Giveaway!

My dear blog-buddy, Lynn, is having a three year anniversay giveaway on her wonderful blog
http://trashtotreasureart.blogspot.com/. Pop over there and say hi and check out her gorgeous work. She makes the most amazing things!

Grungy Monday #24/ Show Us One Color

This week I am combining challenges again for Linda's Grungy Monday #24, Perfect Distressing by the master of Distress himself, Lord Tim and SSSS challenge to show us one color. I used red as my color and made a Christmas card from mine. I really liked mine until I spritzed it with water after brushing the perfect pearls on. I lost the definition of my gorgeous background.Still looks good, but was really pretty before that. I stuck to just red so I could use it for the challenge in SSSS.

Grungy Monday #23

Well, I am taking a few minutes to play along again this week!Linda at StudioL3 has challenges us with "Tim in 10". Make a project with any Tim product in 10 minutes or less. Much needed for my sanity! I have been spending every waking moment, not at work, down to my daughter's new home they bought last month trying to get it ready for them to live in. Done or not, they plan on moving in tomorrow. I used coordinations cardstock and ran thru embossing folder and sanded the snowflakes with T

im's sanding block. I die-cut his reindeer and embossed them as well. Added some bling from my stash with glossy accents and used Tim's Distress stain to die my seam binding and dried it with my heat-gun. Voila!

Grungy Monday- #21

Linda over at StudioL3 has challenges us to use fragments this week. Love these babies. I finally got brave enough to try to put together a necklace made from these after ogling Sherry's beautiful works forever on her blog and wishing I lived close enough to take her classes. I got out some patterned paper scraps, an old map, a couple stamps and some archival ink and went to town. I stamped the images onto them and then began laying my fragments onto them to see where I wanted them. Once I decided, I smeared a bit of Glossy accents onto the fragments and laid them onto the stamped images. Went to family room and watched my beloved Packers until half-time to allow to dry. Then I used my Tim scissors to trim around them and cut them out. I then used the tutorial Christie Hund

shared on her blog, Thanks Christie! Except I used aluminum tape from the hardware aisle of Wal-Mart for my metal sheets. Added some alcohol inks, ran through one of Tim's embossing folders and sanded the high spots. I then smeared my black archival ink pad over it to make it pop. Next a layer of Rock Candy distress stickles to seal it after I sanded the edges good so no sharp edges remained. Poked through the holes with Tim's awl tool, added jump rings and my chain. Then I added a couple wings, heart and wings, and a key charm to a couple of them randomly. What a fun and easy project! And the Packers won!!! Doesn't get any better than this!

Twelve Tags of Christmas-Final tag

Whew! It's been a long journey, but here we are at long last, completing our sets of Tim's Christmas tags. It all started when we were following along with Tim last year and my good blog buddy, Donna, commented how she wished she had made all of the years of tags. I told her if she made just one a week starting in January, she would complete them all in plenty of time to be ready to join Tim again this year and have a complete set. So, she popped right back at me with, "You'll be making them with me, right?" Well, the rest is history and Allison joined in along with us and played every week as well, except she not only completed a tag each time, but also a Christmas card, so she has a good supply ready to use for this year's mailing! Smart girl, that Allison! It has been very fun and challenging to revisit all of these techniques. The background on this week's is one of my favorites. It is just so soft and pretty looking! And of course, who doesn't love the grunge paper roses! Anyway, here's my final tag and a huge thank you to Donna and Allison for joining me in this fun adventure!

SSSS-challenge

This week over at SSSS, the theme is Anything Goes. I have been itching to make a Configurations Box so thought this was the perfect time. I took a big box of stuff I had collected for it over to my good stamping friend, Diana's house to see her new craft room and we went at it. I just finished mine up today with the addition of the banner at the bottom that I lifted from the very talented Candy. Thanks for the inspiration girlfriend!!! I also added the fake snow to the floor of it and around my snowman to look more real. I think it turned out pretty cute for my first one! I have a few close-ups on here so you can see the different boxes up close. I added distress inks to my tissue tape to give it some color and depth. Can you see the On The Edge snowflakes in there made with glitter cardstock. Very pretty and sparkly in real life. Fun project!

Gothic Arch

On my OWSE group, the next challenge in the alphabet challenge is G is for Gothic arch. I just happened to decide to finally start a series of gothic arches that I learned and was inspired by Roni on her blog last May. She made hers up as a Mother's day gift. I knew I wouldn't have time to make them by then, but printed off each day and saved them. Well, finally I finished one of them. Need to move onto another one now. Wish me luck on that!