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!

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #5

Here I am on challenge #5!

We are now working from page 39 Distress watercoloring from the Tim Holtz book Compendium of Curiosites 3!

Here is my tag using the technique found on page 39

The sponsor for this week challenge comes from an online store Inspiration Emporium
If you would like to join in on the challenges you can skip over to Studio L3 

just a little challenge

It's been raining almost everyday for the past week and yes the forecast is rain for this weekend, sigh.

Charlene thought it would be fun to send out a challenge for who ever would like to particapate.

Here is the link to the card sketch which comes from Freshly Made Sketches
Love this sketch.

Here is my version

Wishing you all sunshine!
Donna

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2014 June

Here I am in mid June and I have my June tag finished!!

This month we are into blended watercolour. I love the look of watercolours so I was excited to play!

Once again I am using stencils. Love how versatile they have become for me well worth the money spent.

I also learned a new way to do the ribbon on the tag. Love this look!

Wishing you all a great week!

Donna

Earlier today I came across another challenge over at Simon Says Stamp wednesday's Challenge called "stencil it" so I thought I would share this tag with them :)

CC3C challenge #4

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #4

Our challenge this week comes from page 49 Layering Stencil: Texture Paste

I enjoyed playing along in this challenge. This was the first time that I played with the texture paste in this way.
I even added some paint into my project. The lamp post was cut from a cereal box using the Tim Holtz holiday lamp post die. I then painted it black and edged with gold acrylic paint love that look.  I even snuck some of the gold paint onto the sunrays :)

If you are interested in joining in on the challenges Linda over at StudioL3 would love to have you join in!

Great News!
This week www.thefunkiejunkie.com will be sponsoring the challenge!

Have a great week!
Donna

Stampin Up May club

May's club
So sad this was our last month for this session.

Here are our last 3 projects that we made in our club night.

Our first project was the subway card which comes from Elizabeth's craft room  she also has a video called rusty alphabet card showing you this fun technique.

Our second project was the Faux Northern Lights which was case'd from Kay Kalthoff she also has a how to video

Our third and last project was the Chalk Marker on Peaceful Petals which was case'd from Brian King- thinking of you with happy watercolor.

and there you have our last 3 projects for the month of May.

Thank You Charlene for picking out such wonderful projects, techniques, tips, and tricks to teach and share with us. I really don't know how you do it but I am glad that you do!!

I will see you again in the fall for another round!
Donna