Find your loveliness...

Hi everyone and welcome. I'm back for the third time this week with a new card to share featuring lots of Tim Holtz designs and products. This one has a dressmaking theme and my now familiar pale shabby chic layered look.

I'll take you through how this card came together further down but first another of my tutorials for using Tim's 'Botanical' 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder.

Layered Distress Paint Embossing

I began (as has been the case with the other three tutorials) with a piece of Tim's Mixed Media Heavystock paper as it will take layers of paint, ink etc without warping. First up it was covered with Brushed Corduroy Distress Paint.

Once dry I applied Picket Fence to the flatter side of the 'Botanical' 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder and ran it through my Big Shot (painted side down). i find Distress Paint is idea for this technique as it is more fluid than other paints and has a longer drying time so the paint remains wet as you emboss. Obviously it's important to clean your embossing folder with water as soon as you've finished to prevent it from sticking.

Once the paint was dry I rubbed Potting Soil Archival Ink over the raised surface just to emphasise these spots (because it's a permanent ink so won't bleed through to upper layers).

Finally I added more of the Picket Fence Distress Paint to the raised areas using a brayer. This may seem daft, I mean why go to the trouble of adding the ink previously? Well I tried without and just didn't get the same vintage look that this combination gave.

This piece of card was torn in two for use on this and another card (HERE). This one was layered onto a background created from a piece of Tim Holtz 'Memoranda' Paper Stash brayered sufficiently with Distress Paint to make it more uniform without obliterating the design beneath. Coordinating Design Tape was used to create the layout over which I added another of those Collector Layers, stamped with the dressform image from Tim's 'Inventor 3' stamp set. A huge shout out to Zoe Hillman who I've seen use Design Tape as a border and use Ruler Ribbon with a buckle to such great effect. There is also some stencilling using the Stitched Layering Stencil and some red Halloween Heirloom Roses with drops of Shell Pink and Snow Cap Alcohol Ink added to replicate the look of the roses in the Design Tape.

That's it for today's post. I hope you've enjoyed seeing it in more detail and give the embossing tutorial a try. As ever if you have questions please let me know. For now have a great end to your week and get creative!
Jenny xx

Products used in this card;

(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology 12 x 12 Paper Stash Memoranda	(FEBRUARY PRE-ORDER) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Design Tape Remnants	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Vintage Design Tape	(EARLY FEBRUARY PRE-ORDER) Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Stitched	Ranger Texture Paste	(MAY PRE-ORDER) Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Botanical	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Brushed Corduroy	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Picket Fence
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Potting Soil	(LATE MARCH PRE-ORDER) Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Inventor 3	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Adornments - Regal Charms	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Buckles	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ruler Ribbon	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collector Layers	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween Heirloom Roses	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Snow Cap Mixative
Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Shell Pink	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clippings Stickers