Winter scene 1 for Country View Crafts - Tim Holtz die-cuts

 A Wintry Scene for Country View Crafts

Rachel has chosen Wintry Scenes for the January Challenge at Country View Crafts Challenges on FaceBook. I had great fun with two of the Tim Holtz dies to create the picture and with the distress watercolor pencils and some distress inks and spritz to get the depth and perspective.

Die cut 2 tree lines and glue them onto card stock overlapping a second part beneath the first layer.

Take the paints, using a brush with plenty of clean water, use the paints like watercolours to create a sky. With a small piece of sponge dab the colours over the trees to fill in any gaps on the overlap and to make it look like a cold, misty morning. Dry that and splatter white to create snowfall.

Using white card cut a slope of snow, using a paint brush apply texture paste lightly over it to make it look like snow laying on the ground. Splatter with chipped sapphire DI and adhere to the bottom of the card. 

Cut the birch trees from white card and give them a coat of white paint. 

Play with the DIs, DOs and watercolor pencils to make the birch trees more realistic and cut into them to create 3 individual ones.

Add some watery brown DI to some gaps between the trees, paint some spritz over the tops of the trees too and add more sponged white paint to keep the look of snow. Dry.

 ..... and then glue the birch trees on the panel.

Finish by using a stick to paint in some dried grasses.

One wintry scene complete.

Ink the edges, add a sentiment and make it into a card.

Supplies

Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Tree Line, Branched Birch

Tim Holtz - Ranger - DOs Lost Shadow, Vintage Photo, DIs Walnut Stain, Chipped Sapphire

Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Watercolor Pencils - Black Soot, Gathered Twigs, Scorched Timber, Chipped Sapphire, Lost Shadow

Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Spritz - Uncharted Mariner

Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Texture Paste

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints - Midnight, Snowflake, Beach Hut, Elephant

Distressed, vintage collage.

 In 2025 Take A Risk

Just playing with a small panel to use some of the new stamps I bought well before Christmas that I haven't got to yet. I used new card that didn't allow me to pull the colours out of the distress inks but even so still quite happy with the finished effects,

The panel was just blended, dipped, dripped and dried with the same colours and dried.

I stamped the typewriter and cut it out ....

 ..... as well as the 25 and words ready to put a collage together. 

At this point i decided to add some 49 and Market rub-ns, I just love how they seem to melt into the paper they are so easy to use.

I punched out the white star on the blue background for the tiny hardware head and glued it in and gave it a covering of glossy accents.

I gathered some snippets together and cut a side tab and stamped it as well as second generation stamped onto the panel as well. I then spattered with the white paint.

It then just all came together and is ready to add to my Tim Holtz shabby-vintage panel journal.

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies

TH DIs Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke

TH Stamps - Curiosity Shop CMS482, Way With Words CMS165

TH Hardware Heads

TH Frames and Trims

49 ad Market Rub Ons

TH Marker - Faded Jeans

Archival inks - Black, Watering Can

Glossy Accents, Snowflake Fresco Finish Paint,

Card = PaperMill Direct

PaperArtsy Snowflake paint.

Incorporate your own sketches into a collage.

 Pen and Ink sketches on distress ink backgrounds with collage

CREATE

During the Pandemic I did very little art but as we came out of it I started drawing some flowers and also some pen and ink flower shapes as silhouette sketches. I started to create collages with both and a few have been mounted in black sketchbooks. The dates of these begin at 7th Feb 2020. So as I have a number completed and a number of small silhouettes ready to use I thought it would be a good opportunity to record them here and perhaps share them to social media. 

Here is the first one and the title word gives the background to my motivation completely. There was I wanting to get creating and making particularly with my own drawings and at the time the silhouettes fitted the bill.

I used an old die cut.......

... and some gold foil....

.... and enjoyed putting the collage together.

Thanks for looking.

Glitter, glitter everywhere Happy New Year

 Shabby Sparkly Christmas Card

Silent Night, Holy Night.

All is calm, all is bright.

Let's hope that is so for the new year.

I have been using up supplies and going OTT with sparkle and gold but I love it.

A dip and drip background from my left over box

Some tim holtz tissue wrap added using collage medium and applied a gilded accent.

Used stencil to add grit paste and added distress glitter whilst it was still wet. When it was dry I gently brushed off any excess. 

I found a moon that had been made last year for a project where I'd dipped and dripped distress inks, punched the circle and covered it with rock candy glitter.

I used up a row of fir trees that had been cut from Tim's sparkle classic card and used coffee archival to highlight the edges.

I found a gold banner in the bits bag and thought I'd go mad with the sparkle, shine and glitter. I added  'silent night' using Tims remnant rubs. The black writing went well with the black text in the background.

Finally I found some gold stars also in the bits bag, I sanded the points to distress them and blended brown distress ink over them and used them to finish the design.

As I was putting the card elements together and mounting on the card I decided to spritz some Fossilized Amber Spray Spritz behind the trees.

Here's to a happy, healthy and peaceful 2025 for everyone.

Peace of Earth.

Supplies

Tim Holtz      

Collage Medium, Coffee Archival Ink, Grit Paste - Snowfall, Distress Glitter - Tinsel, Gilded Accents, Stencil - Sparkle Fade, Distress Inks, Distress Rock Candy Glitter, Banner from one of Tim's older die sets, an old Tim Holtz star punch, Sparkle Classic Kraft Stock, Sizzix Tree Line die. 

Yuletide Holly - Alison Bomber

Mini Yuletide

Getting another Christmas panel posted before the new year with a focal image of a beautiful holly spring by my great friend Alison Bomber.

1. Scrape thin layer of gesso over surface of background card with a palette knife and smooth the centre with a paint brush - dry.

2. Dip sides in puddles of brushed corduroy and dry.

3. Blend ground espresso over the edges.

4. Make puddle of bundled sage - dip, drip and dry.

5. Use a leftover holly die-cut to use as a stencil to create holly images background using the green distress inks.

6. Splatter lightly with white and green paints.

7. Make another distressed background, stamp Alison's mini holly stamp on it.

8. Paint holly image using the distress watercolor pencils.

9. Distress the edges.

10. Create collage using some of the Tim Holtz snippets and paper.

Panel complete.

Supplies

Alison Bomber  -  PaperArtsy Eclectica EM93

Tim Holtz  -  Distress Watercolor Pencils  -  crushed olive, rustic wilderness, bundled sage, festive berries, aged mahogany, ground espresso

Distress Inks   -  brushed corduroy, ground espresso, bundled sage, peeled paint.    Snippets

Miscellaneous  -  Coffee archival ink, 

Peace Christmas Card

 Berry Delicious

Blended pumice stone and hickory smoke distress inks over the card. Made a puddle of each colour and dipped, dripped and dried the distress inks.

I stamped the holly and the berries stamps....

 ....with watering can archival ink ....

.... and stamped the text with coffee archival ink.

Using the watercolour pencils I coloured and painted some of the leaves and all of the berries to make them stand out.

I then grabbed a silver sparkle Sakura Gelly Roll pen and a black unipin pen and added some details.

I found the silver 'Peace', the icicles and greeting in my supplies, added them to the card and mounted onto green cardstock.

This is off to a crafty friend for Christmas 

xxx

Supplies

Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Stamptember 2018, Yuletide CMS356, Letter to Santa CMS053

PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber Fodder Berry Edition 

Ranger - Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils - Forest Moss, Bundled Sage, Iced Spruce, Scorched Timber, Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid.

Archival inks - Watering Can, Coffee,

 Core'dinations colorcore cardstock.

Sizzix Tim Holtz Peace, Wish, Noel