Hello friends. Happy Saturday! I’m sharing another card I made with the new Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous halloween stamps. If you missed the Halloween party on facebook LIVE you can catch up on all the fun on Tim’s blog.
I love the new Anatomy Chart CMS411 stamp set, the detail on the stamps is incredible and they’re beautifully vintage, which I really love. Here’s how I made the card…
I squished speckled egg distress oxide and frayed burlap distress ink onto my glass media mat and spritzed with water. I laid a piece of distress watercolor cardstock over the top and pressed down, leaving for a moment for the ink to be absorbed and then lifted. Once dry, I added distress crackle texture paste around the edges and stamped the rib cage from Anatomy Chart CMS411 in hickory smoke distress archival ink using my stamp platform, leaving the stamp in place so it can be stamped a second time later.
Mixing gesso and water I painted the rib cage, don’t worry about covering the detail. I used Dina Wakley’s gesso, adding water to get a slightly more translucent look.
Once dry, I placed back onto the stamp platform moving the cardstock ever so slightly and stamping again, this time in black soot distress archival ink.
Check out the detail of this stamp!! You see the nice subtle drop shadow from stamping the first time in hickory smoke distress archival ink.
I pulled out Examination CMS412 stamp set and stamped the awesome poison label. Cutting it in half and sliding it underneath the frame I made using the Tim Holtz Sizzix stitched rectangles thinlits dies (661189). I use these all the time to make frames cut from idea-ology blackout kraft-stock, sanded and blended with walnut stain distress ink.
I added idea-ology hardware heads that I covered in distress grit-paste, iced spruce and ground espresso distress paint. Check out the crackle from the distress crackle texture paste. I blended in walnut stain distress crayon to highlight the crackle. I stitch my cards using a singer heavy duty sewing machine and a sharp needle, I don’t use special needles.
I added a piece of packaging I recycled from a Sizzix bigz die with Surgeon stamped using the Examination CMS412 stamp set which I cut a jagged edge and added mushroom alcohol ink to the back. I glued under the frame at the top and side edge with a tiny line of distress collage medium using the fine tip applicator bottle.
I mounted the card onto more idea-ology blackout kraft-stock and added some idea-ology halloween design tape.
Using the same technique as with the rib cage, I added another stamp from the Examination CMS412 stamp set.I love love love this little stamp.
I used the technique again with the hand stamp. How cool is this?! You’ll see this crop up in a project coming later in the season, there is literally not a surface in my apartment that is free from craft supplies and “in process” projects. I simply love this time of year and it’s definitely my favourite time for making.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you’re having a great weekend.
Zoe
What a magnificent piece! The background is so perfect. Thank you for sharing the details about stamping and painting the rib cage. The details make all the difference in the final display. So creepily wonderful! ❤️
I do love your creations. Thank you for sharing how you made it, truly a great fun card.
Gorgeous card. The layering is exquisite.
Absolutely brilliant – the subtle textures, the layered frames, the stitching detail – simply love it! And as I said, so happy now that I’ve got this set coming…
Alison x
love every little last detail on this amazing project but that drop shadow is so cool, hugs kath xxx
Well of course this is my favorite! I love how you have used gesso and then stamped on top of it to get that shadow effect! Deliciously dark girlie!!! Love it! Boo to you my friend!
Halloween 👻 truly is your jam MFSS 🤎
Thanks for sharing your love of stamps with your favorite holiday!
Love it, to me, that would be easier than detail cutting these stamps…
Fabulous, Zoe, the products are, of course, amazing and your attention to detail is 2nd to none!
An incredible piece Zoe, I love the shadow you created, it gives the skeleton frame more depth and that crackle – so, so good! xx
Fabulous technique and card. I would have never thought to water down the gesso to make the skeleton. Genius move.
Wonderful! I love the Crackle around the edges and the gesso painting makes those bones pop. Super cool and fun!!!
Truly amazing work! I LOVE seeing your creations and wondering just what you will craft next!! and Halloween is just around the bend..!!
I love your attention to detail Zoe. The drop shadow is brilliant, I’m going to try that and the gesso trick so thank you for always sharing how you make things.
Thanks for sharing the details on how you stamped the skeleton and got the shadow from the first stamp. I’m going to go try that!
I love this technique and plan on using it when my stamps arrive. Thank you for all you do.
Zoe, you are a stamping genius, that effect with the gessoed and over-stamped images is amazing. This is an incredible project. Your joy and enthusiasm for using all Tim’s products so imaginatively is contagious, thanks for sharing this. How can one little stamp be so good That tiny stamp from the examination set is calling me so bad.
Hi Zoe. As Amanda McCulloch says: you ARE a stamping genius! and thank you for sharing how you make your creations!
Question for you as I think you would be the one to ask – is there a matching die set for this stamp set?
Thanks for your time.
Jeanene