True Love Paper Mosaic

Hello my friends, I was so inspired after watching the Tim Holtz Valentine Demo and Ideas YouTube Live on Saturday that I dug into my stash to make a card with a technique from way back in the day called Paper Mosaic using Tim Holtz/Sizzix True Love Colorize and Stacked Hearts Thinlits, Idea-ology Large Collage Strips and sentiments from the Idea-ology Metallic Sticker Book. If you missed the Live you can rewatch it HERE on Tim's YouTube Channel. 

I die-cut two hearts from Distress Watercolor card using Tim Holtz/Sizzix True Love Colorize Thinlits, covered one with Distress Grit Paste Opaque and set aside the other to use as a template.

I die-cut hearts from Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Large Collage Strips using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Stacked Hearts Thinlits and placed temporarily on the blank heart to use as a reference.

Once the Distress Grit Paste had dried, I fixed the hearts from the template in place with Distress Collage Medium and applied a further coat over the top.

I fixed the blank heart behind to make a sturdier and more dimensional heart, applied Ranger Glossy Accents to each of the paper hearts and set aside to dry.

In the meantime, I trimmed Distress Watercolor card to 4" x 5.1/4", smooshed Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves and Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxides on to my craft mat, spritzed with water, tapped the panel into the inks repeatedly, drying between layers, until I was happy with the coverage.

I inked the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Floral Outlines image with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and holding the stamp in my hand, stamped randomly on the edges of the panel. I inked the edges with the same ink using a Tiny Blending Tool and tattered the edges using Tim Holtz Paper Distresser.

I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in the top of the hearts, threaded with Seam Binding Ribbon and added a White Hemp Twine Bow. I fixed the die-cut heart outline in place with Distress Collage Medium and added the paper mosaic heart popped up on Simon Says Stamp 3D foam squares to create dimension.

To finish I matted the panel on to an A2 white card blank and added sentiments from Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Metallic Stickers Book.

Have fun with whatever you're making

Hugs Kath xxx