it out, that I ended up with a straight sentiment, which always seems to be a challenge for me!  Next, I inked the strip with Fired Brick Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.  I misted the surface with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist.  After blotting and drying the mist, I stapled it to my ATC with the Tiny Attacher.

To use the ATC on a card, I simply created a plain card from cardstock (Tim Holtz's Distress Core'dinations Cardstock).  I chose a green that looked like it was a shade darker so that my card wouldn't feel too matchy-matchy.  Next, I cut a second strip of manila cardstock the the same width as the strip on my ATC.  I inked and misted it as before.  I adhered it to my card and added Tiny Attacher staples to the ends to complete the look.

Don't forget, if you are following the Skipping Stones Designs blog hop, you will head to Karen's blog next!

Cristina Kowalczyk * Jingle * JoAnn Valderama  * Kandi Phillips *Tammy Tutterow * Karen Baker * Katie Gehring * Shannon Teubner * Andrea Ewen * Stephanie Mino * Karen Christensen * Taylor Usry * Wendy Price *Wendy Jordan

Skipping Stones Design: Christmas Song	Inkssentials Surfaces: Manila ATC	Ranger Inkssentials: Manila Cardstock 8.5x11	Tim Holtz Core'dinations Color Core Cardstock
Ranger Ink: Clear Embossing Powder	Perfect Pearls Mist: Biscotti	Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs	Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Fired Brick
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Pine Needles	Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Black Soot	Ranger Inkssentials: Ink Blending Tool	Ranger Inkssentials: Heat It Craft Tool
Ranger Inkssentials: Craft Sheet	Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Tiny Attacher	Fiskars: Cut Line 12inch Trimmer	Tim Holtz Tonic: Non-Stick Micro Serrated Scissors
Therm O Web: Sticky Strip Runner

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