Happily Ever After

Well Trace here , it has been a while, but Susan said I can post here as and when .... I know it has been a long as  and when , but hopefully better late than never ...

So here is a vintage inspired Valentines , using lots of yummy distress goodies and distress crayons, I know late to the party but I am loving playing with them ...

So here is my make :

I love the vintage feel that the found relatives   give ( not sure which set this is from as I have all mine muddled up !) and cannot wait to see the new paper dolls from Tim , which are top of my list!

So I started by applying matte texture paste through this gorgeous Tim flourish stencil and allowing to dry . I then coated the card with  collage medium and stamped some random patches of script using grey archival ink.

I then started to apply patches of distress crayon, starting with antique linen , and rubbing in with a damp finger.

I then built up the colours using frayed burlap and walnut stain.

I die cut two hearts and coloured using distress crayons , in barn door and fired brick and edged with walnut stain distress crayon.

To complete the card I added the found relative card which has some tissue tape stuck on , as well as a chit chat sticker . I tore the bottom and edged with distress crayon and walnut stain distress ink. I also lightly sanded it and added some ink as I like the extra distressed feel it creates but this is totally personal choice.

I added the hearts and lifted one slightly to create dimension and also added an idea-ology number plaque.

To complete the left hand side of the card I dyed some seam binding using distress stain, scrumpled and left to dry , then added the the card and tied in a bow. ( you can heat dry the seam binding but leaving scrumpled overnight gives a crinkle that I prefer )

So there you have my first post in a very long time...a vintage valentine x

Hopefully I will be back soon !

all the products used are in Country View Crafts .

keep those fingers inky!

trace x

Celebrate

Hello everyone, it's Brenda here with a quick wedding card for you today. You know when you need a card really quickly and have nothing in your box that would do? Well this is one of those.

The photo is one of the Tim Holtz found relatives and I cut it down and rounded the corners so it would fit nicely on this 5 x 7 kraft card. 

The rose ephemera piece is also one of Tim's (well actually all of it is really!!).
The flowers ......

.... the sentiment and the backing paper  .....

.... and the trellis border ......

Don't you think the photo and the ephemera piece gives it a lovely vintage feel?

See the product list below and click on the ones you want to know more about - you will be transported to the CVC shop to see further details.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Tim Holtz - Thinlits - Celebrate Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Found relatives, Occasions Tim Holtz Paper Stash - French Industrial Tim Holtz Idea-Ology - Thrift Shop Ephemera Pack Tim Holtz Frameworks die - Trellis Sizzlits strip die - Tattered garland

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A Jolly Christmas

HI everyone Brenda here and today I am sharing a Christmas card with you. The inspiration came from the current challenge at CVC challenge blog which is to use your scarps, so I decided to get the box of Christmas papers down and have a play. This is the result, a collage Christmas card.

I started with Tim Holtz postage stamp die and inserted a rectangle die so I could cut a frame.

I used core’dinations paper and took out one of Tim’s found relatives to use with it.

I used offcuts of paper to make my embellishments, stamped the word Christmas to go with the jingle flash card and punched the price tag from Tim’s merriment paper stash

The music paper is from an old music score book (I buy them from the charity shops) and I found the tickets and lace border in my oddments drawer.

I sanded the frame and cut down the gorgeous Santa photo to get it to fit….

… and bit by bit the collage came together.

The snowflakes are die-cuts using the paper snowflakes thinlits dies and I added the beads that I found in my Christmas bits box. The top snowflake twirls are florist wire.

To me the most important parts of putting a collage together are both the composition and the detail and here I white embossed the tickets, added stamped and cut out pen nib and a tiny circular tag with a weeny snowflake stamped on it.

I am so pleased to be getting Christmas cards done, but I still have a way to go.

 

Live creatively.

 

hugs Brenda

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Festive Found relatives

Well Trace here and for this make I have used some of the new found relatives occasions sets to create some vintage style Christmas cards. I love using these and with a few embellishments and some ink they can be made into some really great Christmas cards . So here goes:

First to prepare the card background before getting into into the layout and embellishments... I covered the card fronts in Tim Holtz paper, sadly discontinued but there are plenty of similar papers around and Susan did have some of these left...

I added some strips of tissue tape to break up the background on all three pieces.

Then I edged all three cards with walnut stain distress ink.

Now for the details firstly of the blue card...I start with a rough idea and go about collecting together pieces I think I might use , not that all end up on the final piece.

Firstly I cut some of this trellis die , a real firm favourite..from paper and inked with walnut stain distress ink and set aside.

Then I cut the gorgeous snowflake on the edge die and inked , again with walnut stain distress ink..as shown below. I then coated with glue and seal and covered in rock candy distress glitter.

Now for my found relative card, which I sanded with the sanding grip to make it look more distressed

I then inked with some walnut stain distress ink into the sanded areas...

This picture shows the difference the sanding makes to the cards.

 Now to collect all these pieces together...along with some dyed seam binding

 Now for some close ups..here I tied the seam binding around the found relatives card before adding it to the card front and added one of the new festive tokens...love these !

Here are the frosty snowflakes peeping out of the side of the picture...

 And here is the completed card, with a stamped Tim holtz sentiment to finish it off.

Now for the red card :

adding some dyed seam binding and some die cut holly leaves dabbed over with white paint for that snowy feel.

  And inside the trellis piece this time I added some of the unused centre pieces in various colours that I keep in a pot full .

Now for the green version, completed in a similar way.

Some dyed seam binding tied around the card before completion.

Well hope you like the three makes and maybe it has inspired you to play with some of the found relatives and new occasions found relatives .

Supplies :
Tidings tokens 
found relatives - occasions
paper stash 

keep those fingers inky!

Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black Ranger Inkssentials Glue N Seal - Matte Tim Holtz Crackle paint - Rock candy Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Festive Berries Tim Holtz Distress stain - Peeled paint Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Tumbled Glass Tim Holtz stamps - Simple sayings Tim Holtz Distress ink pad - Walnut stain Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Symphony Tissue tape Tim Holtz Frameworks die - Trellis American seam binding - White

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