Halloween – iGirlZoe, Crafter & Tim Holtz Addict

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Otisville

16th August, 2022 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends. I’m back today sharing something I made for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween LIVE launch. I love this years Halloween die and folder release. I’m sure I say that each year, but this year is no exception! Make sure you check out the replay and the maker inspiration over on Tim’s blog.

Welcome to Otisville, population NONE! This creepy abandoned city was inspired by the AMAZING new Otis, Colorize die from the crazy brilliant mind of Tim Holtz! It’s not often that I imagine a project from start to finish before making it, but this was one! Otis had to have his own ville, of course he did. Let’s get into some of the details…

I cut a piece of distress watercolor cardstock to fit the inside of an idea-ology vignette tray and die cut with the swirling stars thinlits dies. I sprayed with black soot distress spray and once dry, blended in walnut stain distress ink.

I also cut a sheet from copy paper making sure it lined up with the first sheet. This is to be used later for light placement.

I covered a piece of vellum with fossilized amber distress paint and adhered to the back of the watercolor distress background.

Ready to add to the vignette tray and be backlit by tiny lights later.

Die cut cityscape buildings from distress watercolor cardstock, sprayed with black soot distress spray and once dry, blended in walnut stain ink.

I die cut Otis from distress watercolor cardstock and covered with frayed burlap distress spray. I blended in different distress inks for each layer and once dry, assembled.

You can see from the base piece the embossed detail that shows you where to place the next layer. Colorize really is easy peasy now.

I die cut the base a second time from fun foam to give Otis a little lift from the background.

I LOVE him grunged up!

I cut a piece of woodgrain cardstock using the decorative trims thinlits die and brayered on vintage photo distress paint and once dry, glued it onto an etcetera trim.

I die cut alphanumeric tiny type upper thinlits from idea-ology metallic kraftstock and black kraftstock and layered, offsetting slightly.

BEGINNER TIP: I measure the trim, find the middle and then glue the middle letter. I continue to add letters working outwards from either side.

I used a piece of copy paper (cut at the same time as the background), as a template to see where the tiny lights should go and where to place my adhesive foam.

I added a piece of idea-ology metallic kraftstock to the back of the vignette tray. I do this because everything sticks better to the cardstock than the wood and the metallic surface better reflects the tiny lights.

Once the tiny lights and foam is in place, I removed the backing sheet and pushed the background into place.

Everything is better with lights!

I added the assembled Otis to the center of the swirling stars

BEGINNER TIP: Work with the lights on so you can better see where they are and when using hot glue, DO NOT get it on the actual light bulb as it can short the lights.

Next I added the cityscape buildings in 2 rows slightly offset and mounted onto idea-ology metallic kraftstock.

I added the trim in front of the base of the cityscape, adding a couple of idea-ology hardware heads.

I used the bold text 2 thinlits dies, cut from idea-ology black kraftstock to add “To The Moon + Back” on both sides of the vignette tray. I painted over the top with a layer of distress collage medium.

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

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Jack Sparrows Crypt

15th August, 2022 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends. Hope you’re doing well. Did you catch the LIVE launch of the Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress products? You can watch the replay and Tim’s amazing demos over on his blog. Please note these products are seasonal, so if you want them and it’s in your budget, I recommend you don’t wait, especially not for the Crypt-Paste with me and Tami B stocking up like it’s the grit-paste apocalypse.

I was delighted to see “Crypt-Paste” back in a bigger pot, the single serve pots were not enough for this grit-paste loving girl! The crypt-paste is bittier and grittier and it spreads like butta and as I had the bigger pot I decided to go to town with it and create a Tombstone fit for a pirate!

I took an etcetera mini tombstone overlay and trims from the etcetera bat web trims set and covered the pieces with a white gesso wash. Once dry, I added crypt-paste to the parts of the tombstone that would show.

Using more of the trims from the bat web trims set, mount onto the back of the base of the tombstone to create a shelf to sit idea-ology pieces on later. I covered the crypt paste with hickory smoke distress paint. I love that the translucency of the crypt-paste means you don’t get white showing through and it really is grittier.

