Homework for THCC101 Day 7

The class for Day 7 was fun! It was all about embossing - heat embossing and it made me realise that I had not done much of that for quite a long time.





The combination of heat embossing and distress inking is such a dynamic one as you can get some amazing results - evidenced particularly by the tag on the right. The distress embossing powder gives a stunning result - I must use it more often!

Still haven't done my homework for day 6 as I am waiting impatiently for my distress markers to arrive...

Now off to do my homework for Day 8 - using paints!

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More homework!

This is my homework for the Day 4 class of Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101!

The tags are coloured using distress inks and re-inkers providing a nice watercolour effect!




Enjoying the course very much. Tim makes everything look so easy!

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Tiptoe through the Tulips

Over at the Cooking with Cricut challenge this week, the theme is a Spring song, and I found this sentiment on my Cricut Lite Bloom cartridge.

I cut the bottom layer in black and the top layers in red, yellow and cream.

The flowers are from the Walk in my Garden cartridge and I welded two of the border layers together to fit across the front of the card.

The card is a centre step one which I cut using the Black Cat Cougar, designing the file on the Funtime Software package that came with the machine. The software makes it really easy to make these cards that require measuring, cutting and scoring in different places.

I have entered this in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Challenge me Monday 103.

Swap Book

Hilda, over at the Lots to Do forum, organised a book page swap, and because I was going to be in the UK when the pages were due, I thought I could save some postage by delivering them  by hand - hopefully!

The pages here are (clockwise from top left): In a tangle (zentangle), My love of art, Take flight, and She loves to dress up.

The zentangle is done in pen on white paper and shaded with pencil.

For the background to My love of art, I created a pastel abstract design over which I stamped some arty stamps and added the word.

Take flight depicts a bird escaping from a cage and surrounded by butterflies.

I was really stumped for the last one of these, then I had the idea of getting a downloaded paper doll image with clothes that you can dress her in. I remember playing with these paper dolls in my childhood - many years ago!LOL

The final four pages are Smell the Flowers, All sewn up, Bricks and Mortar and The Wheels go round.
For the flowers, I stamped a Hero Arts poppy  stamp, masked it then stamped a background script stamp. Coloured with copic markers and added the title.

Enjoyed doing the sewn up page as I had lots of sewing themed stamps to choose from. Used Toodles and Binks stamps on a sewing pattern background paper, then  added the dress form stamps from Claudine Helmuth. I stitched a piece of cream linen on the page along with some lace, ric rak and an edging.

For the Bricks and Mortar page, I stamped the buildings onto cardstock and coloured them using copic markers, then cut them out to attach to the page. The background was embossed with a texture fades embossing folder which was then inked up with fired brick distress ink. Cut the title out using the Cricut and attached to the page with foam squares.

The clock page represents the wheels of time going round. The background was embossed with a clocks embossing folder from Sizzix, then distressed with my favourite bundled sage, wild honey and rusty hinge distress inks. Added the weather clock die cut and a time sentiment from Tim Holtz.

I can't wait to see what the others have come up with for the swap!

Zentangles

Over at the NZ Crafters group on Card Making World, a few of us got together to have an ATC swap. The theme was Zentangles and these are the ATCs I made for the swap.

Enjoyed doing the zentangles as it was really relaxing and I didn't need to be in the craft room to do it!! This was another first for me!

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 2

Yes, I signed up to Tim Holtz' Creative Chemistry 101 on-line classes and they started this week. So excited!

Day 1 was all about the inks - learning about the different types of inks used in making ink pads and how they act and react with each other. Really good information and so helpful.

Blended Distress/Spritz and flick technique

Day 2 was so distressing - using distress inks in different ways.

My first tags show the blended distress technique and spritz and flick. Fun to do. Love both colour combinations I used here.

Brushless Water Colour

 This sample is just so cute - used a Gina K stamp with different distress inks.

I also used water colour paper to stamp this on and it comes out so well - just looks like a water colour picture!

Wrinkle free distressing is something I have never been particularly happy with, but I know that once you layer up the tag with stamps and embellishments, it becomes a background.

I liked the effect that I got with the seasonal distress inks I used for the middle tag and the effects on the RH tag are good too.

Enjoyed doing the homework for day 2 - now off to do the homework for day 3!

Spring Song

He remembers the first time he met ‘er 

He remembers the first thing she said 

He remembers the first time he held her 

And the night that she came to his bed 

He remembers her sweet way of singin’ 

Honey has somethin’ gone wrong? 

He remembers the fun and the teasin’ 

And the reason he wrote ‘er this song 

I’ll give you a daisy a day, dear 

I’ll give you a daisy a day 

I’ll love you until the rivers run still 

And the four winds we know blow away

(Written by Jud Strunk)

Today's Terrific Tuesday Die Cut or StampChallenge theme is "inspired by a spring song".

Well, I am not sure that the song the sprang to mind when I saw this cutting file is specifically related to spring, but daisies always seem so spring-like to me.

Melin created this daisies file which can be purchased here. I cut the diaies from white cardstock, then blended Tumbled Glass distress ink on the edges of the petals and curled them up slightly so they stand out from the card. I layered the daisies onto the green stems and leaves that I edged with crushed olive distress ink and placed the centres of the daisies (cut from yellow card and edged with wild honey distress ink) on top of the white petals.

The sentiment is from Gina K special occasion tags set designed by Tami Mayberry. I layered the sentiment and the daisies onto blue cardstock (cut with Spellbinders Deckled Rectanlges dies) which I then edged with white chalk ink.  Attached the sentiment onto the blue gingham ribbon that I taped to the bottom of the card.

I hope you find time to enter this challenge - Melin has created some lovely die cuts and digi stamps that are very suitable for the theme.