Embossing a Jar with Tim Holtz Die Cuts

Oh hey and happy Friday! Super excited to share a project I worked on a few months back using a few new Tim Holtz die cuts for Creativation.  For those of you who don’t know me, I am a.d.d. when it comes to staying in the same place with art.  I am always looking for a way to try something new, find a different niche, and perhaps even break the rules a bit. (Look at my instagram feed and you will see what I’m saying…lol!)  Are you like that too? Though I am a big fan of Tim’s style and I am very much a vintage girl at heart, I wanted to show a different side of Tim’s die. It is important to me that I explore the bandwidth of a product.  Making a stencil from the Bouquet and Doodle Art dies made perfect sense! I have been into modern and clean decor lately so I approached this project with that in mind. Reality is, I could have easily made a card. I could have made something old and weathered. Both would work. But I didn’t want to take those avenues.  There is something satisfying about finding a different path, that is where the heart of my art is, and that inevitably, is what keeps me going.

So here is the project I made.  Super easy!   I bought this jar at Hobby Lobby but you can recycle one, buy it from Goodwill or a garage sale, wherever.  I applied gold leafing to the jar as indicated on the gold leafing packaging.  While waiting for it dry, I die-cut the Bouquet image from card stock, creating a stencil. (List and link of products is at the bottom of this post.) Once the leafing had dried, I misted the back of the “stencil” with Pixie Spray and adhered it down.  Using a worn credit card, I applied Texture Paste to the image. Once the entire design was covered with the paste I did a clean sweep with the card and then lifted off the stencil and let it dry.  That was it!

The smaller bottle was even easier! No gold leafing involved at all. I wiped the outside of the bottle with alcohol first and then applied a different die cut, Doodle Art. Both of these dies are a favorite of mine. I will share some other projects I created with them later.

I love this die design so much. It would make a fabulous addition to a wedding table scape. Hmmmm. 🙂 . The wedding florist that I am in my other life, has some ideas going now! 😉

Now, are you interested in these flower pods? They are a Tim Holtz die cut too! Can you guess?

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XO,

Debi

I have included a list of the products I used to create the above projects. Just so you know, I am part of an Affiliate Link. That means that I earn a percentage of any sale of products but that cost is never passed on to you, the customer. I appreciate you coming here whether you purchase anything or not. My passion is to make art accessible and easy for everyone.

I also used gold leafing. It is available at your local craft store