January Year In Review

Captured Moments has a fun project going on throughout 2012.  Each month there are three two sided pages with several different layouts to help capture things going on in the world and in our lives.  Making the pages is fun and keeping up with taking pictures and printing out snippets of current events is a challenge. Here are the completed pages for January.  They are mostly and introduction to the book.

The pictures of Andrew and Mara are still in my computer to print.  I have them bundled with the June pictures to print.

Since there was no snow, I used the winter fun page for the 'cropical' get away crop and I split the back of the back to move it March when we did have snow.  I covered the back with this beautiful Memory Box paper and didn't decide to do anything with it yet.  I may leave it alone because I love the break.

Here I added notes about Joey going to London, Alex moving into her first apartment, setting up my kindle, the monthly crop at Michael's. and spending some time with my friend Linda.  The picture you can't see through the glare is Mara being kissed by Linda's dog Brutus.

Finally, this page was great to put together pictures from a work party to celebrate Jason's birthday.  We had a great time.  The picture of Adam, Dileep and I is glared but all these little picture spots worked great.

July Captured Moments Card Class

Here are the card samples for the July Captured Moments class.  First up is a summertime chilled beverage featuring A Muse stamps.  This card was originally created by Mary at Stampassion and has always been a favorite of mine.  If life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but if life gives you limes, make margaritas.  A little glitter around the rim is the salt on the glass.

Next up features DeNami hearts.  This card was created by Paulina and I love the pink and brown together. They have lots of card samples with this color combination.  Love it.

The third card also features DeNami stamps and uses a tree with the petite four set that has a birds nest and cage.  This tree can be used in so many different ways.

Finally, a get well card featuring Lockhart stamps.  The tissue box has white flocking on the tissue.  Some of my favorite get well images and phrases are from Lockhart.

The class is July 14th from 10 AM to noon and is $12 for four cards.  Call Captured Moments at (518) 356-7985 or email them to register.  Hope to see you there.

June Captured Moments Card Class

I can't believe I never posted my June cards for the Captured Moments class.  Oh well, better late than never.  The class was great fun.

In this card, I demonstrated the use of alcohol inks on glossy paper to make a marbled and metallic look.  The beautiful Paper Parachute stamp is added with Memento black ink.

This beautiful summery patriotic card uses a Printworks stamp on watercolor paper and was painted with distress reinkers. Love this stamp.

This card uses some techniques reviewed in the Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry class.  We stamped the bird with distress ink then embossed it with clear embossing powder,  Next, we blended distress inks on the tag, then topped it off with russet Archival and black Memento inks.  Some people chose to leave the embossed image and buff off the top layer of inks.  Others ironed off the embossing powder and had a flat surface with a masked look.

The final card used paper piecing.  The pear collage is one stamp which was stamped on the brown paper.  Then it was stamped again on several different patterned papers and we used some distress markers to color in some of the designs.  I like the look.

I've loving the group that joins me on the second Saturday of the month.  We have a solid group the meets and plays together.  I'm able to show some people new techniques and we share creative ideas.  Thank you ladies for a wonderful way to spend Saturday.

Tim Holtz Journeys of the Past

This is the other class I wanted and was unable to get in originally.  I was lucky that someone canceled and I was able to get in.  Believe it or not, this is the only project I didn't finish at the class.  I still have a little bit of work to do.  I was sorry that woman couldn't attend but it was lucky for me.  I told her friends to let her know how grateful I was to get in the class.  

So here is my autographed book and as Tim suggests, I'm so curious to try these products more, create more projects, and play.  

Tim Holtz Charmed Possessions

I literally was joking about this class before I went that there was no way I'd be wearing a necklace of broken dolls and game pieces and that it looked like some kind of African tribal necklace, but again, I knew I'd learn a lot about working with the products and techniques.  This is the other class I was able to register for when I finally got through.

I haven't changed my mind about wearing this necklace and when my friend Sue wears hers I tell her that she's jingling like Bessie the cow.  But I did love working on the project and will forever have it hanging in my studio.  Again, thanks to Mario for all the preparation work.

Here's my version with some close ups.  This was a lot of work but we received a whole bag of goodies to select from and everyone's project turned out unique.

I loved the patina effect we obtained with snow cap alcohol ink blended with other alcohol ink colors.  I also loved the metal drill.  I've seen it before but wasn't sure how, or why, I'd use it.

The pocket watch is supposed to be the centerpiece of the necklace and it was fun to create.

I ended up with three autographs from Tim.  One on this apron he sells which has no advertising for anything but Ranger products so I can wear it teaching anywhere.

Tim Holtz-Patchwork Pandamonium

This is the class I wanted to take the most.  It incorporate lots of techniques and you really get down and dirty with inks, paints, stains, glues, etc.

I see in this shot that the glass bottle fell off plus the 'i' in imagine. Oh well, I can fix that.  The whole time we worked, I kept thinking the vintage hanger made the project and then he announced we were each getting one of these hangers!!!!  I love this project.

Here is a close up of grungeboard run through an embossing folder of clocks so it worked perfectly with the clock faces and gears.  The question mark is grungboard alpha pieces on top of grungeboard blocks.  OK, the grungeboard smells but since I love this project, I've learned to embrace the grungeboard smell.

I actually sewed the buttons and hanger through the grungeboard piece and backing.  I learned to love those cash keys.

 God Bless Mario for all the preparation involved.  I got into this class from the waiting list one week before the class.  Plus I won a door prize in this class of a set of distress stains, a new love.

Tim Holtz-Heart and Soul

In May, I had the chance to take four fabulous courses with the fabulous Tim Holtz.  Tim is known for vintage art work and he has created many, many, many products.  And I have many, many, many of his products.

Calling to get into these classes was like calling for a rock concert.  In fact, Tim is a rock star in the crafting world.  I was able to register for two of the four classes and they were the two I wanted the least.  I was confident I would learn good techniques in any class with him and I was correct and I'm glad I took the class.

This pull of sorts is made with a paper mache heart and put into one of his configuration boxes.  The industrial look of the metal paper includes faux rivets, faux metal stitching and lots of other textural techniques.  In this picture, I've lost some of the pictures in the viewmaster slide but I've found most and reglued them in place.  Mario, Tim's assistant, will forever know me as the person with the broken wheel. One of these wheels fell off four times.  We superglued it, hot glued it, and replaced the wheel.  Finally, Tiffany fixed it be replacing the screw.