Tammy Tutterow

Wood You Be Mine

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Tammy

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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Have a Royal Day Stamp2Cut Tag

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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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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