Compendium Of Curiositues 3 Challenge #15

I have been so behind on my CC3C challenges, I think I've missed 3 so far. My life has just been so busy lately and with my surgery I've gotten behind. 

I so love the challenges and since I have more time at home now that I can't drive I have time to create! YAY!

I needed to create a birthday card for a friend's son who is having his 19th birthday soon so I decided to use this challenge to make him a card.

You can find this challenge here: Linda Ledbetter and Studio L3

You can get a copy of Tim's Book here: Tim Holtz and he will even sign it for you

Linda's sponsor is Inspiration Emporium who will give one random person 50.00 for their store!!

AND one entry chosen by the Design team will win a prize pack from Tim and Mario themselves!! - make sure to follow Mario On Instagram , he's a hoot!!

This challenge is on page 38 of Tim's book and it's all about Cabinet Card Pockets

These little pockets are so versatile and fun, I have a pack and just love them

Here is my creation for this challenge and for my friends son for his b-day

I stamped my butterflies onto the tag first and then again onto vellum, cut them out, in order to make them stand up

I also used Tim's Shadow Press Moments embossing folder to create the word

This was so fun to create, these cabinet cards are great!! 

I hope you have enjoyed my creation today

CHEERS!!!

Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge 11

Wow, it's so hard to believe that Linda and the crew have already been through 10 challenges and that we are on challenge 11. My how time does fly!

For this challenge we are working on page 52 of Tim's 3rd book

and it's all about the Effects Powders.

The host of this challenge is Inspiration Emporium and they are giving one lucky winner a 50.00 gift card to their online store. If you haven't already make sure to check out their BLOG where they have a fall challenge going on for the month of September.

There is also another great prize to be had, You can also win a wonderful prize pack from Tim and Mario themselves. One lucky winner chosen by the inspiration team will get some happy mail.

So for my project, I'm getting in the Halloween mood and so I figured I'd make some Halloween postcards. 

I really love using powders, they give the right effect to a project and add that element of "realness" For my project I mixed up some of the powders to make the graves look old and rustic. I also used the powders on my spider and "31" 
The background was created with a mix of Tim's distress paints and also Dylusions sprays

Take a look at my finished postcards

I hope you will check out the challenge over at Linda's Blog Studio L3
There are loads of inspiring project by the design team too.
Thanks again for coming by and have a great day

Assemblage Clock - Compendium of Curiosities Challenge 10

Hello again, I have posted quite a bit this week, haven't I? Well I have another challenge that I like to partake in and it's the Compendium Of Curiosities 3 and this is challenge 10, wow! Time flies doesn't it?

This challenge is on page 33 of Tim's Book Compendium of Curiosities 3

It's all about Assemblage Clocks this week, what a treat!! If you haven't had a chance to play with one then you must try it, they are so fun to alter. There is some wonderful inspiration over at Linda Ledbetter's Blog too, check it out.

As always there is a wonderful prize pack up to win from Tim Holtz and Mario themselves and they are always way too generous to us!! 

And the sponsor this week is The Funkie Junkie Botique and one winner will win a $25 shopping spree to the online store.

Here is my altered clock

It was really tough to get a good photo so I took several

Thanks so much for coming by the blog, I hope you have enjoyed the clock. See you tomorrow for the first day of The Altered Playing Card Challenge

Compendium Of Curiosities #9 - CC3C

Hello there and welcome back to the blog. Today I have a postcard for you that I created with the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge in mind. This is challenge 9 over at Linda Ledbetter's blog Studio L3

These challenges come directly from Tim's Book Compendium of Curiosities Volume 3 and this time we are working from page  63, Stamps and Framelits. I am using Tim's Acorn framelit set today.

Linda never disappoints and has a few fantastic prizes. One lucky person will get a wonderful prize pack directly from Tim and Mario themselves, the CC3C crew picks their favorite project for this prize.

They also are sponsored by Inspiration Emporium and one randomly selected winner will receive a 50.00 shopping spree directly from IE, how cool is that??!!

For my project I started with my background and used various colors of Tim's distress paints and then layered those with distress inks. I then used Tim's Burlap stencil and distress inks to add a bit of interest into my background

I created my acorns that I added near my ribbon with real acorn tops and a few pearls

For the words, I used my framelit set "be thankful" and from Tim's Hashtag word set I used the word #blessed

Here is a photo of the dimension I created with the die/stamp

I also added some little doodads that I got from the craft store, they were the perfect color for this project.  Here is my finished postcard

I hope you have enjoyed my postcard and make sure to come by Linda's Blog and check out the wonderful project that the Curiosity Crew put together. 

Have a wonderful day!!

Art is Just "Time" Spent Creating

Hello again and thanks for coming by the blog

Today's project is based upon the Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge #8 - The wonderful Linda Ledbetter is hosting these challenges and it's been so great joining in each time. There are also some great prizes for a few lucky winners, one is a prize pack directly from Tim and Mario (they are always super generous) and the other is a 25.00 shopping spree from the Funkie Junkie Botique YAY!!

