Paper Recollections

I am slowly getting pieces of the Tim Holtz Halloween collection delivered to my house.  This week I received the Acorns 3-D Embossing folder and the new embossing glazes.  I combined these new products with some older Tim Holtz products to create this fall thank you card. To create the background I rubbed the flat side of the Acorns embossing folder with embossing ink.  I lightly sprayed a panel of watercolor paper with water and placed it in the embossing folder.  I ran this through my Sizzix Big Shot a few times.  Afterwards, I sprinkled the panel with Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey, and Wilted Violet Distress embossing glazes.  I heat embossed the entire panel.  I cut down the panel and backed it with purple cardstock.  I adhered the card panel to a white card base. Next, I used the Leaf Fragments die set to die cut some leaves from cream cardstock.  I dry embossed the leaves using the Foliage 3-D embossing folder.  Afterwards, I swipe...

Today's Halloween card features a variety of Tim Holtz products.  I recently purchased a set of Tim Holtz embossing glazes and couldn't wait to use them to create a brick background. To create the brick background, I started by spraying water on the front and back of a piece of watercolor paper.  I placed the paper inside the Tim Holtz Sizzix 3-D Brickwork Texture Fades embossing folder and ran it through my die-cut machine.  I swiped my VersaMark ink pad over the brick embossed background.  I sprinkled Fired Brick Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glaze in a few random places on the background panel.  I shook off the excess powder and repeated the process with Rusty Hinge and Tattered Rose embossing glazes.  I heat embossed the entire panel.   This created a beautiful shiny brick background, but I wanted it to have more of a distressed look.   I took a black art crayon and scribbled it across a piece of plastic.  I used my finger to tra...