The new Skulls 3D folder is nothing short of amazing. You don’t fully appreciate the depth and detail of the 3D until you have it in your hands and can’t quite believe one pass in a folder gives you THIS!! Make sure you check out Tim’s YouTube replay to see what he did with this folder and the black woodgrain surface! WOW!

I covered a piece of distress watercolor cardstock with a hickory smoke distress paint wash and set aside to dry. I embossed with the Skulls 3D folder then dry brushed white gesso onto the raised parts.

I adhered the 3D skulls background to the tag part of the tombstone overlay and added the tombstone top. To create a side to the tombstone, I mounted 2 trims from the bat web trims set on top of each other to match the height of the top and bottom of the tombtone overlay, trimmed to size and added to the side. I used distress collage medium to glue and lots of clamps to hold in place while it dried!

Using the new Theory alphanumeric thinlits dies, I added “1729” the year that Captain Jack Sparrow met his untimely death.

Using an older piece of halloween idea-ology I hoarded I covered with gesso and wiped away the excess. Once dry I dry brushed black soot distress paint over the top and wiped with a cloth so the black sits in the recessed areas.

I added some moss that I bought from a craft store. You will sometimes find this kind of moss in the model railway section. I painted on a layer of distress collage medium, pressed moss into it and allowed to air dry.

I used a palette knife to spread Crypt-Paste along the edge of the trims to hide the seam and match the rest of the tombstone. Once dry, I covered with hickory smoke distress paint and later dry brushed with black soot distress paint.

Using the Theory alphanumeric thinlits dies again, I cut “Jack Sparrow” from idea-ology black kraft stock several times and layered to give the letters some depth. I lightly sanded small areas and added along the base of the tombstone.

I was able to place idea-ology items along the shelf I created by adding etcetera trims to the back of the tombstone overlay. I covered a bottle from the idea-ology tiny vials with a layer of distress collage medium and once dry, a layer of black soot distress paint. Adding an idea-ology label and skull and cross bones remnant rub. I used mummy cloth colored with distress ink for Jack’s bandana and sewed some beads into the side to imitate Jack’s beaded dreadlock. You can just about see them on the left hand side of the skull.

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

Zoe

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Witch-Craft

5th November, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello Friends and happy witching hour. Thank you so much for hanging out with me in Halloween town this week. I’m going to curl up in a big comfy chair with some snacks this weekend and read the comments and answer any questions. Today I’m sharing the last of my Halloween makes. This one I made for the Tim Holtz idea-ology Halloween LIVE launch, you can check out the replay over on Tim’s blog.

This is a long blog post as I’ve tried to include how to’s where I can, so you may want to curl up in big comfy chair with some snacks too.

For the surface I chose a vignette coffin from the idea-ology halloween line. Here’s how I altered it…

Turn the vignette coffin over and take a “brass” rubbing from the back of it. You do this by placing a piece of copy paper over the top of the vignette and using the side of your pencil, gently rub around the edge of the vignette coffin.

Cut the template on the inside line (marked in red). This is the inside measurement of the vignette, trim to fit inside your vignette coffin and you will have a template to trace around to cut your background paper from.

I distressed the inside and outside edges by covering with a layer of white gesso and allowing to dry before adding vintage photo distress paint. Once dry I added distress crackle texture paste and set aside to dry and crack. Finally I rubbed in walnut stain distress crayon.

To light up the cauldron, I drilled a small hole in the side of it using a dremel mirco tool with drill bit attachment. I also drilled a hole in the back of the vignette coffin where I wanted to thread the lights in from the back and into the base of the cauldron to up light the bubbles.

I added distress grit-paste to the cauldron and once dry, painted with mowed lawn distress paint and dirtied up by rubbing in black soot distress crayon. I glued the green set of halloween tiny lights into the base of the cauldron and added bubbles over the top, gluing them to each other with glossy accents and not collage medium. The collage medium is matt and will make the bubbles matt too, so glossy accents for the clear bubbles.

I didn’t want the distress collage medium to feel pushed out, so I used some on this broom and then smashed it on my media mat to make it all gnarly. The collage medium sets and the brush stays in place. This was inspired by a broom that the awesome Stacy Hutchinson did a couple of Halloween moons ago.

