Looks like a well-loved toy soldier that's been through a tiny war. Thanks for keeping us up on new ideas!!!

@cassandracleveland

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I’m thinking! Some little kiddo (or doggy) ran him through the dirt, chewed on him, and had him over for mud pie. I love the story ideas behind that cute grungy soldier!

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps he had some trouble getting his ice cream and that's why he looks like that?!

@cassandracleveland

Жыл бұрын

@@luiseheinzl that’s so funny! I love it!

Poor Harvey has been through the wars! Fantastic as always Luise. X

I am a maker who loves taking existing dies and converting them in many ways and many styles. Your little soldier is fabulous!

Love taking the die cut in a different direction. I have a few of the fussy ones, and struggle to make them work in a more grungy journal-now I know! I did laugh out loud at how the closed captions translate “ junk journal” to “ drunk journal”!😂😂😂

So cool, I showed my husband and he said " now that's your kind of stuff". He knows I love grunging things up and making them worn and old looking. You are so good at explaining and teaching! He looks so good grunged up and distressed. This was so much fun watching your process! Thanks Luise!!

Luise you have a gift for teaching. I had the thought that you are like a female version of Tim Holtz because like him, you give us the details and thoughts behind the product and process. I have learned so much from you and I’m grateful you chose to be a KZread teacher. I thank you by not skipping commercials when watching your art tutorials on KZread.

@barbaracabrera207

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree!!!

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry for my late reply! You gave me tears of joy with this comment! That's the biggest compliment I could ever get! Thank you sooooo very much!!!!

👍🏻Omg, I love the technique you taught us how to distress the die cuts you just cut out from the die. Love that distressed little guy. Thank you for sharing on how to go about distressing and making something look more grungy. Love it. Fantastic video and very helpful. 👍🏻👍🏻

It always amazes me how well you take an item to distressed! Love these results ❤

He’s so wonderfully grungy. Thank you for teaching us all of the steps, details and products to create this fellow. The distressing is next level and now I’m off to try this. 🤗🇨🇦🤗

@barbaracabrera207

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

This little guy looks like he’s come out of a foxhole. Marvelous what this paper can do and handle. Thanks for showing us the different ways to distress die cuts made with these papers. I just put these packs of paper on my A wishlist! Have a great week.

I am LOVING what you did with your die cut! Wonderful ideas!!! 🥰

Your little soldier needs a home in a 3D picture book of the tin soldier who fell in love with the paper ballerina. Thank you for such a good, childhood memory❤

This was a fantastic lesson. Thank you so very much! 💜

Wow, that little fella has really been through a war! What cool effects! I love it.

I never appreciated this die cut until you made this grungy guy, he’s so cute.

I love what you did. You took him from ok to awesome.

I can't believe how much you beat up this poor guy, ha ha ha. You take grunge to a whole new level! Great, can't wait to see what you do with him.

He is so magically grungy and perfect! TY ❤

That was amazing! I loved this tutorial and you are an amazing teacher!

He now looks like a very well-loved toy soldier… who is very ready for retirement in a junk journal

Luise, you made the little guy look like a zombie soldier 🤣🤣🤣 It is beautiful though 😍😍❤️

Hello Luise, love how your gunged him up', so cool. TFS💙

You are sooooo talented as well as a gifted teacher!!!!!!

I can’t even comment right now! You have yet again amazed me so much I am speechless! I will try to organize my thoughts for a later date!!! ❤❤❤

Thank you for doing these videos in English. You made this guy look awesome! I often look at my dies and wonder what I could possibly do with them as I love the grunge!

What a wonderfully informative video! It helps a lot to know the ideas behind the design of the paper, for example. Thanks for taking the time to explain that. I also love the way you grunged up the little soldier in such a charming way. I hope you will show us the finished tag sometime in the future!

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

Yep! That video is going to come tomorrow!

Hello Luise! Thanks for taking the radical path! 🐡

What wonderful creative ideas, you just amaze me!!!!

OMGoodness... this is so great Luise. I was in awe watching this process and then the oxidation... WOW! You definitely have a gift in creativity and inspiration. I so agree with what @birgitjohnson3668 said below... you are a female Tim Holtz in your fabulous explaining and teaching abilities... thorough with endless possibilities. I guess he is the 'king' and you are the 'queen'... LOL. LOVE the grunge! Thank you for sharing.

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

your words make me smile so much. Thank you!!!

These little guys are so cute an definitely grungy!

I thought just like you,... a lot of the Sissix die cuts are too "pretty" to use in vintage journals! Really for card making!!! NOT!!! You always think of things no one else thinks of!!! Tim Holtz is LUCKY to have you working with him as a maker!!! You are a "grungy genius"!!! I'd love to take an adventure thru your brain!!! It would be like "riding the rapids" on the river! I always forget you can split the layers of cardstock!!! Waching this little guy go from CUTE to GRUNGY was SO much fun!!! NOW I want to buy some of these die cuts and try your grungy techniques!!! I'm amazed at how GREAT this little guy came out!!! Your videos remind me of Tim Holtz videos cuz you explain how to do techniques and how tools & suppies work!!! I LOVE to understand my tools & supplies so I can get all the benefts they provide. GREAT VIDEO, LUISE!!! Thank you for sharing these unique ideas! Hugs from Austin TX USA

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

awww :) thank you so much!!!

Luise, I'm so at awe work your talent I agree you are a female Tim Holtz. I'm so glad you explain what your thoughts are. I absolutely love this idea. Thank you

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! That means the world to me!

