tim holtz creativation 2019 blog hop

Hi crafty friends! Welcome to the Tim Holtz Creativation 2019 Blog Hop! A huge thank you as always to Richele for organizing this fun hop. So exciting to see samples using all of the new products that were released at Creativation last month. And thank you Tim, Paula and Mario for giving me the opportunity to create samples with these wonderful products.

You should have arrived here from the blog of the very talented Cathie Parreco. A full list of all the stops on the hop is at the end of this post as well 🙂 Remember to visit all of the stops and leave a comment for each of the designers for your chance to win some fun prizes! Please leave a comment on the blogs before February 9th at midnight PST and 3 winners will be announced on February 10th from the different blogs.

Today I am featuring a card I designed using the new Inventor 8 Stampers Anonymous stamps. I always love the grunge looks I see with these stamps but wanted to see if they would work in my favorite colorway, rainbow.

To create this card, I stamped the fan stamp onto Distress Watercolor Cardstock and embossed it with clear embossing powder. The detail on this stamp is just beautiful. I watercolored each of the inside panels of the fan with Distress Ink that I had put down on my glass mat and picked up with a Detailer water brush.

Once the colors were dry in the center of the fan, I stamped it again on some masking paper, and masked off the circular portion of the fan. When that was done I went over the entire panel with Pumice Stone Distress Ink and gave the card a light spritz with my Distress Sprayer. The masking keeps the colors on the inside nice and bright. I also took a paintbrush and VERY CAREFULLY flicked the corresponding color of ink around the outside of the fan so it looked like it was blowing the color right out. The colors look super vivid on top of that Pumice Stone background!

When that was dry (and I think the most important step is patience and letting the panel dry fully before messing with it) I removed the mask paper. I love the results of this card and giving it that unexpected twist of rainbow! I hope you have enjoyed this card, and the full list of supplies used is at the bottom of the post. The next stop on the hop is the absolutely amazing Debi Adams …please hop on over as I am sure you are in for a treat!