Cherish

Hello Friends and Happy Wednesday!!

I hope you are having a great day! I’m back with a short tutorial for you, highlighting a cool technique I was playing around with the other day while working with the new Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D Elegant Texture Fade and 3D Medallion.

Funny thing though, the start of this background started out in the garbage bin. I had used one of my favorite techniques where you stamp directly onto the the texture fade, spritz your watercolor paper with water and then run it through the Vagabond and dry it with a heat tool. I thought the stamped image came out a bit too fuzzy, so I tossed it into the garbage. You know how it is…we all have those days when you think way too much and things don’t go in the direction that you thought they would.

I left my studio and went off and did some other things, then came back the next day. I saw the background sitting on top of the trash can, pulled it out and began blending the background with some Distress inks and then decided to swipe the textured areas with my finger and a tiny bit of Black Soot Distress Paint.

The background turned out WAY better then I had expected and took on a look of marble. I was pleasantly surprised that my trash had turned into something that I will definitely be doing again…don’t you love it when that happens?!!!

So let’s get started…

I started with a piece of Distress Watercolor Paper cut to a size that fit with in the Elegant 3D Texture Fade. I stamped randomly, one of the Ledger Script Background stamps with Black Soot Distress Ink onto the flat background of the texture fade. Spritzed the watercolor paper with a spritz of water and carefully laid the paper with in the folder. then I ran it through the Vagabond. I removed the paper and dried it with my heat tool. Then I tossed it into the trash, LOL, you should probably skip this step! 😉

Then I blended the background with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink, spritzed it with water, dabbed up some of the drips with a towel, and dried it with my heat tool. I also blended the paper with some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink and spritzed, dabbed and dried the paper again.

I lightly blended the 3D embossed areas with Black Soot Distress Paint and my finger. This step only takes a small amount of paint…and be sure to do it with a light touch, I’m just skimming the top of the embossed pattern.

I then sat my background aside and created a background for the 3D Medallions to be cut from. I blended a scrap piece of watercolor paper with Hickory Smoke Distress and Oxide inks, spritzed the paper with water, dabbed with a towel and dried with a heat tool.

I spritzed the back of the watercolor paper with a light mist of water and inserted the paper within the 3D folder and cut out a pair of medallions.

I repeated the Black Soot Distress Paint and finger blending technique and dried the medallions with my heat tool.

I went digging through my scrap box and found a variety of distress inked backgrounds for cutting flowers and greens from the Funky Foliage and Garden Greens thinlet die sets.

I discovered that I didn’t have enough of a purple background for the flowers, so I created one by blending and smooshing inks onto a Distress Mixed Media Tag. I used a combo of Distress Inks which included Hickory Smoke Distress Ink, Wilted Violet, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves and Hickory Smoke Oxide Inks.

YUM, look at all those lovely flowers, several to use for this project and some to keep for others in the future!!!

I cut a piece of black textured cardstock for the bottom of the card front.

With my finger, and Picket Fence Distress Paint, I lightly blended paint onto the paper.

I cut a piece of Crochet trim out of Distress Watercolor paper.

Then blended a bit of Black Soot Distress Paint over top of the trim with my finger.

I began arranging my card, and added the word “cherish” that had been cut from watercolor paper. With that, my card was complete.

Thanks so much for stopping by today… I’m off on an inspiration adventure tomorrow as I’m heading to watch Tim Holtz demo up at the Great Lakes Mega Meet!!

I plan on coming home with a head full of ideas to share, see you soon!

Creatively yours,

Stacy

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Gather Your Supplies-

Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous-  Ledger Script (CMS241)

Tim Holtz/Sizzix-  Elegant 3D Texture Fade, 3D Medallion, Crochet, Funky Foliage, Garden Greens, Handwritten Love

Tim Holtz/Tonic- Tonic Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Tonic Shears

Tim Holtz/Ranger- Distress Watercolor Paper, Mixed Media #8 Tags,

Distress Ink- Hickory Smoke, Black Soot

Distress Oxide- Hickory Smoke, Wilted Violet, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves

Distress Paint- Black Soot, Picket Fence

Distress Tools/Mediums- Distress Sprayer, Media Mat, Heat it Heat Tool, Blending Tools, Distress Collage Matte Medium

Other-  Black Textured Cardstock