Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2015

Can you believe that its that time again! another round of tags coming right up.

Here is my January tag. I made this awhile ago and I am finally able to post it.
Loved how it turned out.

Stampin Up November cards

Here are three beautiful cards that we made back in November.


Our first card is this wonderful "Vintage Christmas Trees" case'd from Too Cool Stamping

Love the look of this card


Our second card is the Bokeh technique case'd from Stampinatics

I have to say this card was my favorite! love, love this technique.


Our third and last card Regarding Dahlias with striped Scallop die was a combination from 2 places.
Regarding Dahlias in smokey slate & Regarding Dahlias in Style

This was also a great card to make. Love that flower!

There you go our November cards for the month. I loved all of them but did have a fav :)

Take care and I will be back soon with the Dec club cards.

Stampin Up November

WHEW! I am now into November! lol

I did not have time to enter the card sketch challenges for the last couple of months but this month I am joing in on the fun. The card sketch challenge this month comes from Pals Paper Arts PPA225

here is my take on the sketch challenge

I will be posting the November cards here in a few days. Untill then enjoy the weekend!

Donna

Stampin Up Oct Cards

Here are the October cards

Our first card is Elegant Ornamental Pine

The idea came from Susan Item @ Simple Stampin'
I LOVE this stamp set!  this branch is embossed which makes it a simple and elegant card.

Our Second card is Seasonally Scattered - Thanks
it is CASE'd from Craft-somnia Momma
This was such a nice card to make.

Our Third and last card  It's all in the angle

Idea (with video) from Deb Valder

This card was so cool to make. Loved it!


Oh and we had a bonus project this month. Christmas treat pouch.
This was CASE'd with video from Pootles (Sam Donald)

Just fill it with a little somethin' and hang it on the tree!
Thanks Charlene!

Donna

Stampin Up Club has started!

First I would like to apologize for being so behind. Today I am playing catch up :)
Our club started in Sept and I am finally going to post the cards that we made for the past 2 months and save the Nov cards for a couple more days before I post them. I have them ready but not everyone has had a chance to make them yet so I don't want to spoil it for them.

Here are the sept cards

This first card  was Case'd with video from Deb Valder
Love how this turned out

Our Second card was Case'd with video from Deb Valder
This was such a FUN card to make

Our third and last card was Case'd from Snowy Moose Creations
Such a pretty looking card

That is it for Sept.  Loved making all three of these cards!
Thanks Charlene for sharing with us :)
Donna

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2014 August

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2014 

It's the last day of August and I am squeaking in my tag just in the nick of time! whew!

For this month Tim wanted us to use our own creative muse.
Here is mine

I wanted to use something that I hadn't used in a while so I dug out my kraft glassine paper and diecut some of the tattered flowers. I stamped and diecut a butterfly using watercolour paper, distress ink and crackle paint. Embossing paste was used with the woodgrain stencil. Linen ribbon was used to finish off the tag.

Hope you all are enjoying this beautiful long weekend!
Donna

Altered playing cards!!

Everyone has an old deck of playing cards. Claudine would like for you to join in and have some fun altering them!
Claudine will be offering free tutorials for you to learn over the next six months. That is two cards per week.

Here is the link to check it out and see what all the fun will be about Altered playing card challenge or click on the side bar button :)

I am planning to join in and play along as much as I can. I hope you will to. It all starts Monday Sept 1 2014

Donna

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #9

Challenge #9  comes from page 63. We are playing with these fun Sizzix Alteration Framelits!  I love the combo of a sizzix die and stamp set that works together. Tim has a few of them out and at this moment I only own one set.

I decided I needed to get a gift box ready. I used the Tim Holtz sizzix jumbo flower die for the first time and I just LOVE it! I thought I would be able to work the butterflies into my project.

The butterflies come from the  "french flight" sizzix framelit set. I stamped the butterflies onto watercolour paper, that I coloured with distress markers. Once dried, I added a layer of crackle paint. Once the crackle paint was set I filled in the cracks with distress inks.

Here is a close up

From each challenge, the curiostiy crew picks a winner who will recieve an assortment of goodies from Tim and Mario!!
Also for this challenge Inspiration Emporium will be sponsoring with an awesome 50.00 shopping spree to one lucky random winner!

If you would like to join in on the challenges,  grab a copy of Tim's book and head over to Linda's and get started :)

Donna

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #8

I have been on holidays and missed a couple of the challenges. I am back with just a couple days left to enter challenge #8

The challenge we are working on is from page 58 Faded Layers.

I love these stencils!

I cannot tell you how I did this piece but I will tell you what colours I used.
The alcohol inks I used were sunset orange, clover, stream and silver. I also used a bit of silver acrylic paint. For the ribbon I used spiced marmalade, and tumbled glass.

I am needing to make a few thank you cards so I thought I would start making them now :)

Once again The Funkie Junkie Boutique is sponsoring this challenge with a 25.00 shopping spree!

If you would like to enter the challenge or join in on the next one you can join up at Studio L3

I am off to go get inky :)
enjoy your week everyone!
Donna

Suszen

Suszen is my niece who just had surgery and I wanted to make a special card for her.

I had made a lot of prints using my monoprinting plate from Stampendous and have been itching to start using them. I pulled one out that I thought would make a beautiful butterfly along with my Swallowtail stamp from Stampin up. I stamped and embossed with marcasite opal embossing powder also from Stampendous.

Love how this turned out.

The background paper that I had mounted the swallowtail came from stampin up water color wonder series.

Here is the finished card

Have a great weekend everyone!
I am starting my vacation  as of 5:00  Friday!