I used a wood slice from the idea-ology Christmas line to raise the cauldron a little, purely for aesthetic reasons.

I drilled another hole in the coffin, this time in the top, just above the fixed shelf. I thread white tiny lights through the back and glued in place in the corner. That gorgeous grungy paper is from the Halloween backdrops. I LOVE this new paper format and the paper designs are SO freaking awesome.

I altered one of the new gothic frames by covering with white gesso and once dry, covering with vignette photo distress paint and wiping the paint off the raised molding of the frame. I rubbed a little distress crayon in when it was dry.

I used one of the photo stickers from the curiosities sticker book to create a ghostly backdrop to the gothic frame. I covered the photo sticker with a piece of clear packing tape. You need to burnish it, which means rub the tape firmly with your finger so the tape has full contact with the photo sticker. This is because you are going to remove the paper part of the sticker with water.

Turn the photo over and spritz the back with water and start gently rubbing the back of the photo with your finger, adding more water as required. The paper will pill and come away as you rub. Eventually you rub away all the paper and are left with the ink on the clear tape. I added a little collage medium to the back to give a smokey effect.

I LOVE the new birdcage. I covered this one with distress grit-paste, added a little distress paint here and there, some distress crayon and slid in some mummy cloth and a black crow from the ephemera pack. You have to look carefully to see the crow, but he’s there. I added his eye with a dot from a white posca pen. The drippy candles are as they came. They need nothing doing to them at all, they are simply awesome out of the packet!

One of my favourite things from the halloween idea-ology release (and there were many) were these book covers that come in the ephemera pack! Oh my!! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a pack of just book covers… Dear Santa… that would be worth being good for!

I sprayed some inexpensive printer paper with tea dye distress spray and water and dried with a heat tool. Cut to fit the book cover and folded in half, pierced 2 holes in the center with a pokey tool and sewed with thick thread. I folded the book cover in half and glued the stitched pages into the spine of the book cover. I used pieces from the ephemera pack on the spine of one of the books and wrapped another with twine. I LOVE them so much.

I added a couple of extra shelves by cutting scallop edged etcetera thickboard trims to size. Adding distress crackle texture paste and gluing into place.

I used sublime alcohol pearl colour on the back of the spider adornment. You need to give the alcohol pearl bottle a really good shake. I lightly tap the side of the bottle on my desk between shaking to help release the mixing ball which does get stuck to the bottom, especially if your bottle has been sat for a while. Keep tapping lightly and shaking until the mixing ball is released (you’ll hear when it happens) and then shake until the bottom of the bottle is clear of settled pearl as above.

Drop a single drop of sublime** alcohol pearl onto an adornment spider from the skull and spider adornments pack. If you cover any other part of the spider, add a drop of alcohol blending solution to a cotton bud and wipe away.

** the alcohol pearl shown above is “envy” the pearl shown below and on the actual make is “sublime” I chose the wrong pearl when I was recreating the step out for someone in the Tim Holtz Addicts group.

I have not used any filter or editing for that spider. The sublime alcohol pearl is really that vibrant! It’s wicked right?! I added a couple of tiny corked vials and a label from the ephemera pack. I added a stake from the vignette hardware pack. I LOVE these, they’re so vampire! The bottles are covered in distress rock candy crackle paint. You can see how on my pumpkin pumpkin post.

I love these shelves to add trinkets to, and of course a couple of skulls from the skull and pumpkin pack, with a little black soot distress paint brushed into the eye sockets.

I grunged up a lock from the lock and keys adornments pack by adding distress grit paste and crackling campfire distress paint and a little white gesso. Attached to the chain of a hook clasp, glued to the shelf.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this walk through of my witchy vignette coffin. I think you’ll agree that Tim designed the most EPIC idea-ology Halloween line. A huge thanks to Tim, Mario and Paula for all their support and encouragement. It was a lot of fun making this and they gave me some great tips and advice and you couldn’t ask for a better cheer squad.

Thanks so much to you for joining me this week and I hope you are enjoying making in whichever season your heart desires.

