Umbrella Lady

I was so excited the other day, I received Tim's Umbrella Man die cut in the mail and wanted to play with it right away but had to go to work, grrrrr!! Anyway, I couldn't stop thinking of it all day at work and what I was going to use it on. Then I was thinking of the theme this week on SSSS http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com where the them is buttons. I thought ohhh I could use buttons on his umbrella, then quickly thought no he would not look good with colorful buttons on him. Then I thought wonder if I could make a lady out of him, harder then I thought and this is what I came up with... I think from now on I will leave the Umbrella Man a MAN!!


The canvas I used is a 5x5 that I had been playing around with awhile ago with stains, masks etc. and didn't like how it turned out so it has been just sitting in the craft room. I took it out and I was going to paint over the whole thing with traditional tan paint. After the first swipe of paint I kinda liked the look so I ended up just putting swipes of paint here & there and liked the results!!


Other things I used were Tim's scroll, butterfly & heart die cuts and stamps. A little rock candy on the butterfly and some ideaology pieces.


Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

Donna

Hats Off to You

Yay, I got done early this week for Grungy Monday at http://studiol3.blogspot.com using Tim Holtz www.timholtz.com techniques and I'm also using it for my entry on Simon Says Stamp and Show http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com.

As many of you know my son left for Afghanistan earlier this month. It sound's like communication is going to be very limited so I decided I would make cards for him and get one sent as often as I can. Here is one of them using the technique on Linda's blog and using Wendy Vecchi Stamps stamped on GB & GP & Graphic45 paper.

Have a good one!
Donna

12 Days of Christmas Tags #9 & 10

Finally had a little chance to play over the weekend and got Tag 9 & 10 done.
I did them pretty much the same as Tim, I was a little rushed so not perfect but will do and the main thing was to try the technique & ideas. I really liked coloring your own ribbon and what a cool idea of using the packaging on tag 10!! I plan to keep plunking away at getting all 12 done!!
What a wonderful 12 Tags of Christmas it was, loved all of the tags Tim made!! It amazes me that he takes time out of his busy schedule to do this for everyone, what a generous guy!! And the BTS on Twitter from Mario was great, another generous guy!! Wish them both the best Holiday Season!!

Have a good one!!

Donna

Altered Domino

As you can tell I have been trying to change the header of my blog, I decided I needed to change the picture, for the life of me I can not get it to shrink down a little! I bet I spent half the day Mon. fooling with it, I finally gave up and left it as is, it looks a little funny but will have to do for now!! I think I will just have to take another pic of it and try re-load it.

I joined the Altered Domino Pin Swap at ATT yahoo group and here are the ones I made to swap. I had a lot of fun making these, I will defiantly have to alter some more domino's, thinking Christmas here!! I'm going to my daughter Landi's house this weekend and she wanted to do some and maybe make a necklace so I plan on bringing some domino's to her house and play a little (that's if the boys will let us)! lol Then I better get busy and get my chunky ATC's done for the swap on EWV yahoo group, I've started them just need to finish!!

Have a good one!!

Donna

SSSS/CCC

The challenge this week on CCC is Alcohol Ink Agate on Grunge and the challenge on SSSS is Show your Grunge, so I'm submitting the same project for both.
I made a frame for a little mirror, you really can't see that it is a mirror but the middle really is a mirror!! I waited until this morning to take the picture for better lighting, ya right FOG!!! So I had to play with the lighting a little bit so you really can't see the mirror part. I cut the frame out of GB and I did the Alcohol Ink on Grunge technique on it, that was a really a cool technique!! I will have to use that one again!! You have to get Tim's book to see how it is done! The rose is out of GP, I used Rusty Hinge distress ink first then I tryed Tim's technique of inking the inside of his embossing folder then running it through the embosser, I used mustard seed distress ink for that. Wow I liked that, it gave it a cool effect to it!! Lovin these challenges, it's fun to try things I have never tryed before!!

I'm headed to my daughters this morning to watch the boys while they go to a wedding, looking forward to spending the time with the boys!!

Thanks again everyone for all the nice comments!!

Have a good weekend!!

Donna

Engraved Grunge Board

Long time no see!! Geezzzz, May was super busy for me, family obligations etc.

Shad & family made a quick trip up here for Memorial Day Weekend from Kansas, so Landi & boys came up to. Joey had us all over to his house for a BBQ on Sat. everyone had a good time especially the kids, it was 92 degrees out and very humid so the boys had a lot of fun in the pool, it doesn't happen very often that I have all 4 grandsons in the same place so it was special, here are a few pics.....

I started this project before everyone came, finally got it done!

