Tim Holtz Style Holiday Tag

I’m still working through the techniques from the Online Card Classes Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 102 class – there was a lot of material covered in just one week! I’m relatively new to the “World of Tim Holtz” so there’s quite a learning curve for me.

To continue practicing the techniques, I made a holiday-themed tag working with a Distress Stain tag base. I spent several hours testing color combinations and watching videos. I found the video in this post of Tim’s to be the most useful for creating the type of distress stain background I most liked. In short, the Mini Mister is my friend!

As I don’t own many Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, I worked with some recently-released Savvy dies. The cardinal, cut from Craft-a-Board, was painted with Festive Berries Distress Paint before an application of Glossy Accents and Festive Berries Distress Glitter. I cut the branch and holly from Kraft Core cardstock and lightly sanded them. I stamped the snowflakes (from a discontinued October Afternoon set) with Broken China ink, and embossed with them with Sticky Powder before applying Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter.

Supplies:

Savvy Stamps Dies, Winter Cardinal Savvy Stamps Dies, Holly Leaves Savvy Stamps Dies, Branch Inkssentials Surfaces, Manila Tag #8 Tim Holtz, Word Bands, Christmas Accents, Glossy Distress Stain, Picket Fence Distress Stain, Faded Jeans Distress Stain, Weathered Wood Metallic Distress Stain, Brushed Pewter Distress Stain, Tumbled Glass Mini Mister Set Distress Glitter, Festive Berries Sizzix, Textured Impressions Embossing Folders by BasicGrey, Plaid & Snowflakes Distress Paint, Festive Berries Core’dinations Cardstock, Tim Holtz Kraft Core, 6×6 Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock, 25 pack