Inspired by {A Pretty Fix}

 This week Julie is sharing the A Pretty fix site and Pinterest boards. And some of their boards are "group boards" so, it seemed to me that everything I found was on one of the group boards haha. but, I kept coming back to this shot with all these clipboards arranged on the wall. And I had a while back cut some of these Tim Holtz Vault NoteWorthy Clipboard diecuts and I had dug it out earlier in the week thinking I could use it with the clean and simple challenge which this week is to highlight a diecut but, I knew If I built on it and layered it, it would not be clean or simple so, I set it aside and had to laugh when I seen that wall and thought why not. SO, the piece of paper on top of the clipboard is a pre-cut piece from a Kaiser craft pad. 

And so I punched it out of the Sweet Nothings pad with my fingers and layered it to the clipboard which received a dusting of DOX Saltwater Taffy ink along the edges. Those mulberry flowers have faint Sheet music print on the petals and I have had them sitting in a little dish on the table for some time now and I though the colors were "close enough" So I wanted something lumpy to give it more of a collage look I think they were found at Hobby Lobby last Christmas? something like that. The printed paper behind the clipboard I don't remember who makes it anymore its from a really old pad that was disassembled and put into the pink hanging folder of such odds and ends. The base here is some PTI Sweet Blush and its A2 in real life. Those little tags were at the top of the clipboard are tied on with some Lawn Fawn hemp string. The heart tag is from the Trinity Stamps Bitty tags set and the other is from the Craft Addict UK mini birthday tag die set. The heart also received some Saltwater taffy along its edges.  The Sentiment here is from the Waffle Flower Tulips stamp set done with some Versafine clair nocturn ink. because, its not flat there was a sliver of white showing on the edge of the top piece of paper. So I used a black pen to put some black there to blend it a little. I know I need to get the Mother's Day Cards I need to send out in the mail today and so, I don't really want to go stand in line to mail it so, I think keeping it mostly flat is going to be the plan for this year. That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 
 

Dirty Dozen April Promt & Sample

 It's that time again, time to unveil the April theme for the Dirty Dozen Christmas cards challenge at Splitcoaststampers. You can read all the details here in the special forums for Fan Club members.

I started out thinking about doing some kind of a play off the 12 days of Christmas but, all the things I started pushing around were just too big for a card front, and I almost made some tags. and then I found this piece of paper in a Prima pad that had this little file folder collage on it and I liked that, so I cut it off the printed paper and started pulling out ephemera from some 49 & Market packs, and sentiments I had previously stamped and die cut, Stickers from Simple Stories pads and ended up with this.

I did leave some blank space in the top left corner of the library card piece because, I'm considering adding a monogram to that space when it gets gifted. The edges of all the diecut sentiments were inked with some DOX speckled egg ink and this is actually a little more on the Minty & Pink-ish toned side in real life but, its grey and gloomy here. ( Maybe going to do a last hurrah snowstorm tonight. and That's not an April fools joke. ) ( we could certainly use the snow in the mountains so, fingers are crossed all over the place in this part of the state at the moment) 

The no peeking has some burlap string tied through its hole to the diecut clip piece and other than that this is pretty flat in real life. It's also A7 on some Stampin' Up succulent cardstock. That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by. 
 

 

A couple more Heart cards

 Not too long ago someone who was featured stamper at Splitcoaststampers ( I've forgotten off hand her screen name but, someone on the Simon Says Stamp design team) had these really gorgeous projects posted in her gallery of altered ( really fancy shapes) um Rolodex cards. and that really caught my eye. A very long time ago I used to actually alter the cards that you buy for the containers so it was a WOW thing to see all the fun shapes of them out at the moment. So, I caved on that and started buying a handful of the dies with no real plan for a project for them, I just liked the shapes. the first one to arrive in the mail was the AALL & Create Spring Sprouts die set. If I remember correctly this is the same die she had used in her gallery and so, when it came I ended up cutting out 3 of them from random papers on the table to get an idea of the scale of it. 

Just messing around with these pieces and I needed space so a bunch of it was put away in the drawer.
 

