Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Tim Holtz December 2013 Tag Turns into a Candle Decoration



The TH December tag was gorgeous. Tim used his poinsettia die to cut petals from his Clearly For Art modeling plastic coated with his Frosted Film. I do not own any of those products so I decided I wouldn't be abler to create a December tag. However I began wondering if I could use clear packaging acrylic and mold it the same way he did using a heat gun. To my surprise, it worked pretty well.

I used my two largest petals from the Tattered Floral die, and I also cut the Tattered Pinecone greenery as Tim did. First I tried roughing up the acrylic pieces to imitate the frosted look and then applied red Distress Ink instead of the archival that Tim did (I don't own archival red). It was fairly successful, but I really wanted a more vivid color, so I ended up applying red Alcohol Ink and skipped roughing the surfaces. I used citrus and lettuce alcohol inks on the greenery. With a bit of trial and error I was able to mold the petals after heating section by section with a heat gun. After assembling the flower and attaching the layers with a brad,  I splattered white Distress Ink on it to resemble snow and hot glued a bit of bling to the center.


Since it's Christmas and I needed a hostess gift, I decided to apply my faux poinsettia to a candle rather than a tag. I wrapped a glittery ribbon around the candle near the bottom and then hot glued my flower and greenery to it. It may not look exactly like a poinsettia, but it's definitely festive!