Lucky is a state of mind

Hello friends. Day 2 of my week of sharing here on my blog with another make for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Chapter 2 launch. If you’re looking for a quick and simple card, this is it. And if you missed the launch party, you can catch the replay and the inspiration makes over on Tim’s blog.

“Lucky is a state of mind!” I have been trying to live this phrase a little more in my own life. It’s one of my many favourite quotes from the bold text 2 thinlits die set from Tim’s Chapter 2 release.

I love that the bold text dies add a real statement to the card allowing you to keep it simple. Let’s get into how to make this quick card…

To die cut the background I used a sticky grid covered cutting plate with a die from the bold text 2 thinlits set. Placed a piece of distress watercolor cardstock 3.5 inches by 5.25 inches over the top and ran it through my machine. For a quick cut like this, I use my bigshot foldaway machine. It’s quick to pull out and use and the pressure is AMAZING!

Next I spritzed with water and embossed with the cracked 3D embossing folder.

Finally I sprayed the background with frayed burlap distress spray and a little water and dried. I lightly blended in some walnut stain distress ink.

I embossed a piece of distress watercolor cardstock sized 3.25 inches by 2.75 inches with the woven 3D embossing folder.

Spritzed the background with distress spray stain and once dry, rubbed a walnut stain distress ink pad directly onto the raised detail.

I die cut a couple of four leaf clovers from the lucky love impresslits folder from distress watercolor cardstock.

Sprayed the clovers with frayed burlap and peeled paint distress spray stain.

I added a little statue distress foundry wax over the top. Check out Tim’s awesome demo of this new product HERE.

I added walnut stain distress crayon over the top to grunge it up a little and then stacked the 2 clovers over each other and glued to the background with distress collage medium.

I assembled and stitched my card.

Finally I mounted onto idea-ology black kraftstock and distress kraft heavystock.

Thanks for stopping by and let me know if you have any questions.

Zoe

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