TFJ: Favourite Products 2023

- December 29, 2023

Welcome to TFJ Inspiration Ave Blog. Today we’re going to be talking about our favourite Tim Holtz products for the year of 2023. This, of course is not easy because there have been so many wonderful products released this year. However, there are two that I’ve definitely found their way into my crafting pretty much year-round And those include Papercut café and distress glazes. There was a new set of 12 glazes release this year and there are so many great colours to play with that. I wanted to feature some of them today along with the Papercut Café die set.

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Materials used: Sizzix Papercut Cafe, Distress glaze chipped sapphire, bundled sage, and pumice stone, distress crayon walnut stain, Sizzix 3D folder damask, Distress white heavy stock, distress embossing dabber, Idea-ology Christmas sticker book, droplets, velvet trim, metallic kraftstock, Stencil THS032, collage medium.

To start this card I ran some distress white heavy cardstock through the Sizzix switch with the 3D embossing folder damask. This piece of cardstock will be used for some die cutting. Then I added some distress embossing ink to it to prepare for some glaze.

For glaze I am using chipped sapphire, one of this year’s new glaze colors. I spread the glaze on fairly thickly, but then flicked some of the glaze off.

After embossing with he Sizzix embossing gun I added some distress walnut stain crayon over the top of the embossed suraface.

Next I smudged the distress crayon with my fingers. After I took a damp paper towel and wiped away some of the distress crayons along the high points of the embossing.

Now for the background. Here I used stencil THS032 with some distress texture paste opaque and a pallet knife. I spread the texture paste through the stencil and scraped off any excess.

Then I sprinkled bundled sage and pumice stone glaze over the top of the stencilling. This is going to create the background for our card. I then set this aside to dry for about 15 minutes.

While waiting for our background to dry I then die cut elements from papercut cafe. Here I have cut out parts for three sets of cups and saucers. I used our first altered a background as a place to die cut cups from. I then paired the embossed distress heavy stock with some Idea-ology metallic kraft stock. I absolutely love the contrast of the dark chipped sapphire and the metallic gold.

Now to check back on our background. Once the background was dry I embossed the distress glaze over the texture paste. Next I trimmed downy the paper t o 3.5in x 5in. Then under the first layer I added a layer of deco paper and kraft stock. I stuck the two layers together using ATG tape.

For the main focal point of the card I added the threee coffee cups to the card front. I propped these up with a few pieces foam squares. Under the cups to anchor them I added a piece of Idea-ology velvet trim.