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TFJ: Hats off to Our Men

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Hello and welcome to this week’s TFJ inspiration ave blog. Our theme this week is “hats off to our men”. Here I have decided to create a grungy steampunk birthday card. If you would like to see a step by step tutorial click the link  here  for a full video tutorial.   Supplies used for this grungy birthday card include: Idea-ology ephemera. Sizzix 3D embossing folder typewriter, distress black heavy stock, Sizzix alpha numeric theory, distress crayons black soot, crushed olive, cracked pistachio, and salvaged patina, distress mica spray stains holly branch and decayed, distress colored pencils lumberjack plaid, prize ribbon, vintage photo, scorched timber, and tattered rose, collage medium, decorative tape, and metalic cardstock. For this card I wanted to go the grungy route. I started with a foundation of distress black heavy stock and the Sizzix 3D embossing folder typewriter. To alter the cardstock I will be using distress mica spray stains decayed and holly branch and distress cray

TFJ: Hearts and Roses

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Hello and welcome to a new theme at TFJ Inspiration Ave “Hearts and Roses”. For this week’s project I wanted to feature some of the die sets from the vault by Sizzix and Tim Holtz. Also we are brining in a touch for scorched timber. Here I decided to make a grungy Valentines day card and a pillow box converted into a candy box. For in-depth details click here for video. Used: pillow box and bad die set, hippity hop die set, distress oxide inks squeezed lemonade, kitsch flamingo, and broken china, collage medium, scorched timber distress spray stain, metallic kraft stock, neutral kraft stock, 3D folder damask, stamp set CMS217 watercolor, clear plastic, velvet trim, distress sprayer, Ranger heat tool. To start this project I decided to feature the pilllow box from the vault die set below.  Diecut the pillow box out of neutral colored kraft stock. For the pillow box I die cut two pieces and then creased each of the crease lines. One one of the die cuts I cut a window out of the side of