Creative Chemistry 101-Day Four

On to Day 4............... I'm not the best with coloring and/or painting so this one was a bit challenging for me. I did ok inside the lines but when it comes to the blending, I don't really have the patience for it, I guess. I didn't have any stencils really but I found an old one of my daugthers that had somehow made it in to my craft room stash but it bleed underneath so the images are not very crisp (that's supposed to be a 'J', lol) . The custom stamp pad technique I had done with the last two 12 Tags of Christmas so that one worked out better for me.

Watercoloring with Re-inkers Technique Layered Misting Technique Custom Stamp Pad Technique

Love how Tim made little instruction card to go on the back of each tag. Those will come in really handy for reference. I am thinking of a cool way to store the tags so that they are at my fingertips when I want to use a particular technique, I can just pull out the one I want and the directions will be on the back, love that!!!

Creative Chemistry 101-Day Three

Day three was even more fun! I like using the alcohol inks and the embossing folders. It was a bit tricky stamping on the glossy paper, the stamp wants to slide. It started to just as I was lifting it off but it didn't make so you could see it, which I was thankful for, lol! I really like how the Alcohol Ink Agates technique turned out. And the umbrella man too, lol!

Alcohol Ink Agates Technique Archival Resist Technique Stamping w/Reflections Technique

Really enjoyed the class. Glad he numbered the pages. Makes it a whole lot easier to go back and make sure they are all in order. Pretty Cool lookin', don't ya think!

Creative Chemistry 101-Day Two

Well, I finally have time to post my creations from the Creative Chemistry class. It's hard to do all that and keep up when you have to work full time, lol!!! So........................ Without further delay, here is Day 2 (Day 1 was a training sort of day-Demos started on Day 2)

First up is the Blended Distress/Spritz & Flick Technique Second is the Brushless Watercolor Third is the Wrinkle-Free Distress

I had played around a few times with two of these techniques but never had any instruction on how they were actually done. Love the step by step directions Tim gives. He's a great teacher!

Wool Felt Bunnies

I just had to try the Easter tag that Tim Holtz had up on his blog a few days ago. I found the wool felt at my LCS and I had the little bunny mover & shaper. It turned out so cute. I roughed up the edges of the wool to make it fuzzy and it really took on a life of it's own, so stinkin' cute! What do you think? I had some left over green grungeboard from one of the 12 tags of 2011 and it was just laying on my craft table and the green spoke to me so I used it for some grass. I didn't have the grass die that Tim used but later I did find one of my Cricut cartridges that had some grass on it. The grass turned out pretty cute so I will have to make some more tags, oh darn!!! Hoppy Easter, Hugs, ~Jody

Meet King Vagabond

Have you heard? Sizzix is having a contest to see "Where in the World your Vagabond is?" Mine is where it always is, high atop Die Cut Mountain. Now Die Cut Mountain is still being landscaped (I'm always adding to my collection). King Vagabond was added to the throne a long time ago (approx. II-MMX). It is located on a remote island in FL (St. Petersburg-across the bay) that takes a long drive through rough terrain (mega construction going on) to get there. However, you can see it just as you come 'round the bend (it's the first thing you see when you walk in to the room). King Vagabond is very dedicated and does a fantastic job ruling over Die Cut Mountain. If you ever get there, you really need to check it out! Happy Trails!!!

Sha-Shamrocks!

Or is that Sha-zam, lol. Oh well, either way! Here is the card I was going to put on TH Tag of March but it's nothing like what he made, at all, so I decided to find a couple of different challenges that I could link up with. I was disappointed that he didn't do something for St. Patrick's day, ya know Marchy. Spring to me is more May, with April in the middle, being Easter! Anyway, I did something Marchy, for St. Patrick's Day. I was able to go over and see my daughter on Sunday so I made the card for her. I also took her a box of thin mints (green box-lol) and I made her a little charm pin she could wear on St. Patrick's Day at her job, but I forgot to get a photo of it, oops. I decided on a long card for this one. I seldom do long cards and I like them so, ta-da! I used an old HSPD stamp that I had and embossed it on white cardstock. Then I cut it out with Spellbinders Labels #14. The little squiggly under the sentiment is from Walsingmouse. All the shamrocks are just different stamps I had plus I used one of the new shamrock dies from Verve Stamps. They were smaller than I thought but it worked out ok. The seam binding ribbon I dyed in bundled sage and inked around the whole thing with vintage photo. Added a piece of jute as a little bow and a stick pin with some beads added. I think she really liked it. She showed it to her co-workers, they liked it to. Here's the inside. The inside sentiment is from Verve Stamps. I sprinkled some peeled paint distress stickles around too. Hope you like it too. Hugs, ~Jody