And then a week or so later another AALL & Create die this one is called Dotted Love and it has bitty hearts with the 3 different lengths of flaps/cards. And same thing cut one of each flap and all the hearts and I just kept pushing these things around on the table along with all those hearts I've had out and been cutting. And so, this was built from scraps on the table. I really liked the idea of this shape upside down. not as a flipping card but just a curious background detail all the edges of all the die cuts you see here were inked with some scorched timber distress oxide ink to unify all those prints. The enjoy is an Impression Obsession die as is that half circle heart layer behind it. The larger heart on a stem to the left behind that is part of a Penny Black die and the little heart topiary is a stamped image I cut out with scissors. I had that scrap of shiny silver sheer ribbon on the table and just tied it around the prongs. I figured since its all glued down to the card front it should stay put. This one is 5" square in real life. That special delivery was a paper ephemera piece from ( probably Tim Holtz ) but, I have big containers of that since I bought a bunch last year and have been trying to use some of those up as well, it was left behind in the tray on the table from when ever I was poking around in that. 

 

And I did something with the other heart branch piece I painted a week or two ago? I forget, that base is Blushing bride and this one is A2 in real life, that shiny pinkish glimmer cardstock was in the recent SSS card kit from Feb that arrived. ( the one with all the rounded corner dies in it) I cut a bunch of scraps up with those dies so far but, no projects yet. That embossing folder was out from some other project as well. these are just random cleaned the table off cards for me. I ended up going through my entire drawer of previously diecut things and I need to use some up before I cut anything else as that drawer is now bursting at the seams. The with love tag is an lili of the valley stamp on some watercolor paper and the ribbons are unknown. that gold elastic is really old from SU. That's about it from me, I hope you're doing well. We've got snow again this week and since we have not been buried under it all winter its a welcome and good thing here. Thanks for stopping by. 

A Few Valentines

 When I looked at my stash of cards a week or two ago, I realized I didn't have a stash of Valentines day cards. I think I may not have made any at all last year. Since I stopped doing the way way in advance design team things I have been trying to create more in the moment type things. So, right now without a need for a Valentine it was fun to start pulling out both things that have not been played with and heart dies and such. 

What my desk looked like last Sunday. Nope, I did not watch the superbowl. I forgot about it, I know most the people in my family root seriously for the Chiefs and they were thinking the teams who were playing this year were well matched and it should be a good game to watch but, that is seriously all I remember hearing about it. I needed to see something happy and pretty so digging through these papers and dies helped. 

I did come across this video from Nichol Spohr on YouTube doing a postage collage background (Waffle Flower die) for a Valentine and I thought Oh, I have that die and dug it out and did a couple of them. I really liked her color combo with the browns coming through so, that was a totally copy for me to dig out those colors. Tattered Rose, Salt water taffy, Candied Apple, Antique Linen Distress Oxide Inks. 

The first one on the right was more heavily influenced by her card than the one on the left, so the one on the right I am probably going to give to hubs. I just used what ever, but it did have me digging through my Tim Holtz office supplies type dies as well and I cut stacks of file folders and bitty envelopes too while I was at it. These are both A2 in real life. The one on the left I used some shimmery opal stardream paper ( a while back to emboss that plaid ish texture to and it was just handy. That chiffon ribbon wrapped around it is something I came across at Hobby Lobby in January after the holidays. I do like this and if they still have it next time I am in that store I will probably buy the other colors. 

 Then monday came and I had seen the Clean and simple challenge at SCS was to include a heart and I had received these Penny Black dies in the mail that day and so, I did cut them from some of those papers on the table and thought OK this could work. That Love diecut is something old from Poppy stamps that I did a long time ago and then you know used an eraser on it after this was shot because, there are a lot of times it's such a cave up here when it's cloudy I just don't see things the same anymore. So, its interesting and helpful to me to see them as a photograph that I can enlarge on the screen and fix bloopers after the fact. And since its just for my own amusement and I am in the whole keep it real phase I just post it and move on.

