Garden Bees Tim Holtz Botanical Distress Oxide Card

Hiya friends!  I hope you had a chance to see my foiling tutorial and cards at Frilly and Funkie this weekend.  If not, make sure to hop on over HERE for a closer look.

Today's card was just a bit of wild play with some favorite Tim Holtz products.  I started with an inky background panel I made with Sara Emily at the lake.  This one was inked with Frayed Burlap DI and Fossilized Amber DOX.  I stamped the ledger in Walnut Stain DOX and the leaves from Tim's new Botanical stamp in Fossilized Amber, then sponged the edges of the panel with Vintage Photo DOX.

I fussy cut the Garden Illustrations image, which I had embossed in Watering Can, then watercolored it with a variety of DIs.  I inked up a little tag and stamped it with an older stamp from Tim's Floral Tattoo set (an all time favorite).  I used Fossilized Amber to stamp and spritzed the rubber before making the impression.  I love the effect it gives!

I added lots of messy stitching with my machine.  I have finally got my machine settings figured out to work on paper consistantly.  The trick for me is using a longer stitch length.  And definitely sew a single layer of paper at a time.

I used Tim's numbers over layers of tissue tape.  Oh I love these!

Now, most of these stamps belong to SE and I used them while I was with her.  And neither of us have the new Entomology set.  So I dug through my stash of vintage wood mounted stamps and found this little beauty.  I die cut the honeycomb from the MM thinlets to coordinate with him.

All these years I didn't realize there was a small talk set that wasn't for holidays - doh!  I just picked up the small talk sentiments and love them so much, especially this phrase.  I really needed this reminder and hope you did too and will be encouraged.  Just remember, we're not there yet, but at least we're on our way...

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