CCC wk#4

Here is my submission for wk #4 for the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge over on Linda's blog http://studiol3.blogspot.com
I'm working on a project which I hope to post beginning of next week. I have Landi's boys coming here for the weekend, so looking forward to having fun with them!!
Have a good one!
Donna

Compendium of Curiosities Challenge

Linda from Studio L3 http://studiol3.blogspot.com had this great idea to present a weekly challenge to try one of the many techniques from Tim Holtz book Compendium of Curiosities. You have to check out Linda's blog every Monday to see what we're doing. There will be random drawings for cool gifts. Gloria, the list mom from ATT will also be doing giveaways.
Here is my tag using the water stamping technique.

I really liked this technique and will have to use it more often!! Thanks Linda for doing this challenge!

Have a good one!!

Donna

Tim Holtz die cut album

My 6 yr. old grandson loves my new puppy Maddie. He was with us when we picked her out. He knew I had taken some pictures of him & Maddie and has been asking if I could get him some of the pictures, and I keep forgetting (bad grandma here)!! Anyway, I'm going to see him this weekend so I made up this little album with some of the pictures in it for him made with Tim Holtz die cuts. Nothing fancy, after all a 6 yr. old is going to be carrying it around so didn't get to fancy with it.


These dies are so easy to take a little chipboard and some paper and you have a cute little album. I used movers & shapers baroque with the repostionable magnetic die for the holes and movers & shapers styled lables for the matts behind the pictures. Also, used heart wings & regal crest. I did get the holes a little to far down, will have to watch that next time. Another thing, make sure you cut the chipboard & paper at the same time as if you go back and try line up the holes, it doesn't work to well, trust me!! I truly love these die cuts!! I took these pictures inside so not the best as there was no way I was going outside to take them, cold, rainy & windy day here today!!!



Have a good one!
Donna

Tim Holtz on the edge die cut album

I got my album binded and added lace to the top, didn't want to put colored ribbon on it to take away from the album.

Thank you all so much for the nice comments!!! I really appreciate them!!! This was a really fun album to do! And Becky don't be jealous of the toys, I have totally gone overboard lately and need to cool my britches!!!

Here are some pics of the flower pins I have been making with Tim's Tattered Florals die cut. Lots of fun!

And yes, I'm going to try get these photos scrapbooked of the boys birthdays!!!!

Thanks again everyone for the nice comments!!!
Have a good one!
Donna

Tim Holtz Book

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! I had my lucky day last Tues., the lady I work for finally found Tim Holtz's book she was going to give to me. Woo! Hoo! I was just about to go ahead and order it as she couldn't find it (can you believe that!) I snatched it out of her hand so fast and did a Happy Dance!!! Went and put it in my car right away so it would not go missing again! lol I have looked at it over and over, need some time to play and try a couple of techniques I haven't tryed before. Awesome Book!!


Here is a couple of wall hangings I had started & stopped for a couple of months now, finally called them good! When seeing it on Wendy Vecchi's blog I wanted to do one, all of her projects are fabulous!!

Busy designing & doing classes, I have had a lot this month for National Craft month! So get busy and do some crafting!!

Have a good one everyone!

Donna

Wendy Vecchi Stamps

Busy, Busy, Busy is all I can say! Here's a pic of our new addition to the family, Maddie.

I did manage to get another tag done last week. Some of you asked where I got the picture for the last one, it was an old picture I found of my grandmother. This pic is myself when I was little.

I was so excited, I got 3 new sets of Wendy Vecchi's stamps!! I haven't had much time to play with them yet but did try out the bigger roses, I love having the option of making different sizes!!! Hope to get some time soon to play with the other ones.

Gotta Run, Have a good one everyone!!
Donna

Tim Holtz Stamps

I was so excited the other day, I got a new set of Tim Holtz stamps!!! I've been dieing to play with them and finally had a chance tonight, love them!! Here is a tag I made with them. What do you think grandma would think?



I have also been playing with my yudu, actually fighting with it more then anything!! I loved the aprons that Wendy Vecchi did on the Artful Voyage and have been wanting to do one as where I work part time we have to where an apron. For the life of me I could not get it to work on my yudu, poor thing got washed so many times, you can still see some of the paint on it! I had to resort to stamping on it and really didn't have good alpha stamps to do it with but I still like it and can't wait to wear it to work. The next day I did a couple of shirts on the yudu and it worked out fine! grrrr!

I want to thank all of you for your nice comments!!!
Have a good one everyone!!
Donna

Funky Necklace

I have drank way to much coke tonight, not tired! I have a busy day tomorrow and I'm so going to regret it!!!! I decided to finish a project I have been working on. I made this funky necklace using fragments, memory glass and frame, some of Tim's Ideaology and Wendy's stamps. I used frosted glass in the frame as that is what I had on hand but I think I will order some clear ones and change it. I think I will also order the more silver frames and change that to when they come in. It was a fun little project to make!

Have a good one!!

