Tiny Things Trinket Box

Hi, Lucy here, for my final Guest Designer project. I wanted to make something that would really showcase the gorgeous Tim Holtz Tiny Things stamp set and I thought this trinket box with its recessed or inlaid section on the lid, would be perfect. I also wanted to use his French Industrial papers which I used for the Tart Tin last week, but this time using the plainer designs and building up layers of stamping in co-ordinating inks, again with a Paris theme. For the tiles I've used Tim's Fragments acrylic pieces from my stash, but if you don't have any of these, why not use chipboard tiles and glaze them with UTEE?

To start off I removed the clasps, sanded the box, painted it red, inside and out, and cut the papers to fit all of the sections.  I stamped all the pieces with the large background stamp from the Tim Holtz Memoirs set, and also his Harlequin stamp I've had for years. I used StazOn in Jet Black and Blazing Red but I didn't really like the red as it was too pink so I switched to using the paint I'd used on the box, dabbing it onto the stamp with cut n dry foam. 

I glued all my pieces in place with Gel Medium. I used an unstamped strip of the paper between the lid and the edge to break up the design a little. I coloured my clasps and hinges with alcohol ink and screwed them back on.

For the tiles on the lid I stamped a selection of the stamps from Tim's Tiny Things set and also the face of the man from the Memoirs set onto some of the plainer paper from the French Industrial papers and glued the Fragments to them with Glossy Accents. I cut round them then edged them with gold pen. I arranged them on the lid and added some metal photo corner charms which I had rubbed with a bit of white paint.

I finished off the box with some gold crown charms for feet! 

Thank you for having me here at Eclectic Paperie: it's been such fun, and your kind comments have meant so much!

French Patisserie

Hi, Lucy here for my third post as Guest Designer. Today's wall hanging started life as a humble jam tart tin like this:-

 I wanted it to have a French Industrial theme using Tim's paper stash which you can get here, so this dictated my colour scheme and embellishments and I decided to paint the tin red, which is the boldest colour in the paper line, with crackle over the top and then a very industrial-looking grey so only a little red showed through:-

I used the Tim Holtz Sized Circles die to cut my favourite pieces from the papers and I wanted some sections to be plainer than others so I didn't over-egg the pudding (I have a tendency to overdo things!). I edged each piece with red paint as I had a dirty piece of cut n dry on my workdesk! I used the TH Memoirs stamps for the shrink plastic Eiffel Tower and Frenchman and 'grounded' them with some of the Remnant Rubs which I used in strategic places over the whole piece - this made such a difference to how it came together - loving these!

In this first row I have used a die cut Tim Holtz mini clock key, and cogs, which I rusted up with Distress EP, and on the right a shrink plastic hot air balloon from Tim Holtz Tiny Things stamp set - wow, you must get this stamp set!! I have used some charm frames from my stash throughout, rubbed with a little white paint for a shabby chic look, but you could use the Maya Road ones here, or the Tim Enamelled Tags here, which would be awesome. I chose the Tim Wordband which reads, 'The Journey Awakens the Soul' as I felt my Paris theme went with the idea of a journey, and again rubbed it with white paint. The twill to hang it up with is knotted through this and has been stamped with the Tim butterfly from Tiny Things and the harlequin from one of his old sets (you all have that one, right?!).

The industrial-looking valve embellishment was a bit of fun at my husband's expense! It operates our central heating boiler - but which is the real one and which is clay???? He was very shocked that I had stolen it and stuck it on my project! I told him Tim said it was ok.

In this photo you can see the Tiny Things stamped Eiffel Tower on Shrink Plastic (yes, I know, it wasn't small enough for me already!), and the globe from the same set stamped on the French Industrial paper and cut out, and the clock with a round Tim Holtz Fragment on it. The hot air ballon is a Remnant Rub.

The butterflies and crown are also Remnant Rubs. I used some Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste mixed with the red paint through TCW Harlequin Stencil around the tin, and once it was dry, highlighted the raised areas with some watered-down Viva Ferro. I went slightly over the 'colour theory' ratio of the amount of red you should use on a project!


You can also see in this photo the birds from the Tiny Things set, again stamped on French Industrial paper and added to an oval frame and filled with Glossy Accents. And in the right hand section I have accented the cylist image with a bike charm from my stash, overlaid with a Penny Farthing charm on the back wheel, and rubbed with white paint.

In this photo some pen nibs from my collection to accent the vintage typewriter from the paper stash:-

Phew! Are you still with me?! I've still got loads of these gorgeous papers left for next week's project (my last one, boo hoo!) - and you'll be pleased to hear it's nice and short. Thank you so much for your kind comments so far.