Taking Sizzix dies to the next level. 👍🏼

Yes, love this - thank you! 🇺🇸Texas USA

Luise: well demonstrated. Looks good! Carol from California

I have the original Tim Holtz texture hammer it has screw on heads and one of them has those round bumpy bits. I'm not sure what they are called but has same dimple texture. Alot of stuff are really old, I have edge distresser used to roughen edges of card or paper it looks like thread cutter. Alternatively you can use scissors. I feel like only person who hasn't got a die cutting machine but may get second hand one in the future. Alot of crafters just darken the edges thry don't do anything fancy. After watching your video it has inspired me to grunge up thinfs like tags, frames, etc. Lately, I have been facing creative slump with junk journaling. You are definitely are queen of grunge. My kind of style because new things eventually becomes old and decayed due entropy.

He certainly looks like he has had a tough night guarding the kingdom.

Oh wwwooowww, this is so awesome! I love it! Thankyou for showing it to us!

Oh my gosh. I love this! Thank you!

Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas. It is a big help.

Thanks so much for sharing your process with us. He would look great with any of your gorgeous backgrounds ❤

I love this so much!

I absolutely love this ❤ thank you

What a fabulous project!!!

Thanks for sharing this cool idea

These are wonderful!

Very cool!

Very cool!😊

Love it

I love this

Too cute!🤩

Poor Harvey looks like he has been to war after Luise gets ahold of him 😆. Great tutorial my friend. Blessings from Canada 🇨🇦

love it

The problem is that this is still a soldier no matter how grungy and soldiers are a very specific subject matter that does not always fit in a grunge journal. What I saw was the potential to use the various layers separately as objects in, for example, a collage. The individual die cuts have the chance to be something other than a soldier. Even your negative cuts offer great potential as individual elements in mixed media. Not everything has to be a version of the original intended image.

@linda9918

Жыл бұрын

I don’t agree with that, grunge is not Altered Art it just a style of having that dirty look and does not have to even a specific color. Any color can be grunged.

I dont have special skills and i use die cuts all the time. I put mine in junk journals every day nearly. Omg u really do junk journaling different than i maybe. Im all about using my die cuts and i adore how they can be used. Ok i was watching while commenting. Im so happy you decided to try them. Arent they fun. I dont have enough now. Im getting more next payday

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

And that's the whole fun about it, that everyone uses them differently & we can inspire each other to try new things !

He is so grungy cute the queen would have sent him home to change 😅

Love him😍👍

Love it!!!!!!!! Mucky-muck it up!!!!!!! This certainly takes that concept to new levels! Sharing this with the rest of the group so they can see an alternative to the abundance of pristine ephemera!!!!!!! I missed what kind of paper this is that separates like that one did???

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

the paper was kraft stock by Tim Holtz, but it works with nearly any other paper as well that's a bit thicker

The grungy soldier ❤

I love your videos Luise❤. I understand the need to put something made for you and not cookie cut, but must be a distress to be journal or mix media. Asking because I see it often and I’m the opposite, I want to better what I have in hand. Is that made my art a different kind of art?

@allisonjames2923

Жыл бұрын

Junk journals come in all styles. They don’t have to be distressed & vintage by any means. It’s just about making something you love & not being bound by “rules” of what something should look like. Vintage & distressed are an interesting trend though, when we live in an era of everything new & almost everything being disposable. Back in the 50’s & 60’s, after the war, most people had to make do with what they had, wear hand me downs, hand-make gifts, & recycle things, like unravelling jumpers to knit something that seems new, or putting ribbons or something onto an old dress to jazz it up. Then as the economies & countries began to recover & technology advanced rapidly, people wanted brand new. And they bought & bought & bought housefuls of new appliances, couches, beds, toys, clothes etc. And then as technology progressed, packaging & freezing methods became more advanced & things were made more cheaply, we stopped fixing things & it became easier & often cheaper to throw things out when they became worn or broke. Advancements in health & the understanding of diseases also affected this & made more things single-use. And gradually, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. We have begun to realise how much damage we’ve done to the world by being a disposable society. We began to value antiques again, & things that had a rich history, but since genuine antiques still cost a lot, people began to make faux antiques by distressing furniture. And that became a whole art movement of collecting & creating vintage & distressed items. Plus we recycle so we made junk journals that can be made of anything & everything. And unlike in centuries gone by, when paper was very expensive & not easy to get & few people could read or write or had time or money for “frivolous” arts or crafts, and had a very rigid rules-based society (for example, where well brought up young ladies were taught to paint landscapes & still lifes, but we’re not allowed to be professional artists) so if they had a journal, it was supposed to be well cared for, include bible texts (or excerpts from whatever religion they followed), be “proper”. But now, we have a much more free society where we can express ourselves freely in art, in journals & in all the other creative media we have access to. So your junk journal can be whatever you want it to be. It can be made from all beautiful handmade papers, or you can dye your papers whatever colour you like & include whatever you want in it. There are no rules. And as you browse YT, you’ll find people who make their journals just the way you like. And you’ll find people like Luise & 49Dragonflies who love distressing things & getting messy. As long as you enjoy watching them & don’t feel pressured to change your style unless you really want to & it makes you happy that’s all that matters. 😊🤗 Happy crafting

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He’s been wounded in battle!

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

The battle of eating ice cream 🍨!

@DLRTraynorCoberly

Жыл бұрын

@@luiseheinzl he has stories to tell!

Velcro is the correct word.

I love what you have done to this diecut, hes gorgeous! But I'm laughing because you're not English and you've just destroyed a British icon!!!

@luiseheinzl

Жыл бұрын

well.... it's just paper?! I know what you mean, but as you said, I have no connection to that, so that's maybe why I can see him just as a little guy... :)