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Time Illusion

This is page is made for a challenge for Take a Word "Wings" and Three Muses "Timepiece".  Any questions on how anything is made or what products were used, please leave a comment.  Thanks for looking!

Sketchbook cover

I've had this sketchbook for ages, it is used for notes and ideas and I got bored with the cover - so this is what happened.  A lot of Tim Holtz being used here.  Twigs and sun rays are embossed colored card stock adhered a then painted over.  After the paint dried, I sanded it away to reveal the card stock below.  The twigs got hit with some black paint for definition too.  

Girl Power

This page is done in my altered book journal, all by leftovers from other pages.  I often work on several pages at once, because I'm ADD and cheap.  I don't want any art materials to go to waste, so every drop of ink and paint gets used.  The witch is black paint, I used left over Cricuit cutout as the stencil.  The tree is Cheery Lynn's Designs.  Tree branches are The Crafters Workshop.  

Persist art journal page

Another page from my art journal.  The die cut flowers are Tim Holtz (Sizzix) cut from canvas and sprayed with ink.  The stencil/template is The Crafters Workshop.  The butterfly stamp is Tim Holtz (Stampers Anonymous).  The Persist is athletic tape with Ranger Distress ink and then I just stamped the word on it.  I've also got some of Tim Holtz tissue tape along with some 7 gypsies.  

Dancing fall

Another page in my art journal.  Sorry - I don't recall who this stamp is made by (Graphics 45?).  The leaves are Tim Holtz/Sizzix, cut out of aluminum duct tape and colored with alcohol inks.  The mesh is just drywall tape, and I colored in some of the squares with a white Sakura pen.  Background is paint with some left over rub-ons.

Ode to Jack and Sally

In honor of Halloween I made a page in my journal regarding my favorite Halloween movie:  The Nightmare Before Christmas.  This started with an experiment with image transfer, that didn't work so well.  I'm continuing my plight to purge myself of rub-ons and stickers, (only so I can start hoarding them all over again), so here are several from my stash.  

Mini Halloween Album

This album was started with a Grungeboard Album. If you have any questions about products used or techniques, please leave a comment.  Thanks for visiting!

Metal embellishment is Tim Holtz.  Bottle stickers are Martha Stewart.  Background stamp is also Tim Holtz.  

Started orange cardstock and glued chipboard letter to it.  Adhered stamped tissue paper (from old Simplicity Patterns) on top with matt medium.  Highlighted letters with silver Rub'n Buff.  Black drips are just paint.  The barbed wire is hand wrapped and fixed with some brads from my stash.  All topped with some fine cotton fibers from some gauze I tore up.

Page 1 and 2.

Page 1 with the tags in.  This paper is the Eerie Collection by Basicgrey.

Page 1 with tags out.  Tags are Echo Part Chillingsworth Manor.

Page 3 and 4.

More Chillingsworth Manor, with tags in a little burlap pocket.

Page 5 and 6.

This paper is Fancy Pants Designs, Inc.  Oct. 31.  The cats are Tim Holtz , the hat die cut is K and Company.

Page 5 with the accordion mini pages pulled out to the left.

Page 5 with accordion mini pages pulled out the right.

Page 7 and 8.

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These are my favorite pages, since I'm on a steampunk kick lately.   Paper background is Chillingsworth Manor.  The metal  is a aluminum foil through a Cuttlebug embossing folder and painted black for patina.  I filled in the back with modeling paste and then tore it into strips and glued it to the paper.  Crumpled glassine is also used here to make the pocket. 

Page 8 with tag out of pocket.

Page 9 and 10.

Chillingsworth Manor paper.  Tim Holtz crow.   Tree branches are The Crafters Workshop - mixture of modeling paste and cheap black gesso.  It turned out to not be the consistency I wanted, but went with it anyway.  Don't buy cheap gesso.

 Page 11 and 12.

Paper is Pink Paislee, Phantom.

 Page 13 and 14.

Background paper is Carta Bella, All Hallow's Eve., with some Chillingsworth on top along with some stickers. 

Halloween cards

My Halloween cards for this year.  This basic design was a challenge in an old Stampington & Company publication and for some reason it sticks with me, so I used it this year.  Paper here is Echo Park Paper Co.  Chillingsworth Manor.  The crow is Tim Holtx (Sizzix), the strip down the center is Martha Stewart on both.  The bling bat sticker and black skull are both K & Company die cuts.  The Happy Halloween stamp is Inkadinkado.

Outside

Inside with tag.

Outside

Inside with tag.

Skull

Another quick journal page.  This one started out as left over black colored modeling paste I mixed up for another project (Black birds Sept. 27th post).  I used it test drive my new TCW Dylusions Letter Jumble stencil.  Then it was sprayed with Tattered Angels ink and drips are just watered down paint.  Stamps are (remarkably - NOT the same company, which is amazing since they are nearly identical), My Mind's Eye, Lost and Found Halloween and Recollections, Skeletons.  Again, some rub-ons from my stash and I should mention the white circles are inspired by Donna Downey "dripage", done with a toilet paper roll.