If you haven’t seen, Tim has announced his Holiday 2021 demo series. Join Tim on his YouTube channel every Saturday in November! I can’t wait.

Zoe

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Potion Bottles

4th November, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends. It’s been a long and busy day here but I’m committed to my Halloween week and I’m sharing something I made for the Villainous Potion Distress launch. You can check out the awesome launch and properly meet the newest member of the distress family over on Tim Holtz blog.

This really is a super quick and simple make and could easily be adapted from this framed panel to a card, tag, journal page, book cover and anything else you can dream up.

Cover an idea-ology framed panel with white gesso and once dry, cover with distress crackle texture paste and distress crayon. The background is distress watercolor cardstock with white gesso and distress spray, stitched with my sewing machine before gluing to the back of the framed panel.

I die cut bottles from the bottled up and (retired) apothecary bottles bigz dies and sprayed with distress sprays. I die cut the bottle corks from cork material.

Once dry I added idea-ology remnant rubs and stamped labels from the apothecary CMS138 stamp set with distress archival ink and fussy cut, adding remnant rubs.

Mount some of the bottles flat to the back of the framed panel and mount others with adhesive foam.

This really is a simple make and I hope this has inspired you to make something and if you’re still in Halloween mode, keep going, I’m with you!

Zoe

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The Grave Digger

3rd November, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends. Sill with me on this Halloween train? Day 3 and it’s getting dark… Fortunately the new idea-ology lantern has thrown some light on the situation. If you want to see the AWESOME (I’m still happy dancing over how freaking good it is), Halloween idea-ology, head over to Halloween Town on Tim Holtz Blog… beware the grave digger!

I know that because of the global shipping situation, seasonal products are still arriving. There is no reason for you not to use and enjoy them now, next month, next year! I made this in July when it was 90 degrees and nothing like Halloween outside. Remember, the creativity is in you, not in the season! Makers gonna make! 😉

Take the largest vignette box from the idea-ology vignette box pack and cover with a watered down layer of frayed burlap distress paint. Once dry, cover in distress crackle texture paste and set aside to dry and crack. Spray with antique linen and frayed burlap distress oxide sprays and once dry cover with a layer of vintage distress collage medium.

I covered a halloween word plaque with picket fence distress crayon and mounted with stakes from the idea-0l0gy vignette hardware pack which I hammered in! I actually added this last so I was hammering very very carefully!! I LOVE the maker adrenaline rush!

The new idea-ology lantern was one of those products that made me gasp when Tim showed it to us all during the makers call. Of course I had to rust mine up using the usual suspects… distress grit-paste, crackling campfire and ground espresso distress paint and distress crayons.

The lantern has a notch in the back for the tiny light wires to fit under. I only used 2 lights in the lantern so ran the lights down the back of the vignette box and in through a hole I drilled in the back near the base to light the inside. Tim showed how to put the tiny lights into the lantern during the LIVE. To see it, skip forward to the 57 minute mark.

I wanted to grunge up the new halloween ornate metal gates. I covered with a layer of distress grit-paste (not pictured) and once dry, added crackling campfire distress paint and then ground espresso distress paint, drying between layers. Finally I added a little luster wax from Sizzix which they kindly sent me to try. I like it, but I’m going to be honest, they added an orange smell and I hate it, but I wanted to give it a go and it added something to the weathered gate effect. I added a layer of black gesso over the top and rubbed off in places.

I mounted the gates using distress collage medium. Don’t use too much and walk away and let it dry. DO NOT WIGGLE TO SEE IF IT’S STUCK DOWN! LOL You can see the extra tiny lights that I fed in through the back of the vignette. I used some mummy cloth soaked in frayed burlap distress oxide spray and creepy moss to hide the lights and wire. They gave a nice glow to the idea-ology drippy candles that I added. I LOVE THESE! I desperately hope they come back next year.

I altered one of the new idea-ology tombstones and I was really pleased with the result. I covered a tombstone and skull from the skulls and spiders adornments kit with white gesso and once dry with distress opaque grit-paste. I glued the skull to the tombstone, it fits like it was made to! So clever Tim!! I painted all over with hickory smoke distress paint. Dried and added cypt paste and dry brushed parts with black gesso. Once dry, I repeated this with white gesso.

