Valentine’s Home Decor DIY Project featuring Tim Holtz Supplies

Hi friends! Happy Sunday! We’re so pleased to welcome back Monday Design Team member, Emma Williams as a guest on our blog! Today she made a stunning piece of art mounted on an altered clipboard. Read on for the full tutorial along with some detail and overall pictures of the project. Also be sure to leave a nice comment for Emma. :) Enjoy!

Hello everyone, Emma here!

Hope you all had a great week and today, I’m thrilled to have been invited back on the Simon Says Stamp blog, to share a Valentine’s home decor project, which I created using canvas panels, mounted onto an altered clipboard. I was definitely struck by Cupid’s arrow when I started thinking about this project and it’s packed full of ideas that they can also be used for cards or gift tags, if you choose.

I started my project with two canvas panels, the first measuring 8.25” x 5.75” and the second, 4” square and applied a coat of gesso over the surface of each panel.

Working with the larger canvas, I applied a layer of Weathered Wood Distress Paint over the top. Let the paint dry before adding torn pieces of Tissue Tape and Tissue Wrap and adhering them randomly onto the surface of the canvas using Multi Medium. After a blast of heat to dry everything, I inked the Love Definition stamp with Jet Black Archival Ink and stamped onto random areas of the canvas.

I then added a very light, second coat of Weathered Wood Distress Paint, allowing the design of the tissue and stamped wording to still show through the paint.

Once completely dry, I took Picket Fence Distress Paint and using the dabber on the bottle, swiped the paint over the top canvas to give a worn distressed look. At this stage, I also dipped an old credit card into the paint and created scratch marks onto the panel.

Apply Texture Paste through the Dot Fade Layering Stencil, adding it around the central area of the canvas.

To complete the background, I wanted to add some more layers using a stencil and for this, you can use any stencil of your choice but I chose to use the Latticework Layering Stencil. I placed it directly onto each corner and using Pumice Stone Distress Marker Pen attached to the Distress Marker Spritzing Tool, I lightly misted the ink through the stencil, to create one further layer of interest. I then used a paintbrush to flick small amounts of Antiqued Bronze Distress Paint over the surface.

Use Frayed Burlap Distress Paint to create a narrow border around the edge of the panel.

Apply Collage Glue to one of the corners of the panel and using the gold coloured foil from the pack of Vintage Foil Transfer sheets, press the foil with the shiny side uppermost over the top of the glue to transfer the gold onto the canvas. Repeat on the remaining corners.

Wrap a piece of twine, wrapping it three times around the canvas and securing the ends at the back.

Take the smaller square canvas panel and apply a coat of Weathered Wood over the gessoed surface. Using the Mixed Media dies, die cut pieces of any card using the honeycomb die. Cut the die cut card to create two smaller pieces of honeycomb and apply these die cuts to the top left and bottom right hand corner of the panel using multi medium to secure them into place.

Add a second layer of Weathered Wood Distress Paint over the top, dry thoroughly and then add a small amount of Picket Fence Distress Paint to create a shabby, distressed look. Set aside to dry before attaching the panel using foam pads to the larger panel, placing it directly over the top of the wrapped twine.

Using your fingertip, apply light touches of Treasure Gold Gilding Wax around the edges of the small canvas panel and over the top of the die cut honeycomb to give a subtle shimmer.

Use some more of the gilding wax over the surface of one of the Ornate Plates. Attach the plate onto the centre of your smaller mounted panel, using Glossy Accents to secure it into place.

To create the winged heart embellishment, being by using the Heartfelt die to die cut two of the larger hearts, two different shapes, from chipboard. Gesso each chipboard heart before painting them with Candied Apple Distress Paint. Ink the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Take one of the hearts and dab an embossing pad over the top of the surface. Apply clear embossing powder to the wet ink and tap away the excess before heat embossing. Repeat these steps another couple of times, building up the embossing powder to create a beautiful enameled effect to heart.

Create a second enameled heart using the above method.

Die cut the wings from white card and colour each die cut section with Antique Linen Distress Paint. Ink around the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink before adding foil highlights using Collage Glue and gold Transfer Foil. Layer and shape the wings using foam pads for added dimension.

Attach the wings and heart over the top of the ornate plate and attach the second heart below the mounted panel.

Use the “Together” wording from the Alpha Parts collection and apply a light layer of Glossy Accents over the top. Sprinkle with Vintage Distress Glitter Dust and tap away the excess. Attach the glittered wording across the centre of the heart.

Colour a large Adornment Arrow with gilding wax and attach the arrow to the small panel, pointing it down towards the second heart, linking them together.

Attach two hex fasteners to the bottom left and right hand corners as a finishing touch to the canvas.

To alter the clipboard ~ I began by covering it with a coat of gesso and then applied a layer of gold metallic paint over the top.

Once the gold paint was dry, I used a palette knife to add a layer of Crackled Embossing Paste and allowed for the paste to dry and the cracks to appear.

Apply a small amount of gold metallic paint around the edges of the board.

Finally, I used an Alcohol Ink Applicator and used a pouncing motion, to apply a combination of inks to the metal clip. To complete the clip, I added a Sprocket Gear, with an alcohol inked gumdrop in the centre.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed the creative process for this project and that some of the techniques will inspire you to create some Valentine’s projects of your own!

Thank you so much for stopping by today… Happy Crafting!

Emma

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Weekender with Wanda – Lawn Fawn Spotlight!

