It Throwback Thursday and I thought I’d share TWO great ways to use your Tim Holtz Mixed Media Dies. Have you heard that Sizzix is 30% OFF ? Ends Midnight
Welcome back, crafty peeps!! Laurie here to share two cards using dies from the Tim Holtz Mixed Media Set #5. If you’ve never seen or used these, I highly recommend you check them out! Each set has 3 large, amazing dies and the price point is awesome!!
My first card features some lazy watercolouring which will be hidden behind a panel cut with one of the floral dies in this set.
I cut the image out of white cardstock and inked the edges with Wild Honey and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. For the watercolouring, I used Bristol Smooth paper and a cheap set of watercolour paints. I’m sure there was an easier way to do this but I just kept putting the die cut panel over the Bristol and roughly lined up where the ink should go!!
I think that this panel looks pretty cool on its own!! But layered up together, it looks like this:
Before adhering the two panels together, I added some splatters with the Vintage Photo as well as Ground Espresso Distress Inks.
I added some twine to the left side and stamped the sentiment in Vintage Photo. I used my Misti for this as Distress Ink doesn’t stamp well and I need multiple impressions. The sentiment comes from the Penny Black Choose Happy Stamp Set.
For the second card, I used another one of the dies from this set and used it to emboss! You can do this with all your dies as long as you have a tan embossing mat and the correct sandwich for your die cutting machine!
This gives a very pretty result. To bring out the embossing a bit more, I lightly blended some Tattered Rose Distress Ink over top. I should mention, that I had that stitched rectangle in my “spares” bin so that was cut already. You would want to make sure you cut down your panel BEFORE embossing it!
I adhered the embossed panel onto a piece of black cardstock that was slightly larger. The “thank you” sentiment and heart come from the From the Heart Stamp Set from MFT…this is a great set to have in your stash!!
As an added touch, I used a couple dies from the Spring Floral Cluster Dies from Flora and Fauna and some shimmer pen on some of the raised portions!
And those are my projects for today!! Hope you found a little inspiration here today!
Thank you so much for stopping by!
See you soon…
Laurie