This particular challenge is based upon Tim's 3rd Book and you can grab it up HERE if you don't already have one. I can tell you that it is an awesome book, full of great techniques.

This challenge is on page 58 of the book and it's called Faded Layers

I am also including this project in another challenge over at A Vintage Journey, their challenge is all about "Time Flies" 

and I thought this would be a great project for the challenge

I based my project around "Time" spent creating art or crafts, the time that you spend on your craft is definitely Time well spent! They also have a great prize from Country View Crafts , they are giving away a 10.00 shopping spree!

I used loads of Tim's products on this creation because I have so much of it and because it's just inspiring how Tim uses these products in so many fun and different ways

I decided to do a greeting card and use Ranger Foil Tape Sheets for the background and Rangers Jumbo Tags for the card itself

I cut them up and placed the pieces here and there to create my background

Here is a photo of my finished card

I hope you like my creation for these wonderful challenges, make sure to stop by each blog and check them out there are some really great prizes to be had.

Thanks for coming by!

Compendium of Curiosities #6 Altered Burlap Panels

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today I was working on the new Compendium of Curiosities challenge. Hosted by the lovely Linda Ledbetter

This time the curiosity crew are working on page 37 of Tim's 3rd Book. That focuses on Altered Burlap Panels and Tim takes us through putting one together, it's super fun

For my canvas I decided that I was going to work out of my "ephemera" drawer

This is a drawer that is right next to my working desk and I throw just about every piece of extra paper or die cut or just whatever in here. Every now and then when I need something I rummage through the drawer. For this project I decided that everything I put on this canvas (besides the tissue paper and idea-ology pieces)  will come out of this drawer. 

I used alcohol ink along with plastic packaging for my butterfly wings, I wanted you to be able to see through them but also have them POP a little bit

For the butterfly I used Tim's Fanciful Flight die

Check out how that butterfly came out

After using a ton of Tim Holtz products (lol) I finished with this creation

I just love it, I think it was fun to challenge myself to use things that were in my ephemera drawer

I also love how the butterfly wings turned out like a stained glass window, you can see right through them

This was a fun project, make sure you join in as well. There is always a wonderful prize from Tim and Mario themselves and The Funky Junkie Boutique is also giving away a $25 shopping spree to one lucky winner.

Cheers!!

Happy 4th!! - Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge 5

Hello all and Happy 4th Of July to you!!! 

4th of July has always been so special to my family because it is also my Mother's Birthday. Each year she gets to celebrate her birthday along with fireworks!

This year I wanted to make my Mom something special so I put together this multi page card for her. My siblings and I will each sign the last page

I also wanted to use this project for my entry at

Studio L3 - For the Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge 5

This challenge is located on page 39 of Tim's 3rd book and is called "Distress Watercoloring - Part 1"

You can always buy Tim's book here if you don't already have a copy.

You can also win a prize package directly from Tim and Mario themselves and there is also a wonderful 25.00 gift card from The Funkie Junkie Boutique

I also realized that my card fits into another challenge over at A Vintage Journey - This is their 9th challenge and the theme is "Use every stamp in a set" 

The stamp set I used was Tim's Americana Blueprint Set and I also used the cupcake stamp from the set Birthday Blueprint

Tim Holtz has really influenced my creation here because it's mostly grungy and vintage looking and I just love Tim's style!! Tim is inspiring in everything that he does, his mind works in so many great ways and I just love to learn from his blog, his classes and videos.

For this challenge I used a few of the Jumbo Tags by Ranger for my base and I wanted to create a "book" type birthday card with these

These are the distress marker colors I used with a few others thrown in here and there

I also used Tim's remnant rubs and also some industrial letters

Here are the stamped images for each page after I used Tim's watercolor technique, I wanted a vintage look

I also used Tim's paper behind each image to create a nice background for each

Here is my finished card/book

Front with ribbon

(I used Tim's Word Play Die for the number 4)

First page, My Mom will be 68 years old this year

(notice the remnant rubs too?)

Second page

(Tim Holtz simple sayings stamp set was used for the words)

Back cover, this is where we will all sign the card

I hope you have enjoyed my card and make sure to check out those challenges mentioned above!! Fun! 

Happy 4th!!!

Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge #4

Hello all and welcome back.  I missed the 3rd challenge over at Linda Ledbetter's Studio L3 and I didn't want to miss another one. I just love partaking in these challenges because it takes me back to the Tim Holtz styles, which I truly love. 

This time the host is The Funkie Junkie Boutique they are giving away a 25.00 gift certificate to one lucky winner!!

There is also a prize pack directly from Tim Holtz and Mario! YAY!! So two great ways to win!

For this challenge we are working on page 49 of Tim's book A Compendium Of Curiosities Volumn 3 if you buy the book it's chock full of techniques including this one

This one goes over layering Tim's stencils and texture paste, how much fun is that? I love stencils so this challenge was right up my alley.

Here is my submission for this challenge...

I hope you will stop by again tomorrow for my Stampotique Design team post!! Have a great day!