Which lead me to looking at my other Penny Black dies and I came across this pot with all the heart stems growing out of it set and cut a stack of them from some Artist loft water color paper and then added some paint to them yesterday after work.
 

The Happy Valentines day tag is a Lili of the Valley stamp ( I believe they have gone strictly digital now but, I have physical stamps from them and I still play with mine) The mini copper-ish brad is probably from Recollections. I have a tiny jello mold on my table filled with these things because, when you could go to the store and buy them I did. ( I am glad I stocked up on them I don't see these in the stores anymore and I do like brads more than eyelets actually) 

 

So, I shot this last card early this morning way before the sun came up and so, the colors are a little off and dark. That card base is some Stampin' Up! Blushing bride ( I love that shade of pink) And the circle framing diecut in the center is something from My Creative Time called Circle card front dies. I tend to shy away from circles so, I have been die cutting and taping a bunch of these together out of these papers and some of the scraps laying around and now I have a little pile of them to play with as well. The frame part of this its a little busy so, its hard to see but, these die cuts the frame has some cute stitching details on them. I did try to tilt that pot straight here ( its on with a glue dot and it decided to just wiggle it self back to crooked again. I did run the top cover of the card base through the big shot with a Sizzix folder but, It only says sizzix on it so, I don't remember its real name anymore ( I want to say it could be an old Basic Grey Christmas one but, that is a best guess situation.) That's about it from me, I hope your doing well & thanks for stopping by. 

Dirty Dozen February Christmas Wishes

 It's almost February and the Dirty Dozen Christmas card prompt for Fan Club members is up and available here at in the special forums seen here. 

 I started with that green ledger looking paper from Graphic45 because, even though its kinda office supply looking I loved the faded greens going on and wanted to use it for Christmas. and I had these Spellbinders postage stamps folders and dies set on the table I had started trying to figure out how to cut and emboss them as they are a folder with 2 dies. I had thought the die was going to just be one inside the folder ha ha but, I ended up doing these about 3 times each in the machine to get it to look like this. And then I started looking for something that would fit in the opening. This printed paper girl was cut from the Prima 25 & peppermint pad and then I found that the Stampin' Up Sage shadow cut to 5 1/2" square looked pretty good with those bits and pieces but, there was too much of a mat gap between the greens so, I found this 49& Market evergreen season print that would bridge the gap between them. The mulberry flowers are out of the canning jar on the wall and I've forgot who makes them. The Christmas wishes was stamped on some watercolor paper a while back and then cut with a Tim Holtz label die. And then I needed some things to tuck into the other frame and I found this bit of red stripe in the same envelope from the prima envelope and the fa la la washi tape stamp from 49 & Market a while back. I am crossing my fingers that it does not unravel it self from the papers. The edges of the green print and the frames were inked with some Distress Oxide Scorched Timber ink. I debated about those flowers for a long time because, the trend here is to use those things on tags so that I don't have to pay parcel postage on the cards for the lumps but, as I was building this one I decided I know who it will go to next year and it will be hand delivered. That's about it from me. I hope you're doing well & thanks for stopping by. 

Playing with Postage Collage

 The last little while I have been making bits and pieces using various Postage Collage items I have on hand and I have done some online shopping ( happy bday to me) for some new things for the last little while and I have been taking some snap shots. And today when I came home from work I seen that there is a feature a Hat on the project for the ways to use it challenge and I had some of these Santa Postage stamps colored and cut out in the piles so, I used that as the top layer on this tag. 

 This Santa and Snowman postage stamps are really old ones from Hero Arts. They were stamped on some Artist loft watercolor paper which is pretty textured and colored with Daniel Smith watercolors and a bit of Windsor & Newton white gouache. they were cut out with scissors and the edges were inked with Vintage Photo DOX inks and they were set aside. because, I was on the stamp all the stamps mode.

I did mess around with the Impression Obsesssion Postage dies ( I have both sizes ) The holly and snowflake postage stamps are also very old Hero Arts ones. While I was at it with the reindeer tags I've done lately I also cut up some papers and cardstock with various tag dies, glued some together so I have a pile of those on hand as well. 

