WOW!! So much fun creating with some of the new products available over at Scrap Shotz and creating finally with the Baked Texture Embossing Powders! The new Tim Holtz Stitched Slots ar perfect for traveler's journals!! You can keep more stuff and fit it in!
As you can see from my page I do keep everything!! Don't judge! LOL
This tag fits into the the Stitched Slot on the first page.
And yes...those are the tops of my receipts from Fred Meyer (did you know Fred Meyer sells wine and if you buy 6 bottles at once you get an extra 10% off?!? I know, I need to go there again!! LOL
And this was my second project using the Sizzix 3-D Embossing Folder Bohemian Botanicals and my Baked Texture!!
Working on Christmas cards!! I know, everyone else is doing Halloween and fall right now, but I'm not a Halloween girl (don't hurt me!!) So I am working on Christmas for my craft fair I have coming up in November. This year there is going to be a lot of purple Christmas! Thanks to the gorgeous Kaisercraft line and my new embossing powder from Emerald Creek! And my Christmas dies from Tim Holtz!
And woodland scenes with deer that smell like coffee!! YES!! I said coffee!! Keep your eyes on Emerald Creek for a new embossing powder called Just Java it's gorgeous and smells like coffee ~sigh~ Perfection in a jar! :)
I've got three Christmas cards and one "coffee" card well because it just had to be made. Apparently though....starting a conversation with "hey...smell my card" is weird!! LOL Well the look on my Uncle's face made me think it wasn't a great conversation starter!
TH die for the cup, TH stencil Distress Oxides and Emerald Creek Just Java Embossing Powder!
New deer stamps from the TH special release, embossed in Just Java and my birch die that I forgot to use last year! I wasn't sure how to colour it but Zoe Hillman has a great tutorial on her blog and lists the colours she used for the birch trees, it's the Winter Woodland post.
Love this diamond stamp from the TH special release, especially done in this gorgeous purple embossing powder from Emerald Creek. And I used the little garland from one of the new Christmas thinlits sets.
And yes more purple Christmas! The paper and cut outs from Kaisercraft are perfect for quick and pretty cards and the purple snowflake background is from Emerald Creek.
Look at this glorious purple!!
Love the beautiful frosty metallic finish! I want to use this on everything! So glad I picked up the Kaisercraft Christmas Jewel Collection.
And more Just Java on a maple leaf, going to be the must have of the new year!
Thanks for stopping by and hope you are all having a great week!!
I was so lucky yesterday to be able to pick up some of the Christmas dies from the Tim Holtz Christmas release! Before anyone else in the world (well before other stores had them)! How excited were the shoppers at the Customer Appreciation day at Clipper Street yesterday?! Crazy excited!! So many dies sold out so quickly! I was so happy to get my hands on the retro car! It had me at first sight! LOL I was excited to get that package open and try it out! Wow...there are a so many little pieces and yes I did lose two teeny weeny dots for the "i" and for the exclamation point! But perfect chance to add a touch of bling.
The completed card. Nothing to fancy on the first run, I put it together like it shows on the packaging. The blue behind the hills is just blended Iced Spruce Oxide ink then splattered with Salty Ocean Oxide ink.
Here are all the tiny bits you use to put this together. The door panels are there too, just hard to see on my Ranger mat. One thing I did have to redo was the set of black ovals at the bottom. they need to done in white so you get the image of the whitewall tires.
These are all the different papers I used for all the little bits. The plaid and the stripe are from the TH paper stash last year and were used for the bow and gift and the words. The silver holographic I used for the the 3 little fender pieces. I used a shimmer white (had in my stash and never used it before) for the snowy hills, the red for the base of the car is also a shimmery one. Two shades of green for the trees and black and white for the tire bits. The car panels are cut out of a little piece of scrap I had left over from my coffee journal I made.
And again, all the little pieces put together! :)
I am very happy to have my hands on this die and can't wait to create more cards with it. I already have a turquoise cardstock picked out for the next car and on that car I think I'll do white panels. Or not...not sure yet lol.
I have been very fortunate to come in contact with so many creative icons/teachers/designers and I am even fortunate enough to call some of them my friends. From the local talented team at Clipper Street to other design team members, to people I just admire their work.
I wanted to create more, I wanted to maybe try something I didn't do before and I sure as heck want to use some of the supplies I have sitting here! (I know you are all laughing at that one cuz you all know exactly what I mean LOL) So the super talented Marjie Kemper started a short term group to work through some of the mixed media art books that are out there. She created a wonderful and supportive Facebook group and sets up prompts for the week! And I jumped on in!! AND....I am even doing my pages in my Dina Wakely Journal!! AND...I'm using stencils and products I haven't used but have had sitting here needing some love!
So each week we share our page for that prompt, or you can work on a different prompt and share your work, it's very open and you can do more than one to share! The book for August is Dina Wakely's Art Journal Freedom and it has been so much fun so far. These are my pages for the different prompts and now to get to work on week 4, but I wanted to share these pages first! :)
Our Week One prompt was Repetition found on page 52. Here is my take on that one, using a stencil that had never been out of it's package and new Oxide colours and my new journal!
Week Two prompt was Asymmetry found on page 14
Using my Seth Apter Dies with TH cork and Oxides
Distress Oxides on kraft and layered.
Finished page!
