Tim Holtz Play Day: It's Not "Heavy Metal" But It's Funky!

My friend Daphne is one of the most talented people I know! Her cards and Copic work are just beautiful but teaching is her real calling artistially. Today's technique class today focused not on Tim Holtz' "2011 tags of christmas" specifically, but rather the techniques he used to create them. Several of the techniques will show up as card ideas and mini-tutorials here but this one is particularly cool -- especially since I really didn't think I'd like the finished product at all...

How'd they do that?

After running Quik Kutz metal paper through the Cuttlebug using this "wordy" birthday embossing folder, we mounted it on a manila tag (always best as a first step when working with "wet" ink/pain etc. on cardstock or other medium). Used Ranger daubers to "color" each section of the design and set aside to dry -- this takes a good 45 minutes. Once the paint is completely dry we sanded the entire tag to highlight the words, pop dotted on a happy birthday message, tied with starry green tinsel and voila! Easy, easy and you can do something else while all these dry.

Definitely getting some of this metal paper to experiment with for some funky kids cards and lots of ideas come to mind for Christmas or fall/Halloween motifs. The metal paper comes in packs of twelve 4x12 sheets for about $5.

Two play days are over ... back to the OWH shipper den....

ODBD Challenge: Ribbon

VCMP, OBDB... now I know my ABC's... here's another challenge card from me... using RIBBON! I think I'm gonna be #31? Let's do this, ladies!

VCMP CHALLENGE #10: Vintage (yeah!)

Vintage Valentine for my hubby perfect for challenge #10.. I'm not seriously "into" vintage but sometimes just love the look of Kraft paper and deep colors. Roses colored with Copic R39,56 and then shading outlined with black spica.

VCMP Challenge #7: CAS

Clean and simple... found this stamp in a box of donated used stamps and just think it's so great sentiment for a hero card or for a hero to send home - IMHO it just doesn't need anything else. Made 10 of these in red/white/blue and sand and sea colors for my "general" cards that I still really really need.

VCMP CHALLENGE #6: Sand and Sea

Fun card day with a good friend and the dining room table's all cleaned up too! All these challenges looked like so much fun but had to pick.... sooo.....

Blues and tans and snuck some yellow in for the sand on this one! Will make more of these for mom's day challenge I think.

VCMP CHALLENGE #2: Hello, Stamp Pad; Hello, Paper Cutter

OWH VCMP CHALLENGE #2: MASCULINE NAUTICAL: A huge handful of M&Ms and a serious case of wanting to be on the OWH cruise making cards with a glass of wine nearby and I dared enter my craft room for the first time this year.

Masculine theme travel card challenge. Love this Heartfelt stamp and it only took me 3 tries to stamp it clean and twice messing up the watercoloring to decide to go clean. Aquapen will have to wait till Friday. I'm claiming to be a novice again, no it's my shipper duties, no, wait,..new dog...