For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

 Tissue Wrap Flower - Challenge 10 I ended up pushing the deadline right up to the very end this week.  Earlier this week I just wasn't feeling very creative...plus I was just too tired in the evenings to dig out my inks and stamps. So...I had no WOYWW shot yesterday, as it was still clean and tidy after picking up and putting away after last weeks playtime. This week's challenge is Challenge #10 at Studio L3   the Tissue Wrap Flower and is found on page 37 of Tim Holtz's book (Compendium of Curiosities Volume II). http://www.zibbet.com/TheFunkieJunkie will be giving a $25 gift certificate to their shop to one lucky randomly selected participant in this week's challenge! The flower is actually pink and sparkly as I sprayed it with Pink Grapefruit Radiant Rain shimmering mist.  The center has Apricot mica flakes and as usual they didn't photograph very well.  Here's a few Behind the Scenes shots.... ...

Waited this Morning....now Waiting until September Had a great time while I waited in line at She Scrapbooks this morning with a great bunch of Tim Holtz Groupies.  We were all signing up for classes with Tim in September.  So now that we've signed up...we wait some more! Oh and it wouldn't be complet without a picture of our bouncer.  Here's Chris making sure we knew what the rules were.  LOL it was a riot!!

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? - 158 So...What's on Your Workdesk this Wednesday?  I just found this great site Stamping Ground where artists from all over share a link to what's on their workdesk on Wednesday! You should check it if you like pages of yummy inspiration!! My desk is actually fairly clean as I have just finished one project and had cleaned up a bit before starting the next one.  In the middle there's a tag that I just completed for Tim's 12 Tags of 2012  and some yummy postcards received this week from an exchange group I am in.  What you can't see is that to the right of me is my heatgun along with stacks of inkpads and bottles of sprays.  To the left are stackable drawers that are filled with adhesives, stamps and trinkets.  I'm not even going to try and describe what is below my desk and behind me.  Maybe I'll share it someday when I get it a better organized.  LOL!!!  Next up is to get ...

June - Saartje It was a stormy evening and thankfully I had finished all my laundry ealier in the day, so I decided to spend my evening at my art desk. I've spent a few minutes each day for the last several days looking for JUST the right picture to use on my June tag for Tim Holtz's - 12 Tags of 2012 . I had even printed out a couple of photographs and attempted to tint them with the Distress Inkpad like Tim shows on his blog. It just wasn't working for me.  No matter how I did it, it just looked so fake and definitely NOT what I was going for. So today I decided to take the digital way out and used Lightroom and Photoshop to tint the photo and now I'm a happy camper! I tinted her dress a very pale pink and her hair a pale brown but I couldn't get the lighting right so that the pink would show up. Again I am taking pictures late and night instead of the daytime and the light was bouncing off the photo paper making it hard to get it just ri...

 Pocket Watch - Challenge #9  Pulled out my trinket boxes and had fun digging through them to find just the right things for Challenge #9 at Studio L3 . This week is the Pocket Watch and is found on page 35 of Tim Holtz's book  (Compendium of Curiosities Volume II). Simon Says Stamp will be giving a $25 gift certificate to their shop to one lucky randomly selected participant in this week's challenge! I found so many kewl things that I had a hard time deciding just which ones to use. I decided to go with a simple and elegant design for this one as I know I'll be making several other tiny works of art so I can swap them out when I want something different. I'll be putting it on a chain or pretty ribbon to wear as a necklace. Be sure to check out Tim's book and see what fun stuff he does. We will be working out way through the techniques in a random order chosen by Linda at Studio L3 and we woul...

What a way to end a day... My oldest daughter has braces and can't eat anything crunchy so I thought I'd be nice and go to the grocery store and get her some ice cream. WELL...I am less than a mile from the house and a tree limb decides to fall off a tree onto my van just as I am going under it. It's been raining for the last few days and I guess the old limb just couldn't hold the weight of the wet moss anymore. I could o nly swerve just so much as there was someone in the other lane, and I sure didn't want a head on!! See the nice dent and hole it left me! I am NOT a Happy Camper!! :-( Then I'm at the grocery store and I open the door of the stand up freezer to get the ice cream  and THE half gallon I wanted was in such a hurry to come with me that it THREW itself out of the freezer, hitting me hard on my shin bone! I hadn't even TOUCHED it yet. I'll have a nice bruise there for sure! So I carefully made my ...

Repurposed Packaging - Challenge #8 Finally had a chance to have a go at Week 8's Challenge at Studio L3 .  It is is called Repurposed Packaging and is found on page 62 of Tim Holtz's book   (Compendium of Curiosities Volume II). I can't say that I'm really fond of it...but I did manage to work my way through it.  I don't really care for plasticy (is that even a word?) stuff, so I found it a bit of a challenge.   I probably should have gone with a more organic look with paper packaging, old twine, etc...but I was really making an effort to try out his method.  Hey we don't learn if we don't try do we? So....here we go.   I really should quit photographing in low light...but by the time I get done in the evening, I'm limited to the low light here in my house.