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.

May Year in Review

Year in Review is an ongoing project presented by Captured Moments.  Each month, there are three double pages layouts that are a patchwork of designs.  Using We R Memory Keepers plastic page protectors and Simple Stories Yearology papers, Tiffany creates six unique scrapbook pages. I never know what I'm going to get.

While Tara posts the sample blank pages, here is what I did with the May pages.  I have a blank spot or two where I have to print something else but it's basically together.  I'm enjoying this project.  So what happened in May?

Mara continued to make the local malls her home away from home, Brandy and Brian found out they are having twins,  we visited the Howe family, more flowers in our yard bloomed, the Captured Moments crop was an emerald theme for May.......

the Hunnicutts hit the South Carolina beach, the DeNami blog hop theme was Pretty Pastels, the NFL draft gave the Jets the annual opportunity to select a bad first round draft pick, the Department announced our new Division Director would be Lora Santelli, we traveled to Manchester by the Sea and Salem in Massachusetts.....

my son sent me a wonderful Mother's Day card, we visited Kerri and Max for dinner, we took a Wilton basic cake decorating class together.....

Gerri, Karen, April, and I walked the Workforce Challenge and took our picture with the Commissioner and Dr. Birkhead, we honored fallen soldiers for Memorial Day, both American Idol and Dancing with the Stars picked their finalist and both were not my picks..........

and most importantly, I went to Absolutely Everything to take four classes with Tim Holtz, two of which were with my local friends.  This was so special I had to use two whole pages just on Tim Time.

I realized I left off Mom and Joey's birthday and Joey's return home so I'll be shifting some pictures around to include those.


I'll be posting the other month pages as well but I decided to go backwards and put the most current activities here.  If you head over to the Captured Moments blog year in review link, you'll be able to see all the page layouts.  More to follow.

July 17th Sketched Out Scrapbook Pages

Here are the samples of the four pages planned for the July Sketched Out class on Tuesday July 17th.  Four great pages for $25, papers included.  This month features beautiful papers by Basic Grey.  Love them. Sign up at the register at Michael's in Latham Farms.  Sign up by June 23 for a 25% discount in the Beat the Heat promotion.  That's only $18.75 for four pages.  Great deal.

Welcome to the June DeNami Blog Hop!  This month's theme is 'Cards for Guys'. The particulars about the hop are listed below.

Who can join: Anyone who has a DeNami stamp and can create a "guy" card.

When does it happen: The blog hop starts on June 10th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until June 11th, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).Why do we do this: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes-what's in it for your: DeNami gives away a $20 gift certificates to their website to TWO people who comment along the hop!  Be sure to comment as you go to enter as many times as possible.

You should have arrived from the blog of Greta Hess.  If you get lost along the way, hop back to the DeNami blog to find your way back to where you want. 

Not a surprise but the new chicks were extremely popular at the W. Springfield show last weekend.  We sold out of the chair chick, the coffee chick, and the cupcake chick.  I met lots of great DeNami lovers and hope a few stop by during the hop to have a chance to win a gift certificate. 

I had a hard time picking between the sports chicks, armchair chick, Mimi's boyfriend surfing, sailing, space stamps, etc.  I looked at the cruising chick, tank chick, cars, penguins (which I think are boys), and even the farmer.  I finally decided on......the fishing chick.  I have fishermen in my family so I hope to get good use from this stamp.

So here is Mr. Fishing Chickie.  In my mind, a day fishing or sitting by the water is great way to relax. My plan all week was to match it with the Sea Friends set but, what do you know, I don't own it.  Guess I'll have to place an order on line when I was just standing in the most wonderful exhibit.  Instead I used the sailing boat from the Under the Sea set.   

The cloud paper is something I picked up at Michael's.  The blue is a shimmery glossy paper and the clouds are embossed and covered in textured fluff.  The waves are cut with a Fiskers edge punch and the grass is patterned paper torn for an uneven edge.  The boat and chick were stamped on white paper and cut (as close as I could) then mounted with foam tape.  The sentiment is from A Muse and was stamped on the cloud paper.

Thanks for stopping by.  The next stop is Jennifer Harris.

And while you are traveling through the hop, you'll find Tenia Nelson's blog.  She's the guest artist, and has the cover spot, in the current edition of Stamper's Sampler "Take Ten". Congratulations.