Getting Inky tonight!

Decided I needed to get a bit inky tonight, so I dug out my stamps and inks and FINALLY got to work on my March Tag for the 12 Tags of 2012 that Tim Holtz is doing on his blog. 

It's already half way through the month, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does for April.

...here is the tag that Tim did and posted for March.

I didn't have a woodgrain stamp for my tag...so I started digging through my stamps to see what I could find, and found a wonderful oversized stamp by Stamp Out Cute that I've had for years. 

I think it made the perfect background for the butterfly

I can't say that I'm really in love with the butterfly, but I was trying his mosaic technique.  Don't know that I'll use it again on anything as it really isn't my style...but it does look pretty good once you get all the bits and pieces on the tag.  I actually made two butterflies but there was only room for one on the card, so I'll have to figure out something to do with the other one.

I actually got into my stash and USED my Tim Holtz Idealogy Foliage metal flowers and leaves.

Now I need to find a cute way to display all the fun tags I've been making.  I've got a picture tree on my desk at work and for now I think I'm going to take them there where I can enjoy them each day.

So....here is my card .....

You can check out Tim's blog here...it's always full of inspiration!

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

 Well, it's time to call it a night.  I've got a busy weekend ahead, and a night out tomorrow night with my hubby.  We are going to go see a friend and listen to her music at a local Bistro tomorrow night!  Yea for date nights!!

Sneak Peak...

Here's a little sneak peak of a mini-album project that I'm working on.

Can't show the inside yet because it's a surprise gift for someone and they don't know about it yet.

Shhhhh............

Now...I'm off of here to get a bit inky before I have to go pick my daughter up from school.

One more day until the weekend!

I am hoping to finish up this little book, 

get pictures made 

and get it in the mail!

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Where did February go? ...or January for that matter?

Crazy, Busy Month!! Where did the time go?  I got my February tag for the Tim Holtz - 12 Tags of 2012 done a couple of weeks ago, but hadn't had the time to get it uploaded until now.  Sorry the picture quality is so bad.  I took the picture in the evening and my house likes to cast a funny color on things in the evening.  Once I get a better picture in the daylight, I'll try and remember to load a better one.

Christmas Project...just a little bit late!!

FINALLY finished and delivered my Mother-in-law's Christmas Present.  It ended up taking a lot more time than I thought it would and once I completed the album and added the pictures, I found that it wasn't deep enough on the sides to hold all the pictures, so I had to cut the 1/2 sides down the middle and add inch strips so that it would hold all the wonderful flip pages, tags and pictures that I wanted to add.  WHEW!   I had so much fun making it though...but now Ik now that with my busy schedule, I need to allow myself plenty of time to get this sort of thing done!

  

Day 8 - Steampunk Goodness!

Here's my low key version of steampunk.  I really don't have any steampunk stamps...so this one sent me digging in my stash and pulling boxes and boxes of stamps out of the closet.  By the time I got through tonight I only had a little area big enough to lay the tag left to work in.   But it's all cleaned up now!

I cut the big gear out with cardstock the Cricut from the Accent Essentials cartridge. The little gears is from the Artful Muse Textures Trades.  I used Hero Arts Embossing Powders and made them look like rusty metal. 

All the stamps are from Just For Fun except for the spatter stamp and it is from Imaginations and I have had it for years. It is my most favorite stamp and I would be lost without it.  I used a portion of a 7Gypsies ticket and stapled it at the top using my version of the tiny attacher that I've had for years and years.  In fact I still have a BIG supply of the original staples for it too.

Tonight's Supplies

• Stamps by Just For Fun and Imaginations
• Tim Holtz Ruler for spacing piercing
• Hero Arts and All Night Media Embossing Powders
• Distress Inks
• Marvy Matchable Inks
• ColorBox black pigment ink
• ColorBox embossing pad
• Tiny stapler
• Tiny toy watch gears
• ribbons from my stash
• Holly Berries from Michaels
• Artful Muse Texture Trade
• Nostalgiques Aphabet Sticker
• Glossy Accents
• Rollabind disks
• Heart Button Charm
• Sprig of juniper from my yard

Too Many Late Nights are Catching up with me...

Well, tonight's attempt at making gears and sprockets from chipboard on the Cricut was a dismal failure.  AHHH well, tonight I'll get a good night's sleep and come back and tackle it tomorrow.  I think I'll opt for a heavy cardstock instead and layer it up with pop-dots to give it the dimensional feel.
Looking forward to seeing Tim, Ted and Michelle's tags in the morning...and checking out all the kewl blogs and tag inspirations that everyone is posting.
Until tomorrow!  Rest well my cyber friends!

Day 7 - 12 Tags of Christmas

Loving the colors and textures of Day 7!  Again I had to improvise as I didn't have most of the ingredients for this one.  I'm really liking this one, as I love greens and browns.

I didn't have any kraft glassine so I used a buff colored Parchment Vellum from Marco Paper and used the Distress Inks.  Turned out better than I thought it would.  The vellum is very crinkly and stiff ...not sure what the glassine would be like as I've never tried it. The vellum worked pretty good for this though.

I don't have a holly leaves die...so I freehand cut some holly looking leaves.

I inked a tag with Distress inks...well actually it took me 3 tags to get one just the way I wanted it.

Tonight's Supply List

• #8 Tag
• Buff colored Parchment Vellum from Marco Paper
• Winter Birds stamps by Inkadinkado
• Crackle Cube by Stampers Anonymous
• Script Stamp by Just For Fun
• Flourish #2 die by Sizzix
• Gold Cremcoat paint
• Distress Inks in Vintage Photo, Old Paper and Antique Linen and and Distressing tool
• Adirondack Inks in Lettuce, Butterscotch and Bottle and Blending Solution
• ColorBox black pigment inkpad 
• Black Embossing Powder
• Glossy Accents
• White Scribbles dimensional paint and white glitter glue
• Little bits of lace and trim from my stash

Day 6 - 12 Tags of Christmas

Placeholder for Day 6.
I still can't decide how I want to do the metal tag....SO I'll skip if for now and come back to it.