A Compendium of Curiosities -- Book Review
Do you love paper crafting? Tim Holtz has written a handbook for using many of his signature products lines. My review shares a few of my favorite techniques and one of my finished tags.
The nitty gritty
Next come two sections that are the real meat of the book. Ideas includes 22 pages of suggestions for using many of the hardware, paper, rubber stamps and grunge board items in the various Tim Holtz lines. Techniques give the reader 35 pages of samples and step-by-step instructions for many of the techniques perfected by Tim.
The final section is a Gallery of several pages of finished projects. These include scrapbook pages, tags cards and a frame.
I think this book is a must for all fans of Tim Holtz and his many products. Keep in mind that there are no instructions for the finished projects in the gallery--just suggested uses for the products sold under the Tim Holtz brand name.
A few of my favorites
I tried some techniques on this card
I used the Tag and Bookplates die to make the tag. The red oval frame is one of the bookplates. The pink paper for the tag is from the Vintage Shabby paper stack
The heart on the lower right side was made by attaching a mask to the tag and then spritzing over it with some Glimmer Mist. When the mask if removed, the lighter paper shows through in the shape of a heart. The white heart in the upper right corner is a button from my stash.
I attached the completed card to a white card base and attached a bit of ribbon to the tag.
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Ranger 15-Inch-by-18-Inch Inkssentials Craft Sheet
This re-usable, non-stick, multi-purpose craft she more...1 point
Tonic Studios Tim Holtz 817 Kushgrip Non Stick Micro Serrated Snips
The Tim Holtz Mini Serrated snips have a non-stick more...0 points
Seasonal Paper Stash Paper Pad (Tim Holtz)
ADVANTUS-Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Paper Stash Pad: Sea more...0 points
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Vintage Photo
Developed to produce a realistic weathered look on more...0 points
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Timepieces Clock Faces
Part of Tim Holtz's Idea-ology Collection. This pa more...0 points
What's new online?
These feeds feature new posts about the "Compendium of Curiosities".
- Chazen Museum of Art's enjoyable Compendium 2012 is a sprawling collection of ...
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- Some of the everyday "uniqueness" we find in the LA area
- Atlas Obscura a/k/a the Obscura Society is an organization whose members visit and write about ?a compendium of the world's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica.? Or what we at blogging.la call ?Tuesday?. Atlas Obscura is worldwide, and big in London, ...
- Author and U.S. Memory Champion Joshua Foer to explore the meaning of memory
- He also is the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, an online compendium of ?the world's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica.? The Art and Science of Remembering Everything is part of the Roland Quest Lecture Series at Elmhurst College.
- A Dozen of the Best from 2011
- With his wife Ann he founded Weirdfictionreview.com and co-edited three 2011 anthologies: ODD?, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. He regularly reviews books for the New York Times ...
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A must have for Tim Holtz inking techniques
Ranger Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool-with 2 Blending Foams
Amazon Price: $2.67 (as of 02/23/2012)
This blending tool and the non-stick craft mat are key components for any of the Distress Ink techniques shown in A Compendium of Curiosities.
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