An Easter Message and Distress Embossing Glaze Tutorial Alert

Hello friends! Where ever you are in the world, I pray you are safe and healthy! Moreover, I pray you are feeling God's love among all the craziness around the globe right now. With Easter being tomorrow, I'm bringing you message of renewal today in the form of a card using Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glazes. If you get a chance to pop over, I hope you'll join me over at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog where I'm showcasing these powders on numerous samples, including the grungy masculine card shown below.

Sending wishes and prayers for you on Easter and in the days ahead.

Sara Emily

Supporting these challenges:

SanDee&amelie's March 2020 Steampunk Challenge Masculine card only

Simon Says Stamp Monday Add Some Texture Masculine card only

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Spring Moodboard Easter card only

Country View Challenges April 2020 - Animal Magic Easter card only

Crafty Cardmakers #254 Easter Easter card only

Bleeding Art March Challenge - Anything Goes Masculine card only

We Love 2 Create at Polkadoodles Challenge #4 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Creative Challenge Both cards

Creative Artiste Challenge #59 Both cards

It's Heating Up at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge Blog

Welcome friends! It' s time for a new challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog and our lovely and talented hostess, Suzz has chosen the theme 'It's Heating Up'. Here's what Suzz says about this challenge:

July is when the weather here in the Midwest really starts to turn warm and muggy. This is the inspiration for our challenge to interpret the heat with using one or more of the following colors: Yellow, Red or Orange. Your challenge is to create a vintage or shabby chic project where the main color is yellow, orange or red. I can't wait to see how you turn up the heat in your art!

As always, the Design Team will choose their top four picks, and the winner will be invited to join us in a Guest DT spot at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. The next three will receive Top 3 badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

While I do use yellow, orange and red quite frequently in my projects, it's not often the main color, so this indeed was a challenge for me.

My background is a panel of Classic Kraft Stock embossed with Tim Holtz Foundry 3-D Texture Fade. I sanded it and added color with Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink and Ground Espresso ink. I layered it on two old Tim Holtz papers and finally to a kraft card blank.

I stamped The Professor by Tim Holtz with Ground Espresso and Faded Jeans  Distress Archival inks on a card scrap, fussy cut and colored his frames with Spiced Marmalade marker.

 I stamped the dial from the same set on Distress Heavystock with Rusty Hinge and Ground Espresso inks and a bit of Cracked Pistachio oxide ink. Using my stamp platform allows me to use multiple colors to create depth and interest.

I fussy cut the dial and colored it with Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge oxides. I gave the dial a coat of Distress Crazing and after drying, smudged with Distress crayon-Chipped Sapphire. Both stamped pieces were edged with Ground Espresso ink. With foam adhesive, both pieces were layered over some scraps I had on my worktop.

I finished my card with a Rusty Bottle Cap, Idea-Ology Metal Ruler Measurements (one of the many prizes I won in a challenge on Tim Holtz Addicts Facebook page), Mirrored and Adornments Stars and an Occasions Small Talk sticker. I patted the ruler with Chipped Sapphire Distress paint. Linda sells the bottle caps in the shop already rusted, and I just dabbed it with Chipped Sapphire paint to give contrast to the Mirrored Star. I colored the star with Splendor Alcohol Pearls (front) and Chipped Sapphire paint (back). The copper painted Adornment Star was already painted, leftover from a previous project, and I colored the other two with Chipped Sapphire paint and Carved Pumpkin oxide. Everything was adhered with Distress Collage Medium Matte.

As a final touch, I splashed the card with diluted Faded Jeans oxide.

That's all for me today, but there's plenty more wonderful 'hot' creativity over on the blog, where my Frilly and Funkie teammates will wow you with their projects. Then it's over to you! I can't wait to see what you will make! Hugs and Blessings! Sara Emily

I'll be sharing with these favorite challenges and a few more when I return to civilization:

SanDee&amelie's 2019 Steampunk Summer Special Challenge
Bleeding Art July Challenge - Anything Goes!

Crafty Cardmakers #238 Here Comes Summer It's a stretch, but my kiddo's birthdays are in the summer, and this card is for my son's birthday.
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Make Your Own Background

The following products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - The Professor
Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Foundry
Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Classic Kraft Stock
Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media Heavystock
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Mirrored Stars
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Adornments, Star
Rusted Metal Embellishments - Bottle cap
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #2
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paints - Chipped Sapphire, Ground Espresso, Rusty Hinge
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Frayed Burlap, Ground Espresso, Rusty Hinge
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxides - Carved Pumpkin, Cracked Pistachio, Evergreen Bough, Faded Jeans, Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Mini Ink Pad Kit #2
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Mini Ink Pad Kit #3
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Crazing
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte 1 oz Bottle
Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Pearls - Splendor

Make Today Count

  Welcome to Monday!  I hope you've had a relaxing weekend! Today I'm sharing a quick masculine card in what seems to be, as of late, my go-to neutral palette. My hubby reminded me it was my father in law's birthday in a few days and could I pretty please make a card. By the way, the mail comes in a half hour. Sure, honey.