We do framing where I work so there is always scraps of matt board around. One day when I went into work my boss had cut out a couple 5x7 pieces and had some metal corners and a nifty little machine to put the corners on with. She asked if I could come up with something with it to do a class on, OH YEAH the wheels started turning (I think I scare her sometimes)! lol

So I put the corners on the matt board with the cool machine (can't remember the name of it) and brought the pieces home to start playing. Tim had posted a cool album on his blog which I really liked so I did the front cover kinda like that.

The inside of the cover I did this.....

Is this to cool or what, I engraved on grunge board!!! It also works on grunge paper! I wasn't sure if it was going to work but it worked just great!!! I didn't want to stamp the letters on the sign (I wouldn't have gotten them straight) and didn't want to cut letters on the cricut and I didn't have any small enough letters so the engraving worked out perfectly! Wheels are turning again on something else to make and engrave on the grunge board & paper. So excited it worked!!! I got the embossing folders just in time to try it on this piece, love them!! The album class will be June 23rd, come join me!

Have a good one!!

Donna

GP Gift Card Holder

What a week I have put in!! Being a nurse/maid is not fun!! Bob is doing better each day and is getting a little less needy! Thank Goodness!! To keep my sanity I tryed to craft whenever I could, very interrupted time but got a few things done. I pop on and off the computer when I can and have seen a lot of creativity on many blogs. And hearing and seeing things from CHA has been great! I definitely need to attend the next one!! I tryed my hand at Eileen Bellomo's GP business card holder/gift card holder. I love green and blue together but this didn't turn out the greatest, will have to try some more and make a few to keep on hand for gift giving. Check out Eileen's blog http://artsaveslives-paperqueen.blogspot.com/ very creative lady!



Then I fought with my yudu machine and got 4 shirts done for the grandson's. I have the hardest time with that emulsion!! But they turned out pretty good for my first time.

I had my 2 year old grandson Jackson here for 4 days while his mom & dad were out of town. Took these pictures of him and had to scrap them. He is so much fun!!

Have a good one everyone!
Donna

Grunge Paper Rose Frame

What a world win of a couple months I have had!!! Christmas, bad weather, new job, now husband Bob had to have triple by-pass surgery last Wed. This was his 3rd open heart surgery! He is still in the critical care unit but is doing pretty good. So most of my time since Wed. has been spent at the hospital, man that tires me out more then working all day!!! Due to bad weather I'm home early today and it feels pretty good! I know he is in good hands so I'm going to enjoy being home and not just sitting around at the hospital.

Here is what I made with my twist on the grunge paper roses, we are doing a class making them in March. Looks a lot better in person, they turned out really pretty.

It has been raining here then snowing then more rain & snow, roads going into town today were awful, I had to putz down the road going 20-25 miles an hour!! Made it to my grandsons birthday party and up to the hospital to see DH. Plows finally came out so coming home wasn't so bad, thank goodness!!! Here is a couple pictures from the BD Party..

And here is a couple pictures of some winter fun from a couple of weeks ago at Landi's. Chad was pulling the boys around with his snowmobile. The boys were having a ball!!!

Thank goodness for those grandson's of mine, always a good time!!!

Have a good one everyone!!

Donna

A Little Twist on Grunge Paper Roses

I decided to try something different with my grunge paper roses and added book pages and spritzed them with perfect pearls. The pictures don't really do them justice but they turned out pretty cool! I'm going to use them for a class at the Arts & Crafts center.

And here's one of my little Rock Stars, a Christmas present he has been having a lot of fun with!!

I played with my Yudu I got for Christmas yesterday and ruined two emulsion sheets, thank goodness I found some at our local Michaels but didn't get a chance to try it again today, so hopefully tomorrow!! Hopefully after two trys I think I know what to do now!!geezzzz!!
Have a good one!
Donna

MIA

MIA here or what!!! Between Christmas, company & being sick I haven't done anymore then I had to!! I have had a cold since before Christmas and just doesn't want to go away, at least the fever & body aches are gone! Our Christmas was very different this year, because of the storm coming in we ended up having our Christmas Eve on Wed. night as two of kids had to get elsewhere. What fun with all 4 grandsons together!! Then we got stormed in for 2 1/2 days!!!! Couldn't get where we were going to go on Christmas day so luckily I had taken out a turkey out of the freezer on Thurs. just in case so at least we had a good dinner on Fri.!! I felt so bad for Shad & family as they wanted to do a few things and see people, all they got was stuck in the house with mom & dad!! We did get dug out on Sun. and had a belated Christmas dinner etc. at SIL which was very nice! Thank goodness Shad was here as he helped us out a lot getting dug out!!! I didn't get any Christmas cards sent this year (sorry) but loved all the ones I received Thank you! I lucked out with presents this year and received a ton of scrapbook paper, 3 sets of Wendy Vecchi's stamps & a Yudu!!! I haven't had time to play with that yet but hope to soon!