Quick cat journal entry

Quick page made with items in my stash.  Background is just whatever was left on my brush from other projects, in this case black.  The red is ink.  I'm on a mission to use all my stickers and rub-ons and I have a lot of them.  So I started with this image of a cat, from Tim Holtz Seasonal paper pack, topped with the velvet web sticker.  I then applied my current favorite texture material - tissue paper with gel medium and highlighted with gold Rub'n Buff.  A few rub-ons added at end.   Took me no time at all.  

Black birds

This is for the Smudgy Antics weekly challenge Black Birds.  I received an order in the mail with new Lumiere paints so I had to try them.  I started by stamping the background with Stampendous trees and then adhered white tissue paper on top.  Once dry I painted with Lumiere Hi Lite Blue because I was intrigued by the holographic effect it gives everything.  I highlighted all with my finger with green paint and purple around the edges.  The fence is a die cut by Cheery Lynn Designs, Ornamental Gate, painted.  The crow is a Tim Holtz die cut.  The moon is circle die cut and edged with Distress Ink by Ranger.  Fibers on gate are adhered with gel medium.  The final touch was the tree branch stencil by The Crafters Workshop.  I mixed black gesso and fiber gel medium (Golden) to get the paste.  Other stamps by Inkadindado and the birds in the distance are just dots I was brave enough to draw freehand (gasp!).

Measures 4.5" x 7"

This angle to sow dimension - which is mostly the branches.  The tissue paper texture is difficult to pick up on camera. Now I think I should have added silver to the fibers as they blend too well with the background.

Owl

Made for challenge at Collage Obsession.  Owl stamp by Tattered Angels, face painted. Background is painted and then topped with stamped pattern tissue paper with Tim Holtz.   The red inked masking tape.  The chipboard flourishes are from my stash and painted and accented with Perfect Pearls.

Used a mask by The Crafters Workshop, chicken wire, seen best from this angle.

Highlighted with white paint.  

Homemade Mini Mister holder

Home made Mini Mister holder.  Made with styrofoam covered with aluminum and black acrylic paint for some definition.  Holds eight.  

Witch leaving home

My favorite holiday is Halloween. I will probably have a lot on this theme.  I made my first altered book and this is my first page.  It is The Ides of March by Thorton Wilder - and it was VERY hard to rip into it.  The only reason I could, is because it only cost me a buck at a neighbors moving garage sale, so I wasn't personally attached. After tearing every other page out, I started with gesso, and then some gray acrylic paint, stamping around the edges and then misting the tree.  All die cuts are painted.  The witch and the house were glittered, therefore I painted over them to get a mat finish.

Stamps are by Judith (twigs) and Stampendous (tree limbs with crows) the die cuts are K and Company (house and witch), Tim Holtz (crow) and Spellbinders (Elegant Posts used as flourishes).  The fence is Martha Stewart punch.  The tree misting template is Tattered Angels.  Spray ink is October Afternoon.

Paper left overs

Playing with left over strips from the mini key chain journals.  The background was leftover paint from some other project too. 

Stencil was used for the diamonds by The Crafters Workshop, Mini Harliquin.

Mini Key Chain Journals

These were inspired by an article in Cloth Paper Scissors publication Pages, by Sue Bleiweiss titled Key Chain Books. I've actually got everything ready to make a DOZEN of these.  They are so cute and sweet and fun to make.  They are the perfect use for all those left overs from your fabric, paper and jewelry projects.

Inside paper was sprayed for a splash of color.

Encaustic Halloween

House is a Martha Stewart sticker, the tomb stones are cut out of an antique dictionary.  The fence is also a Martha Sterwart punch.  The bushes are the Crayon paper and the gray clouds are drops of gray Crayon.  I started by covering my board with yellow Crayon, then covered all with bees wax and layered in the papers - topped off with the grey drops of crayon for clouds.  Love the intense color of melted Crayons.  

Simplicity pattern card

Birthday card for my dear sister-in-law.  Background is the actual Simplicity pattern decoupaged onto some cardstock and the images are the pattern package.  For a final touch everything has a little Distress ink on it.

Home sweet home with Ping introduction

Adhered chipboard and painted with acrylics.  Sprayed with some inks and accented with Perfect Pearls.  The roofs are plumbers aluminum tape ran through my Fiskars cardboard crinkler.  Stamps are Inkadindado.

Introducing Ping.  He wants to be a superstar.  He says I'm holding him back, and he wants to have his picture on my blog.  I said - just this once unless by some miracle there is a large demand.

This is the face that he gave me in response to above comment.