Felt Flowers

Tim Holtz has a create a flower challenge on his blog using the Tattered Floral die. I have owed this die for over a year, but this is the first time I have used it.
I cut the flower layers from felt using the Vagabond. It was very easy to do. The leaves I cut free hand with scissors.

All the edges of the flowers were inked with Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink and the leaves with Mowed Grass Distress Ink.


The flowers were assembled by first piercing each piece and held together with a brad.

SUPPLIES:Felt-The Kunin Group(orange, shocking pink, baby pink, apple green); Machine-Sizzix Tim Holtz Vagabond; Die-Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Tattered Florals; Ink- Ranger Distress Ink (ripe persimmon & mowed grass); Brads-Making Memories; Tools-Scissors(Tim Holtz Tonic), Piercer(We R Memory Keepers)

Bunny Tag

This is my interpretation of Tim Holtz’s tag of the month.



I started by cutting a 6.5 X 3.5 tag from the Cricut Picturesque cartridge(page 76) with The Paper Company cardstock using the Gypsy and Expression. Using the ink applicator the following distress inks were applied to the tag: spiced marmalade, mustard seed, wild honey, shaded lilac, and ripe persimmon. Then using a mini mister the tag was misted with water and dried with a heat tool.

With the Tim Holtz Vagabond, I cut using the TH Sizzix Alterations Bunny, Butterfly & Bow diecut  the bunny and TH Sizzix Alterations Tapered Fringe diecut the grass.

Tim Holtz Lost & Found paper was used for the rabbit and Tim Holtz Seasonal paper was used for the grass. The edges of all the cut pieces were inked with  Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. The bow was blinged with Glam Pink Stickles.

 

The eggs are the dots from the Tim Holtz ideaology digits & punctuation grungeboard. I painted them with Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers(Pink Sherbet, Butterscotch, Sail Boat Blue, Wild Plum).



Tim Holtz Ripe Persimmon Distress ink was used to stamp the “Easter” then it was heat embossed. The cute bunny sticker is form the Tim Holtz Salvage Stickers. The ribbon is something I have in my stash.
The bunny is adhered with foam squares to give it some elevation. A small piece of cotton was added to give him a fuzzy tail.

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-The Paper Company; Paper-Tim Holtz ideaology, Tim Holtz ideaology Grungeboard, Tim Holtz ideaology Salvage Stickers; Machines-Provocraft Gypsy and Expression, Sizzix Tim Holtz Vagabond; Diecuts-Provocraft Picturesque cartridge, Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Bunny, Butterfly & Bow, Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Tapered Fringe; Paint-Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber; Ink-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress; Stamp-Recollections; Tools-Darice Heat Tool; Adhesive-Ranger Glossy Accents, ATG, therm o web 3D Foam Squares; Other- Ranger Stickles, ribbon(?), embossing powder(?), cotton ball(?)

Cupid Valentine

For my four daughters I made this Valentine card.
The 6 1/2 X 5 Halcraft Greeting Card was used as the card base. I cut the corners with a Fiskars 3 way corner punch. AC Cardstock was used for all of the cuts on the front of the card.
Using the largest(4 1/4 inches) Spellbinders Heart Squares the mat was cut using the Tim Holtz Vagabond machine. Cupid(2 3/4 inches), layer and the shadow were cut with the Cricut Expression using the Sweethearts cartridge(page 33). The heart held by Cupid is embellished with Christmas Red Stickles. The mat was adhered to the card base with foam squares and Cupid was adhered to the mat with foam squares as well.
The band was made using the Martha Stewart Linked Trim punch and ribbon from Michaels was threaded through and made tied into a bow that is held in place with a mini GlueDot.
The sentiment using the Jasmine cartridge was welded with the Gypsy machine and cut with the Cricut Expression machine.
The sentiment on the inside of the card was found on the internet. I printed it on Georgia Pacific cardstock. I cut it into the heart shape using a Fiskars Shaper Template. I inked the edges with Colorbox Warm Red. Some of the hearts that were cut out of the mat on the front and the arrow is left over from the Cupid layer cut.
SUPPLIES:Cardstock-AC Cardstock, Georgia Pacific; Tools-Martha Stewart Linked Trim punch, Spellbinder Heart Squares, Tim Holtz Vagabond, Cricut Expression, Provocraft Gypsy; Adhesive-Xyron, Zig 2 Way, Thermo.o.Web 3D Foam Squares, GlueDots; Ink-Colorbox Warm Red; Other-Halcroft Greeting Card 6 1/2 X 5, Ranger Stickles Christmas Red