Beginner Tip: Dry brushing is an almost dry paint free brush. Add a little paint to a dry paint brush and remove the excess with a paper towel. Repeat, building the colour slowly to add highlight but not a thick layer of paint.

I added black gesso to the skull eye sockets and nose and rubbed on some retired remnant rubs. You could add small die cut letters or cut vinyl and add that. Another option is to stamp on plain collage paper and add with collage medium. If you don’t have something, improvise, that’s always the fun and creative part for me.

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

Zoe

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The Great Witches Bake Off

28th October, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello Friends! Are you doing any baking or making for Halloween? I’m thinking about making some Halloween themed food over the weekend. It definitely won’t be in the same league as The Great Witches Bake off or the moody new member of the distress family, Villainous Potion, who you can meet over on Tim Holtz blog.

I love how the villainous potion distress ink wicks and there’s such a colour variation dependent on how concentrated the ink is. Mixed with a little frayed burlap for that sweet grunged look.

I LOVE the moon masks that Tim released this year. They come in 3 sizes and I used the largest, along with a sizzix circle die to create a big moon backdrop. I used alphanumeric label dies cut from idea-ology black kraftstock to spell out this fun sentiment inspired by my friend Juli’s excitement in a group chat about The Great British Bake Off TV show.

I took the spider from the idea-ology halloween adornments set, used the distress embossing dabber to add embossing ink and covered in villainous potion distress embossing glaze and melted with a heat embossing tool.

I love all the cool details of the toil and trouble thinlits dies. The skulls inside the cauldron are so cool and the hole in the witches hand for her to hold a mouse, broom etc is such a clever detail. I die cut the witch and cauldron from distress watercolor cardstock, sprayed with black soot distress spray and once dry, blended in walnut stain distress ink.

I made another card and cut the witches hand to slide the broom handle through and then glued it with a little distress collage medium. The “how to” for the background of this card can be seen here.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Halloween making and baking.

Zoe

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Steampumpkins

27th October, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends! I’m back today with more pumpkins. These I made for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween LIVE Launch.

The pumpkin patch colorize die was another knock out for me. Tim really spoiled us with pumpkins this year and I’m one happy pumpkin farmer!

I started by altering an idea-ology mini clipboard. Covered the background with brickwork (see step out here) and then added distress grit-paste. I used a mixture of crackling campfire, candied apple and ground espresso distress paints over the dried distress grit-paste to create a faux rust effect. I cut alcohol foil tape and embossed with the mini foundry 3D embossing folder and covered with black soot distress paint, wiping away the excess. I cut the foil and added pieces to the clipboard clip until it was covered. I also added a couple of idea-ology hardware heads.

Using the lumber and mini foundry 3D embossing folders, I embossed the pumpkin patch colorize die cuts. If you haven’t tried colorize before, these are such a great introduction to it. There are only a few pieces and it’s not intricate or fiddly in the least and I think you’ll love the effects you can get with colorize.

In order to get the tiny lights to show through from under the vellum, I cut a section in the base die cut and mounted foam around the edges to creat a space for the tiny lights to sit inside. I added vellum painted with fossilized amber distress paint, under the top sections to hide, contain and diffuse the tiny lights. Here’s how…

For step out purposes I have die cut just the larger pumpkin from white cardstock. You will see there are de-bossed lines which show you where to place each piece. I’ve added numbers, letters and arrows to help. 1 is your base. 2 goes on top of 1. 3 goes on top of 2 etc.

Using a craft knife, cut a circle in the center of the base of the pumpkin die cut leaving enough around the edge to add adhesive foam. Cut a piece of vellum using the base pumpkin piece, cut off the stalk and paint with distress paint.

Glue the vellum on top of the base piece.

Add the next die cut piece over the top.

I flipped the pumpkin over and ran adhesive foam around the underside edge of the base piece.