Here is a layout I did with some of my new paper and I tryed out my i-top, fun!! I covered the brads with rock candy stickles, love that stuff!!

I have been working part time at the Arts & Crafts at the base, very interesting and learning how to engrave & frame! I will be heading up a few classes so I have been working on that when I can. Here is a pic of one of the classes we will be doing, a covered picture frame with grunge paper roses, the roses are so fun to make! If anyone has some ideas for classes I would love to here them!

Hope to play with my yudu today so hopefully post some projects in the next few days. Have a good one everyone!!

Donna

Grunge

I have been creating really.... I have! But working on to many projects at one time and not finishing them! urh!!! Also I'm thinking of doing an event, so my mind is racing with ideas about that! I was in two scrapbook stores a couple of weeks ago and asked if they carried grunge paper or grunge board, one had never heard of it and the other said no one asks for it so she doesn't carry it.. WHAT!!! Seriously...I can't believe it!!! So I'm going to put together a grungy event to show people how to use it! I would like to do it yet before Christmas so everyone can put it on their wish list, I know it is on mine as my stash is getting low!!!! lol
So I have been busy figuring out classes, I'm going to throw in an ideaology project to!! Definitely need to get some products!! Here is a little glimpse of one of the grunge projects in very early stage....

Sorry picture isn't good, the project looks darker then should! Next time!
Have a good one!
Donna

Fall Festival/Layout of Wendy V. & me

I have been busy, busy, busy! I had a garage sale Fri. & Sat. so that kept me pretty busy for a while. Glad it is over, they are a lot of work! On Sat. after the sale we went to Landi's and on Sun. we went to a fall festival, had so much fun! Of course the beautiful weather we had been having had to turn and it was cold, windy & rainy! But we had a good time, so fun watching the kids!

Here is a layout I did with a picture of Wendy V. & myself at CHA Orlando. I used the tags Wendy was demoing and gave to me, one was from CHA Anaheim & the other from CHA Orlando. Added a lot of grunge paper embellishments using Wendy's stamps. Love her stamps!!! I took a copy of the back where she signed it and made a little tag out of it.

FALL FESTIVAL

Christmas Tag & Calendar

Had a great weekend, babysat Jackson on Fri. night, then back over to Joey's for supper on Sat. night, he makes some awesome BBQ sauce! Canned salsa on Sun. and cleaned and went through stuff getting ready for a garage sale. I even managed to squeeze in some play time, made this christmas tag. So hard to believe it is right around the corner!

And here is a calendar that I started over a month ago and just finished it!  Made with grunge board, grunge paper and Wendy Vecchi's awesome stamps!  I've been loving the color combination of blue & orange lately!

Hoping to start a travel album tonight while watching Dancing with the Stars, woo hoo!  Love that show! 
Headed to Shad's next month so thought I would get a jump start on a travel album. 

Landi & family might come up this weekend, really looking forward to that!  Seems like I can only go a couple of weeks without seeing all of them!  Poor Bridger got stung by a bee on Sat. right on the nose, poor little guys eye is all swollen, I feel so bad for him!  Hope it gets better soon!
Have a good one!
Donna

CHA

I'm so excited, I'm going to CHA (Craft & Hobby Assoc. Convention) in Orlando!
Yeaaaaaaa!! I didn't think I was going to be able to go to this one and it worked out and I'm going!! I leave Mon. so have a lot to do! Yikes!

Here is a little album that I have been working on: Front cover, 2nd & 3rd page.
I have a few old pictures from my childhood (not many I was the youngest of 6) in black & white, so wanted to do a little album to put them in. I have been doing it with grunge paper, Studio490 stamps, Graphic45 papers.

You can leave a comment on this post to for a chance to win some blog candy, winner picked tomorrow Fri. July 24th. Good Luck!

Have a good one!
Donna

Scrappin-Scrappin Inking Layout

I wanted to keep this layout simple, so used distress inks.

OK, another chance to win some Blog Candy! Just leave a comment and I will pick a random winner on Fri. July 17th.

Have a good one!

Donna

Grunge Board/Paper Wall Hanging

I had a chance to play with my new Tim Holtz stamps and made this little wall hanging for my craft room.

Tim Holtz Grunge Book

After visiting my son in Kansas and watching him with his son after being away from him for over 8 mos. it was heartwarming watching them playing together spending time together. And the love my son has for his son, I decided to make him a little book to take back to Iraq with him. I was the only one taking pictures so now he will have some of the memories. TA DA.... what a perfect book to do it with! The grunge book will work out perfectly as it won't tear or warp etc. I'm going to try do the whole book with grunge board & grunge paper as I know it will withstand all the beating it will get (duffle bags, foot lockers, etc.) I had a little time to play today, so here is the front cover (not done yet) but I'm excited how it is turning out.
Have a good one!
Donna