All Things Tim

 Hello and welcome to the June A Tiny Craft Challenge, the theme is All Things Time ( or similar style if you don't have any of his "stuff" in your stash) 

First I gathered some Tim Holtz stencils and one odd stencil that was on the table. I used Distress Oxide inks and brushes to blend the colours over the stencils (remember I'm not very good with them) I also used the sentiments that come with the Snarky Cats, I layered them on black cardstock.

And now a closer look at each one .

The back ground is a bubbles stencil (non TH) I added a die cut balloon as the sentiment suggested birthday.

The background of this one is from a 3 piece set of TH tag stencils I've had for a long time and I used the new distress oxide ink Saltwater Taffy.

Background was made with a full size TH stencil Splatters (looked like coffee rings to me) 

Another of the trio of tag stencils from TH for the background. 

Bonus ATC

The background is the 3rd of the trio of tag stencils, I needed to use it as it went right along with the sentiment and of course the Snarky Cat. 

I'm adding this to:

ATC Around the World ~~ #90 Circles

Happy Little Stampers ~~ June  Stencil Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you give these little works of art a try they are fun to make. I invite you to stop by the Main Blog and see the rest of the TH style ATCs the team has made. 

Make it Masculine!!

 Here we are on the 15th of March with a new challenge at A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge ~~ Masculine. I'm finding masculine atcs are as much trouble as full sized cards but after a few mind changes I finally settled on a NBUS not only one but two for my ATCs. To join in the fun (and give me lots of ideas for anything masculine) you can make cards, 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 inch rectangle used vertical or horizontal or you can make 2 1/2 inch coins. Here is my offering for the challenge I hope it inspires you.

In searching for something I spotted this great antique card die, sorry no name on it,  and in the "25th hour" I went with it. I had just finished another card and found the background paper in the same Dollarama pack I had used for a floral card. The gears are another item that has been in my die box for a few years just waiting for a use, I found some matte silver cardstock in my scrap box to cut them from. 

Here is a close up of a single card, I cut two of each cars out of 110 lb black cardstock to glue them together with acetate for the windows, then they are elevated with dimensional strips. The gears are flat attached. I added think silver sticker lines to the edge of each of the cards. 

Here is a side view of the ATC to show the elevation. 

Here is something I have had for probably 15 years and not used much it  was always tucked away but when I saw all the tiny holes in the die that had to be poked out I remembered it. I might be the only one that is very excited about it too. Here it is.

It is from Sizzix and for use with intricate dies and as you see there are a lot of things to poke out with this die and I was cutting 8. 

I'm entering this in:

ATCs around the World ~~ #87 Everything Goes

NBUS ~~ #36 (not just one but two nbus)

Thanks for visiting today and don't forget to head over to the Main Blog and check out the rest of the masculine ATCs the design team have made. 

It's Time for a NEW Challenge at A Tiny Craft(ATC) Challenge.

 

Welcome to the February Challenge at A Tiny Craft Challenge, the theme for the month (Feb. 15 to March 14) is use a NBUS, never before used stuff, so dig out a stamp that has never seen ink or a die that has never been cut and join the fun. I have a lot of things I have never used and it was a toss-up what I was going to use so I decided on a stamp and die cut set I think I've had for at least 2 years but probably longer. 

I bought both sets, Crazy Cats and Crazy dogs they have the dies and accessories the dies do not leave a white border so they are a bit harder to cut, I have used the Crazy dogs once, shame on me I should be using them more often. Since there are only 3 and I wanted 4 atcs I duplicated on cat. The background I made with three DI blues and 1 green then added grass to two and fence to two. The milk bottles look like they have spilled the milk. 

These are the two with the fences. 

Better look at the accessories 

I am adding this to:

ATCS Around The World ~~ #86 Animals

NBUS Challenge ~~ #35

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out what the rest of the design team have finally used on their project. 

It's Pink Halloween....

 To honour breast cancer in October there are Pink challenges, Pink Halloween, Pink Christmas and Everything Pink. Since I was stamping, colouring and fussy cutting for A Tiny Card (ATC) challenge blog little pink butterfly Monica didn't quite make the fussy cutting part and I decided it would pair better with the other ATCs if she was wearing orange, of course I just couldn't let her sit in the damaged pile and was not putting her in the trash bucket either so I made another ATC for a couple of challenges. ATCs around the World is Pink Halloween and as always Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge lastly because I used that gate die for the first time it's NBUS time. 

Leftover bats and a pumpkin basket to go along with the super cute Monica in her butterfly costume. The gate comes in two pieces one side is attached to the gate so after gluing it down and trimming the leftover gate was glued to the other side. waste not want not. I'm sure the gate is atleast a year old and never been out of it's package. The sentiment is part of a large stamp from Kraftin' Kimmie stamps with many Halloween sayings, check them out here on my blog. 

Close up of Monica Mouse, she is so cute. 

I'm adding this to:

ATC ARound the World ~~ Pink Halloween

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ October Anything Halloween 

NBUS ~~ Challenge #31

Thanks for hanging out here today and checking what I've been doing. Now on to the Pink Christmas at the Jingle Belles. 

 

I love an ATC challenge!!!

Happy Little Stampers has an ATC challenge every month, it's the last challenge of the month and I managed to get three finished, I honestly thought I made 4 with a stencil and oxide inks but could only find three but that was fine as my sentiment were a set of three.

I made a trio of stenciled ATCs with three different gold butterflies from Cheery Lynn Designs (one of my first dies I bought)  The Live Laugh and Love dies are generic ones but I love the size, these are from a set of 10 different words. They are perfect for ATCs.

 I did the background with pink cardstock and picked raspberry distress ink over a stencil I bought at the Dollar Tree.

The background was made with the same stencil and worn lipstick distress oxide ink.

this one was done with pink piroette cardstock and worn lipstick distress ink and the same stencil

I am entering this in 

Happy Little Stampers ~~ May ATC challenge ~~ Gold

ATC Around the World Challenge ~~ #41 Anything Goes.

Thanks for visiting today and do check out the Happy Little Stampers Blog there are more challenges than the atc one,  Watercolour, Anything goes with Diecuts, mixed media, Christmas they are all there, you can find them HERE.