Love with All Your Heart

Hello friends…

Happy February 12th!

February 12th is a very busy day in our family… as today my husband, Eric and I, are celebrating our 26th Anniversary and it’s my son, Zach’s, 24th Birthday!! It’s funny how that happens in families sometimes where two memorable things happen on one special day of the year. I mean, what are the odds of that? I certainly don’t know what they are…but I am so grateful for two of God’s blessings that came into my life on this day… my marriage to my best friend and the birth of our one and only child.

…it’s our lucky day! ♥️

Anyways, that brings me to today’s tutorial.

I created an Anniversary card for my hubby and thought I’d share a little of the details with you. Eric is very much into Star Wars so I thought instead of making the typical anniversary card, I’d make him one that was a bit more “him”.

The new Tim Holtz Heartbeat Thinlet set mixed so well with the new Mini Glitch Stamp Set and the Digits & Circuit Layering Stencils. I loved making this card and enjoyed grunging it all up with the help some more new products, the new Distress Embossing Glazes.

To make the card, I embossed a piece of Silver Metallic Kraft paper with the 3D Foundry Embossing Folder. Then I cut out the Heartbeat in the center of the paper.

I blended a small amount of Black Soot Distress Paint over the paper and once it was almost dry, I rubbed off some of the paint, leaving the paint in the impressed areas of the paper.

I blended on a little Gold Alcohol Ink Mixative and then lightly spritzed the paper with some drips of water & sprinkled some Walnut Stain Embossing Glaze over the areas. With an embossing gun, I embossed the glaze. It’s so cool to emboss with water!

After the embossing glaze was cooled down, I spritzed the paper with Rusty Hinge and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Sprays. I spritzed the sprayed areas with water to activate the oxide and dried it with my heat tool. After it was dry, I spritzed the paper with a light mist of water and sprinkled on some Rusty Hinge Embossing Glaze. Then I embossed the glaze with my heat gun.

When I was done heat embossing, I rubbed over top of the embossed areas a bit of Rusty Hinge, Cracked Pistachio and Black Soot Distress Crayon.

Here’s a little close-up …YUM!! Check out all those lovely rusty and grungy bits!!

I sprayed a piece of Distress Watercolor paper with a variety of Distress Spray Stains and Oxide Sprays, water and inks (Weathered Wood, Hickory Smoke, Rusty Hinge, Cracked Pistachio, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain).

I stamped some areas with images from the Mini Glitch Stamp Set and the text from the Stampers Anonymous Classics #6 stamp set. Then I randomly added Distress Crackle texture paste through the Digits Layering Stencil. While the texture paste was still wet, I sprinkled the digits with Embossing Glaze (Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain, Cracked Pistachio) and once the paste was dry, embossed them with a heat tool.

I blended the Distress Embossing Dauber through the circuits Laying Stencil, sprinkled it with Liquid Platinum and Gold Embossing Powders.

I painted some idea-ology Mini Gears, Sprocket and Gears and Hardware Heads with a variety of Distress Paints.

I cut the “love” rhythm out of a piece of Copper Metallic Kraft paper and blended on some areas with Distress Crayons.

I stamped the phrase “love with all your heart” from the Tiny Texts Stamp Set.

I arranged the Gears and Hardware Heads under a piece of mica and adhered them to a piece of distress stained paper with collage medium.

The “love” rhythm was adhered to the front of the heart and mica window then a couple Hardware Heads were placed to the right and left side.

The phrase was added below the heartbeat and all the pieces were adhered together with pop-dots and collage medium.

With that, my card was complete…

Thanks so much for stopping by…I hope you have a wonderful day and have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Creatively yours,

Stacy

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Gather Your Supplies-

Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous-  Tiny Text CMS394, Mini Glitch CMS405, Classics #6 Stamp Set, Digits THS145, Circuit THS146 Layering Stencils

Tim Holtz/Sizzix- Heartbeat, Foundry 3d Texture Fade

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

Tim Holtz/Idea-ology- Mini Gears, Sprocket Gears, Hardware Heads, Metallic Paper Stash Silver and Copper

Tim Holtz/Ranger- Distress Embossing Glaze- Walnut Stain, Cracked Pistachio & Rusty Hinge, Embossing Dauber, Distress Watercolor Paper, Gold and Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder, Black Soot Archival Ink

Distress Paint- Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio, Black Soot, Rusty Hinge, Antique Bronze

Distress Spray Stains and Oxide Spray- Weathered Wood, Hickory Smoke, Rusty Hinge Oxide, Cracked Pistachio Oxide

Distress Crayons- Black Soot, Walnut Stain, Cracked Pistachio, Rusty Hinge

 Distress Ink- Frayed Burlap,Walnut Stain

Alcohol Inks-Gold Mixative

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

Other- Mica Tiles