Week Three prompt is Contrast found on page 78. Used a die and colours that I hadn't used yet! Also tried the scribble around the edge thing....I could learn to really like that part! :)
It's officially ready for purchase! The brand new Journal Treasury by Eileen Hull published by Bella Crafts publishing is waiting for you!
You can order through clicking on the above image or by using the link on my sidebar, both are affiliate links for me. Which means if you order through these links, it does benefit me.
There are so many incredible projects from amazing designers included in this treasury. Eileen and the Bella Crafts team of Ann, Lisa and Theresa have done an incredible job of putting together so much inspiration for you!!
Please check out this amazing book and then get your hands on the Journal die and show us your creations in the Eileen Hill Fan Club group on Facebook.
Thanks so much for stopping by and for all your support!
I am so in love with the Journal Die from Eileen Hull's Heartfelt Collection! I have finished my second one on my list of too many to count LOL
This one I am going to fill with pictures of my trip to Nova Scotia and PEI last month. Although there are no palm trees there, we visited and played on alot of beaches! It was amazing!
I've also done a quick flip through video as well. I know I need to work on my technique, but I am learning. I think I need to get a tripod or something to hold the camera so I can use both hands!
I edged all the pieces in Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick and Vintage photo.
This is the front of the journal. I used the closure tab that is cut out on the die, painted it and then attached a piece of driftwood on it.
The back of the journal with cut outs from the Kaisercraft Island Escape collection.
Here is the video flip through so you can see the signatures I made for this one.
And here a few close ups of the journal.
Inside cover pocket made with one of the TH glassine envelopes. I just cut one in half and used the top piece for a pocket on the back inside cover.
My piece of driftwood from Crescent Beach, about 25 mins from my house.
The front inside cover and cover of my first signature. Label was painted with Distress Oxides in Worn Lipstick and Cracked Pistachio
I did the TH Tropical Thinlit hibiscus in the oxides as well and the stamens are done with Wendy Vecchi's Buttercup ink and then the Buttercup Mica Spray.
the small hisbiscus were done with Spun Sugar and then sprayed with Wendy Vecchi's Pearl Mica Spray
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my newest journal. Hope you are all having a great week!
Wow!! My blog has been quiet because I have been away, over to the east coast of Canada. We went to visit family, take my Mom's ashes to the Atlantic where her brother's ashes were put, celebrate my Uncle's 70th birthday and see some of the sites. What an adventure, but more on that another time.
I wanted to share my All Things Coffee Journal that I created with the Eileen Hull Journal Die! I posted pics of if before, but didn't get the chance to do a post with some more detail pics.
I love this die!! I already have a list of other ones I want to create, some just because and some to actually complete a project and show off some trips. And yes, there will certainly be more than one of my Nova Scotia/PEI adventures!
Here is my first journal. All Things Coffee. And environmentally friendly too since almost everything I used to make it is repurposed from my caffeine addiction! :)
I also for the first time did a video of the flip through of my journal. It's in 2 parts because my camera person aka my daughter had a focus issue and then we got the giggles so please watch both parts LOL
Part One
Part Two
And here are some close ups of the inside pages. Almost everything on the inside pages is from my coffee adventures around town and also from home (we drink alot of coffee around here) and some of my tuck spots are made from vintage Nabob coupons.
Emerald Creek brads and the gorgeous ecQuarry line are always a perfect touch!
Tim Holts's Vintage Market Alphabet and Emerald Creek's Charred Gold EP...a match made in heaven!
Of course Tim Horton's is the first page...I am a Timmy's girl!
A little mix of Blenz (my morning routine at work) and hmmm.....surprise surprise more Tim Horton's (the tiny tags are from a Tim's cup)
I used half a Th glassine envelope to create this little pocket then used the other half to create another pocket in the next signature.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I can't wait to make more journals and share them with you! On the list is a wine journal, one for my Disney trip (that happened cough 17 years ago cough), my trip to Nova Scotia and PEI.....the list is just going to get longer. This is just the perfect size for sharing memories and things you love!
Woot Woot!! Got my October tag done!! Wasn't sure I was going to pull this one off since I didn't have the supplies for one of the techniques! It took me a bit but I found a semi compromise so I could do the top layer of this tag! And I also skipped Halloween again and went straight to Christmas! I promise...next year I'll do Halloween!! I hope to have more seasonal things next year!
Tag #10!! I can hardly believe I made it this far! LOL Unfortunately I do not have any of the Monster dies and am not able to get them before they retire. But I did manage to get the cardinal die from Simon Says Stamp when I won a GC for there! The cardinal doesn't cover as much of the tag as the monsters do, so I did 3 of them and layered them!
I ran the cardinals through my Big Shot with the poinsettia embossing folder and instead of using paint, I just used my Distress Crayon to rub over the emobssed parts. Because the silver I had was not a foil or metallic, the paint just soaked in (on the very bottom layered cardinal so you can't see it), so I improvised! I glue the bottom cardinal on flat them added the red and top silver with pop dots for dimension.
I added my Emerald Creek snowflake charm with some hemp twine and just tucked the other end of the twine under the cardinal.
My little steampunk tree from Emerald Creek had to make an appearance too. And omg...I love the crazing medium! I want to do that to everything!
A little saying from one of favorite embellishments, and just cut it to fit in the space I needed it to.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my October tag! Hope you are all having a great weekend and Happy Halloween!!To see all the other incredible tags head on over to Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 October!
