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!

Tim Holtz Style Holiday Tag

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.

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OCC Insider: Day 1

Today is the first day of the new Online Card Classes Insider course. There were fabulous card ideas shared in today’s class. Talk about good value for your money – the Online Card Classes can’t be beat!

I used the card shared by Amber Kemp-Gerstel as my starting point and adapted it with an idea of Julie Ebersole‘s from the Clean and Simple 2 class!

OCC Insider: Day 1

The card front was inspired by a card of Julie’s that uses two skylines – Hero Arts Newspaper Skyline Background stamp and Savvy Stamps Cityscape stamp. I finished it off with a sentiment from Hero Arts Large Word Tags.

OCC Insider: Day 1

The card inside was first stamped with a sentiment from Hero Arts Naughty or Nice and then with the Hero Arts Snow Dots background stamp. I simply put a sticky note over the sentiment before stamping with the background.

Now I’m off to clean off the kitchen table – it’s a mess!