Hello! I’m delighted to share the second of the samples that I made for CHA 2016 for the Tim Holtz booths. It’s been a couple of months since CHA, but I was supposed to be this month, so things have been unusually busy in my world. My move has been pushed back a couple of months, so I’m catching up! I’ll share my “adventures of a traveling crafter” another time…
This sample was created for the Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix booth and focused on the new Gadget Gears 2 Bigz die.
I die cut grungeboard and foil tape covered grungeboard with the new Gadget Gears 2 die. I covered the foil tape with black soot distress paint, wiped away the excess and applied teakwood and rust alcohol inks with an alcohol ink blending tool. The plain grungeboard I blending vintage photo distesss ink over and sanded gently. I then blended over a little walnut stain distress ink and sanded again to give a worn look.
This super cool background paper is from the new dapper paper stash by Tim Holtz. It’s gorgeously industrial and I love that one of the gears fits over the printed inner gear. I distressed the edges of the paper, inked with vintage photo distress ink and spritzed with water to age. I also added inked and distressed small talk stickers.
Finally, I used the distress marker spritzer and ground espresso distress marker to add the spackle. I am still just as obsessed with the distress marker spritzer as I was the day I got it. If you haven’t got one, trust me, get one, they are SO SO SO fun!
The background layers are denim from the new adhesive backed textile surfaces. I frayed the edges and adhered over kraft cardstock which I stamped an industrial image onto from the steampunk stamp set, (all by Tim Holtz of course)! 😉
I overlapped some of the gears and added idea-ology mini gears to the center of the largest gear. They are a perfect fit! I also added new idea-ology hex fasteners! These are absolutely my favourite new thing and I am stocking up on them! The Gadget Gears 2 die works perfectly with the original Gadget Gears die too.
A big thank you to Paula, Mario and Tim for inviting me on this journey and to you for stopping by to take a look.
CHA Product previews and BTS from the show are on Tim’s blog. Many of the new products are shipping now or available for pre-order.
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I loved this one! The denim is fabulous with all those gears!
Thanks so much Anita. I love the new textile surfaces.
Totally fab! Worthy of its place in Tims CHA booth for sure x
Thanks Amanda, it was utterly terrifying! 🙂