Ms. Charlotte is home

Ok, so Ms. Charlotte finally found her home, lol! I had a hard time finding her and was informed that that was the last one the place had and they were on backorder. It's weird to me how a little white doll with no arms is in such great demand??? Anyway, I got her and she's on the tag and I must admit it definitely finished out the tag, what with the crown and the wings and her charm. See what you think. You can find the tag without Charlotte in the last post. Poor Charlotte, does any one know the actual story behind this fractured doll, as TH calls it. Apparently there is a story in his first Compendium book about this lady, years ago, that was going to a ball in her very fine dress. Her companion tried to wrap a cloak around her so she would be warm but she didn't want to screw up her finely pressed dress so she wouldn't let him cover her. When they arrived at the dance/ball he went to help her down out of the carriage by taking her arm and it broke off because she had frozen to death, or something like that! Guess you'll have to get the book if you want to know the whole story, lol! Hope you have a great day, Hugs, ~Jody

More TH 12 Tags of Christmas

A friend and I are still working on our 12 Tags of Christmas, lol, don't want to rush anything! Anyway, I have finished #9 and #12. The last one (#12) was supposed to have a fractured doll on it but I don't really care for 'charlotte'. I was going to put a lampost there or a candle but my friend, Gloria, insisted that I have a charlotte on my tag so I went to the store to get one. HA! I have been to three different stores now and no one has a charlotte, boo! Gloria is going on the Treasure Hunt this coming weekend so she will see if she can find me one. Isn't that always the way it goes, lol! Anyway, here's the tag with out a charlotte. I'll post another picture of it with Charlotte, if and when I find one! I have also done tag #9. It was a bit trickier as I didn't have the background stamp that Tim used on his. I had a tear drop paisley one that looked like it would work pretty good, and it did. I added a few other blingy things to mine as well. They both turned out pretty good. We will be getting together again in the next few weeks to finish some of the others. There are a couple that I didn't like so I will be substituting something else. Will be interesting to see what I can come up with. Until then................. Hugs, ~Jody

The TH Pocket Watch

Since the mirror dangly thing in my old truck was from Wyoming days, pre 2004 (a leather star my daughter made and the State of WY Employee Parking permit) I decided to make a new one for my new truck. I used Tim Holtz's pocket watch and embellished it vintage style. I had a metal bow that was once on a key chain that my sister gave me so I revamped it to include a metal heart and key. I put a thin piece of ribbon around the inside of the watch and then with the tail of it I attached the metal bow, heart, key piece. A while back I found a little metal sign at a garage sale that said 'aged to perfection' and so I attached a brad in the hole and placed a crocheted flower under it. Then added an old button to finish out the look. I found a lace shoestring at that garage sale last weekend too, so I distressed it a bit and looped it through the pocket watch and tied it around my rear view mirror in my new little black truck. Then I found a couple of old necklaces that my mom sent me from one of her estate sales and hung them there with it and it looks so, well, VINTAGEY!! Love it! There was an old crocheted doily in the box of stuff I got at the garage sale last weekend, as well. I washed it and fold it over to cover the little hole in it and put it on the dashboard where there is a little nook, where the clock and stuff reads. It looks so cool! Amazing what you can do with a little imagination. Hope you have a great Sunday! Hugs, ~Jody

A Remodel

Good Morning bloggers, I am doing a remodel of the 'ol blog here so bear with me. I'm not really versed in such things and my daughter is not here to help me anymore so I will have to muddle through myself. Got everything pretty much the way I want it now except for the purple title. I will have to work on that later. Have a few other things to get done today as well, like making a butt pillow, lol. I have this sciatic nerve in my right hip problem and I was noticing a couple of weeks ago that I tend to lean to the right when I am sitting down. A chiropractic friend suggested I change my posture when I am sitting by putting a pillow under one butt cheek. Sounded good to me so I have been trying out all the pillows around my house to see which one will work the best, NADA, they are all too big, I believe. The smallest pillow I own! Sooooo, I will make one just for this occasion. Found a bag of batting in the sewing cubbies and have a tub full of fabric so we'll see what I can come up with. The fact that it did really help the pain in my right thigh has encouraged me. It has thrown everything else off in my back so I had to go for another treatment yesterday at the chiropractor but I think everything is re-aligned now so I will just have to carry around my little pillow.I found a piece of green crushed velvet in my stash so cut a 14 x 10 piece. I sewed a seam down one side and across the top and left the other side open. Gently stuffed the batting in the open side and sewed it shut. Voila', a butt pillow!!! I hope it helps! Have a great day, Hugs, ~Jody