Tim Holtz Tag-June 2013

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I feel like lately I am running to the wire on so many things in blogland-and being late to things in real life. Well tonight I am a bit early on one thing! LOL  I made my Tim Holtz tag for June 2013 tonight.  Here it is:

Tim shows how to blend the distress markers-super easy and fun!  You can check out all of the details here.  The background for the tag was cool.  I used Tim's Stamper Anonymous stamps Time Travelers (the man and gears), and the Paris postal images at the top are for the Paris to London collection.

I just want to say I love love LOVE how this tag turned out.  I was skeptical at first.  There's no Ideology or ribbon.  But when I started blending colors I saw the magic.  The background is very cool and easy too.  And as Tim does he brings it altogether.  Yay! :)

I love Mad Men and this guy sometimes reminds me of Don Draper if he were in the steampunk era of the 1800's or so.  Jon Hamm is going to be on the Kelly Ripa show tomorrow...I might need to dvr that! :)

Thank you for stopping by and until next time my friends...have a good evening! :)

Get the Map!

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I made a card for the Inkspirational Photo Challenge #24.  This is such a great picture.  I started out cutting a lighthouse on my Cricut.  And you know it just wasn't doing anything for me.  So I got out a new nautical stamp I bought at Hobby Lobby (love!) and some new distress ink from Joanne's (ok I have made the crafty rounds!).  And here is what I came up with...

My little boat is from a Fiskars set (I think).  All of the stamps on there are little so I had Tim Holtz's finger (hehe) it is a mover and shaker.  I colored it with black soot distress ink and then some rusty hinge and walnut stain.  Then I put some brass color distress stain over it.  It gave it this cool shimmer color.  I positioned the finger to point to the little boat so it wouldn't get lost in the "sea."  Oh also it's embossed with Ranger platinum embossing powder which seems to be really awesome.  I outlined it with black pen to make it stand out.

In red pen I drew the path and X marks the spot.  The sentiment is from Tim Holtz and I used peacock feathers, dusty concorde, and mustard seed distress ink to color the sentiment box.  I used some gold paint T.H. paint dabber around the edges.  The map stamp is pretty big so I tore the edges around it.  I used black soot on the actual card then adhered the map.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...enjoy the journey! ;)

Think Vacation!

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Summer is in full force!  Nice warm weather and afternoon showers :) and I love everything about it!  That's why I couldn't pass up this week's challenge at Inkspirational.  It was a color challenge and these colors are all summer to me.  Here's my card:

Here is the challenge: #23 Color Challenge.

My hibiscus is from the Life is a Beach cartridge (I think this one's my favorite!).  Then I used orange and yellow stickles to add a bit of glitter.  The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday Stamps.  My sister got them for me for Christmas and this is the first time I am using this set.  Better late than never :)  I used orange embossing powder for the sentiment also.  I used a hexagon embossing folder to add a bit of texture behind my flower.

Thank you guys for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends...stay cool! :)

9 to 5

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I finished a page for a couple of challenges.

The first challenge is at Let's Scrap.  It is NSD13#32-use at least 50% of October Afternoon products on a layout.

The second challenge is going on for the whole month of June.  It's called Let's Get Trendy Now! I am submitting this page for Day 3-handmade embellishments.  Make sure to check out the other days' challenges and projects.  Yvonne, Amy, and Julie are super talented and they have guest designers too.

Here's my page.  All of the paper is October Afternoon except the brown cardstock and the beige photo mats.  The center of the top flower, around the title, and the 2 graphics on the right are fussy cut from sheets of paper.

The ric rac and seam binding (brown between the pattern papers) are from my stash.  The letters are from Thickers but the 9 to 5 part is the name of the line, and I fussy it cut it out from the paper.  The flower are made from pattern tissue paper and the file folder is hand drawn and cut.

