Christmas card with Harvey by Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, although I still have gold and white Harveys  waiting for a place on a card or a tag, I decided to make a more traditional nutcracker style Harvey. Here it is.

The thing is, that I wanted to use the Music&Advert Christmas stamp set for a very long time but the gold and white Harvey just didn't fit to this background - according to my taste :-) This is why I made a red Harvey.

For the background, as I mentioned, I used the Advert stamp from the Music&Advert stamp set. I stamped on a watercolour paper with Vintage Photo Archival ink.

Then I applied diluted Antique Linen ink on the whole surface and inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink.

Then I muted back with diluted white paint. I not just tapped the surface with that paint using a piece of sponge, but I also spattered the surface with the same watered paint.

Well, the background is ready. Now I will share with you some tips about Harvey. I've started to use these tricks with the gold Harvey and I used for my new Harvey as well. But I have to add here that my tricks are just additions to the Sizzix video that I also followed when I first assembled Harvey.

If you've already tried to put together a Harvey, you might realise that one part of Harvey's shoulder is deeper than the other part and you have to stick an epaulette here. I wanted to equalise this level difference. So I cut out two sets of epaulette, one from kraft paper and one from gold metallic paper. The kraft paper set were cut half and glued to the lower part. Then I could glue the gold epaulettes to an even surface.

The second thing. You might have noticed too, that the face where the moustache is to be glued is lower than the strap of the hat. I solved this problem by gluing the big white dots I cut out with the die says Face, to the back of the moustache. Here you can see the dots I was talking about.

Then here, in this picture you can see how I glued them to the moustache.

And the third trick is how I make the eyes. Some of the crafters thought I used google eyes, but no, I created the eyes. I used the small dots from the dots of the Face die-cuts. I glue them to the best position then I add a tiny drop of Nuvo Ebony Black Drops.

As you can see, I did't put from the tube directly on the eyes. Instead, I put a small amount on my working surface and with the tip of my poking tool I put an incredibly tiny dot on the eye.

So these were my Harvey tricks, I hope they were helpful for you.

 

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Harvey Colorize (666066)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Toyland Colorize (664972)

Sizzix Bigz die, Crescent Moon&Stars (658716)

Stampers Anonymous, Music&Advert (CMS358)

Idea-Ology, Paper Stash Metallic, gold and silver (TH93586)

Idea-Ology, Christmas paper pad (TH93988)

Ranger Distress inks (Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Ground Espresso, Aged Mahogany)

Ranger Distress Archival ink (Vintage Photo)

etc.

Vintage Hungarian Christmas cards #74

Santa Claus is coming to town in a beautiful red car which is filled with toys.

The postcard was posted in 1939.

You can find my other vintage Christmas postcards if you click on the label on the sidebar: "old Christmas cards"

And here you can see the same Santa Claus in a blue oldtimer.

Vintage Hungarian Christmas cards #55

Here is another vintage Christmas postcard from my collection. 

I assume the scene is a Christmas market where two lovely girls have chosen some toys from one of the stalls.

The card was posted in 1938.

You can find my other vintage postcards if you click on the 'old Christmas cards' label on the sidebar.

Thank you for stopping by!!!

Vintage Hungarian Christmas cards #38

Although in Hungary the children don't wait for Santa at Christmas Eve. (Santa, the Mikulás visits them on 6 December.) And yet, this is a Hungarian Christmas card with Santa. I guess this card is imported and the manufacturer printed it in several other languages with several other Merry Christmas texts. 

I love the image, the Santa with motorbike and the alive toys marching in the snow.

The card was posted in 1940.

You can find my other vintage Christmas card on the label: 'old Christmas cards' on the sidebar.

Aged decoupage box with vintage toys

As I've already told you before I made many decoupage boxes recently. This one is with vintage toys and I crackled the top and the bottom as well. I used DecoArt Americana paints (White Wash, Mint Julep Green) but I smeared a tiny amount of Americana Multi Surface Vanilla Shake to the top.

For the crackling I used DecoArt Americana Decor Crackle Medium.