Add idea-ology tiny lights into the back of the pumpkin and secure with glue, if you leave a gap in the adhesive foam you can run the lights behind the smaller pumpkin too, (not pictured).

How the pumpkin looks with the lights behind it. On my project, I threaded the lights through the back of the idea-ology mini clipboard first and the switch was attached to the back of the clipboard.

Tiny lights OFF.

Tiny lights ON.

Using some leftover alcohol foil tape I used the alphanumeric tiny upper dies to cut steampumpkins.

Seriously! How cool is this pumpkin patch die? Tim rocked it!!

My pumpkin making adventures continue through November, so there’s more pumpkins to come…

Thanks for stopping by.

Zoe

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Jack

26th October, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Happy National Pumpkin Day. No better way to celebrate this very special day than to make and share pumpkin everything. I’m starting with a banner panel shared during the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween launch.

I lost my head when I saw the pumpkinhead die set! 😉 The JACK-o-lantern is perfectly sized for the hat and coat from the distinguished stamp set, thanks Tim!

I cut and stitched my banner panels first. I use the retired Sizzix banners #3 dies (561152), die cutting distress kraft heavystock, distress cracked leather cardstock, distress watercolor cardstock and idea-ology black kraftstock.

Using the new mini mechanics 3D embossing folder, I embossed alcohol ink foil tape backed with kraft heavystock.

I added black soot distress paint to the embossed background, wiping away the excess.

I die cut the jack-o-lantern from the pumpkin head thinlits die set. I painted the base piece with fossilized amber distress paint and covered the top with crackling campfire and walnut stain distress inks. I LOVE this die SO MUCH and of course he’s so dapper in his hat and coat, both from distinguished CMS371 stamp set.

The banner strip from the Halloween vault series die set worked perfectly. This is probably my favourite die set from the release. I’ve used so many die cuts from it across my halloween makes. I added JACK with the alphanumeric tiny type upper dies.

Adding a hardware head each side of the banner with a little distress grit-paste and crackling campfire distress crayon to create a faux rust effect. Using a paintbrush to pull some of the distress onto the card like rust dripping.

I use a singer heavy duty sewing machine to stitch and I stitch before assembling.

I added an idea-ology display hanger to hang this banner panel.

Thanks for stopping by. I will be back in a bit with some more pumpkins…

Zoe

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Jack-O-Lantern by Candlelight

2nd September, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends. Happy second day of September. I am so ready to get my Halloween on and today I’m sharing this tag I made for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween LIVE launch.

I was invited to take part in an industry virtual event where Tim showcased his seasonal dies; during the demo he put the pumpkin from the pumpkinhead die set onto a candlestick from the candlelight die set and that inspired this tag. Jack-O-Lantern candles…? YES PLEASE!!

I LOVE this pumpkinhead, he’s such a troublemaker, you can tell! I added a drippy candle die cut piece over his eye, it reminds me of the poisoned apple from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. You should check out the brilliant make that Tami B (playswellwithpaper) did for the Halloween idea-ology LIVE with a Disney poisoned apple! I can’t wait for that blog post!

Using a distress heavystock #8 tag, I added antique linen and hickory smoke distress sprays and dried. I spread distress grave texture paste from the Halloween distress paste set through the skull stencil from mini stencil set 23 with a palette knife. How freaking cool is this paste? I have a couple of extra pots, thanks to a very thoughtful friend.

I’m in love with the new candlelight die set. They may have been released with the Halloween dies, but they are going to rock Christmas and I’ll be using them all year. They are so simple to put together.

I was practicing a zig zag stitch with my sewing machine on scrap card and got it so on point that I trimmed it off the scrap card, inked it, added a hardware head to each end and used it as a ledge for the candle sticks to sit on and under. I added a sticker from the idea-ology curiosities sticker book and die cut drips underneath.

I stitched the tag and then mounted it onto a #8 etctera thickboard tag to give it stability. To finish, I dyed a piece of mummy cloth with distress spray and thread it through the tag and secured in place with an idea-ology mini pin.

I really wish I had added tiny lights to this tag and I would have done, but I was out of time and racing the clock. Mario very kindly dipped out during the LIVE to collect this from the local Fedex depot and this isn’t the first time he has done this for a maker. Very grateful to Tim and Mario, who always go the extra mile.

