I fell off my pink cloud with a thud

I have the pleasure of being a guest DT over at Crafty Boots for their current ‘In the pink’ challenge and I’ve created a card using one of the stamps from Tim Holtz’s Runway collection.

My mother commissioned me to make a birthday card for a colleague of hers who just happens to love pink, so very fitting!  To make up my card I’ve followed sketch 224 from Sketch Saturday, being the fifth Saturday of the month you get to choose your sketch.  This one worked a treat with the stamp I chose and allowed me to add just the right amount of pinky bling.

If I was a better stamper I’d have masked elements of the stamp to do them in pink ink but as I’m not that great I stuck with a black outline.  Now normally I would have coloured up my image with my trusty Copics but Edna has gone all wishy washy lately and thrown out a watercolour challenge.  So instead I pulled out my Distress Inks and did a spot of watercolouring of my image.  I also added some Wink of Stella to the dress for some glittery bling, which moved the watercolours around a bit more but is really hard to see in the photo.  Being a commissioned card I didn’t go snarky on it, hope Edna won’t mind too much.

I stamped the sentiment in a lovely shade of pink ink, from Dyan Reaveley’s range of Archival Ink.  The stamp is from the retired Art Philosophy set from Close to My Heart.  The current challenge over at Live and Love Crafts is also pink this month so I am linking up my card there.  A great store for pinkalicious and general shabby chic goodies, which is sadly closing soon.

Ingredients:

Embellishments

Jolee’s All That Blings ~ Baby Pink

Petaloo Darjeeling Collection ~ Daisies Red/Fuschia

Pink Gem Brad from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Dylusions Archival Ink ~ Bubblegum Pink

Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink ~ Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Ground Espresso, Tattered Rose & Tea Dye

Wink of Stella Brush Pen ~ Clear

Papers

Arches Smooth ~ Watercolor Paper

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Chablis

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Quartz

Stamps

Close to My Heart ~ Art Philosophy D1497 (retired)

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS214 Runway

Challenges

Live and Love Crafts #52 ~ Traditional PINK

Sketch Saturday #436 ~ Pick your own sketch between 215 and 435 (#224)

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #71 ~ W is for Watercolour

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You’re surely not too fresh these days

I’ve got my October tag for the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 to share today.

Seems fitting to have done up a Hallowe’en themed tag on Hallowe’en itself and a fun way to spend a day off from work.  Although I have Tim’s Monster die I decided to mix this up a bit and use his Zombie die, for the dimensional monster technique, as my tag is going out to a friend who loves zombies.

I used Tim’s Woodgrain Texture Fade to create a rotting flesh like texture to the zombie’s skin.  I coloured my foiled cardstock first with Distress Paints but wasn’t overly happy with the result so then went in with some Distress Crayons and got a much better look.  I particularly like the zombie’s face with the very patchy and uneven colour that works really well for a zombie.

I didn’t have any Hallowe’en ephemera so I made my patchwork collage using pieces cut from Graphic 45 Rare Oddities designer paper.  For my embellies I went with a skull and crossbones I made myself from 2015 and 2016 Boneyard embellies.  To help the two Boneyard pieces match I covered the bones with Crazing Distress Collage Medium and then rubbed in some Black Soot Distress Crayon.  Given zombies are indeed an oddity I used that Word Band and secured the other end with a brad from last year’s Rare Oddities’ set.  Finished off with some Halloween Trimmings for a spooky Hallowe’en tag.

I’m entering my tag in the current Hallowe’en challenge over at Glitter and Sparkle and Country View’s all things spooky challenge.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits ~ 660961 Zombie

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Texture Fades ~ 656644 Bricked and Woodgrain (Woodgrain used)

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings Brads ~ Regions Beyond

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Boneyard 2015 & 2016

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings Word Bands ~ Incantation

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Reinforcers

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium ~ Crazing & Matte

Tim Holtz Distress Crayons ~ Antique Linen, Black Soot, Candied Apple, Festive Berries, Peeled Paint & Picket Fence

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Walnut Stain

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Aged Mahogany, Black Soot, Fired Brick, Forest Moss, Picket Fence, Scattered Straw & Shabby Shutters

Papers

Graphic 45 Rare Oddities ~ Brews and Potions, Cabinet of Curiosities & Frightfully Sweet

Ranger Tags ~ #8 Kraft

Ribbons & Trims etc

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trimmings ~ Halloween

Challenges

Country View ~ All Things Spooky 

Glitter and Sparkle #212 ~ Halloween

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 ~ October

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Keeping looking up…that’s the secret of life

So I had to whip up a birthday card real quick for one of my nephew and I used cute Astronaut Oscar from Simply B Stamps for it.

My nephew got an indoor sky dive for his birthday present, which he loved, so the flight suited Oscar was just perfect.  I cropped the image down to suit the current card sketch at Stick It Down.  The image formed my “shape”, and then I curved my text around a circle, all of which I did in Photoshop.

I printed everything and then coloured my image before embossing the sentiment by going over it with a VersaMarker.  The embossing really helped to frame the image.  With my embossing I am entering my card in the current challenge at Creative Knockouts.  As my card is for a birthday I am also linking it up at Little Red Wagon for their Let’s Party!  challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E33, G02

Lips E11

Hair E39, YR20, YR24, YR27

Outfit E70, E71, E74, E81, E84, E37, E89, W5, W7, W9, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Helmet BG10, BG70, C00, C0, C02, C4, C6, C8, 110

Chalks & Powders etc

Print Blocks Embossing Powder ~ Copper Metallic

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Mirrored Stars

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Sunshine Yellow

Tsukineko ~ VersaMarker

Papers

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Blackberry Swirl

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Island Indigo

X-Press ~ Blending Card

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Astronaut Oscar

Challenges

Creative Knockouts #164 ~ Embossing

Little Red Wagon #364 ~ Let’s Party!

Stick It Down ~ October Card Sketch

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