Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again...

A have special project to share today, the front cover of a Tim Holtz Collection Folio I am making up to capture the memories of the trip I took last year, featuring Travelling Betty from Simply B Stamps.

When I saw the awesome Travelling Betty I knew she would be perfect for this, especially as we got to meet and hang out with Betty herself on the trip.  My folio is inspired by the beautiful work of Paula Cheney whose example of one Tim showed in a video for the release of them is what got me wanting to get my hands on one in the first place.  I’ve borrowed some of Paula’s techniques and her use of a Word Band on the elastic closure, including altering the band.  In my case I rubbed some Rub’n’Buff on to make it a bit more grungy.

I wanted the cover to be somewhat grungy, I guess because that is really my style but pretty at the same time.  I raided my stash and came up trumps with the gorgeous paper from an old Creative Memories collection.  I just kept going on the stash items playing along with Craft Hoarders Anonymous’ current challenge.  I have, from left to right on the bingo board, markers (Copics on my image), fabric and lace (behind my embellishments), die cutting (oval shapes both manual and electronic), stamping (image) and mixed media (stencil and texture paste), chipboard (title), and metal (brads and faux metal look to the chipboard) and buttons and brads.

The theme of the album is travel and we certainly did a lot of flying on our trip so I had to add in the great resin plane embellie from Prima so I’m entering this in the current Fussy and Fancy challenge as planes have wings.

Our trip took in the beautiful Canada in the fall and even the USA too put on a lovely colour show of autumnal leaves so the leaf button seemed a fitting embellie to cover off both countries’ scenery.  With my button I’m entering this in Papertake Weekly’s current challenge picking the product theme.

To make the background a bit more special and fill the space rather than using more designer paper I opted for a lovely abstract flower stencil and some modelling paste.  I coloured the modelling paste using Distress Inks to make an olively green to match the designer paper I used.  I then added in some brads to give it some added texture that wouldn’t easily fall off as this is going to get handled, or at least I hope it will invite people to handle it and look inside.  Sweet Stamps has a challenge looking for stencils and paste so I am entering my project there.

To finish off my embellies I wanted something a bit bigger than the resin and button so decided to add a bit of interest and texture with some fabric and lace scraps ruched to form rosette style embellies.  I think they add just the right finishing touches and with them I am also entering my project in the current Try it on Tuesdays’ challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E35, 0

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, N4, N6, N8, YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99, 100

Suitcases N4, N6, N8, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, YG01, YG03, YG05, YG07, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Joy! Crafts Blue Mould ~ Oval (6002/0258)

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Classic Scalloped Ovals & Opulent Ovals

Prima Stencil ~ Sunset Sunrise Flower

Embellishments

Creative Memories Alphabet Stickers ~ Blue & Crimson

Jesse James Dress It Up Buttons ~ Fall Collection Autumn Leaves

Metal Brads from stash

Prima Ingvild Bolme ~ Explore Resins

Stickabilities ~ ⁷/₁₆^” Hand Drawn

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Word Band

Inks & Paints etc

Prima Ingvild Bolme Chalk Ink ~ Rusty Bucket

Rub’n’Buff ~ Spanish Copper 

Teresa Collins ~ Modelling Paste 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Evergreen Bough, Gathered Twigs, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemon & Tea Dye

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Milkshake

BoBunny Double Dot ~ Maize Vintage

Creative Memories ~ Reminisce Travel

K&Company ~ Tim Coffey Travel

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Collection Folio

Ribbons & Trims etc

Chiffon & Lace from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Travelling Betty

Challenges

Craft Hoarders Anonymous ~ Choose Your Challenge (markers, fabric or lace, die cutting, stamping & mixed media (stencil & texture paste), chipboard (title) & metal (brads & faux metal look to chipboard), buttons & brads)

Fussy and Fancy #131~ Things with Wings

Papertake Weekly ~ Take your pick (product theme: buttons)

Sweet Stamps #206 ~ Stencils and Paste

Try it on Tuesdays ~ Add Some Fabric

Thanks for stopping by!