Home Made Embellie:  Here's is a close up of one of the pattern paper flowers.  I used Tim Holtz's floral die and made many of each of the 3 flowers.  That's a Tim Holtz button in the middle.   I drew and cut out that little file folder.  I used leftovers from a bolder to make this one.  The Notes is a sticker from Cosmo Cricket.

Home Made Embellies:  Here is another flower.  Creating Keepsakes actually showed how to do this so that I had been wanting to try it.  Then center is a clock from one of the OA papers and I put and epoxy sticker over it.  The lady on the phone and the round ribbon ad are from the OA papers also.  I fussy cutted them out.

Here I did some more fussy cutting and decorated around the title.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends...what a way to make a livin! ;)

Chalkboard Technique

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It's a brand new Tuesday and the first of June and time to learn something new at Technique Tim Tuesday!  This month Julz is the challenge hostess and she has chosen this very cool chalkboard technique.

I made a new home card (or at least that's what I intended on anyways!).  So my chalkboard has a few different kind of word stamps and a Wendy Vecchi house stamp in the middle.  Smile is a sticker that I used to be the sentiment.

I can't wait to see what ya'll create for this challenge.  Also, my Crewmates have some pretty amazing examples so be sure to stop by for that and challenge directions.  You can go here.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends have a great day! :)

Chirp Chirp!

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I have been wanting to make a bird cage forever and I finally made one!  :)  I made over a year ago and I have it hanging in my scrapbook room-so I thought it was time for another one.

I am submitting this little cage into the following challenges:

Alter It at Let's Scrap

Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Challenge #22 Anything Goes at Inkspirational

I started with one of these paper mache boxes.  It measures 2 and 3/4 inches across the bottom so it isn't big.  I gessoed both pieces but I just used the top for my bird cage.

Here's my bird cage!  I used my crop-a-dile and punched 6 holes in the lip of the lid.  I painted it too, but the flowers covered it up so that doesn't matter as much.  The flowers are a ribbon from Tim Holtz that come white but I colored them with worn lipstick distress stain (my new favorite color!)

I put the wires in and kind of looped the ends through the holes.  Then I glued the flower ribbon on.  The cage part can be a bit challenging at times.  You have to let go of perfection and go for whimsical.  LOL :)  I used Glossy Accents for all of my gluing needs.

I put some white fibers in the very bottom and then put the fun colorful curly fibers on top.  The chick is a little Easter egg left in my son's toy box from past Easter egg hunts.  I don't think he will miss it ;)  This little chick was inspired by Pinterest.  You can see the original chicky here.

I glued eyes and a feather on.  I made the beak out of orange cardstock.

I had the sequin strain from some ribbons that Michaels sold many years ago.  It was from a Peter Rabbit collection I think.

Here's a close up of this little guy.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends have a tweet day! :)

All Boy Layout

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Over at Let's Scrap they have been doing a challenge a day to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day Month!  There are so many I want to do but time is such a factor!  There are a few that I am down to the wire on!  So I am going to post this and then go work on something! :)

There were 4 different ways to create backgrounds.  I chose to use spray mist and paint and stencils.  I used sketch 5-11-11.

The one tricky thing was that you couldn't use white cardstock.  So I have a light blue cardstock here.  It may look grey but it is more of a light blue.

I used a couple of different stencils.  I also have the cardboard from game pieces and I like to use those as stencils too.  I used Tim Holtz's broken china and salty ocean distress paint and a light blue acrylic paint from hobby lobby.  Also, I used a paint brush and painted circles and the edge with the dylsuions ink.  I just put the paint brush in the bottle.  I like doing that because it creates an intense color.

I used paper to create a mask and a stencil from Tattered Angels (at least that's where I think the swirls came from) ;).

I sprayed blue Dylusions ink.  I was in a monotone mood-which doesn't ever seem to ever happen but I had so much fun!  I used some sequins, rhinestones, and buttons from Martha Stewart and outlined some white letters from Making Memories.

Here's a close up of the journaling.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a great night! :)