Christmas Decor - Distressed, embossed Christmas tree

CVC Challenges Heavenly bodies/ space. Include stars and or planets in your project.  

    

Hubbie cut the wooden pieces for me and I started by painting the block stand and dowling (trunk) with the chalk paint and when dry I sanded some corners and edges and rubbed the brown distress ink into it.

Next do the same with the side panels of the tree.

Cut silver mirri card to A5 size, secure it into the embossing folder/texture fade and run through a big shot. Remove it and cut two pieces to the size of the flat triangles of wood. Adhere them to the wooden tree shape.

Rub chalk paint over each side and rub of with finger and repeat till required look has been achieved.

Die-cut stars with gold mirri card and also rub in chalk paint and leave till almost dry then rub over with kitchen roll. Rub coffee archival ink pad round the edges and points of the star.

The the above and lowest photos have reflected the colour of my phone (red) back to the camera.

Collect together elements to make up the tree topper decoration (berries, silver pine cones and ribbons) and something for the wooden base, I had some tiny pine cones.

Glue the trim to the base, punch 3 small star and edge with brown distress ink.

Assemble and complete .

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Supplies mostly from Country View Crafts

Sizzix - Tim Holtz - Thinlits Dimensional Stars,

Sizzix - Tim Holtz - 3D Texture Fades A5 Engraved Large,

Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Industrious Stickers - Trims and frames

Tim Holtz star punch

Chalk Paint - Frenchic Yorkshire Rose

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain

Archival ink - Coffee

Miscellaneous - silver and gold mirri card, berries, ribbon etc,

Aged, Weathered, Distressed. CVC May #2

 Aged and distressed wallpaper

These are the steps I used to create what I've called distressed wallpaper and used it in a project using the fabulous Tim Holtz clip board die.

Take a palette knife and drag white gesso over the surface of your card and leave to dry. Using a soft cloth rub some paint over the surface keeping it thin and light.

Use a heavy duty sander to scrape around the edges and really distress them 

Take vintage photo distress ink and make a puddle and dip the edges in, leave to dry.

Cut and distress three clipboards and the faux metal clips.

Sand the silver clips, rub vintage photo distress ink pad over them and finish the top one with a distress crayon.

Adhere the the clipboards together and attach the clip (See the Tim Holtz video oh how to put this clipboard together.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnCfC97bOM )

I also added a small custom fastener with a butterfly in it.

I took an offcut from my bits box to create the mount for the photobooth picture of the girls, inked the edges and sewed down the sides

The edges of the photo of the girls was scraped with scissors then dipped into vintage photo DI mixed with vintage collage medium and dried. I added colour to them by using the same technique I used on the first May project using DIs mixed with matte collage medium.

I scraped some crackle paste over media card using a palette knife and left it overnight.

The next day a rubbed over a victorian velvet DI pad .....

.....  then rubbed it back with a wet wipe.

I sanded the edges and blended in ground espresso DI and gently rubbed in some artisan powder and wiped it back with a damp cloth.

Run the background through the big shot in texture fade embossing folder. Then dip into victorian velvet and stormy ski distress inks and dry.

Supplies

TH Sizzix dies - Vault Noteworthy, Specimen, 

TH Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso, Tattered Rose, Stormy Sky, Victorian Velvet.

PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish paint - Blah Mange, Lake Wanaka

Ranger TH - Distress Crayon Vintage Photo,

TH Mediums - Distress Collage Medium Vintage, Distress Collage Medium Matte,

TH - Idea-ology - Remnant Rubs Words,

TH Idea-ology Custom Pin

TH Sizzix - Texture Fade - Dotted

Prima Artisan Powder - Paris Rose

Tag Friday for AVJ

Yay it's a five Friday month so we all get the pleasure of making a tag for the AVJ blog and it's great as there are no rules or themes we just keep to the genres that we love.

I started by collecting together some mini tags and textured embellishments that I made a while ago to get a feel of the direction I was going to go in. Grungy, timeworn and rusted were the words that came to mind.

