Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault 2025 - Floristry Sidekick Side-Order Van Gogh Inspired 3 Sunflowers In A Vase

WOW, this blog is very dusty. Hello All! I hope this post finds each of you doing so well! I have not been creating much this year due to some medical issues, but I was fortunate enough to get to create a little something for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Spring Vault Launch. There are two parts to this launch with 5 sets out today, and the next part will come out on the 31st. The first five sets are the Vault Edge, Vault Industrial, Vault Atomic Retro, Vault Noteworthy, and the Sidekick Side-Order Vault Floristry, and I've used the last two to create another Van Gogh inspired Sunflowers piece, this time a 4x5 inch canvas, and using his 3 Sunflowers In A Vase as my guide. (If you missed my other two Van Gogh inspired pieces, click here for The 12 Sunflowers and here for The Poppies.) Enjoy!

I actually made two at the same time....one for Sizzix and one for home that I framed from a gorgeous little frame I found at an antique mall. 

I used this image as my guide with the dies from the Side-Order Vault Floristry to create both canvases much the same as I did the others. 

 

(Note: It's good to print off the Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A Vase for reference while you work, or have the pics on your phone to use for detail work.) Take a 4x5 inch canvas (I did 2, a chunky and a panel.) and using a palette knife, apply a thin layer of Opaque Distress Texture Paste from Tim and Ranger,  to the whole canvas dividing up wall (vertical lined pattern) and where the table part (about 1 inch wide horizontal line pattern) will be. Let the canvas dry about an hour.

 

Paint over the top textured area with Broken China Distress Paint. While the paint is still wet add a bit of Picket Fence Distress Paint here and there vertically (using the pic as your guide) creating stripes of color while blending them for a soft striated look. Using Scorched Timber Distress Paint, add a line of paint where the blue ends, and then dashes of Vintage Photo, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, and Rusty Hinge filling in the whole bottom area, again using the pic as your guide. Let the canvas dry. 

 

Free hand cut the vase (about 1.5 inches tall) from scrap cardstock and add two sided tape to the back. Using the Distress Paints, Broken China, Picket Fence, Scorched Timber, Twisted Citron, and Peeled Paint, try to recreate the look of the vase in the pic. Begin die cutting the leaves and stems using scrap green cardstock backed with two sided tape, from the Floristry Side Order. Use either Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, or Scorched Timber to paint in the leaves and stems, following the pic.

 

Emboss the vase with the Honeycomb looking Texture Fade, and then use a bit of Scorched Timber around the edges of the vase. When dry, apply Collage Medium to the canvas where the vase will go, remove the backing and stick it on, coating it with Collage Medium as you go. When dry, play with the arrangement of leaves and stems to see where they will go, and begin to stick them on with the Collage Medium as well.

 

 

Add two sided tape to the back of light and dark yellow cardstock scrap, and begin die cutting all the flower petals and centers using the Floristry Side-Order, as well as the circle from Vault Noteworthy for a few more round center pieces. Begin to layer the petals and centers by removing the backing and sticking them together until you have all three flowers with a look similar to the pic.

 

Adhere the flowers on covered them with Collage Medium. When dry, use the paints to add more detail all the parts.

 

Finish off the canvas by adding dots of Ranger Liquid Pearls in Dark Chocolate, Key Lime, and Wendy Vecchi's Sunflower, and Orange Blossom to the centers of the flowers. Let dry, and then coat the whole canvas with more Collage Medium (Crazing if you have it.).

 

Supplies:

(Palette Knife, Medium and Small Paint Brush, Scissors, Two Sided Tape, Side Kick Die Cut Machine, Die Pick)

-4x5 Inch Chunky Canvas and/or Flat Canvas

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Opaque

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Broken China, Picket Fence, Scorched Timber, Vintage Photo, Squeezed  Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Crazing

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Sidekick Side Order (Spring 2025): Floristry 

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits (Spring 2025): Vault Noteworthy 

-Scraps of yellow and green cardstock

-Ranger Liquid Pearls: Dark Chocolate, Key Lime

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Liquid Pearls: Sunflower, Orange Blossom

-Print Out of Van Gogh 3 Sunflowers In A Vase 

Thank you truly for stopping by here today, and for the support. I so appreciate you all. I will be back again soonish. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Tim Holtz Sizzix Sidekick Side-Order Series 2024: Christmas Dress Up Paper Doll Letterboard Cards

Hello All! Exciting news today! Tim Holtz and Sizzix have just added to the uber cute Sidekick Line with five new Side-Order Dies and (Longer) Texture Fades. They are the Letterboard, Christmas, Valentine, Birthday Celebration, and Cafe. They are so super cute, and just because they are small to fit into the Sidekick, you can still use them for larger projects like I did on these 5x7 Christmas Cards. I had so much fun with the sentiments and the dressing up of the paper dolls...I think some of these are hilarious! Enjoy!

