Here's an ATC I made recently for a trade, the only requirement being that it take inspiration from Tim Holtz. I was stuck for ideas, so I perused my copy of Tim's book "Compendium of Curiosities" to get some guidance. I really wanted to use my distress inks, that was my only criteria. I decided upon waterstamping - which is fairly faint in the background. This technique seems to work best with dark colors of ink and bold stamps and sometimes I get a much better look than others. What can I say? I'm no Tim Holtz, I swear he has the magic touch for some of these techniques!
Then built up layers with a stamped image and then added a grungeboard piece that I embossed with Distress Embossing powders, even the brads were embossed to fit it. The base paper is also from Tim's line of Adirondack's.
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Rinda