CC2Challenge # 5

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this weeks challenge brought to us by the ever so lovely Linda (http://www NULL.studiol3 NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/) is off page 48 of tim’s (http://timholtz NULL.com/tim-holtz-products/) book, Compendium of Curiosities II  (http://timholtz NULL.com/a-compendium-of-curiosities-volume-ii/)the all time one of my favorite techniques of his, shattered stains.  if you haven’t seen it then you need to run out and get the book or look back into your notes from the Creative Chemistry 101 Class.then all you need to do is post it for a chance to win a $25 gift card from Simon Says Stamp (http://simonsaysstamp NULL.com/).

lately i am really into my Dylusions (http://www NULL.google NULL.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=dylusions&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww NULL.rangerink NULL.com%2Fproducts%2Fprod_stamps_dylusions NULL.htm&ei=dhK0T-SXE5DG6AGa3qz0Dw&usg=AFQjCNE3uyhSXHBJ20-tRlIlKqrDhAMZTQ&cad=rja) products and love adding them to everything. so this week i chose to base my tag off the quote from one her stamp sets.  at first i stamped the quote onto a black ATC with versamark and then sprinkled white embossing power, heat set and tada!!

then it was onto deciding what i was going to use the shattered stains technique on and it just came naturally to me to use the dress form.. and in my eyes what goes best with that but the bird cage!!!

now i have used the two together, lots, in the past but i have never done or recall seeing the mini skirt!! and i didn’t want it to be any mini skirt but one worthy of wings!! so out came the tissue tape. for my wings i coated them first with picket fence distress stain, then picket fence crackle paint and since the distress stain wasn’t quite dry when i heat set the crackle paint some lifted and i really really liked that.. kind of featherish like!! so i then dug out my glue n seal gloss and layered a coat on top of the wings and set them aside to dry.

i knew the outside of the tag needed something but wasn’t quite sure what. so i took out my watermark ink pad, some more dylusions and stamped. i then traced it with a white out pen! love it!!. i really really love how the dress turned out…  it is so darn cute and kind of sort of steampunkish no? thanks for stopping by

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

CC2Challenge #4

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this weeks challenge brought to us by the lovely Linda (http://www NULL.studiol3 NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/) was the faded layers technique from tim holtz (http://timholtz NULL.com/a-compendium-of-curiosities-volume-ii/) newest book the compendium of curiosities volume II.

so i out came all my distress inks and my tim holtz masks and stamps and a bit of crackle paint.. but wait!!!! guess what just arrived at my place this week!!!!

these wonderful little babies!!

so i used them to colour the heart stamp… they are so very very wonderful. it is hard to describe how much fun they were and are going to be!

 

 

so here is my submission into this weeks challenge!!!

i love submitting on Thursday nights cause i know i only have one more night before the next one is posted!!!

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

CC2Challenge #3

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this weeks challenge brought to us by the every lovely Linda (http://www NULL.studiol3 NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/) is Marbled Stains from page 46 of t (http://timholtz NULL.com/)im’s (http://timholtz NULL.com/) A Compendium of Curiosities, Vol. 2, page 46 and is sponsored by electic paperie (http://www NULL.eclecticpaperie NULL.com)

the textures on this stamp don’t show up in pics unfortunately but i stamped with walnut distress stain and then sprinkled distress embossing powder over top!

i tried to make a lasso but alas i am not sure it came out that  way!

as far as wanting  to know how i did the marbled stain technique… run out and buy the book today!!!

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

art journal – life years

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sometimes, every once in a while, life slaps you in the face and you realize that not all is as it appears to be.  those moments make one step back and think a bit.  and when one thinks a bit it makes you realize that life moments  are so very precious and we don’t know how many years we have so we have to appreciate all the moments we have.

i am striving in my life to learn to appreciate all those moments and to forget those that affect me in a negative way.  once again i am reminded of my word of the year, less. so for me that means less drama.. less icky moments…and more appreciating the oh so many good moments that i have.
thanks for stopping by

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

art journal – when i get sad

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yesterday seemed like a good day for the most part except for those few moments when i felt like screaming !!!

so last night was spent on figuring out what i wanted to do. i went for a run, i started to clean my art room, reorganizing or at least pretending to, when i came across a yellow sticky note that i had written a quote on

so setting aside the whole notion of cleaning/organizing; i had after all cleaned a spot just big enough for my art journal page to lay,  i began.

i am not big on doing step by step photos or even remembering what order i did what in but can give you a brief run down of what i did so you can continue reading or just skip to the end result!

i started off by layering a page with drywall tape which i had received from one of my reals and then i gesso’d the whole thing(really thin layer) and set it aside to dry. and yes i cleaned more while trying to decide what to use or what to do with this page.

remember back when i said my word of the year was less. i wanted to use more of what i already had and less buying more. well i have all the claudine hellmuth paints in a nice little basket which sits at my feet so up they came to the table and i dug out three colours, landscape green, dab of yellow and classic teal and began. once i was happy with that and i had dried it  i decided it needed a little something more so added some blank canvas across the top and tried to a bit of the whole drip look down the page. once that was dry i laid the dotted flower stencil on my page and sprayed with fresh lime the dots and then used bubblegum pink for the flowers. and then set it aside to dry.

while it was drying i went through a magazine and found all the words i needed for my quote and applied them with glue and seal. i love when i was using it for the ‘seal’ part i was able to press the words right into the mesh and it to me made it look like they are just floating there.

then it was time for a bit more of this and that and then now the final page:

thanks for stopping by

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

CC2Challenge #2

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this weeks challenge brought to us by the ever so lovely Linda (http://www NULL.studiol3 NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/) is off page 58 of tim’s (http://timholtz NULL.com/tim-holtz-products/) book, compendium of curiosities II (http://timholtz NULL.com/a-compendium-of-curiosities-volume-ii/) the faux patina technique. if you haven’t picked up this book yet you really really should and what better way to go through a book then with linda and of course all the inspiration we can get from everyone during the weekly challenges!
i tried it on gloss paper, canvas, manila tag and of course an ideology piece
i love how it turned out… it says a lot or nothing.. depending on how one looks at it!!
so here is my finished tag

and the inside tag

and what is the random drawn winner winning this week, none other than a signed tim holtz messenger bag generously donated by Angie Lentz. totally totally a want for a lot!!
thanks for stopping by!

