Weekend at a Tim Holtz Workshop

Last Friday, April 19th I had the pleasure attending a book signing sponsored by Beautiful Impressions store. It was held in Westbrook, CT at a quaint waterfront cottage built in 1784. The special guests at the meet and greet were Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi. It was such a pleasure to be in the company of two down to earth people.

 

On Saturday, April 20th two workshops were taught by Tim. The morning class Journeys of the Past was four hours long and the time went by so fast. It was so much fun and I learned so many techniques. I didn’t finish the tag book while I was there, but we were given all the materials we need to finish it at home.

 

 

 
 
In the afternoon/evening class Configuration of Your Imagination was five hours long. We learned how to configure the new book form. Once again I learned many techniques and how to use all the different product. I will be finishing this configurations book at home in the next couple of weeks.
 

 

I really love the Distress Stains and the new Distress Paints. It was my first time to use both of them. At the end of the day I knew I had a marvelous time, because my hands were covered with the different media.

Postage Stamp Birthday Card

This 6 X 6 inches postage stamp birthday card was made for my son-in-law who will be celebrating a significant birthday next week.

The card was designed using the Gypsy and cut with the Expression. Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges( page 37) was used for the stamp. The stamp and the frame were cut at 5.50 X 5.50 inches.

Happy Birthday(Simply Charmed cartridge) was cut at 3.51 X 1.90 inches and the facial features were highlighted with ink.
The "50"(Birthday Cakes cartridge) was cut at 0.48 X 0.76 inches and “th”(Birthday Cakes cartridge) was cut at  0.45 X 0.65 inches.


The edges of the sentiment were inked with tea dye TH Distress Ink. Then they were enhanced with Glossy accents.


The stamp frame is adhered to the stamp base with 3D foam squares.
 

Inside of Card

 

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-Recollections Kraft, stash(blue and beige chevron); Electronic machines-Provocraft Expression, Gypsy; Cartridge-Provocraft Elegant Edges and Birthday Cakes; Ink-Rangers Tim Holtz distress, Sakura Gelly Roll; Adhesive-Rangers Glossy accents, ATG, Zig 3 Way, Thermo.o.Web; Other-Hemp, DCWV Quote Stack Stickers

Butterfly Birthday Card

This week my granddaughter-in-law is celebrating a birthday. This card is 6 X 6 inches.

Front

The three inch butterfly and layer were found on the Cricut Picturesque cartridge( page 65). The paper used for the top layer of the butterfly is DCWV that I had in my scrap stash. It is a piece of paper that I considered to be ugly from one of the stacks. As you can see once it was cut as a butterfly, it is quite beautiful. The lower layer of the butterfly is also DCWV that was also in my scrap stash. The two layers of the butterfly are adhered together only in the area of the body, so the wings of the upper butterfly could be lifted to give it more life. Martha Stewart pearl stickers were used to embellish the butterfly.

 

 

All edges of the card and cuttings have been inked. The edges of the main card base were first distressed with a distressor before being inked.

 

For years I have owned a handheld sewing machine, so I decided to use it for the very first time on the mat under the butterfly.

 

inside

 

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-DCWV, AC Cardstock; Machines-Provocraft Expression, Singer Sew Quick; Cartridge-Provocraft Picturesque; Ink-Colorbox; Tools-Tim Holtz Distressor; Adhesive-Zig 2 Way, ATG, Glue Dots; Stamps-Recollections; Other-Ribbon(International Greetings USA), Pearls(Martha Stewart Pearl Stickers)

 

 

Blue Tow Truck Birthday Card

My youngest grandson celebrated his 8th birthday this week, so I made this tow truck birthday card for him.

This shaped card was made from the Cricut Nate’s ABCs cartridge(page 35) with the “birthday” from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge(page 27) weld onto the hook using the Provocraft Gypsy and cut using the Provocraft Expression. It is a large card. The tow truck is 9.78 X 5.99 and the “birthday is 3.63 X 1.82. The hubcaps and “8” are adhered to both sides of the card.

To make the shaped tow truck I weld the truck roofs of two trucks together using the weld feature of the Gypsy. And I weld the “birthday” to another single tow truck. All the edges were inked with Distress Ink(tea dye or stormy sky).

After cutting the pieces the welded truck was folded. A windowpane was cut with scissors by hand from the acetate wrapping used for cartridge packing. Then the windowpane was glued between the welded truck and the truck with the birthday” welded truck. The chipboard “8” was adhered with ATG adhesive.

The “birthday” was blinged with Dark Blue stickles.

The door handle and the hood vents are drawn with Black Diamond stickles.
The tires were painted black with a black Sharpie. The hubcaps were yellow plastic washer like disks. I used Sail Boat Blue alcohol ink to change them to blue. They were attached to the card with ATG adhesive.

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-AC Cardstock; Electronics- Provocraft Expression, Provocraft Gypsy; Cartridges-Provocraft Cricut Nate's ABCs and Create A Critter; Ink-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress, Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol, Sharpie; Embellishment-Ranger Stickles, Washers(?), Chipboard number(?), Acetate packaging; Adhesive-ATG, Zig 2 Way, Ranger Glossy Accents; Tools Tim Holtz Tonic scissors