Nature in June with Floral Outline by Tim Holtz

 Stamping and masking

The new Country View Challenge for June is 'Nature' and I decided to use the Tim Holtz Floral Outline stamp set.

1. Take a TH patterned panel and stamp flower with permanent ink.

2. Use the distress watercolour pencils to colour in the design. 

3. I also painted in one of my palette and swatch colour cards ro add to my book pages.

4. Stamp image onto masking paper and lay on top of the original.

5. Stamp some text in random areas.

Pull ephemera elements together .....

..... and trial the composition. I chose a piece of patterned paper by Tim Holtz for the background.

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Supplies

Tim Holtz Ephemera panel from paper stash pads and page from 8x8 paper pink palette collection

Tim Holtz - Distress Watercolour Pencils - Abandoned Coral, Dried Marigold, Forest Moss, Bundled Sage, Scattered Straw, Gathered Twigs, Speckled Egg, Iced Spruce, Picket Fence.

Tim Holtz stamps - Floral Outlines CMS430, Ledger Script CMS241, Field NotesCMS396

Tim Holtz - Sizzix- - dies - Brushstroke Flowers mini.

Distress inks - Spun Sugar, Abandoned Coral, Ground Espresso, Bundled Sage, Fired Brick

Miscellaneous - masking paper, my own swatch and palette record cards, paint brushes

Nests and Eggs

 A Shadowbox for the Country View Craft Challenge - Easter - bunnies,chicks or eggs,

I have put together a curated collection of elements to create this curio shadowbox

Process Steps

Background - Scrape some gesso randomly on the paper, dry and stamp with text, I used ground espresso distress ink.

Making the nests - Pull out some natural cocosfibre, wind tightly round a pencil glue together with heat gun. Cut some of the fibre away and create a second one to glue on top keeping it to fit the dome. Keep pushing thumbs down in the centre to create the bowl nest shape. 

Spray with distress sprays to get the colour you want. I used gathered twigs. I then made two more and set them on two wooden spools bound with dark brown hemp.

Painting the eggs. Line them up on some double sided sticky tape to keep them secure and free from fingers for painting.

Here the nests were settled on the tops of two wooden reels.

The large bottles were filled with moss and three of the painted & speckled eggs. I added some brown paint to make them somewhat distressed. 

This is how I put the nest together for the dome.

The feathers actually ended up in a different bottle. 

And so did the twigs.

I used Tim's matchbox die to make these boxes for the larger die-dut eggs to sit in. I used leftover pieces of distressed card to cut them.

The smaller die-cut eggs were raised slightly by some small pieces of dowling wood my hubbie cut me.

It took several days to make decisions on how to put this together but I love that there are lots of eggs here to fit the theme of the challenge.

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Supplies

Tim Holtz latest paper pack for background and the title came from an old 8x8 TH pad  https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/th94473-tim-holtz-palette-collection-neutral-8x8-183470-p.asp

Tim Holtz dies - Vault Matchbox 666604

Tim Holtz Stamps - Ledger Script CMS241   https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-stamps-by-stampers-anonymous-193-c.asp

Tim Holtz - Idea-ology Bottles, tny eggs, ephemera, Curator snippets,   https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-idea-ology-102-c.asp

DecoArt - Decoupage    https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/decoart-americana-decou-page-sealerglue-gloss-4oz-167418-p.asp   Gesso not in stock

Tim Holtz - Ranger - distress paints - tumbled glass, weathered wood, fired brick, seedless preserves, ground espresso, vintage photo     https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-paints-436-c.asp

Distress Inks - ground espresso, scorched timber  https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-ink-pads-1907-c.asp

Distress Sprays - Pine Needles, Twisted Citron, walnut stain, antique linen,    https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-spray-stains-696-c.asp

Sizzix dies - eggs a very old set.

49&Market Mindful Moments words  Out of stock

Distressed vintage travel wallet

 Travel Wallet

Travel CVC June #2

Meet George Roberts who has a long journey to school every day. This means him having to rise at 6 and catch the 7.05 train from Springfield Street Railway Station in Windsor, to London, as he needs to be there by 8 am. He alights at Paddington Station and walks 10 mins to Paddington Technical College where he is studying engineering.

George buys his ticket every day which costs him 2 shillings. He has to be back at Paddington to get the 4.50 train home or get an evening ticket if he wants to stay later. He sometimes does that so he can socialise with friends he has made.

He keeps his tickets with a travel identity card provided by the Springfield Street Railway Company and distributed by the Post Office. If he is asked for it by the train conductor, he must show it as the certificate allows him to travel on School Day Tickets.

The wallet is a TH file folder covered with two different pieces of TH papers (one front and one middle). The story is told with the found relative photo, ephemera and stamps, I like to create additions myself if I can't find what I want in my supplies and here I did with his name, identity card label and Paddington station label.

This is my second June project for Country View Crafts 'Travel' FaceBook challenge. If you've popped over from there thankyou for your support.

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Supplies

TH - Idea-ology -  Found Relatives, Ephemera, Die-Cuts Layers Urban, Snippets, Number Strips, Layer Frames, Paper Strips, Paper Pad French Industrial, 

TH - Stamps - Travel Ways - CMS 162, Air Travel CMS102, Correspondence CMS225, Tidbits CMS488, Field Notes CMS396, 

Tissue/Washi Tape - my supplies

Identity Card label Name of Station, Names for George - made by me.

Incorporate your own sketches into a collage 3

 Pen and Ink sketches on distress ink backgrounds with collage.

POTENTIAL

Following up two posts earlier in January (see links below) this is #3 in my pen and ink, flowers and seed heads, collages journal. It is dated 27/02/21.

I love seed heads, I pick them in the wild, I save seeds from the garden and grow them and I love drawing them.

Poppy seed heads always make me happy to look at and .... to gather the hundreds of tiny seeds that fall from those beautiful pods.

Like the previous 2 collages in this collection I have used papers, ephemera, die-cuts and a focus word.

Thanks for looking.

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Links to previous collages

 CREATE

http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com/2025/01/during-pandemic-i-did-very-little-art.html

CONSERVATION

http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com/2025/02/incorporate-your-own-sketches-into.html

Country View Crafts CHRISTMAS Frame 'Grand Christmas Exhibition'

'Grand Christmas Exhibition'

Another project for Country View Crafts 'Christmas' challenge.

I couldn't resist making another Christmas frame for my sideboard display, and again a box frame from Ikea to match the previous one I made for the same challenge.

Process Steps

For this project I left in the internal frame and used a piece of lightly inked and painted background from my left overs box and then over that I mounted the poster ephemera piece.

It was then just fill the frame with bits and pieces that related  to the exhibition of toys, dolls, fancy goods and novelties. I made the gold packages, filled bottles with shiny beads .....

..... and collected together other small elements to add to the top too.

The sleigh of presents was die cut from one of Tim's Bigz dies and painted green with some narrow washi tape added. The sledge part was cut from some card painted painted and distressed to look like rust.

I added some icicles and snow-tex and ....

.... some rub-ons from 49andMarket.

I have to admit the designing and finding all the elements took much longer than the actual making, lol.

 

                                             

Materials

Tim Holtz Ideaology - 

Ephemera pack - Noel

Bottle brush trees

Corked vials

Alpha parts - frozen

Tim Holtz dies - Sizziz

Sleigh

Festive Gatherings

49andMarket - rub-on transfers

Miscellaneious from my own supplies Silver tree, games pieces, small santa, small vial, beads, icicles die - not named, the star is an old punch by Tim Holtz.