Hello, It's Lyla again, welcoming you back to a new two-week theme for The Funkie Junkie Boutique's Design Team. This fortnight, we are designing for the theme "It's In The Details". Linda has asked us to create using the new Tim Holtz Idea-ology products.
I'm getting back into the crafting mood and making some plans to go along with all the new Tim Holtz stuff coming out. The product releases are trickling out over time, but I find that easier to not only keep up with creatively, but it also helps the budget juggle the "I want!"s. The product theme for the next two weeks is Tim's latest Idea-ology release, and The Funkie Junkie Boutique was my first stop in getting hold of a few items that seemed to form their own plan in my mind. Let's get to it!
My Happy Mail came from The Funkie Junkie Boutique to our Florida house and we left just days later. Love those little wax envelopes of freebies!
These were the main Idea-ology products calling out to me. (List of products used will come near the middle of this tutorial.)
The first thing was a pull towards my older Idea-ology since the new looked like it was going to marry very well with the old! I'll give you a rundown on each new product as we go. I even brought out a couple of new TH Dies; (Thinlits Sets Postal and Specimen) in case I wanted to add any die cut elements to my Card File. I dug through one drawer because "I just KNOW I have some feet that would look great on the bottom of these and I KNOW they will match the new Large Word Plaques!" I was right: I did and they do.
This was last but I'm showing it first because you'll see how the new fits in with this. I needed a new Vignette Card File for this new project, because I took the old one to keep in the Florida house. I got out some OLD TH Backdrops Volume 1 (but just ordered the new Backdrops Vol 4 for more to go along with this later).
I needed to match the Backdrops- no worries for me with either old or new: Tim keeps "vintage" in vogue with the newer shades matching this older tape and blending everything perfectly! Here, I am showing how I make sure to clip the corners of the (older) Tissue Tape so it will fold down completely flat. I wanted to show that because on my first Vignette Card File, I painted the inside and all the edges.
I did the Paula Cheney 'thing' to age everything by smashing my Ground Espresso Oxide Pad onto my TH Glass Craft Mat, spritzing the ink with water, and then dragging all the measured-twice-cut-once pieces through the droplets on the glass mat. I heat dried everything, and then gave all the edges a workout of the same Ground Espresso, but with a Blending Tool all around the edges only, then heat dried again.
I'm not sure how "dry" others do, but I like to dry BOTH sides of the papers I ink. My reasoning is that it not only gets the edges, but also dries any Distress Ink/Oxide that may have been on the glass mat and transferred to the backside unknowingly. Then I adhere all the papers to all the faces of the wood. I actually heat dry again, just in case any of it came into contact with water, since the Distress Inks and Oxides are water reactant.
The last touch on my now-decorated Vignette Card File was to add a brand new Idea-ology element to it: Large Word Plaque, by using my finger to add TH Distress Paint in Salvaged Patina to make that cool font pop with color! Now it was ready to hold a few new Idea-ology makes.
After getting home and unpacking all my craft bags, I found a nice stack of Tags I'd die cut but didn't put to use yet. I like to double up my Tags as it gives a stiffer Tag to work with, so I used some score tape to put 2 (cut edges facing in towards each other) together. Since I always cut the reinforcers at the same time I cut Tags, I already had everything I needed- just to do the "Paula Cheney smoosh thing" again and Ink up the edges with a Blending Tool. Heat drying after each step, of course. I found some pieces of ribbon and lace I'd hurriedly stuck into that bag, and the light neutral coloring of the Idea-ology items matched with them.
The fun began: tearing up and smoosh/blending tool inking up photos from the TH Snapshots 2 pack, and picking through TH Ephemera Snippets Number Strips and TH Clipping Stickers for sayings to match the Snapshots 2. I had some TH Tiny Clips that looked great on the new Snapshots! There's more to choose from in the Snapshots 2 that are more geared towards vacation, which I really like. I got extra lucky here: Snapshots 2 has a boy with a dog!
Next up was the new Collage Paper Photographic. My thoughts on this? AWESOME! There are several new "photos" printed on this tissue roll and they can mix/match/go alone or all together. The printing is so CLEAR and the photos look realistic. I especially a huge fan of the near-the-water pics! You still get a pretty good sized roll that will be enough for many projects- a great value during a time we need it! I took another idea from what Paula Cheney did earlier in the winter; using a Water Detailer Brush to draw a line of water around my chosen scene, then allowing the water to 'cut' the tissue for me. This actually works VERY WELL and I find myself doing it as my go-to way to 'cut' TH Collage Papers since it gives a perfectly torn edge.
I decided to add a detail of my own, since I find that personalizing a lot of my projects just makes me happy! I finally purchased a thermal printer and was able to simply add my own touch to the backsides of my Tags. It acted like a journal photo instead of writing as journaling.
Here's a helpful list of product links:
And this is what it all looks like put together:
Those little Freebie envelopes just happen to fit inside the TH Vignette Card File, so I chose not to put a title into the front handle.
Fronts of Tags with Closeups...
LOVE the new shapes and sizes on the Quote Chip Labels!
Backs of Tags with Closeups...
The photo I described in my last post (My Puppi Pi, Hunni Pi) matched in with the Snapshots 2 pic on the front of this Tag.
I added a bit of Distress Watercolor Pencil in Salty Ocean with a Detailer Brush just ever so slightly on top of this sealed Tag.
I did use the TH Thinlits Set Specimen to die cut a few plain file folders that fit inside the Card File, and set them into the middle compartment with some leftover Tag bases into the back compartment.
That's a wrap... for the just the first posting on Tim Holtz's newest IdeaOlogy.
The rest of The Funkie Junkie Boutique's awesome Design Team has much more to come in the next two weeks! Be sure to stop back in for more Inspiration Ave, and click the links in every post to help you find great deals for the just-released Idea-ology!
Until next time...
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