Tim Holtz's Inspired Tag for June 2013

 

This is my Tim Holtz's inspired tag for My In My Vintage Room and Beyond tag swap.

Ribbon Lady

Recently I hosted a swap with my In My Vintage Room and Beyond group. 

 The theme for the swap was to make a Ribbon Lady. 

Here is my lady.....

 

I have to say I am really pleased with the way she came out.

I used my Character Construction Stamps "Time Keepers Garden"

colored her with my Copic markers, trimed her with hand dyed seam binding

(dyed with Tim Holtz Destressed Stains) used Prima flowers on her hat and,

is holding a metal birdcage not sure where I got it, but the bling

was from Michaels (dollar bins), and again I am not sure of who makes

the wooden birds (on the cage her waist and hat).

Giant Tag Swap

My Giant Tag for the In My Vintage Room and Beyond Group

  Theme:  Welcoming Spring

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I used:
Ranger's Giant Tag (size 14)
The new Prima Doll Stamps #6
Tim Holtz's new Eiffel Tower Die Cut
The Bird nest is from Prima Stickers
The Tree, Birdcage and Tulips are Jolee Stickers
The Vintage Bicycle is from the Cricut 
     Heritage Cartridge cut from chipboard and stained
     with Tim  Holtz's Distress Copper Stain.
Papers used are scraps left over from other projects.
Ribbon is from Tim Holtz's Trimmings stained with Bundled Sage, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss

Copic Certification

Part 2

The beginning of  May I went back to the Boston area for  the

2013 Color and Ink Workshop with Copic Markers. 

 Day one we played with Copic Ink refills and markers, learning many different techniques  such as painting, coloring and airbrushing.  I used stencils and stamps on metals, canvas and porous tiles, along with  several types of papers learning how the ink  takes to the different surfaces.

 

Metal 

 

Metal and plastic (shrinky dink) pushing ink with air

 

 

Air Brushing

  

Coloring on Canvas

 Day two was a full day of coloring. I learned how to blend and color various ethnic skin tones. I also learned  how to use shading and different brush strokes to get different effects for the

various hair styles.

Some skin tones and hair color and styles are harder to do than other, but lots of practice will make it

easier as you can see by my coloring I will be doing lots of practicing.

 

Part 1

In March I traveled to Boston, Mass with two friends (Laura and Annette) to get Standard and Intermediate Certification with Copic Markers.

 

 What this simply means is that we can now teach others the theory behind the product knowledge and blending techniques of coloring with these high quality alcohol-based ink markers.  

 Although, I now possess this knowledge to properly color with these markers, I still need to practice, practice, practice The first time I used these markers, I was told when purchasing Copic’s if I purchased 3 markers in each of the color families that would be all you needed.  But while taking the certification classes I soon learned that this isn’t exactly true.  Yes the 3 color family is a good rule, but you also need warm and cool colors for blending and shading.  So do you need all 358 colors that the Copic’s come in, my answer is yes of course I do......   

I have decided to go back to Boston in May to take a two day advanced workshop to expand my knowledge of what I learned in the standard and intermediate classes.

My Tim Holtz Adventure

This past weekend I traveled 3hrs with my friend Laura Casey,
  to a quaint little town in Connecticut called Old Staybrook, where  one of it's local Scrapbooking stores Beautiful Impressions  hosted a event featuring Tim Holtz. 

 

I have to say for me, what a thrill it was to have the opportunity to meet and take two classes

 from the awesome Tim Holtz

Mario Rossi, Mary Castilla, Maura Hibbitts, Tim Holtz, Me and Laura Casey.

(Maura and Mary joined us Saturday for the afternoon class). 

 

Now not only were the classes being taught by Tim, we were also right on the ocean.

It was a cold windy day in Ct. but really does it get any better... Tim, good friends. and the ocean.

 

Out classroom and its beautiful view of the ocean.

 

In the morning class we worked on a small Journal Book called

Journeys of the Past

Tim showed us the techniques he used to create this little work of art using his

stains, inks and paints and stamps.

  

 

 Getting started
The really nice part of taking his classes is that everything you need to make this project is in kit form it's all cut to size, and all supplies and product are provided for you, all you need to bring to class is yourself and your creativity which isn't hard when being inspired by Tim

 

 

 

My tags are inked, stained, distressed and ready to embellish and assemble.

 

 

Project Completed.

 

Lunch Break

Mary and Maura joined me for a box lunch, we decided to eat outside but it was

 a little cold and windy. (oh where is Mary.)

 

Tim and Mario setting up for the afternoon class

 

 

Second Round 

 

The Sample Configuration Book

 

 Getting
Started





(Thanks Maura for sharing Pictures) my batteries died in camera






The configuration Book was fun to work on, once we covered all the surfaces and inked them we were ready to embellish again. 

In this little box is Tim's new lantern, it's battery powered, Tim showed us his little secret to hide the battery pack...who would of thought..but that's why he's the GURU....lol.


I had 5hrs to work on my book but honestly I did not get it completed, I am not sure it anyone did but that's OK I don't think you were expected to complete it.  The class was more to teach you techniques. And have FUN.

Tim walking around the class answering questions and helping.








 

Tim Signing our books

 

 

End of a long day

All packed up and headed on to the next step of Tim and Mario's New England Journey.

 

Art work for a couple swaps for May

                         Miriam from my In My Vintage Room and Beyond Group hosted a

                                               April Showers brings May Flowers Swap

                she provided us with the postcard she wanted us to use to create our art work on.

 

 

 

 I used G45's new Secret Garden paper line, Catherine Moore's Character Construction stamp set Timekeeper's Garden to design my postcard.

I also used Flower Soft to accent the flowers, and Glossy Accent on the dragonfly and fairy wings. And Copic Markers to color the stamps.

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Character Construct is another group of very talented ladies from all over the US and I believe there are a couple ladies from Germany that swap with us also...the theme for our May swap is Steampunk.

 

On these #8 Ranger black tags I first embossed the tags with a Tim Holt's embossing folder that has Time Pieces on it.  I then used his Distress Inks, Stains and Metallic Paints to highlight the embossing along with the the chipboard gears and time pieces I used that were cup from the stop watch  and small gears  movers and sharpers dies. I glued plastic clock faces and hands on them  (from my statch, not sure who makes them)  then put glossy accents on the faces to make it look like they have the glass crystals on them.  I also used some of Tim's small metal gears along with some charms and bling I had in my statch to add to the steampunk theme. I used Character Construction Stamps from the new 2013 Timekeeper's Garden Collection by Catherine Moore.

 

CC-Time Keepers Garden Swap

The calender says it's Spring, but I still have a couple snow piles in my yard that say different.

.  So when I was working on the Character Construct Spring Swap titled:

 The Time Keepers Garden

I made sure I used lots of spring colors so I would be reminded that it really is spring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I combined a page from G45's A Secret Garden for the background, Characters Construct's

new stamp collection Time Keepers Garden and my Copic markers.