Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2012 March tag

 I started to follow along with Tim Holtz 12 tags of  2012  here is my March tag

There was a cool technique that I learned from doing this tag.  How to make the mosaic butterflies. I used grungepaper covered it with wonder tape and  then made the die cut butterflies. After placing my pieces of paper I used black embossing powder to fill in the spaces. Once cooled I used glossy accents to cover each of the little pieces of paper. I loved this idea !!!

Creative Chemistry 101 day 2

As promised here is my homework
I used the distress ink for all tags.
The first tag was blending the distress inks, the second is brushless watercolor :) and the last tag is a wrinkle free tag. I LOVE  how they turned out!

as always feel free to leave a comment, I enjoy the feedback.

Creative Chemistry 101

I have decided to take another online class :)
This class is Creative Chemistry 101  taught by the professor himself Tim Holtz

I am really excited, and I will be sharing my homework products here with you.
The classes just started on Monday.
Class one we were given homework but did not make a "project"
Class two we have homework. We have three projects to make which I just finished. As soon as my batteries for the camera are charged up I will share my  projects with you.
until then take care
Donna

mums2stamp

Here is what I made using the stamp set "mums2stamp" from The {Stamps} of life

Stampin Up March club

What a great time we had this month and as usual Charlene sent out a link to us so that we could make a card and bring it to class.
And ummm  I won again :) I get my free ink pad of my choice!!
THANK YOU CHARLENE!!! ( and Kim for picking my name  hehehe)
here is the link to the sketch
and here is my take on the card sketch

these are the beautiful cards that we had made that day.
This first card is a quilted card we had a choice to emboss or not to emboss after adhering all the little squares.  I chose to emboss. I love it!

here is card #2 this was also a fun one to make. Learned something cool.

This last card #3 was also a cool technique to learn. Using a flower punch to make the butterfly !

We were also shown the new stampin up  insert to the score board. Needless to say we were shown how to make an envelope :)

Once I get the adtional links to the "how to's" I will update the post.
Until then happy scrappin'
Donna

February Swap

Hello everyone!!
I am soo excited to share with you what I have received from my Febraury swap partner Tee from The Altered Paper
I was sooo excited when I opened up my envelope and saw this wonderful tag! sooo pretty :)

and here are the extras that Tee had sent

Thank you Tee!!!! it was fun swappin' with you.

umbrella4you

Here is a card that I made using the monthly stamp set called "umbrella4you" I also used the 2 little birds from the stamp set called "hearts2love" and the grass came from the set called "eggs4Easter" these stamp sets are from the {Stamps} of Life by Stephanie Barnard
The inks that I used are the Tim Holtz distress ink and then I spritzed the product goosebumps to give it the wet look.

and the inside

another CHA 2012 post

Here I am along with Leanne owner of Scrapn With Flair and Laura Denison from following the paper trail

It was great to meet this VERY talented lady :)

more CHA 2012

here is another photo of moi with the wonderful Stephanie Barnard who is the owner of The stamps of life and also the rep for sizzix :)

very sweet and super nice !

CHA 2012

I am finally able to steal a few minutes to share some photos that were taken at CHA 2012. In this first photo is  Mr Tim Holtz himself !!! I was sooo excited to have taken another workshop that was put on by Ranger which included 3 WONDERFUL desginers.

Tim Holtz was the first one to teach us

and his awesome assistant Mario was there to help throughout the morning  (not sure why I had that weird look, I really was happy)

 here is my project that Tim had taught us in the workshop. I just love how it turned out.

 We were able to play with the new distress markers and water brush!!  We learned about the new "clay like" paper, and how his new Sizzix eclips cartridges work. The butterflies had been cut out using his new line of eclips cartridges. I loved every minute of the workshop.



The next designer was Claudine Hellmuth unfortunately I was not able to have a photo taken with her this time but here is my take on the project that she had shared with us.

This bag was made from canvas and we used Claudines stamps and paints. Love it!!
Her line of paints are really nice to use. You can learn more about them here at Ranger
Her paints and brushes are awesome I have purchased mine at a local on line store here

The third and last desginer was this most amazing and talented lady Dyan Reaveley who came all the way from  England to teach and show us her new products :)

and here is my finished project that she had taught us in the workshop.
Just a little something I will not forget - Dyan says "kitchen roll" we say paper towel  :)

I love Dyan's style, she brought to us her new ink sprays, stencils, stamps and images. You can learn more about her products at the Ranger site

I do have a couple more photos to post but it is late so it will have to wait till later this weekend.
Have a great Friday everyone!
Donna