Inspired

Happy Camper here....I got my stash of grunge paper replenished yesterday, along with new Tim Holtz distress inks. Ohhh, I'm really liking Rusty Hinge, Bundled Sage & Tumbled glass!! I finished this wall hanging that I had started inspired by Wendy Vecchi's book. Love all of her projects and her book is fantastic!! I'm not a purple person...not at all!! But a lady in my Grunge Paper Rose Frame class last week did her roses in Dusty Concord and they were absolutely beautiful!! So thought I would try doing a purple flower, not quite the results I wanted but it is ok, should have tryed doing the roses. I did the center of the flower with Wild Honey, I thought it would be lighter. Hello, what was I thinking I know exactly what honey looks like as my dad used to do Bee Keeping as a hobby and did the extracting etc. in the basement!! Oh well, it got a little darker then I wanted but it will do. Fun little project! I was asked what color I used on my roses in the last post and it is Broken China, one of my favorites!! Off to Landi's today to watch the boys tonight. Should be fun and I'm sure I will come home with tons of pictures!! I have to get busy and get some scrapbooking done with all of my pictures!!

Have a good one everyone!!
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

Tim Holtz Die Cuts/Studio 490 Stamps

Woo! Hoo! Scored big time over the weekend!! Need TIME to PLAY!!!!

Have a good one!
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

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

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

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

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

Over the Top

Wow I was shocked when I opened my email and found out that Lori http://ibeenthinkinboutinkin.blogspot.com/ had bestowed this award to my blog! I'm so honored! Thanks so much Lori! I love your blog to! I to am from the midwest and I don't think I have an accent either but everyone else does! LOL. So, here's the scoop on this award:

I need to pass this award on to five people, post a comment on their blog to let them know, and answer the following questions with ONE word: (me one word, I don't think so!lol)

1. Where is your cell phone?… counter
2. Your hair?…straight
3. Your mother?…kind
4. Your father?…The best ever!
5. Your favorite food?…baked goods!
6. Your dream last night?…none
7. Your favorite drink?…coffee
8. Your dream/goal?…educator of the arts
9. What room are you in?…Dining
10. Your hobby?…art
11. Your fear?…economy
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years?...debtless
13. Where were you last night?…studio
14. Something that you aren’t?…hot tempered
15. Muffins?…Choc. chip
16. Wish list item?…lottery
17. Where did you grow up?…North Dakota
18. Last thing you did?…creating something for Christmas
19. What are you wearing?… sweats
20. Your TV?…On
21. Your Pets?…yellow lab, persian cat
22. Friends?…lots
23. Your life?…Quite until the grandsons come around
24. Your mood?…up beat
25. Missing Someone?…son
26. Vehicle?…Suzuki
27. Something you're not wearing?…make up
28. Your favorite store?…all scrapbook stores!
29. Your favorite colour?…green
30. When was the last time you laughed?…yesterday
31. Last time you cried?…last week
32. Your best friend?…L
33. One place that I go to over and over?…Walmart, Target & scrapbook stores!
34. Facebook?…yes
35. Favorite place to eat?…Red Lobster
And here are the lovely, talented people I have chosen to pass this on to:

Hels - Beautiful work and her humor cracks me up!http://pinkleart.blogspot.com/

Linda - Known for her beer mats & bean cans!!! Love it!http://acraftingjourney.blogspot.com/

Teresa Collins - Love her work!http://teresacollins.typepad.com/

Margie - She has been doing some great things and her Spark Event looked awesome! Over the top!http://margieromney-aslett.typepad.com/

And of course Tim Holtz - The man that can create magic with a blink of an eye!!!http://timholtz.typepad.com/

Enjoy your day!
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

I love fall with all of it's brilliant colors! The only bad thing is here in ND we know what's coming next! ugh!! Soon the snow will be flying and Christmas will be in the air! I'm going to be very fortunate this year and have the whole family home for Christmas!! I can't wait!! Figured I better get my fall pages done then I will need to work on Halloween so I will be free for the Holiday season! Here are a few quick ones that I have gotten done, again my photography of them isn't the greatest need to work on that!



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

Halloween

This might get a little long, I had such a great weekend need to post it!
Fri. 10/30/09 met my daughter for lunch around 12:30, after lunch we proceeded to go shopping. We hit JoAnn's, Hobby Lobby, 2 scrapbook stores, Target, Wal-Mart, and a grocery store and made it to her house 1/2 hour away by 5:30. Yes we were power shopping!!!! Nothing like going into scrapbook stores to get your creative juices going!! And when we pulled in her driveway this is what greeted us.....

Her oldest boy Caidin got sick in the middle of the night and still wasn't feeling good Sat. morning, we thought there would be no trick or treating, but by Sat. afternoon he was feeling just fine! Thank goodness! Then when we started getting ready to go trick or treating her youngest son Bridger decided he didn't want to go and wouldn't put on his costume, we finally left with him crying and still no costume on! Finally when he seen all the other kids he cooperated and by the second house he was into it! By the way, he loves candy!!! So after not starting Halloween to good everyone had a great time trick or treating! My first time being able to go with the kids, so for me it was a blast!!

Landi & Chad had a Halloween party to go to later that evening, bring on the peace!!!!!
What a great Halloween!!!!
And I did come home and got the creative juices going! I started a layout with a picture from CHA of Tim Holtz & I, using a lot of grunge and ideaology pieces. I had hoped to have it finished this morning but not happening! I should get it done today and post it tomorrow morning.
Have a good one!
Donna