Sizzix Chapter 1 2023

This week we are focusing on the new Chapter one everyday Tim Holtz Sizzix dies. There are so many wonderful new dies to explore but this week I wanted to focus on paper cut café.

We also hope you will enter into our drawing for a $25 gift certificate to the Funkie Junkie Boutique by creating something with Tim Holtz Sizzix chapter 1 dies and embossing folders. Post on your social media and tag us at #thefunkiejunkie . At the end of our two week challenge we will randomly select a $25 gift certificate winner.

Today I will be creating two cards featuring cards I made using paper cut cafe. For instructional video click here.

Used: alcohol inks laguna, glacier, cobalt, stamp set CMS447 botanic collage, alcohol lift ink, AI blending solution, AI blower tool, Yupo paper, distress ink wilted violet and mermaid lagoon, distress reinker speckled egg and walnut stain, Idea-ology stickers, Idea-Ology black Kraft stock, distress white heavy stock paper, distress foundry wax.

To start his card I am working with a Yupo base and some alcohol inks which include glacier, laguna, and vineyard. These I dripped into a piece of Yupo paper and then added alcohol ink blending solution. I then moved the ink around with a Tim Holtz alcohol ink blower.

Once I had my base layer of alcohol ink I then decided to use a drip technique with rubbing alcohol 90%. Here I filled a mini mister with Isopropyl.

Then I sprayed the rubbing alcohol across the top of the card and let it drip down onto a paper towel. By letting the rubbing alcohol flow and drip, this creates a very interesting wash on the yupo paper. This technique I learned from a Tim Holtz Saturday live.

Next I cut down the background to 4” x 5 1/4” and placed it on a black background of kraft stock.

Next I will be embellishing the background using some alcohol lift ink. This will also give us a second background for another card. The stamps at that I’m going to be using for the lift ink is CMS447 botanic collage.

I place the stamps on an acrylic block into them up and then applied good firm pressure to my background with a stamp. Then I lifted the ink off of the background and used a paper towel to press over the background and lift off any residual ink after pressing and lifting several times with a paper towel I was unable to gently, finish the paper and remove the remainder of the lifting to reveal this beautiful ghostly image below.

Here we have the lives of ink that I don’t stamped onto some distress white have a stock paper. I absolutely love the has applied to the stamp.

On our second background, I then added some distress ink over the top of the lifted alcohol ink. Here I added, some wilted violet and mermaid lagoon, which I blend it onto the paper with a dome foam mini blending tool.

When I was done blending, I then added some droplets of water from a distress sprayer over the card background. I then drove off the water droplets to get this cool distressed look.

Now back to the first card background. Here I added a rectangle of up cycled waxed paper to act as a landing zone for my main focal point there’s an attached with a couple of squares of sticky foam. The rectangle is cut at 3” x 2 inches.

For the second cardbase, I added a black rectangle of craft stock cut to the same dimensions.

Now it is time to assemble our main focal points featuring the dissect Papercut café.

For diecutting, I’m going to be using some distressed, white, heavy stock and the embossing folder botanical. Over the top of the embossing I am also going to be adding some distress, foundry wax gilded.

Placing some gilded foundry wax onto the medium, that I gently rushed the foundry wax onto the background, trying to only hit the high points of the embossing folder

After the foundry wax have been applied, I then added heat from embossing gun to get this beautiful, gilded look

The other pieces I die, cut out of a scrap of distressed, watercolour paper. Then I added some colour with distress reinkers speckled egg and walnut stain.

Assembling the little cups of coffee it was super easy these diecuts come in four pieces to be assembled together. The two base layers I used the pieces embellished with the embossing folder and then I added steam pieces after.