So I took an ordinary #8 tag and painted it with black gesso. When it was dry I then dipped and dried in watery washes of burnt sienna, yellow iron oxide and paynes grey mixed with cerulean blue which gave me those electric streaks. yep I felt I was definitely getting the right style.

For the next two layers I mixed media acrylics with lace chalky finish paint, so the first one was the lace mixed with raw sienna through a chevron stencil with a wash paynes grey and quinacridone gold mixed on the tag. The second was lace mixed with phthalo turquoise and burnt umber through Andy's cog stencil and given the same wash.

I added some text stamping in coffee archival ......

... and I sanded the edges and blended the same coffee ink round them. I also altered the smaller tags with media acrylics, dipping, spritzing, blending and drying ....

... and put everything together to create a collage. The arrow, 'explore' and route 66 badge were from my rusty bits box as they were made months ago and were surplus to requirements at the time, but came in so handy for this make.

Hope you can find a minute to travel on over to the Vintage Journey Tag Friday post and take a look at the magnificent inspiration from the Creative Guides, honestly their tags are amazing.

Have a great weekend, enjoy whatever you have got planned and thank you for taking a stop by my blog today, I really appreciate your visit.

hugs Brenda xxx

Creative Chemistry 102 - Day 2

I know I have juggled the days about, but this is my last class for CC 102, I now have all 30+ tags finished and the most fabulous resource for inspiration and teaching. So …......… 

the last 8 tags to go in my collection.

Fabulous techniques using stencils.

Sorry, the light is dreadful here this morning, it’s pouring of rain and I took about 30 photos of this tag and this is the best I can get it.

#7 – Mixed-Media Layering

#8 – Embossing with Stencils

#8b – Embossing with stencils part 2

#9 – Embossing through Stencils

#10 – Stencil Stamping

#11 – Stencil Sketching

#12 – Ink Monoprint

#13 – Paint Monoprint

My tags are all labelled, put in a ring and ready for me to use.

Thanks to Tim, Mario and the team for putting this great class together and providing amazing inspiration, learning and a place to see and share our projects and other people’s wonderful take on the classes too. I shall miss this next week, but what fun it’s been.

Before I get back to DT and workshop samples I would like to wish you a happy Sunday and thank you too for being part of my creative journey and for all the comments you leave, it is so much appreciated.

“One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity”.

Edward de Bono

 

hugs {brenda} x0x

MAWTT Challenge 77 - Let it SNOW

Wow another week nearer Christmas and I still have cards to send and presents to buy and wrap. Hopefully I will get there by the 25th!!!!

This week over at MAWTT, the lovely Hazel is hosting and the theme is 'Let it Snow' and I chose this gorgeous image called 'Chester dah Snowman' by Robyn's Fetish to play with. I have already seen the team's work and I have to tell you - you must pop over and have a look at all the different cards and projects, there is some wonderful inspiration for you to look at.

As many of you will know I have been following the 12 Tags of Christmas by Tim Holtz, but didn't have time to make them all myself. So I decided to use some of his techniques in making this card. If you haven't seen how to use a stamp on an embossing folder you really should go take a look. I have used it here to create my background and then I printed Chester out twice, covered him in snowtex and pieced his hat, nose, arms and heart after colouring them with distress inks.

I haven't put a sentiment on yet cos I'm not sure yet who I am going to send this one too. If anyone knows of any challenges I could enter this into I would be grateful if you would let me know. Sadly I just haven't got the time to go looking at the moment. Thankyou so much.

For those of you who know me - just to let you know Mum is still in hospital and is likely to be there quite some time as she is still being fed by a tube, saying that though she has been allowed some pureed food this week. I am having to battle with the hospital to get information and get things moved on. Communication from and with them is a nightmare and I don't just mean to me - but between each team on duty and each department too. I am gathering my evidence now for a formal complaint.

So sorry I am still not visiting you very often, I really miss keeping in touch, but hopefully soon.

Take care - luv {brenda} xoxox