(that plaid Print is from this years Hobby Lobby pad called berry and pine.)

I did stamp more deer, over stamped them with more postage bits and pieces. Tried some postage backgrounds with Sand Dune ink on the Neenah enviornmental cardstock. ( its pretty subtle) I had dug out some big Unity Stamps backgrounds Santa Express ( is the one in the top left of this shot) I also pulled out the Frost & Fawn background along with the A little Christmas carol background stamps. Stamped some of those on the Environmental as well. 

 This framed Deer stamp is from Unity stamps called Hello Deer. The stamped and diecut words on this are from the Spellbinders set called Christmas Sentiments from July 2024. I really liked how that worked with the Tim Holtz / Simon Says Stamp set from one of the class kits over the last few months and so, When I seen that set on the Spellbinders sale list I decided to get it and the matching dies to have a few more of this style of words to have on hand to play with. The tags these are glued to are from the waffle flower nesting pierced tags die, 

 These big deer (Unity Stamps Winter Cheer & Deer set) were also stamped with Pinecone ink on some Neenah environmental, Inked with DOX vintage photo and cut with I forget. The postage edge die here is the Waffle Flower Nesting Postage dies. The tag here is from the Tall Tag frame from  My Creative Time. The Noel & Be Merry sentiment stamps are from Red Lead Paperworks Circle Christmas stamps set. Those were diecut with one of Anna Wights Impression Obsession stitched dies. ( the set name escapes me ) 

 So right about the time I had finished all of these yesterday. I had remembered I do have that Waffle Flower A2 Postage Collage Die set and I had seen Nichol Spohr's Video with that die used as a background for some cardfronts using bits and pieces from Tim Holtz. So, I fished that out next because, I knew I had not ever played with it. and I really loved how cool it looked when she masked and inked it before it was cut up. So, The color choices here were heavily influenced by what I had seen in her video. 

I knew I wanted white edges for my postage bits and pieces and I have a stack of this Strathmore Mixed Media paper so, I used that knowing it was sturdy and could take the inking.

I started with Iced Spruce DOX and then added Espresso to the corners over that. I do not own the stencil. I have mentioned I don't really like cleaning them and I wanted those edges white so, I just used some Spellbinders tapes and taped the diecut paper to the glass mat. 

 

and I collage stamped it from ( I have an entire container of stamps sets used in this blog post and lets just say it was a lot and go from there) 

 Using the tape worked well enough so, I did cut this up.

And I loved that enough to try it a couple more times.

 

 The base color of this one is lumberjack DOX. 

 But, I did go back to the Iced Spruce / Espresso combo for the third round. 

Which lead me to today. 

 Happy Mail ( my first order ) from Wintertime Crafts on etsy. I found this shop from that same video of Jill Norwoods that had the collage stamping on it and decided to give them a try. The stamps arrived packaged so cute and had a little gift charm and fern print with them. These are made in the U.S. and down in California so, they arrived really quickly to me.

 The stamp set's that I picked up. You can find her shop here. I love the scale of these and I had also dug out this CottageCutz Postage Stamp (4X4) die and cut it with Neenah Enviromental, taped off the edges. Inked it with some Lumberjack and Espresso DOX inks. and Decided to collage it. 

 The base tag here is an PTI one. tag sale something. I will look for its name. I put the Postage collaged diecut up on foam dots over it with some Black hemp string wrapped around it and then I tucked in a couple of the hero arts postage I had stamped and colored and inked earlier over the top. This view maybe show the sparkle added to the hat and mitten cuff along with the berries on the holly branch. ( its just Stickles) The little metal tree here is an old one from Making Memories. 

I forget who the from Santa sentiment is from but, the tiny banner its on was die cut from the Art Impressions stitched tag die set. The larger stitched banner is from the Pretty Pink Posh sentiment Strip Dies set that also came in the mail recently. And that's about it from me so far. This could just clean out my "to be uploaded someday folder" ha ha. I hope you're doing well, Thanks for stopping by. 
 

