Tim Holtz Tailored Vintage St. Patrick's Day Card

Hello friend! Today I'm sharing a bit of vintage St. Patrick's Day inspiration with you! I happen to be part Irish and green happens to be one of my favorite colors, so I couldn't resist creating a card specifically for this holiday.

Tailored Vintage St. Patrick's Day Card by Juliana Michaels

You may recall seeing a similar-ish looking card that I shared around Valentine's Day, and if you do remember it, you have some made memory skills! I actually made both cards at the same time with the idea of using similar products to create a card for each of these holidays. If you missed that card, you can find more details on my Vintage Valentine's Day Card here.


TIM HOLTZ TAILORED VINTAGE ST. PATRICK'S DAY CARD

As always, I like to start off with the background. I began with the Scrapbook.com Shamrocks Stencil and used it to create a monoprint. Do this, I placed the stencil in my Splat Box and sprayed it with Tim Holtz Tree Lot Mica Stain (this is a seasonal product that is sold out, but you can use any color of green spray ink). Off to the side, I had a piece of Distress Watercolor Paper placed on top of a paper towel and an extra paper towel as well. I placed the inked stencil on top of the paper and used the extra paper towel to push down while at the same time dabbing up any ink that seeped under the stencil openings. To see this technique in action make sure to check out my How To Monoprint with Stencils video.

I lifted off the stencil and they dried the ink with my heat gun. Once the ink was dry, I added some stamping using Frayed Burlap Archival Ink and stamps from the Tim Holtz Field Notes, Merchant and Christmas Postmarks. I then inked in the edges with a little Walnut Stain Distress Ink and added some machine stitching around the border. I then adhered this to a piece of green metallic Kraft Stock that I had lightly sanded and then inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.


As on Vintage Valentine's Day Card, I created the focal point using the Tim Holtz Tailored Thinlits Die Set and cut the various layers from colored and metallic cardstock and adhered them together using Distress Collage Medium. Before adhering the metallic papers, I lightly sanded them, and inked them with Walnut Distress Stain using a foam blending tool. The small flower is from the Mini Brushstroke Flowers Thinlits and was cut from Distress Watercolor Paper and then watercolored using a waterbrush and Distress Ink in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn.

To create the embossed four leaf clover or shamrock I used the Tim Holtz Lucky Love 3D Impresslits Embossing Folder. Impresslits, actually cut and emboss all in one step! I used it with a piece of green metallic Kraft Stock and to give it the slightly grungy look I used a technique that Tim shared during his Sizzix Everyday 2023 Release YouTube Live at around the 3:05 mark. After die cutting the shape, I painted it with Black Soot Distress Paint, allowed it to start to dry and then used a paper towel to wipe off some of the excess paint. You have to let the paint slightly dry so it will start to stick to the paper but still wet enough that you can wipe some of the paint away and reveal the metallic paper. I absolutley love the grungy end result!


To frame the focal point, I used the Tim Holtz Stacked Baroque Thinlit Dies and cut it from a piece of Tim Holtz Idea-ology paper and inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. I then cut the next largest die from White Heavystock, added seom machine stitching and inked the edges with inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

The final touch was the sentiment...lucky is a state of mind. This is a stamp from the Tim Holtz Tiny Text Stamp Set which I stamped onto Distress White Heavystock with Black Soot Archival Ink, trimmed it into a strip and then inked the edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. I then adhered it to the card with a bit of foam tape on the two ends so that it was the supported as it went over the embossed four leaf clover


Thanks as always for stopping by and taking a closer look at this Tim Holtz Tailored Vintage St. Patrick's Day Card! And as always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out.

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JULIANA

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