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.

************

 

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.

A Wonderful Art Experience

Call me crazy, but last weekend my friend Sue and I drove 4 hours one way to Cape Code to take a 2 hr. class with Cheryl Mezzetti an accomplished designer and artist who works in the paper arts industry. Once there, and the class had started I had no regrets about getting up at 4 am and starting this journey into her altered world.

    

 

Cheryl started us out with a kit that consisted of 7gypsies chipboard covers, chipboard, canvas mat boards, canvas material and showed us how to turn it into a work of art. She took us through a journey with all the latest and greatest mixed media products to hit the market.

Cheryl motivated and educated us with knowledge about ways of using Luminarte H20's, Radiant Rain Sprayers and the new Primary Elements and Silks. She eagerly shared her knowledge and enthusiasm of Luminarte and Viva Colours with a glimpse into her wonderful altered world.

Thank you Cheryl for teaching such an inspiring class.

The rest of the weekend was spent with Sue and her sister and brother in law (Brenda and Tony).

Tony played tour guide for me and gave Sue and I a wonderful tour of the East Harwich.

 

Thank you to Brenda and Tony for     welcoming me into their beautiful home on the cape.

 

 

Character Construct Swap-Glamour Girl

Time for the next Character Construct Swap

Theme for this swap was Glamour Girls

 

“Patchwork Pandemonium”

                           

I recently took a class at Captured Moments in Rotterdam, NY  my favorite scrapbooking store, where I created  a variation Tim Holtz’s  “Patchwork Pandemonium”.

In a 4 hour period of time I created a framed 8×10 art piece made of  patch worked pieces of grunge board compilation, and adorned them with Ideology trinkets and Tim Holtz’s collection of stamps from Stampers Anonymous.  The grunge board pieces were altered with texture fades, distress stains, inks, paints, tapes, all which resulted in a one of kind piece.  Many thanks to our instructor Annette for making this class possible.

Chads Valentines

So here it is February 11th already, and some of you know what that means...lol.  For the past six years (K-5) I have been making a special little boys Valentines for his classmates.  Chad and I come up with the theme for the Valentines and once that's done I go to work on them.  This year he wanted Creeper from the  Mine Craft Computer Game and wasn't sure what he wanted for the girls, he left that up to me.  So this is what I came up with for both.

 

The center 12 x 12 framed card is the original design. It is Chads Valentine from me.

 

For the boys it's  the Creeper Character roaming the world wishing everyone

 a Happy Valentines Day.

 

And for the girls I used a Digi Image from Saturated Canary and colored her with

my Copic Markers and added a bottle cap necklace to them. 

 

*****

 

This was the first project I have actually done with the Copics and love working with them.

Because of this project I have decided to take the  two day Standard and Intermediate Certification classes in Boston, Mass in March...I am so excited to be going.

 

Here's the results of my 1st coloring project

 

I know there's so much to learn about coloring and shading.  I actually sort of cheated

doing this project I only colored the 4 girls shown here, I then photo copied them

so I had what I needed.