Add some PUNCH to your next project!
Hi readers! TGIF! Please join me in welcoming back the fabulous Richele Christensen back to our blog as a guest designer! She’s made a perfectly lovely friend card using some fabulous Tim Holtz and Ranger products! Read on for the full tutorial!
Hello friends! Hope you’re having a crafty day!
Today is all about punches and a fun background technique with the new Distress Micro Glaze. The card has a soft watercolor feel made with Layering Stencil and Distress Inks. I hope you are loving the new Distress Colors as much as I am…like Abandoned Coral, Twisted Citron, love this color combination. What is your favorite color of NEW Distress Ink?
Have you seen the new Tim Holtz Alteration Paper Punches? They’re awesome!
Punches have always been a favorite of mine, they are easy to use and you can punch several items quickly. The new Tim Holtz Alterations Paper Punches have been designed with lots of features for easy storage and great functionality.
• Lockable latch for stackable storage and they’re indexed on the end for quick identification.
• Ergonomic comfort-grip design that won’t pinch your hand.
• Stacks on the end for easy storage in a drawer.
• Several of the punches fit Tim’s Idea-ology pieces so you can customize the charms. Like Cash Keys and Collage Keys, Type Charms, Heart Charms and Shield Charms.
Instructions:
1. Place Wallflower Layering Stencil over Watercolor Cardstock and trace the flowers with Distress Markers.
2. Smooth out the flowers with a Detail Waterbrush.
3. Spray flowers with water, blot off excess with a paper towel and dry with a heat tool. Don’t worry if it blends out.
4. Apply a thin layer of Distress Glaze using a Mini Ink Blending Tool with foam. You only need a little. Distress Micro Glaze is used to create a waterproof/smudge proof finish and is ideal for sealing Distress Inks, markers and more.
5. Apply Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink to your Craft Sheet and spray with water.
6. Swipe card through ink and dry with a heat tool. Drying between the layer will help the colors not get muddy.
7. Apply Fossilized Amber Distress Ink to your Craft Sheet and spray with water.
8. Swipe card through ink and dry with a heat tool.
9. Apply Abandon Coral and Fossilized Amber Distress Ink directly to your Craft Sheet and spray with water.
10. Swipe Watercolor Cardstock through the ink. Repeat as desired.
11. Punch butterflies out.
12. Bend the butterfly wings back to reveal the body and ink with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink on an Ink Blending Tool. Ink the edges of the butterflies as well.
13. Stamp a message from the Botanical Sketch Stamp Set with Jet Black Archival Ink on a strip of Watercolor Cardstock. Cut in the shape of a banner.
14. Add stitching if desired to the edge of the background and the message banner and assemble your card.
I can’t wait to make more cards with these Paper Punches!
Thanks so much for stopping in today!
Richele
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BONUS! Don’t forget, we’re having a Sizzix Sale this week! Now is a great time to try out these punches!
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Oh no! More products I need – the effect is fabulous! Thanks for sharing too x
Lovely card. Nice to see someone using the Distress Glaze. I haven’t seen it used much except by Tim.
What a lovely card. Now I need Distress Glaze.
So very pretty!
I love this card! It’s so gorgeous! Those butterflies are just too adorable! Hugs, Robin
Love the watercolours!!!!! It’s beautiful!!
Thanks so much for the great tutorial, now I know a bit more about how to use the Glaze! Your card is stunning!
Pretty card! Those punches look easy to use.
BEAUTIFUL!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this Card and the New Punches!! THANKS for sharing the sale too and have a Fabulous Weekend!! =)
That is so beautiful. I love the dreamy, summery feel of it.
Don’t you just love Tim Holtz stuff.
Beautiful card. I’m covering some of those new punches
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Beautiful card–thanks for sharing the technique and for introducing me to these punches.
Great tutorial! Great technique! and just a beautiful card. I am totally inspired. Thank you.
Gorgeous! Can’t wait to get some of the punches!
This card is so beautiful!
great new punches. . . lovely card
beautiful card!! love the watercoloring soft look…
Today’s card is just gorgeous. The colors of the flowers and butterflies are so soft and breath taking.
I love how the bodies of the butterflies pop just a little.
Beautiful card, love the butterflies!
Wow!! Really Pretty!! Love the idea of coloring in a stencil!!
The card has such a drifty, dreamy quality. I really like it. And the butterflies add to that quality. Absolutely lovely. Thanks for sharing this project.
I love the choice of colors in this card… yellows, pinks, green and blue! I wish I had these inks to play with; they are so pretty. And the punches look wonderful. Glad to learn that Tim Holtz has these available. They look like they would be very easy to use as well as store.
Wonderful card with so many great techniques. Thanks for the inspiring step-by-step.
fabulous card! Thank you for sharing the creative process! The new TH punches look fun to play with, TFS!
This is soooo pretty! I thought the flowers were a stamp until I realized you used a stencil. The new punches look amazing!
This is just stunning! I’m going to re-read the instructions & see what I can do. Thank you!
Beautiful card! Love distress inks, so fun to create with!
Beautiful card! Love all the blended colours!
Gorgeous card. Amazing color combination.
Very clever use of materials and a lovely card
this is beautiful!!!
I love punches I need more!
Distress inks/markers have been on my wish list for a while and now I’ll have to add the distress glaze and stencils/punches to the never ending list!! this is one gorgeous card!!
Love these new punches!!!
DELIGHTFUL!!!
LOVE the soft colours, colouring and pretty punching!!!
So beautiful!
Tim Holtz butterfly punches… Awesome. Cheers
SO gorgeous!
great idea!
Very pretty card.
This is such a pretty card. I have to try this technique out with my distress inks!
This is stunning. Great project. Love the effect.
First off Love the title to your post today….Very….clever and definitely an attention getter!!
Your card is absolutely unequivocally Gorgeous!! WOW you did an amazing water color job the colors are so beautiful and your fluttering butterflies and the perfect touch…your card is so one outstanding work of art and definitely should be placed on a easel for display…so one lucky person will have to enjoy forever….to me this should be a perfect prize for a giveaway WOW you so outdid yourself. I am in total awe of what I just saw. YOU so ROCK!!
This is soft and beautiful! It’s nice to see punches being brought to the forefront again. It seemed as though they were becoming a thing of the past. So nice to see the beautiful piece of art you made featuring punches!
Awesome set of punches…love how the fold for easy storage. The card is beautiful!!!
Your card is so pretty. I need to remember to give my punches some love.
Beautiful card! Love the watercolour butterflies.
very pretty card. I like the addition of butterflies.
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So beautiful!