Thanks for stopping by.

Zoe

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Pumpkin Pumpkin

31st August, 2021 by iGirlZoe

Hello friends. Happy last day of August. Tomorrow is the first day of my favourite quarter of the year. I’m so excited for pumpkins, chilly mornings, candles, hot chocolate, more pumpkins and lots of seasonal making. If you’ve been watching the weekly LIVES over on Tim Holtz YouTube channel, I’m sure you’re either already way down in Halloween town or planning your visit.

I made this display dome for the Tim Holtz idea-ology Halloween LIVE. It was such a fun party and the products are incredible! This was my favourite ever Halloween idea-ology release and this jack-o-lantern candy bucket is hands down my favourite piece. The colour, the face, the detail, it’s heavy in your hand, you can remove the handle or have it up or down and it’s thick wire so it just stays in place. I LOVE him and I chose the display dome because I wanted to make it all about him. Scroll on for more details…

Take a cork base from the idea-ology display dome and paint with black soot and crackling campfire distress paints. I added a piece from the idea-ology halloween baseboards pack, it was a little thicker than I wanted so peeled away a couple of layers of cardboard and stuck down with distress collage medium. Trim and sand the edges and top. Make a hole in the base big enough to thread tiny lights through. I use a dremel micro with the drill attachment.

Using the Tim Holtz Tonic craft knife I cut a wedge from the hole to the edge for the tiny lights wire so the dome will stand flat. Add a little hot glue to hold them in place, being careful not to get hot glue on the bulbs as it can short out your lights.

I thread the tiny lights up through the candy corn tree and cut the excess off. When I add tiny lights I always have them switched on as it helps to see where you’re putting them. The candy corn tree is an awesome idea of Tim’s from way back. You can see the step out on Tim’s blog. I used fossilized amber and rusty hinge distress sprays on mine and I skipped the glitter, because NO! My tree looks bedraggled and wonky, which is totally the look I was going for! Honest! LOL

The new idea-ology halloween confections pieces are so cool! I blended in some walnut stain distress ink and used a faber castell pitt pen (sanguine) to colour. I had planned to use alcohol inks with a blending pen but I couldn’t find my pen so I grabbed this and it worked. The ink is quite wet so I rolled it in kitchen paper to blot the excess and then took one of the confections sticks and cut it with my craft knife. It’s very soft and easy to cut. Yes I cut directly onto my glass media mat. Take a deep breath, it’s ok. 😉

To make the crackle glass vial for your confections slices, take vial from the idea-ology corked vials pack. Put the vial on the end of a paintbrush to hold in place and using another paintbrush cover with a light layer of distress collage medium. I stand mine in a jar to air dry. Once dry, repeat with a layer of distress clear rock candy crackle paint and set aside to dry again. Finally, add a few drops of mushroom alcohol ink and blending solution to your glass media mat to make a wash and roll the vial in it. You only want a light covering so add more blending solution as needed. Please note that alcohol ink will stain the white non stick mat so use the glass part, unless you don’t care and then go wild.

Sand the cork and pull bits off to make it look weathered. Add walnut stain distress ink and water to your glass media mat and roll the cork in it and dry.

Add the confections slices to a tall glass vial and add twine and a label from the idea-ology halloween snippets pack. Glue onto the display dome base with distress collage medium.

Add a few of the candy pieces on the base of the display dome next to the jack-o-lantern candy bucket.

Add idea-ology boneyard bones and confections pieces to the jack-o-lantern candy bucket and glue into place with distress collage medium.

This sticker from the idea-ology curiosities sticker book was perfect.

I added a couple more confections pieces to the other side of the jack-o-lantern candy bucket but wanted the baseboard piece to still show.

I want to thank Tim, Mario and Paula for all of their encouragement and support. I really found a lot of joy making for this launch and much of it was thanks to them. You will never have a better cheer squad and I am very thankful for them and for all of you who make this community so jack-o-lantern candy bucket filled awesome!

Thanks for stopping by

Zoe

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