Reindeer Tags

 Last week there was a "Tag Challenge" throw down on Thursday which was my birthday and I grinned and grinned because, I had seen this video from Jill Norwood where she made a variety of Christmas reindeer tags and I loved the little round ones esp. as I knew I had the same main focal stamp she used ( Red Lead Paperwork's North Pole Cancellation stamp ( I cannot find it in their store at the moment) and the Greetery's Crimped circle tag dies.) and I was like OOh those pieces fit together. So, I did dig out all the Red Lead cancellation stamps and started with the reindeer. 

 So, I stamped the tiny jolly old elf stamp from Anna Wight's Sweet Miss Daisy Stamps set called hope for all, the tiny Peace on Earth cancellation is an really old one from Hero Arts. The tiny snowflakes are from Anna's set called Twinkling Lights Santa. I did make changes to this so, they are not totally CASED but, they are pretty dang close. The green foliage branch papers are from the Recollections Gingerbread forest pad and the brown snowfall ish papers are from Their Christmas Noel pad. The red & tan Burlap string is from May Arts And I tied on some little tags from Lili of the Valley and an vintage bronze colored jingle bell and then tied them in bows. The back sides of these are Kraft cardstock and all the edges were inked with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo ink. 

The next thing I happened to finish were these tags that were jump started by the ones I had done before this and the fact that I had seen Angie tossed down a "collage" challenge. 

So, I started with this reindeer block stamp from Annette Allen Watkins and stamped it with some Pinecone ink on some really old K & Co. Printed paper that has a scrip text in four sections and a divided in a cross with buttons. But, I used a Crealies X stitched square die to cut them down with just a little bit of the paper peeking around the block and then just over stamped all the other bits and pieces. The North Pole, This side up & Fig 1.2,3 are from the Tim Holtz Field Notes set, the tiny Forever & Special Delivery are from the Impression Obsession Happy Mail set by Jeanne Streiff, The tags tied on the tops that say From Santa I am thinking may be Spellbinders. ( I made those a few weeks ago) the to a deer friend is from A Muse. The Christmas Hugs is from lili of the Valley. The Green & Tan burlap strings are from May arts. I have forgotten who makes the wood grain print that is behind it all and that particular tag die is a Fancy die from Hero Arts ( it has 3 different reinforcer dies with that tag) All the edges of everything were inked with some DOX vintage photo inks. 
 That's about it from me, I think I may have to start piling up the sets as I use them instead of putting them away as its some times a challenge to decide which sets were actually used on things like this. I hope you're doing well. Thanks for stopping by. 

Inspired By {GEC Designs}

 This week Julie is sharing the GEC designs, I did start by looking at their Christmas board on Pinterest where I seen this Santa Sleigh Reindeer that almost had a really "clean" collage look to me if you look at the letters and the antlers of the reindeer. And earlier in the week I had seen that there was a tag challenge and a Collage challenge ( maybe last week) I lose track of time frequently. and some how it all morphed in my head.

To just try this I decided to start stamping on a small ( little large than 3" square ) scrap of printed sheet music paper. I started with the deer silhouette from Tim Holtz in a pinecone ink, added the other things in various Distress Oxide shades ( I pulled stamps from maybe 6 or 7 different sets) just looking at the tiny stamps mostly.  And then I cut this with an Hero Arts cute short tag die and cut a second one from Kraft cardstock for the back. both layers of tag diecuts were inked with DOX vintage photo on the edges. The tiny tag at the top was cut from a splatter sprayed piece a while back with an Justrite/Spellbinders tag die and that was tied on with some tan and red May Arts burlap string. 

 When it was all glued together I did add some stickles glitter glue to the centers of the snowflakes on this. And I realized it was way more busy than the piece I seen on Pinterest. And I have run out of time to do something a little more clean. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

Dirty Dozen August 2025 Christmas

 Happy August :) This was done using the Dirty Dozen August prompt to jump start this shaker card. I recently played along with the Tim Holtz & Simon Says Stamp Christmas in July class doing collage things and so, since I have a lot of those bits and pieces of papers, layers, chipboards. Not only Tim Holtz but, also some from Simple Stories and others. And I'd like to make a dent in using it up. With that thought in the back of my head it was pretty easy to turn this Chipboard window into a Shaker card. the inside of the shaker is also some of that new "Snowflake" mix that came in the class kit from Ranger. ( its Mica flakes, glitter, rock candy maybe other things mix ) It is very sparkly in person. 

