This weekend the weather was very wintry despite it being springtime. Lots of wind, snow, and cold. Thursday was a beautiful high 60’s and Friday started the downturn. By Saturday it was full on winter. As the clouds started to clear today I decided to work on my tag for Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2016 – Tech Remix. Last weekend I played around a bit with the new woodgrain cardstock – it’s a lot of fun (that tag can be seen here)! Several weeks ago, I completed my first ever paper collage with the Distress Paper Mosaic Kit (that tag can be viewed here). Today’s tag is a combination of the two. I stayed with Tim Holtz’s version with a few minor changes and color choices. I would have loved to added some stitching but since I don’t have a sewing machine I opted not to since I wouldn’t be able to get the finer detail I wanted. […]
Here is another entry for the Frilly and Funkie Challenge – Boy oh boy! The challenge is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique. At first I had no idea what I was going to do. I thought about it all week and decided to just let it go. Some days the canvas just goes blank. Lucky for me some of my birthday stuff arrived early and my beloved just let me play around with my new goodies in my craft room this weekend. Yesterday I went through all of my new inks. Today, I woke up and just started to futz around with the mica powders to see what I could do with them. Here is tag #2 for Boy oh boy. […]
READ MOREHappy Birthday to me! And, Happy Birthday to Simon Says Stamp! I love my birthday and this weekend my beloved let me have fun playing around in my craft room with some of the new things he got me. I woke up Sunday morning, the day before my birthday, and started to play around with my new mica powders and inks. I created what would become the background of this tag using the mica powder, water, snowflake paste, and distress paint. While it was drying I went for a run (good thing too because the weather turned by noon and was a bit grim all afternoon) and while I was out running ideas started to float around in my head. I was thinking about boy stuff for the Frilly & Funkie Challenge and when I came home I found the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week was Happy Birthday! I decided to see if I could do both challenges! […]
READ MOREHip to Be Square – 60’s version. Although I think the song “Hip to be Square” is a little more my era! The latest challenge on The Frilly & Funkie Blog (which is generously sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique) calls for squares to appear on the project and to use bright colors, textures, looks, or other things from the 60’s or early 70’s. Having looked at some old photos from the family album I had a little bit of an idea of what I needed to go for in this challenge. The 60’s seem to have lots of large collars, funky patterns, flowers, earthy stuff, and colors. […]
READ MOREWell, I’m closing in on my first year of papercrafting! I’m at month 11 and this is my 11th Tim Holtz tag! More on my journey into the papercrafting world soon! Since I’m still rather new at all of these techniques, the remix is a great way for me to learn new things or work on the techniques I’ve learned in the past 11 months and try to make it better than the last time (or first time) I tried the technique. This month’s tag with Tim was a combination of both a redo technique and a new technique. […]
READ MOREAfter several wintry days (one of which involved a normal 20 minute drive home from work turning into a 2+ hour driving extravaganza in blizzard conditions), Easter Sunday was a bright, beautiful, blue sky day. It was warm enough and sunny enough to melt the snow off the branches of the bushes and trees that started to show the early signs of spring. As I peeked out into my garden late this morning, I notice my rhubarb poking up out of the snow. My garden beds are starting to show signs of being ready for their spring/summer soil turnover. My ornamental grasses as starting to sprout and my hostas and hops in the backyard are peeking through the soil. Spring is slowly springing here. […]
READ MOREThe latest challenge at the Frilly & Funkie Blog was asking us to “let’s make a trio.” The challenge is graciously sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique. […]
READ MOREI was feeling rather productive this weekend. I worked on some scrapbook pages (I have a forty page spread that is nearing completion…finally), the daffodil tag, and finding places for all of the new stuff that has been arriving each day! Out of all of that I found some time to try a new technique – paper mosaic. I purchased the Tim Holtz kit when it came out and I put it with all of my other texture stuff. The brand new box right on the edge of the shelf next to texture paste, crackle paint, embossing paste, and multi-medium matte among others. I even watched the videos and how-to’s on Tim Holtz’s blog. After several months, today was the day I decided to use it. […]
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