A Holly Jolly Ranger Christmas!

 

We've now had four weeks of festively distressed fun playing with the Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Powders along with our wonderful line of Dreamweaver Stencils and products. Huge thanks to Tim Holtz and the fab people at Ranger for sharing these four collaborative weeks with us, and providing the yummy shades of Distress Powders for us to create with. We've been inspired by the process, and we hope you have, too!

If you haven't won one of the prize packages yet, you still have one more opportunity this week as the set below is up for grabs to a random commenter on one of the Dream Team blogs.

If you've been following along each week, you've seen some gorgeous creations with these stencils and powders, so you should be all fired up to get distressed! If you've missed the first three weeks, check them out once you've made the rounds today:

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

My festively distressed project for this week is this:

MATERIALS
Dreamweaver LL 3005 Holly & Berries Stencil
Dreamweaver Double Sided Mounting Paper
Dreamweaver Large Stencil Brush
Handmade Coconut Soap
Ranger Distress Powders in Pine Needles and Peeled Paint
Distress Embossing Ink (optional)
Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel
Dry Stickles in Eucalyptus
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Ink Blending Tool
Tim Holtz Alterations Holly Die Cut
Inkssentials Shrink Plastic
Manual Die Cut Machine, such as the Vagabond
Heat It Craft Tool
Stickles in Christmas Red
Archival Ink in Olive and Library Green
Big Bite
Sandpaper
Cardstock in Kraft and green
Green Scrappers' Floss
Two Red Beads
Adhesive
Paper Towel

DIRECTIONS:
1) Soap the back of the stencil.

2)  You will find that the soaping leaves little fragments clinging to the stencil.  Brush those off.

3)  Remove one side of the mounting paper.  Attach stencil soap side down onto mounting paper.
4)  Pour some of the Pine Needles Distress Embossing Powder onto the stencil.  Use your finger to push it into the wells around the edges.

5)  Pour some Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Powder onto the stencil and push into the wells.  Run it right over the top of the Pine Needles, because that helps it blend in those areas.  Be sure to rub it in well.  Don't forget the edges.

6)  Brush off the excess powder.

7)  Place stencil side down on a hard surface and carefully peel mounting paper off of stencil.

8)  Heat the embossing powder until it melts.  Don't overheat.

 



9)  Cover newly exposed adhesive paper with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder.  Rub in a little.

10)  Heat UTEE (Ultra Thick).  While still warm, sprinkle with a little Dry Stickles.

11)  Either reheat the UTEE portion and pour more Ultra Thick on, or touch area with Embossing ink and cover with Ultra Thick.  Brush off of green areas.

12)  Heat again.  Place in freezer a few moments.

13)  Remove from freezer and "crack"

14)  Use blending tool to rub on Vintage Photo Ink.

 

15)  Wipe with damp towel.

16)  Add Stickles to berries.  Let dry.

17)  Use die cut machine and Tim Holtz die to cut out holly leaves from shrink plastic.

18)  Use Big Bite to punch holes in leaves.

19)  Sand one side of leaves.

20)  Rub sanded side on Olive Archival Ink Pad.  Rub tips of leaves on Library Green pad.

21)  Heat and shrink.

22)  Assemble card.

Okay, so maybe it isn't exactly CAS, but it was really fun!  And I loved the results.



Don't forget to leave me some love before hopping to the rest of the Dream Team blogs:

The Ranger Blog

Dream It Up!

Kristi Van Doren

Lee Kellogg

Georgia Sommers

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Pam Hornschu

Liz Martin

Cyndi Bundy

Cherylynn Moser
Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Please remember to continue to follow the team through the Dream It Up! blog as we bravely go where no stenciler has gone before, to like us on our Facebook page, and to learn from our fabulous weekly Thursday Tutorials on Paper Craft Planet as well.