Before I jump into the step outs for the cards, I wanted to tell you a bit about the Sidekick  and Side-Orders. I use my Sidekick always while traveling, because it suctions down perfectly on the travel glass mat and fits into the small Sizzix Storage Boxes (the fabric ones). I keep the Sidekick, the acrylic plates (long and short), the embossing plate, sticky grids, and adhesive strips in one box, and the Side-Orders in another...so convenient.

I use the Sizzix Side-Order Storage Envelopes to store  all the dies and fades to keep everything all tidy. They come four to a pack. 

First I fold the paper image to fit into the envelope, and then cut magnetic sheet to fit into that and add the dies on. The previous Side-Orders had smaller Texture Fades, and this release has longer and wider, so I use scissors to snip the slit in the back a little on each side to fit the width of the new fade. I put the dies inside, and slip the one side of the fade into the opening. They are stack nicely in the storage box. This really is a perfect system for traveling, OR if you have a small craft space yet still want to be able to use Dies.
 

 After planning out the cards, I started with the Letterboards first. I cut Black Kraftstock the same size as the Texture Fade, and then ran it through the Sidekick in the fade just one time for a nice embossing. I die cut all the letters for the sentiments on the boards as well using Distress Watercolor Paper from Ranger. 

 

 For the Santa face on the Cabinet Card, I die cut all the pieces, and did two of the mustache to use the other pieces as eye brows. I traced the face part on the back of the solid whole piece and then cut it out so that the face could be seen on the card. I adhered all the pieces together with Collage Medium.

 

 While I was die cutting all the pieces from the Christmas set (two each of the Gingerbread Man (one with a cut out bite) and four Holly), I noticed that the red Holly pieces could be poinsettias, and since you have the pieces after doing the Berries, I also made the poinsettias, adding gold pieces to the centers and then having the extra gold parts so I added those too.

 

 After embossing the Candy Cane Stripe Fade with Watercolor Paper, I used a Detail Waterbrush to add stripes of the Barn Red Distress Ink. I did two of these, and then cut each into eight strips, four for each Letterboard for the frame.

 I adhered the Letters in place first and then added the strips of Candy Cane to the edges, cutting off the excess. I inked the edges of these and pretty much everything with Vintage Photo Archival Ink, even the paper dolls. I used permanent markers to color in some of the parts on the dolls as well.

 For the backgrounds, I misted Watercolor (cut to 4.5 x 6.5 inches) with water first, then Tumbled Glass Distress Spray Stain and Distress Oxide Spray. While drying I misted Tumbled Glass Distress Spritz over.

 Using the Music and Advert Stamp Set from Stamper's Anonymous, I stamped the script in Speckled Egg Archival, and then the snowflakes from Mr. Frostie in Glacier White. I mounted this onto Black Kraftstock, and then Kraft Cardstock base cards cut and folded to 5x7 inches. I added all the pieces onto the front, and then used Snowfall Distress Grit Paste for all the snow areas. I needed it more white, so I inked over it with the Glacier White. Then I covered the snow with Sparkle Distress Texture Paste, as well as the berries and the fur on the hats.

 

 

Supplies:

(Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Glass Mat, Sidekick Machine, Die Pick, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Detail Waterbrush, Water Mister, Stamp Platform, Small Paintbrush)

-Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Nostalgic Collection Cardstock

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Sidekick Side-Order 2024: Christmas, Letterboard 

-Ranger Surfaces: Black Cardstock, Kraft Cardstock, Watercolor Cardstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Paper Dolls, Found Relatives, Christmas Cabinet Cards, Metallic Kraftstock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Barn Door

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray: Tumbled Glass

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray: Tumbled Glass

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Music and Advert, Mr. Frostie

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink: Speckled Egg, Vintage Photo

-Ranger Pigment Ink: Glacier White

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Grit Paste: Snowfall

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste: Sparkle

-White Pen, Permanent Markers

 

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! I so appreciate y'all! Until next time, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!