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

art journal – earth day

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today is earth day. i thought i would do an art journal page specific to today.

i started by drawing a sun in the bottom corner, painted the top portion black and then dabbed various yellows and reds of Claudine Hellmuth (http://www NULL.collageartist NULL.com/shop NULL.htm#ranger-tab) paints onto the sun area. it turned out well but just didn’t have the oompth i was looking for. so out came the texture paste and i dabbed and painted and added and well you get the picture. once done i set it aside to dry.
then i moved on to the planets. i drew various sizes of circles and painted them various colours. i was working on my page based off this image. (http://starchild NULL.gsfc NULL.nasa NULL.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system NULL.html)
so when i posted this morning this picture
this is what i was working on

what does the solar system have to do with earth day….. well the earth is in it right!!!
til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

art journal – i am an artist

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so last evening i was on the time sucking facebook when i came across a piece in an art journal of the lovely ms. dyan’s. (http://dyan-reaveley NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/) it stated ‘i am an artist’. i made a comment of how i hope someday i am brave enough to make one of these pages and ms. dyan said ‘Diana, go and write it in big letters in one of your journals NOW. Don’t make me come slap you !!! lol.” and i did.. i ran and made this:

so tonight as i ventured into the craft room after supper that is what greeted me. now mind you i am suppose to be in there packing up for a class i am teaching tomorrow but what is a girl to do huh!!
so i turned my art journal into this

i couldn’t resist turning the centers of the a’s into eyes!!! LOL

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

CC2Challenge #1

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have you started????  are you playing along???  with what and with whom you ask?

well i am talking about Linda over at Studio L3 (http://studiol3 NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/) and her challenges from the book   A Compendium of Curiosities II (http://www NULL.timholtz NULL.com/book2 NULL.htm) by who else but tim of course and you get your tag/name entered into a draw for a $25 GC from none other than Simon Says Stamp (http://www NULL.simonsaysstamp NULL.com/servlet/the- NULL. NULL. NULL.NEW-TIM-HOLTZ-Products-are-here%21/Categories)

this weeks challenge is taken from page 66 of the book – creating custom foam stamps!!!!

for my submission i started my tag with a few chose colours of distress stain inks, applied picket fence crackle paint onto my custom foam stamp, stamped it along the left hand side of my tag, splashed a bit of water on the tag, heat set it, and then some glue & seal was applied to my new alpha cards (http://timholtz NULL.com/cha-winter-2012idea-ology-part-3/)… love these!! once everything was dried i added a bit of tissue tape to the outer edges and then covered the whole thing with clear rock candy crackle paint (http://timholtz NULL.com/distress-crackle-paint/).
then came the challenging part for me. i wanted to place a key into the key hole which i glossy accented to the bottom of my tag but in order to do this, and to me i was aiming to make a sort of ‘handle’ for this tag, i decided maybe i should cut a tag out of my fun foam to give my original tag a bit of depth.

so that is what i did. i cut out the foam tag, marked and made a hole for my key, glued the two together with glue and seal and then hot glued the key hole with hot glue and stuck the key in and tada!!!

i now have my first tag and cover made for my CC2 challenges going forward.

thanks for stopping by!!

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

catching up

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okay so today’s post is a mishmash of a lot of stuff that has been going on.

while on vacation i did manage to do a few pages but the doodling, alas, is not done yet. so they will be coming soon. this is the only one that i think is finished.. well as finished as an art journal pages gets anyway cause you know one can always doodle more!!
i had started the background some time ago using texture paste and color wash. i wasn’t quite sure what to do with it and then it came to me. we were flying into florida on the full moon…and what a more perfect stamp then the suitcase tramp (i of course am referring to the travelling travis by Dylusions (http://shop NULL.afth NULL.co NULL.uk/dyr34469---dylusions-rubber-stamps---travelling-travis-6127-p NULL.asp) )

next is a few snaps of some of the wonderful projects we did during the Leica Forrest (http://www NULL.10-4livingoutloud NULL.typepad NULL.com/)classes held at APOS! on the 18th of April. i really challenged myself to stay clean on the layouts in class. but i know i am not going to let them be one of those ‘projects one takes during a class of a famous person to only lay them aside in a pile by the freezer’ … sounds funny but i know this to be true as i heard that from someone once (wink!! wink!!). so i am showing them before as they are now and once i have put my own touches to them i will post the after!

the layouts:

we then moved on to glimmermist and chalk

and then on to my favorite project of the day the canvas.

as i said, none of these are quite finished but i love where they are at and where they are going to!

next i have been working on my tags for a swap. i of course used a little bit of tim (http://timholtz NULL.com/) and a little bit of Dyan ( http://www NULL.dyan-reaveley NULL.blogspot NULL.com/) on my tag. this months challenge was masking.


i also just wrapped up my ATC’s for another swap and our challenge this month was to use favorite quotes.

there now all i have left to do really is my tag for the StudioL3 challenge… and it needs to be done by Thursday night!!!

til next time…

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!