Summer Fun is a perfect theme for TFJB Inspiration Ave! So, for the next 2 weeks, our Design Team will be posting their takes on Summer Fun. Let's float on down and see where the summer months have taken me... so far!
I'll start out with a helpful list of links for you:
Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies- Garden Greens (older set)
SA Tim Holtz Stamp Set CMS304 Sea Life (older set)
Sizzix Thinlits Dies - Library Pocket, ATC Card & Tabs by Eileen Hull (Chose not to use)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge
The first thing I did was to grab my set of Tim Holtz Kraft Stock Papers in Warm and Cool to die cut the 'ocean life' in greens and reds/corals, then set those aside.
Next, I got out my very old (and one of my first) TH Bigz XL Tag and Bookplates Die to cut a few tags from the Cio Bella leftover sheets. (Sorry, but that is looooong retired.) There's a CLEARANCE SALE on this set, and if you love Summer...you'll love this paper. Grab some while it lasts!
On the Tag's background, which already had some cool ocean plants, I wanted some more background plants, so I stamped and embossed these out of TH Sea Life Stamp Set and used some clear embossing powder- just lightly. It would give me 3 "layers" of plant life: the paper's, my embossed, and the die cuts.
Then I took out my big OLD TH Distress Archive Inks (this was a long ago yard sale find) and stamped some fish onto TH Cool Kraft Stock Paper. The Funkie Junkie Boutique now has a nice large selection of Distress Archival Inks and Archival Ink Refills (those would also refill this pad).
I added the Distress Oxide Uncharted Mariner to my TH 3D Folder Mosiac...
... and 'wet down' my fish with the TH (water) Sprayer, then heat dried after embossing. I then inked all around the edges of each fish, and reheat-died again...
... before adding some eyeballs to them with Glossy Accents. The balls were simple little round black beads from my stash drawer.
Then I trimmed the Garden Greens die cuts to look different from one another, and used some DO Vintage Photo and some DI in Forest Moss and Rusty Hinge around the edges for some depth to the paper.
Scor Tape came in handy with adding the mesh onion bag to the matboard (which I die cut with my Bigz XL Tag die) stretching it around the die cut tag and then putting the backs of two matboard tags facing together. That mesh gave my tag even more texture!
I used an Easter Egg Coloring Kit's copper metal 'spoon' dipper for my hook! Who knew?! And THAT is why we crafters look at something that's normally tossed into the recycle, knowing we just might do something with it; someday! I cut the long legs on the Large Fasteners (say that 3x really fast, lol)
to wrap them easily without the legs sticking out, for some "split buck shot sinkers".
Here's the Summer Fun: The One That Got Away!
FRONT
I made the "worm" from a twisted paper bag handle! Simply keep twisting and adding Distress Oxide Ink in Vintage Photo until it folds the way you want. I added a touch of red from one of my Ink Blenders hanging on the Spinner on my desk- which may or may not have been Fired Brick- for a slight touch of red for this "red worm". Hemp string and a couple of TH Large Fasteners made the "fishline and sinkers".
See how curvy that fish is? I added pop-dot tape under him and doubled it up in the middle for him to look like he's 3D.
BACK
Ditto on the pop-dots under these "large-mouth bass" which was my best catch this summer!
All packaged up, just like the real ones in my freezer, awaiting another Fish Fry with our Besties!
Thanks so very much for joining me!
Take a trip into The Funkie Junkie Boutique and you'll find all your favorite Summer crafting needs... and a lot of you Summer crafting WANTS!
Please don't forget to come back every couple of days for the next two weeks and join my Design Teammates for more adventures in Summer Fun!
Until next time...
Stay Safe &
HAPPY BLOGGING!!
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