 I am planning to hand deliver this so, the thickness of the card is not a factor here. I do have a layer of the Simon Says Stamp foam tape behind that window pane to give it wiggle room to shake. The let it snow below her feet is also printed chipboard but, not high up as the window frame. The woodgrain printed paper here is from Impression Obsession, so it has a little gloss to it the same way the paperdoll and the printed tree layer do. I did tint that paperdoll with some of the Tim Holtz crayons and the stickers on her hands are from last years Christmas sticker pad. The layers of printed paper that looks collage-y in the top left corner are from the Simple Stories simple vintage fresh snow ephemera package. The Dec 25 red block is also from one of the TH packages. The printed snowflaked edge acetate inside the window frame on the top was in one of the baseboard packs with the chipboard frames and then I just used some plain (thick) acetate from Crafters Companion to contain the shaking bits on the back side. That snow flaked edged one was not quite long enough to go across the width of the frame so, it is off set to the left and then I used the paperdoll girls body to cover over the exposed right side. That's about it from me if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

Create Together Collage tag Trio

 The third project in Create Together the class that is Tim Holtz & Heidi is some size 5 shipping tags that get totally collage covered with the ephemera papers. and then layered up over that. So, I did start with picking out a handful of bits of paper to cover 2 of the tags, but as I trimmed the edges of the first one. I walked around the table where I have piles and picked up more bits and a third tag. This turned out to be something I really enjoyed the finished tags of. 

I did try to minimize some of the mess by using a piece of plastic packaging for the collage medium smears for using a glue brush. 

 

A closer look at the base layer of those tags. 

I did use a piece of plastic packaging to lay the tags on the glass mat as I did the seal them with the medium with your fingers step. off to the left out of this shot is a box of baby wipes and now I am not as nervous about getting it on my skin as I was before I started but, they do mention you need to get this off your fingers while its wet or you are wearing it for days. That freaked me out a little and I almost put on rubber gloves. 

Once they were dry shiny cello tape stickers came out to play along with more Paper dolls and shiny foliage bits. and then some stickers that were cut up to look more ransom note type style. the people and foliage are all up on the foam dots from the kit and surprisingly enough they felt a little more sticky adhesive wise than the ones I have been buying so those have now gone on the mental shopping list to get more of when I get low again. I found I do not have a 1/4" hole punch. ( who knew?) so, that went on the wish list as well but, I used a 1/8" hole (4 time haha) which made little funny shapes in the hole of the tag so, then I tucked in some red skinny velvet yarn fiber through the hole. I am pretty tickled with how these turned out and I know I will be making more of them at some point. This class has an hashtag of #SSSHolidayCollage if you are playing along. Thanks for stopping by. 

Create Together Slotted Tag Collage

 The second project in the class is a slotted size 8 shipping tag that ends up with slots to tuck the collage inside and so its interactive ( and can hold a gift card) so, later when I end up out and about I will pick one up. 

 This is Iced Spruce distress ink on the diecut tag that I received in the kit I decided it did not have enough water drops on it when I was looking at it and I did hit it again.

Like so, I could see the "Wintery snow effect" in the ink better on this one.

 

You can see on the Santa's hat one of the Mica flakes is a little big, ( that one eventually fell off as I was putting him in and out of the tag later) 

 I am not really a dried glitter person so, it surprised me how much I like the sparkle of this Snowflake mix in the kit. ( I have also been trying really hard to keep my fingers out of my eyes because, I have 2 fans going up here and the little portable AC tucked in the corner so, I think some of its gone airborne ) 

 I had to laugh when I looked closely at my Santa after I got it on because, at one point in the class Tim Mentions that you have to look at the Mica flakes in case you end up with a pirate patch over an eyeball and I really did. the second largest flake on the brim I wiggled that while it was wet to turn it more over the glitter and not over his eye. This view gives you that scale of how big the mica is compared to the glittery mix parts. 