Thank goodness for my new Stacked Label Thinlits dies! These stacked labels make easy and quick work or play for just about any project you might have in mind, and the combinations  using the 5 graduated dies are limited only by your imagination.

I actually worked in reverse when planning my card, starting with the focal point and working to the base. I found this young man in one of my oldest Tim Holtz Paper Stashes--Lost and Found, and he happens to look very much like my father in law in his youth. The image is square, so the die doesn't fit perfectly, but it still works! I just used a little Design Tape (this one is from the Journey set) to hold the die in place and sent it through my die cut machine. The Design tape works much better than any other tape--it comes off smoothly without tearing the paper/card.

I cut the lighter toned layer using one of the larger dies in the set from a background I made while enjoying some happy craft time with Autumn earlier this year at my friend's lake house. I think I used Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide and then stamped with Autumn's dots image from  Tim's Dots and Florals stamp set in one of the brown oxides. I was instantly in love, and had to go home and purchase my own set.

I only had some flimsy mixed media paper with me at the time, but I was able to add some sturdiness to the die cut by cutting a slightly smaller label from my stash of waste packaging chipboard and adhered it to the back with collage medium. These workhorse dies can easily cut through thin chipboard.

I used Classic Kraft cardstock in black for the last layer and frame, using both the inside and the outside of the cut.   I sanded both pieces, and adhered the frame to a panel of Heavystock colored with Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress Oxides. You can tell from this angled shot that I elevated each label by using some waste cardboard under them.

After it was all layered up the only thing left to do was to add a sentiment. My husband chose 'Make Today Count' from the Quotations Metallic Stickers. Edging the sticker in Black Soot ink gives it a nice finishing touch.

All ready for the mail in plenty of time! I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did making this card!

Thank you for stopping by today and for all your lovely comments!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

Additional products: Stampers Anonymous Dots and Floral Stamp set, Ideaology Lost and Found Paper Stash

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Number 1 Wonderful Father

 Welcome friends and visitors! I had some fun playing with some new to me Tim Holtz stamps and Framelits set this weekend, and made my father in law this Father's Day card.

 I started with Heavystock that I dipped into inky puddles--Frayed Burlap and Iced Spruce Distress Oxide pressed onto my craft mat and spritzed with water. I wanted to use the old typing machine as a background image this time, so I inked it with Vintage Photo ink and spritzed the stamp with water before making the impression. I was purposefully going for a blurred image, but you can see how crisp and clean this stamp inks up in my post here.

I even got out my sewing machine for this one! You can see I need some practice with my stitches! I couldn't figure out what to do with those loose ends, so I stapled them with the Tiny Attacher. I colored the staples with Teakwood alcohol ink and scribbled over them with Ground Espresso Distress crayon for the ultimate grunge. I'm sure my FIL will have a great big laugh at my wonky stitches!

Now it was time to layer up this handsome Paper Doll over some ephemera. First I gave him and the Accelerator ad from the Collector Layers set a random coat of Distress Crazing medium and allowed that to dry (well, I did speed it up a bit with my heat tool). I colored both pieces with Distress crayons smoothing and blending with my finger.  I sanded a second Layer and colored it with Frayed Burlap and Ground Espresso inks.

 I inked up one of the stamps from Ticket Booth with Ground Espresso Archival ink and die cut it with the coordinating Framelit. It's colored with Fired Brick and Frayed Burlap inks and Ground Espresso crayon. A Christmas Quote Chip works perfectly as a portion of my sentiment. I just cut out the word "wonderful" and used a portion of the rest to give importance to a Chit Chat sticker. To age them, I scribbled the edges with  Ground Espresso crayon and gave them a coat of Distress Vintage Collage Medium. Since I dried them with my heat tool, I got some nice crazing-like cracks. Perhaps you can see them in the photo below.

A Vial Label cut in half and a Numbers Remnant Rub were aged with Ground Espresso ink and stapled to the edge to balance out the collage. I love the way the Remnant Rubs resist the ink and that the crayon gives just the right amount of grunge for this guy card. I layered the panel over textured red card  and that over another sanded Classic Kraft Stock panel. Both panels were blended with Ground Espresso ink.

Thank you for stopping by today and for all your amazing comments!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

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