Hey friends! Happy Saturday! Welcome back to this edition of Weekender with Wanda on the Simon Says Stamp blog! SO happy to have you here with me for a bit of your weekend. I always love to see you! We’ve been having some fun here, haven’t we? Today’s project is all about cheery Spring colors! I’m featuring some of my favorite products from Lawn Fawn. Their stamps always make me smile and they are so much fun to create with. (Tip: You can now pre-order all the new Lawn Fawn items we saw at CHA!) The best thing about Lawn Fawn is that you can mix and match all the stamp sets together. They are all the same style and scale, and I like to pull sentiments and other elements from different sets to create my scenes. For this post I used the adorable Milk Carton Die and decorated it with flowers and bees.

Here is my finished treat container! I filled it with candies….but you could easily fit a gift card inside, or a small present.

To make the Milk Carton, you need to cut out two of the die pieces and glue them together. It comes together very easily and quickly. I like that the die itself fits onto a 6×6 piece of paper. that makes it very easy to use with your die cutting machine, and most of us have lots of 6×6 paper! I used the Lawn Fawn Let’s Polka Papers for this project.

To add my sentiment, I hand cut out a strip of white cardstock and stamped the words from Gnome Sweet Gnome. The little bee is from that set also! The Stitched Circle die is an exclusive from Simon Says Stamp.

Here are my Copic Marker color choices for today!

So I want to talk a little bit about how I made these buzzy bees on the top! I stamped and cut out the bees and added some Diamond Stickles to their wings. I knew I wanted them up above the box….so I brainstormed a bit. Then it came to me! I used pearl head stick pins to make little coils. I wrapped the pins around the top part of a small paintbrush with my fingers, and this is what happened! I used glossy accents to glue the bees to the pin heads. Since they are pins, the ends are sharp, which made it easy to poke them into the top fold of the milk carton. EEK! So fun!

Here is the back of the box, and you can see the pearl pins too! I added one little bee on the back and tied pretty yellow cord around the top.

The little grassy hill was die cut from the smallest die in the Wavy Scallop Borders die set from Simon Says Stamp. I stamped and die cut out three daisies from the Gleeful Gardens stamp set and colored them with my Copic Markers. I also added Diamond Stickles to the flower petals. I adhered them to the box with foam squares. By now you know I own stock in foam squares! LOL.

That’s it for this weekend! Thank you for spending part of your Saturday with me here! Hope you have a wonderful day – nice to see you! BEEEEE Happy!

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Distress Ink Color Pop: Candied Apple!

Hello creative friends! It’s Color Pop Day! This Color Pop is sort of bittersweet…because it’s the last one! Twelve beautiful new colors for 2015! Can you believe it? What a fun ride it has been. I have really truly enjoyed sharing with you and bringing you a project with each new color. I’m sad it’s over. The good news is that I think that maybe this is my favorite project of all of them – and I have been so anxious to show it to you! The final color in the Distress 2015 ink series is Candied Apple. It is a beautiful, bright, apple, fire engine RED! Man, this color is vivid and bright and I love it! The swatch above shows where it fits into the Distress Ink color family. It’s very close to Barn Door in my opinion – with a little more warmth to it. I think it’s the perfect color for Valentine’s Day. This color just had to be made into hearts! Since this color is so vivid, I paired it with neutrals for today’s project – Vintage Photo and Antique Linen.

Before we get too far into the photos – I want to tell you some other good news! Since we got lots of good feedback on the Color Pop Series, we have decided that I will keep doing a monthly Ranger Color Series. YAY! I’m still figuring out the best ideas for it. Maybe I will show color combinations….or maybe feature some of my favorite colors….or keep it seasonal? I would really love your input on this. Tell me what you want to see more of!

For my Candied Apple project, I used the Tim Holtz Mini Mason Jars and lots of cool Ideaology embellishments to make Valentine treat jars. I had the best time making these! One of the fun things about this project is that you can go as crazy or as simple as you want. (I went crazy!) My jars are filled with Peanut M&M’s.

For this jar I used the Silver Arrows along with a Movers & Shapers Heart Die and the Occasions Stickers.

For this jar I used the Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints stamp set along with more hearts and stickers! My stamped image was colored using a Candied Apple Distress Marker and a Water Brush for a soft watercolor effect. The Stitched Circle was edged in Vintage Photo Ink.

You know that I love to dye my own ribbon! I used the Tim Holtz Crinkle Ribbon and the Candied Apple Spray Stain for a rich, deep red. OOH LA LA. After the ribbon was dry, I sprayed it with Perfect Pearls, so it also has a little shimmer. I die cut my hearts out of watercolor paper and then inked them with Candied Apple Distress Ink. Then I added a few coats of the new Crazing Distress Medium. It makes a really cool finish on paper. For the tops of the jars I cut Tim Holtz music paper into two inch circles and edged them with ink.

I wanted to show you how the arrow was mounted onto the jar. The lids are not super thick, so it was easy to poke a hole in the top using just the memo pin. Then I put the arrow into the ring at the top. The heart covers the middle. I added a drop of Glossy Accents to keep the pin from sliding down into the jar. Tip: I kept all the decorations affixed directly to the lid, so the recipient can open the jar and get the candy without too much trouble and without ruining the look.

I made this rose using the Mini Tattered Floral Movers and Shapers Die. I cut two of them and formed them into a rose – then I added a pearl to the center. I used different word stickers on each jar. I love that there are now Occasions stickers for Valentine’s Day (and every other holiday too)!

I have always been crazy about these heart charms! That reminds me – I need to buy some more!!

Thanks for joining in on the Color Pop adventures with me! It has been my pleasure to do this collection of projects. I wish there were MORE new colors for this year too! Don’t you? CLICK HERE to see all the Color Pop Blog Posts! Happy Crafting everyone!