Tag: Tim Holtz

  • Distress Embossing Glaze

    Distress Embossing Glaze

    I designed round labels for all Distress Embossing Glaze colors. Download them here!

  • Tea-riffic Birthday

    Tea-riffic Birthday

    This is the card I’m creating in today’s video. It has this fun, wobbling effect, created with an action wobbler.

  • Distress Watercolor Pencils

    Distress Watercolor Pencils

    When I got the new Distress Watercolor Pencils, I took them all out of their boxes and rearranged them according to the order on the Ranger web site.

  • Jaycee’s Cards

    Jaycee’s Cards

    I was going for a cyanotype effect and used Ranger Archival Ink in the color Cobalt. Archival ink on a firm linen ink pad is pretty easy to work with.

  • Extraordinary Embossing Folders

    Extraordinary Embossing Folders

    This blog post is based on the weeklong class called Extraordinary Embossing Folders at OnlineCardClasses.com.

  • Shabby Chic Tim Holtz Santa

    Shabby Chic Tim Holtz Santa

    I want this card to be shabby chic, so I’m using a lot of gesso. Over-simplified, gesso is thick, matte white paint.

  • Using up leftover foil

    Using up leftover foil

    The critters’ gaze directs the viewers’ gaze, so use it to your advantage.

  • Pop-Up Tree

    Pop-Up Tree

    The theme for the Instagram hop this Sunday was Butterfly or Bee and Symmetry. I took the chance to use the recent Flowering tree pop-up die set from Spellbinders. It creates a fantastic four-tiered card that folds flat into a regular A2 format. It’s a real stunner and not too hard to pull off.

  • Duckling Cards

    Duckling Cards

    I started by laying out the dies on inexpensive watercolor paper and marking out how much space each of them would need. Then I colored the marked areas with Distress Crayons.

  • Single-Layer Spring Card

    Single-Layer Spring Card

    At this point I really wanted to add dimension to the card. But it was supposed to be a single layer card. So instead of adding dimension, I added texture.