Hello friends. I’ve been in a little bit of trouble this morning over a small issue of sewing through nails without safety glasses! Moving swiftly on… I am sharing a card I made using the Dapper (CMS267) and Distinguished (CMS371) stamp sets. Until Distinguished was released in January, Dapper was my favourite and most used set. The hat and coat are just my jam. Distinguished has been such a happy surprise and I have loved playing with the new wardrobe, but I had to go back and grab the background stamps from the Dapper set.
The background is distress watercolor cardstock dragged through hickory smoke and frayed burlap distress spray and dried with a heat tool. Then tapped through the droplets a second time and dried again. Using black soot distress ink and a waterbrush flick watered down ink at the card to give some darker specs. Blend in a little frayed burlap distress ink and edge with double espresso distress archival ink. The mini ink pads are perfect for edging cards as their size makes them easy to handle and you don’t fumble the ink pad across the front of your card. Hands up who’s done that?!
The hat and coat were stamped from the Distinguished (CMS371) stamp set and the moth from the Entomology (CMS328) stamp set and die cut with the matching thinlits die set. I have noticed that die cutting them makes them much stronger versus fussy cutting them. I added gears from the assemblage range to the hat and slipped a hardware head in, it fit perfectly. All grunged with little swipe from walnut stain distress crayon. The hat and coat were coloured with faded jeans and frayed burlap distress marker and ink.
Okay so this next bit is what got me into a little bit of hot water this morning thanks to my instagram post. I decided at 4am that I was going to sew nails to ruler ribbon on my singer heavy duty sewing machine! I’m still slightly dumbstruck that it worked! Sewing level up for me! I now need more idea-ology ruler ribbon and vignette hardware, because those nails are awesome!!
The gears from the Dapper (CMS267) set I stamped twice using the brushless watercolor technique from Tim Holtz’s Creative Chemistry online classes. I love referring back to techniques from it. Lifetime access, check it out. The advert stamp I made work for me by using the travel stamp platform and inking individual lines of text and stamping. I’m a bit of a straight lines freak so the stamp platform has been a total game changer for me. I used vintage photo distress archival ink and stamped twice for a bolder image on some lines, another reason to love the stamp platform.
The base layer is scrap card edged with design tape. It’s such a great way to create a layer and the design tapes go a long way.
Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your weekend.
Zoe
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Thanks for sharing the process on this one but I don’t know if I would have the guts to use my sewing machine over nails. I get how you must have done it, but still. I am really a beginner sewer and that is above my skill level. 🙂
Zoe, another amazing tut!! I don’t know how your imagination comes up with all your wonderful ideas. You are amazing and I thank you for all your posts. I still love all things Tim and since I’m not a nurse anymore we are on a fixed income I have had to really cut my spending. I really want to get his glass mat and of course this amazing new stamp set.
Thanks again for your posts Zoe.
Love your enthusiasm but cringe at potential injuries. Hand-walk don’t run over nails, pins, etc. It’s a terrific idea and such a great look, you are always inspiring!!
Yikes to the nails… but they do look fabulous! I am loving your whole series of Dapper cards, but I think this one might just be my favourite ! Hugs, Anne xx
You are officially the queen of these stamps. LOVE the stitching…so perfect and the nails…wow!!!
You are absolutely crazy to go over the nails! I am going to guess you were going VERY slowwwwww. Great card by the way!