Since I will not be available to do any papercrafting in the next challenge period (although I will be intermittantly connected to the internet, there are a number of events coming up in our life on the next two weeks that will totally put all crafting of any kind aside for a while...), I went simple this time. Using the larger version of a spool of thread in the blueprint stamps series (painted with festive berries and barn door for the thread, iced spruce for the needle and gathered twigs for the spool) and a freebie caption stamp from a UK card-making magazine, I put together a 5" X 6.5" greeting card/note card by layering the watercolored image onto coordinating red paper and gathered twigs-"enhanced" tan paper on a white card. Added a loop of red thread and voila!
This week, the challenge being presented by Linda Ledbetter at Studio L3 and sponsored by Inspriation Emporium, is to use the Distress Watercoloring technique (part 1) as illustreated on page 39 of Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities 3. Since I will not be available to do any papercrafting in the next challenge period (although I will be intermittantly connected to the internet, there are a number of events coming up in our life on the next two weeks that will totally put all crafting of any kind aside for a while...), I went simple this time. Using the larger version of a spool of thread in the blueprint stamps series (painted with festive berries and barn door for the thread, iced spruce for the needle and gathered twigs for the spool) and a freebie caption stamp from a UK card-making magazine, I put together a 5" X 6.5" greeting card/note card by layering the watercolored image onto coordinating red paper and gathered twigs-"enhanced" tan paper on a white card. Added a loop of red thread and voila! If I had a little more time, I might play with this image a bit more but two hours was all the time I had this morning to devote to this challenge.
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Challenge #4 in the challenge being hosted by LInda Ledbetter on her blog Studio L3, and sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique, was to use the tutorial on page 49 of Tim Holtz's book Compendium of Curiosities 3, "Layering Stencil: Texture Paste". When I started work on this fourth challenge, I tried a couple of approaches before settling on the piece I entered. But I still liked how the other piece looked and it was calling to me to finish it as well. SO, I layered it up with stamps, stickers, brads and other tchotchkes and as I was working, the theme "Road Trip" came to mind. But "road trip" wasn't how the piece was reading ... So, I decided to step outside my box and create a 12 x 12 page (outside my box, because I don't scrap) and started playing with various papers and still more stickers, brads and the like. And this is how it came out... With a road trip in our near future, this may become the cover page in an album! Who knew the CC3C would prompt me into scrapbooking!
Challenge #4 in the challenge being hosted by LInda Ledbetter on her blog Studio L3, and sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique, was to use the tutorial on page 49 of Tim Holtz's book Compendium of Curiosities 3, "Layering Stencil: Texture Paste". I played around a bit and came up with a Christmas card, using stencil # 15 "Holly Bough", several colors of distress inks and pens (Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, Barn Door, Frayed Burlap), some holiday rub-ons and an idea-ology brass label/tag with linen ribbon. This technique isn't totally new to me - I have done something similar with brass stencils and embossing paste. But the Distress ink approach made this piece look rather impressionistic, which I rather like!
This week, the challenge, led by Linda Ledbetter at Studio L3 and sponsored by Inspiration Emporium, is to create "Faux Tea Roses" according to the instructions on page 65 of Tim Holtz's book, Compendium of Curiosities 3.
I made a tag, covered it with torn tissue, stained the tag an the tissue with Iced Spruce, Pine Needles and Everygreen Bough stains. Then I attached three of the five roses, all sprayed with some glitter spritz to add a bit of sparkle (which shows up only on the leaves in this photo --- the roses are actually well glimmered; the leves were subject o a little oversrpay!). (I swear, my fingers just don't LIKE small fiddly stuff - I have issues holding on to embroidery needles, for gosh sakes - and these roses are just that! One tore while assembling it, one detached itself from the tag twice and none of my five were full blown and blowsy like I wanted) I call it "Embrace Imperfection" because my roses sure don't look like Tim's! More like tiny little rosebuds one would find in a nosegay (aka tussie-mussy or posy). What can I say! It was fabulous and exhausting! Six classes in two days, 9AM to 9PM both days, and only one project complete so far... There are two more Tim Holtz class projects in various stages of completion: A "Creative Collections" folio and a "Configuration of Your Imagination" mini-configurations book. In addition there are six cards from a stenciling techniques class taught by Jennifer McGuire and Shari Carroll, six "cute" cards from a class team taught by Lawn Fawn’s Kelly Marie Alvarez, Operation Write Homes’ Sandy Allnock, and Simon Says Stamp’s Stephanie Klauck, and two pages for an art journal class taught by Shari Carroll. It was a full two days!
All in all, a fabulous experience and here's hoping they do manage to hold a second annual "Create" event next year. |
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