 These are the pieces I thought I might tuck into my slots, I did end up editing this down as I filled it up pretty quickly.

 So this is where I ended up. I need a gift card to tuck the pointing hand to and so its just ready for that later. I also ended up trimming away some of the background color between the Petals and stems of the Poinsettia sprig so that I could tuck the little piece of "seals" layer between it. I did glue that little circle red Dec 25th to the front of the little snapshot piece, so she does not tuck all the way into her slot because of that bump. Well, I didn't force it anyways just in case the glue is not all the way set. I do think liquid glue has a learning curve but, I am finding its not as steep as I thought it would be. 

 I did decide that after the sparkle paper was layered to the good tidings sticker that I needed one more sparkly spot in the tag so, the flowers received some glossy accents with the snowflake mix as well. This was just shot wet on the table with the cell phone. I am trying to decide if I should put something to the left of the clipped on Believe flash card and so, while it dries I am going to let that thought percolate. That's about where I am at the moment at 1 hour and 43 minutes into the class. There is a hashtag for these projects and its #SSSHolidayCollage if you are playing along. Thanks for stopping by. 

Create Together Tim Holtz & Heidi Holiday Collage Card

 A funny true story. I have a ton of Tim Holtz products, you knew this already right? but, I don't really use much of the papers and chipboard pieces I think I am more of a collector of them more than a collage person. I use a piece here and there so, I was really excited about the live class they were offering from Simon Says Stamp and teaching it as an YouTube video. (you can watch the replay here) I also had assumed that the 11th was going to be a Saturday when I bought it without looking at a calendar so, I heard part of it at work yesterday between payroll and customers and our IT guy coming by so, This morning I started watching the video where I could just sit and watch it. It starts with a collage card. 

 

I opened my box this morning so, no homework done here. I do have packs of some of these packages from last Christmas that are open in a container so, I picked and chose from both the kit box and my Tim Holtz papers stash box.

This is what I was thinking my card might turn out to look like. 

I built my shaker frame piece and I had not used that liquid glue much and I got it too close to the acetate and I thought ok, you're going to have all this shaking sparkle inside anyways it does not matter, but the glue leaked out the front of the frame under where you see this girl sitting. and I thought OK but, as I was moving piece around to do the collage building part I thought, you know you could move her to the other side of the frame the way her back is in the mugshot she'd probably look more natural posed there, so. I did. I also stacked one of the smallest poinsettias tilted on top of the medium one under her feet so, the flowers are a little 3-D here also. 

I think she turned out pretty cute, I shot all of these photos with my cell phone and the colors are a little off to me but, not in a this is terrible kind of a way. (that card base is a very deep green color in real life) I did use the Candied Apple crayon on her hat and the mowed lawn green on her coat for tinting, the cheeks are worn lipstick. I had not ever thought to do this, and I love how that turned out.  

I am excited to see what the next project is. I am also thinking I just may add some stickles or something to the center of that poinsettia for a little more sparkle. I probably could have added a little more to my shaker window but, I do like that you can see the corner bit of the layer under it as well so, there is that. 

The bits and pieces I did not end up putting on the card, some have been inked with the iced spruce ink. I am thinking I may also add some of that cello tape to the top of the green ticked under her feet as well but, I have not gotten that far. I have replenished my cuppa Joe however and this means the creating can continue. I hope you are having a really creative Saturday as well, Thanks for stopping by. 

and I stopped the video too soon, they added tape after I thought they were done with the cards haha.

 So I cut a piece of the tape sticker and used it at the top and bottom and decided the flower stamens just needed that sparkle as well. I am not sure how it works but, this class has a hashtag that is #sssholidaycollage if you are playing along on maybe Facebook?  I know there are some people from Splitcoaststampers who have also bought the kit and will be playing along, so I am just going to try the hashtag there in the gallery as it is keyword driven. That's about it for the moment. Thanks for stopping by.