Donna

Tim Holtz Tags

Woo!!! Not much computer time for me lately!!! grrrr
I have been to busy with getting ready for Christmas!
Doing a lot of decorating, cleaning, still need to shop
& bake!! Why I'm spending so much time cleaning is beyond
me as I will have 4 little rug rats running around!!!!
Should be fun! I will have the whole family here on Christmas
Eve which hasn't happened for quite a few years, so I'm excited!!!
All 4 grandsons will be here which will be fun to see
them all together and really hoping I can get them all to
sit long enough to snap a picture of the 4 of them together!
Wish me luck on that one!!lol

I have been trying to keep up with Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas!
Haven't had much time to actually do the tags but just keeping
up with all the chatter and every ones blogs of their beautiful tags.
I'm really in awe of some of you getting your tags done so fast!!!
Tryed to keep up with Mario's twitter the first couple of days,
oh my goodness!! All of the tags so far have been awesome, my product
supply has gotten so low I need to go shopping! And need time to play!!!
I did manage to get a couple of tags done, didn't have a lot
of what I needed so improvised! Hoping to get some time to do
some of the other ones.
Here's the two I have gotten done......


Have a good one!
Donna

Vintage

I have been so bad lately neglecting my blog and pretty much everything else!! grrr!! I have been super busy with to many things! I have been working on a couple of projects that I just can't find the right thing to go on them! another grrrrr!! So I decided just to let them sit for awhile and maybe when I go back to them I will be able to figure out just the right thing to put on them. So I decided to do some layouts, love the vintage car! I want to thank everyone who leaves comments on my blog, I appreciate it so much!! Thank you!! And I do frequent your blogs also, and love all the amazing work I see!! I will try be better about leaving a comment.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!!
Have a good one!
Donna

Layout CHA Florida/Tim Holtz

I finished my layout so decided to post it today instead of tomorrow morning. Love using grungeboard & ideaology trinkets!!

Have a good one!
Donna

Fall Decor

I needed a break from the Christmas album I have been working on so while watching my grandson Jackson (after he went to sleep) I created this fall decor. The pumpkin is so fun to do! Thanks for the inspiration Wendy Vecchi!

Have a good one!
Donna

Christmas Album

When I got home from our trip I started a travel album, got the cover almost done when this Christmas album that I started about two months ago kept staring me in the face. I decided I better get that project done before I moved on to another. I don't know why but I kept starting this album then putting it aside, maybe because Christmas was so far away, now it is right around the corner! Yikes! Another inspiration to get it done might be that I finally found some Distress Stickles Rock Candy, oh my gosh is this stuff addicting! Worked perfect for some of the embellishments for the pages!! I'm determined now to get it done so I can move on to other things!

Here is the cover.....

Here is a couple of pages I used the Distress Stickles Rock Candy on.....


I might still add some lace to the bottom of the snow man one if I can find some that will match. Already started on another page so I'm on a roll!!!!!
Have a good one!
Donna

Tim Holtz Inspiration-Christmas Creativity Curio

Getting to go to Shad's after all, I have a busy day ahead of me today getting ready! It is a long awaited visit!!! So looking forward to seeing him! He has been really enjoying his time off spending a lot of time with his little boy since returning from Iraq. I do feel bad I had to cancel a class I had scheduled there! But there should be a lot more visits to Kansas as they bought a house there.

Here is a little more inspiration from Tim Holtz, my Christmas Creativity Curio.

Have a good one everyone!
Donna

A little bit of Tim Holtz-A little bit of Wendy Vecchi

Monday October 5th already! Wow, where has the time gone! Very cold here, talking of snow this week, yuk!!!! Had a pretty quiet weekend, about the only thing I did was go visit Joey's family on Sat. Joey was making salsa, Heidi says they have enough now to last at least a year! lol.. They only planted two plants and got so many nice tomatoes off of them. We played a lot with Jackson, he tryed on his halloween costume for us, he looked so cute! He is going to be a puppy and says trick or treat when he wants to! He has a new saying now when something drops or doesn't go right, ohhh man! So cute!

I did get a chance to finish this project inspired by Tim Holtz.

I also was inspired by Wendy Vecchi's blog and just had to try Wendy's technique of gluing patterned paper onto grunge paper and making the rose. My first attempt was a disaster! I had glued patterned paper on the front and back and it would not do anything!!! So went back and read how she did it and found out she didn't put it on the back, so tryed again and it worked so much better! I will have to make some more of these!! Love those roses!!!

They were so much fun to make, those two are the best!

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

Altered Art

Beautiful Mon. morning here. I'm so grateful that Shad is now home from Iraq and back with his wife & son! I haven't had a chance to talk to him yet as it was late last night when he got home, but looking forward to his phone call today!

I had a productive weekend working on some altered art projects for classes. I guess it pays to babysit grandson until 2:00 in the morning! I love fall with all it's beautiful colors and Halloween is right around the corner. How about a little Boo holiday accordian decor for the season, full of bats, spiders, witches and even a vulture, display on a mantel, end table etc. Again my photography isn't the greatest, I really do need to contact my professional photographer neighbor to take pictures of my projects!




Altered frame with grunge paper rose and a ornate frame with grunge paper rose. Learn how to make these grunge paper rose's, as Wendy would say they are addicting!
These make wonderful gifts for any occasion and Christmas is right around the corner!


If you are interested in doing any of these projects for a class, contact me for info.
Have a good one!
Donna