3rd December, 2020

Monsters Reunion Christmas Edition

Hello friends. It’s December and I finally have to let go of Halloween, but maybe just one last nod in that direction as I move into my merry makes! Did you catch the Tim Holtz facebook LIVE on Saturday? It was the final part of the four part Christmas LIVE demos. You can catch up on all the fun on Tim’s blog.


It’s been a monster of a year (see what I did there) and Saturday’s with Tim and Mario have been a bright light. I am so very grateful for all the work they have dedicated to bring us hours and hours of creative inspiration and much needed escapism. The 4 part Christmas demos have definitely charged my Christmas making batteries.

During Saturday’s LIVE Tim showed this cool paint and stamp technique. It’s such a quick, easy and fun technique and looks incredible on kraft! I highly recommend that you watch the video demo but here’s a quick run down…


Using sticky grid to hold it in place, I put a #8 size tag, (best cut from kraft heavystock with tag dies), onto my travel stamp platform. I placed the stamp onto the tag and when I was happy with it’s placement, I closed the lid and pushed down to make sure the stamp was attached to the lid. I inked up the stamp with distress archival ink and stamped once.


I left my tag in place to paint as I was only doing one of each and removed the lid of the platform while I painted. If you are doing multiple tags you would just make sure they were positioned in the same place when you stamped the second time.


I used distress paint to paint over the stamped image, not worrying about covering the detailed lines. I know it looks like a hot mess here, but wait for it…


Once the paint was dry, I inked up the stamp again with distress archival ink and stamped over the top.


I stamped santa hats and candy canes from the mini crazy bird and things CMS250 stamps. I would have die cut them with my matching framelits dies using the great hack from Joy Kennedy that Tim showed in a previous Saturday demo, but I couldn’t put my hands on them so I fussy cut.


I cut the candy cane in half and added a piece to each side of his hand to look as those he was clutching it.


I added a hat and instantly these stamps became “Christmas Edition” 😉


I blended distress ink into the tag and used the distress sprayer to add water droplets. Using a palette knife I spread distress texture paste through the flurries THS151 stencil and set aside to dry. Finally I stitched around the edges of the tag with my sewing machine and added a little of the idea-ology velvet trim, which is DIVINE! I’m pretty sure it’s sold out everywhere and I’m not surprised. If anyone sees any… let me know! 😉


Thank you Tim for inspiring me to make these. I was asking for Monsters Reunion Christmas edition stamps and Tim told me to stick a Santa hat on the ones I had! LOL So I did and then I couldn’t stop! This is what happened… 😉


Monsters Reunion CMS381 Stamps + Mini Bird Crazy and Things CMS250 Stamps





I was going to stop there but why stop when I had last years STAMPtember set to play with too.


Tim Holtz STAMPtember 2019 Stamps (not available) + Mini Bird Crazy and Things CMS250 Stamps






Thanks for stopping by and for hopefully smiling at the silliness. Adding a candy cane and a santa hat can make everything Christmassy.

Zoe



22 Comments »

  1. Patti Johnson says:

    Absolutely love these! Halloween is also my favorite, so I will definitely run with this idea!

  2. Monika says:

    I truly love your Christmas “ghouls.” And I just purchased the stamp set because of it. (Also – I agree. Those velvet trims are absolutely DIVINE! I’ve been keeping my eyes open and will let you know if I spot any.)

  3. kath stewart says:

    love all these adorable Christmassy characters and of course their hats xxx

  4. Rita Petty says:

    These truly are awesome! I love the tip on stamping the image again after you’ve colored with a non transparent ink!!

  5. One of my favorite techniques and LOVE LOVE LOVE the monsters for Christmas doing this. SO fun and festive!!!

  6. These are GREAT! I loved that technique when he demonstrated it, this is a perfect use for it!

  7. These are the funniest Christmas tags I have ever seen… *lol* Great idea and such a clever use of material. Thank you so much for entertaining and inspiring us!
    Big Hugs from HirschEngelchen
    Anka

  8. butterfly says:

    So very cool… the painted images look fantastic against the kraft backgrounds. Brilliant!
    Alison x

  9. Kim Bontrager says:

    These are fantastic!! The possibilities are endless! Time to sort thru all my Tim Holtz stamps!

  10. claire MORAN says:

    Such creativity. These are just great. So true to look at your stamps in a different way, you then get more use out of them.

  11. Kelly says:

    Wonderful!! Love the idea of a monster Christmas!

  12. juli says:

    Of course this is my favorite! What a great idea to dress these Monsters up for Christmas! It has been a monster of a year and these are perfect for gifts!!! Love it my friend!

  13. SarahC says:

    Just wonderful!!! Thanks for all the info on “how to”.

  14. Carol Andrews says:

    Thank you so much for sharing…these are fabulous!

  15. Sandy Hays says:

    Oh my gosh!!! Seriously?!?! I LOVE these!! You have totally inspired me to go through my stamp stash and try this technique on some craft paper. I better get started cutting out santa hats. Thank you for the awesome tutorial.

  16. Theresa M Petermann says:

    Such fun Christmas tags. Just love them. I have already put this technique to use in my Christmas cards. Now I have to go back and have a play with the monsters, one of my favorite sets of stamps. And what about the crazy birds? So many possibilities. thanks as always for sharing.

  17. Henriëtte says:

    I love them all and I had a very, very big smile on my face while looking all these beauties.
    I didn’t try it yet, Tim’s paint and stamp technique, but it was for me a great eyeopener, what a awesome technique.
    And I am also so grateful for all those stunning demo evenings.
    Thank you so very much for sharing this awesome inspiration, stay safe and have a great weekend.

  18. Jan Brown says:

    Thank you for sharing your great projects throughout this god aweful year of 2020. You are an amazing creative artist and you have encouraged all of us along the way. Many of us have kept our sanity due to your encouragement and detailed instruction. Again, thank you!

  19. Joanne Quagliara says:

    So so very creative Zoe. I love all of them.

  20. […] I used the painting stamped images technique that Tim demoed during a Saturday LIVE. Fussy cut the Santa and mounted with foam adhesive. You can see the video demo on Tim’s blog and a quick step through in a recent post on my blog. […]

  21. Heidi Vigneux says:

    Hi Zoe, I absolutely love these and am going to give it a try! Which TH video can I refer to the hack from Joy Kennedy? I am interested to see the technique. Thank you!

  22. Shana says:

    If anyone wants to sell me these stamps to make room for some new TH items, let me know! I am new to stamping and Tim Holz and can’t find these fun creature stamps from 2019!

    Amazing tags, and good tips about stamping over your painting to add the details back in, thanks!

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