Tim Holtz + Ranger + Idea-ology = Very Merry Configurations!

Hello there - 

I hope you are having a very merry weekend.  I know I am : )  There have been a lot of fun and exciting changes in my life lately - I just moved, and at work we have had lots of wonderful and new product pouring in each day!  It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, here at Simon!  

Today I get to show you a cool project I made at CHA in a Tim Holtz class, Holiday Happenings! 

 

• Cut & Score some Seasonal papers per configurations measurements.  Cut out corners only and fold sides.  These will fit perfectly:

• Cut 5 5/8" x 5 5/8", Score 1 1/2"
• Cut 4 11/16" x 4 11/16", Score 1 1/2"
• Cut 4 1/8" x 5 5/8", Score 1 1/2"
• Cut 4 5/8 x 5 5/8", Score 1 1/2"
• Slop some glue & seal into the boxes and adhere papers.  Let dry.
• Cover seams of the boxes and exposed edges with tissue tape.  You can adhere loose ends of tissue tape with multi-medium.
• Use the Drill Punch to make holes in the Configurations frame for Pulley Wheels, Mini Lantern, and Box Corners.
• Spray Woodlands Tree with Mini Mister filled with water and Distress Ink (I used Broken China)

 

• Finish wrapping edges and back with Tissue Tape.  Snip corners for easy folding.  Burnish tape with your fingers to secure. 
• Lightly brush your Woodlands tree with Glue N Seal and sprinkle Rock Candy Dry Stickles over for a magical sparkle.  Let dry.
• Color Tissue Tape with Pewter Distress Stain for metallic sheen.  Let dry.

  

• Brush Rock Candy Stickles along the sides & anywhere else you want to have a sugary sparkle!
• Grunge Blocks - choose a small word (3-4 letters), paint backing blocks very lightly with a paint dabber (I used Pitch Black), ink letters with Distress Ink (I used Vintage Photo).  Wipe off excess paint with towel.  Attach letters to block backing with Glossy Accents & let dry.  
• Once dry, distress with the Sanding Grip -you can focus on edges to make letters stand out
• Screw Pulley Wheels into the Configurations frame

 

• Attach Box Corners, Plaquettes, Solids Paper String and bead, Label Pulls 
• Attach Christmas Muse Tokens & Baubles to Swivel Clasps & hang on Clock Key 
• Decorate Woodlands tree with Silver Tinsel Twine and distress inked Baubles - you can secure Baubles by squeezing Multi Medium Matte into tree and setting Baubles into it. 
• One Corked Vial is filled with Baubles and one is full of Dry Rock Candy Stickles.  I thought they looked nice next to the Fractured Doll.   I glued them in with multi-medium matte and covered that with dry stickles to make the glue look like snow.

 

 Ingredients list:

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Have a crafty Saturday!

-Sarah 

SarahN@SimonSaysStamp.com

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