Creating all my own paper and embellies

I have had such fun creating my paper using distress inks and stencils, then making all my embellishments with dies, punches and stamps.

Here is how I made this page:

I used white Bazzil card stock which I covered in Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed.  Then placed a Kaizercraft template over the top and covered the bottom with Black Soot Distress ink and sprayed the top with water.

I made myself some tags by experimenting with distress paint and pearl paint dabber through another template to see what the effects were if I used them straight from the dabber or with a sponge on an applicator tool as Tim Holtz suggests in his video here from Scrap Time. Which I then covered in distress inks.

I punched out a Martha Stewart boarder, stamped it with a Tim Holtz stamp and inked it with Black soot Distress ink. 

Then I die cut some tickets and a film strip from Tim's dies and stamped them with some Do Craft stamps which I cut up from a whole sheet.

 I folded a piece of brown card stock which I die cut with Tim's camera so it made a card.  I cut an inner for the card and glued it in place.  Made the ring of the lens in another colour and layered it on some foam core that I had also run through the die.  below you can see how it opens and I can journal in here later.

Hope you enjoyed that step out.

Bella

House Warming Card

I was asked to make a house warming card by a friend to give her son and future daughter in law...

This is what I made!

I used distress ink through a Prima Stencil for the bricks.  Martha Stewart 5 blade scissors for the grass, Sizzix dies for the sunflower, fence and sign (which is stamped with Tims wood grain stamp in Coffee archival ink and overprinted by my printer with the text) and the Tonic die for the window and window flower box.  The little roses are spirals rolled and glued with greenery from the Tonic window box die.

Cards from Tim's Sizzix Dies

Well, if you are a regular Wednesday desk snooper then you will have seen my typewriter card made from Tims die which you can find more about HERE, including the jpg I made so you could download and cut out your own card inner and paper piece...

BUT...I got to thinking about the other dies Tim has in the vintage line and how they could work as cards and these are what I have made!  (well,I had to do a rather pricy shop first...as I had not NEEDED these dies before...)

The clock face was a freebie off the net somewhere and the speech bubble I got off Google images.   I feel a little mass production coming on...off to my desk, no more PC procrastination ( Pinterest...) and the like...for me

Thanks for the visit

Bella