ATC Inspired by 2008 Day 6 Tag

This ATC is inspired by some of the techniques Tim Holtz used in his 2008 Day 6 Tag (12 Tags of Christmas).  

Tim used a Clear Paintables sheet. I didn't have one of those, but found a Acetate Die Cut in my stash that could use some more color. I think this technique could also be done with images printed on transparency sheet. Here I choose a section of the sheet that would fit on my ATC.

 You can color the transparency(front or back) with alcohol markers if you have them. If not, in Tim's post, he shows how you can paint with alcohol inks using a designated water brush pen filled with Blending Solution to pick up alcohol ink colors of your choice and color the sheet as desired (most of the ink in this palette has been here for 3 years). Once the alcohol ink drinks, it's easily re activated with the blending solution.

 To color the Manila card background, press a variety of Distress inks on a craft sheet and spritz with water.  Dip the card into the inks, lift off dry. Repeat placing into the inks and drying until satisfied with colors. (Wrinkle Free Distress Technique)

 Stamped music score on card with black Distress ink. Also stamped on bird image and colored with purple ink. Let dry.

 For parts of the colored acetate that you don't want to have the stamped background showing through, paint the back with white acrylic paint and let dry.

 Used Glossy Accents around the edges of the acetate to adhere to the card background.

 Used a texture stamp with white acrylic paint to add texture around the outside edges.

 Added a butterfly embellishment, the word joy and an orange rhinestone.

Fun technique!

ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 5 Tag

This ATC is based on some of the techniques used in Tim Holtz's 2008 Day 5 Tag. 

Paint background with black acrylic paint, use a piece of cut n dry foam to spread paint. Let dry. 

 Stamp images with embossing ink and cover with clear embossing powder and heat set.

 Paint over all with a light color of acrylic paint. Do not let paint completely dry, when it is tacky use a cloth lightly misted with water to remove the paint from the embossed images.

 I must be heavy handed as I removed most of the background paint, but it is a great grungy look!

 The other technique is to die cut a shape out of grunge paper and run it through an embossing folder. Paint die cut (I used turquoise Lumiere paint). When paint dries sand paint off raised embossed areas.

 Color surface with walnut stain Distress ink. Use a lightly misted cloth to remove Distress Ink from the painted areas.

 Adhere die cut to background. Pour some gold Metallic Mixative on craft sheet. Use tooth brush to splatter gold Metal Mixative over die cut and background.

 Used light pink Distress ink to stamp same script over white flowers. Dipped edge of petals in the gold Metallic Mixative.  Painted 3 brads, photo corners and chin board flourish with gold Lumiere paint.

ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 4 Tag

This ATC is inspired by Tim Holtz's 2008 Day 4 Tag. This technique reminds me of the Spotlight technique. 

Stamp the same image on 2 pieces of Manila card stock with black Archival ink and let dry.

 Choose the area that will be under a fragment and color with Distress inks.

 Glue colored stamped area under a fragment with Glossy Accents, when dry, trim off excess card.  Colored edge of ATC with brown and black Distress inks. Stamped some flourishes with Distress inks on parts of the edges of the ATC.
Glue fragment over the same stamped area on the background.

ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 3 Tag

This is inspired by Tim Holtz's 2008 Day 3 Tag. The main thing he did was print a photo on sticky back canvas for the background. 

I had some canvas sheets that can go through the printer, and I printed out this door image on the canvas. Then inked the edges with black Distress ink.

 The other technique that caught my fancy was covering metal objects with paper, coloring it and distressing it. I choose a key hole charm and covered it with matte gel, then dictionary paper.

 When the gel dried, sanded the edges.

 Colored it with Distress inks.

 Decided to sand some more, and sprayed with a mister of blue re-inker and perfect pearls.

 Adhered the printed canvas to black card stock. Attached key hole with silver brads, and made a fancy door knob with small charm and silver brad. Adhered key to top and phrase from dictionary page to edge of canvas.

ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 2 Tag

This ATC is inspired by Tim Holtz's 2008 Day 2 tag (12 Tags of Christmas). For the background he uses the Twisted Alcohol technique, which I did back in Dec 2008 and several other times.






Spread a generous amount of Metal Mixative on craft sheet and added drops of several colors.

Squirt blending solution over this mixture, the more blending solution, the lighter the inks will paper.

Place glossy card stock down into the inks and twist. You can add more depth and color by placing the same card stock back into the inks and twist again and again until you like how it looks.

Here's my first one, there is still lots of ink on the craft sheet, so I'll grab more glossy card stock.

Here's the second piece.

Added more blending solution to the inks on the craft street and got these two sheets of glossy card stock done as well.

For this ATC, choose the second background. Stamped trees in watermark ink, covered with black embossing powder and heat set (make sure the alcohol inks are dry before proceeding to this step). Stamped snowflakes with black Archival ink.

Placed more Metal Mixative on craft sheet, used an old toothbrush to splatter this over the card.

Colored edges of card with iced spruce Distress ink. Added white swirl rub-ons. Colored recessed areas of dragonfly and word metal piece with slate alcohol ink. Adhered with Glossy Accents. Added metal snowflake with white brad.

So fun to be reminded of this great background technique!

ATC Inspired by Tim's 2008 Day 1 Tag

 This ATC is inspired by some of the techniques Tim Holtz used in his 2008 Day 1 Tag (12 Tags of Christmas). I want to continue to be inspired by these tags, since Christmas is past, I decided to go for a "time" theme for the New Year.





Placed a large clock mask over an ATC sized piece of a Manila folder. Added Distress inks being careful not to move the mask.

While mask was still in place, stamped on  a smaller clock image and the backward numbers with black Archival Ink.  Then carefully wiped the ink off the mask. Let the black ink dry.

 Remove the mask and spray the ink with a mister, let the Distress Ink bleed into the previously masked area. When you're happy with the amount of bleeding, use a heat tool to stop further bleeding of the ink.

 Stamp image on grunge paper with black Archival ink and cut out with scissors. Colored sides and edges with blue Distress ink

 Filled letters in word piece with black Enamel accents. Cut a game piece arrow to look like clock hands.

 Used distress tool to distress edges of ATC and colored edges with grey Distress ink.

 Added pieces with Glossy Accents. Added black brad to clock hand and word piece. Added metal clock bits to man image with metal rim blue rhinestone brad.

So Happy!

Very Excited that I won one of the 12 Tags of Christmas prize packages for posting my creations each of the 12 days! Big thanks to Tim for the prize and most of all the inspiration!!!!