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CMSS March 2025

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  First cut a piece of distress watercolor card stock to 4.25“ x 5.5“. Then cut a piece of sparkling kraft stock to 4.25“ x 5 1/2“.  Next spray the watercolor paper with distress spray, stains, prize, ribbon, and salt. Add more water as desire to get the sprays flowing then dry with the Ranger heat tool. After add a spritz of distress, spritz hickory smoke for added sparkle.  Next day, cut your sparkle kraft stock panel using the die set leafy twigs. When die cutting leafy twigs, I added an extra layer of paper to help add pressure to the die cut. For dry cutting, I was using a Sizzix Switch plus and a chrome precision plate for fine detail cutting. After weeded the dry cut with a pick or brush. Then I added small dots of glue on the back with distressed collage, medium. Next press the panel on the watercolour panel and hold for a few seconds while the glue set up. Next, we’re going to create some backgrounds that we will die cut flowers from. For the backgrounds, I used ...
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Frozen Forest Fantasy August CMSS

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  Supplies and Links: Used: Nina white cardstock Distress Glitter Distress Texture Paste Snowfall  Distress Opaque Grit Paste Collage medium Stampers Anonymous Stencil THS021 speckles Distress spray stain: Distress spray stain Uncharted Mariner   Distress oxide stormy sky Distress mica spray stain snowfall Distress Watercolor paper Distress white Heavy Stock Distress Metallic kraft stock Silver Leafing Pen Sizzix Cardstock Ranger Tim Holt palette knives   Sizzix Darling Deer Sizzix Birch Trees Sizzix moonlight Alternate: Moon die possibilities  Simon says stamp moon die Bella Luna Alternate: Forest Die possibilities Tim Holtz Forest Shadows Mama Elephant winter forest Memory Box To start this card we will begin with the background. For the substrate we will be using distress water color cardstock. First spritzer the watercolor cardstock with water from a sprayer. I am using the Tim Holtz distress sprayer. Then spritz with distress spray stain uncharted mariner a...
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TFJ: Paints and Pastes

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  Hello and welcome to this week’s TFJ Inspiration Avenue blog. This week we are creating to the theme of “Pastes and paint”.  For this week’s theme I have decided to create some texture on a card and discuss several distress paint techniques. For full process video click  here . For this week’s project I used he following supplies featuring paints and pastes. For the first paint technique we will be doing some paint marbling with distress paints chipped sapphire, broken china, and tumbled glass. First I added some paint drops to the media mat and then spritzed with water. I will be using a mixed media tag as the substrate and spritzed the tag with water too. Then I swiped the tag through the paint on the media mat. This is the first dip. After the first swipe I then dried it with the Ranger heat too. Now one of the really cool things about distress paint is that once it is dry it cannot be activated again with water. This means that we can add other layers over the top a...
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TFJ: All About Alcohol

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Hello and welcome to this week’s TFJ Inspiration Avenue blog. This week we are creating to the theme of “All About Alcohol”. Since we are featuring inks I decided I wanted to go with a cosmic vibe for this theme. We are going to create a celestial inspired card with alcohol inks. For full video click here . Alcohol ink glacier, laguna, dandelion, alloy gilded, cobalt, vineyard, boysen berry, Ranger Alcohol Ink Duralar, Ranger Yupo Paper, Sizzix Mischievous, Sizzix Crescent Moon and Stars, Holly Jolly CMS 474, mink ink, deco foil, foam squares, tiny attacher, Idea-ology decorative tape, isopropyl 90%. To start today’s card we will be creating an alcohol inked yupo base. The colors we are using today include laguna, vineyard, glacier, and cobalt. To create our background we will be using the drippy Ink technique. First I drizzled the alcohol inks at the top of the yupo paper and then set it up against a bottle to prop it up to let the ink start dripping downwards. Next I spritzed heavily...
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It’s Ideal

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This week at TFJ Inspiration Ave we are creating to the them “It’s Ideal”. Here we are featuring many of the new Tim Holtz Idea-ology pieces. For my project I decided to highlight the vintage tape, collage papers, faceted heart, screw heads, and typed tags. For this vignette I wanted to create a fairytale scene. For full details check out the two part video set for tips and tricks and assembly process. Part 1: Idea-ology alteration tips and tricks Click  here   for video. Part 2: Vignette assembly process Click here for video. For the alterations I used: Distress picket fence crayon, typed tags, toadstools, crimson alcohol ink, distress glitter, paper dolls, collage medium, distress watercolor pencils tattered rose and tumbled glass, faceted heart, statue foundry wax, distress crayon walnut stain, Ranger distress crackle paint, collage paper, distress reinkers squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, festive berries, twisted citron, and kitsch flamingo, vignette box, distress pai...
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