Postcard

This is from a box of flocked cards I bought on sale at ACMoore that I have turned into a postcard for some lucky person....the card was just tan with white flocked flowers and I tweaked it a bit well a lot and voila a new distressed and altered postcard...

Tim Holtz Distress Challenge

This is my Tim Holtz how do you use Distress Inks....I used mine with a 4x12 art canvas and here is the result -


Couple of tips:

The words down the left side were in a cluster and I wanted them stamped in a row so I took taped off the words I did not want to ink, ink the stamp, removed the tape and only the words I want were easily inked...

Edging was done with Distress Inks and I set them with Fixative...that was a new experiment and it worked...

I trimmed the spinners tails off to make clock hands....

Claudine Hellmuth Technique Tag Class

On Saturday I took a techiques class from Claudine Hellmuth....if you don't know the name Google it and you will....awesome gal, fun, creative, smart cookie...these are the 13 tags I created in the class...



Techniques tags were:
1 - Gesso Etching
2 - Gesso Transfer
3 - Paint Transfer
4 - Faux Batik (used Sticky-Back Canvas (SBC) by Ranger)
5- Embossing Paper Tinting
6 - Watermark Resist -SBC
7 - Extra Time Stamping - used SBC and here Extra Time product from Ranger
8 - Extra Time Photo Tinting
9 - Glazed Paper Tinting
10 - Transfer on SBC
11 - Embossing on SBC
12 - Watercolor using her Studio Paints (these are fabulous - totally different than any acrylic I have use, very creamy and fun to play with...
13 - Peeled Paper

Altered Design House Swap #2

This is called "Fashion House"...the jacket and window open...I will post that later....Drew took the good camera on his fishing trip so I am using my cell phone for photos...

Later just arrived...

Free bird sheet I designed....

I was playing around with my photoshop and decided to make a sheet of birds I was practicing with to share with all...

Altered Designs

House swap for Altered Designs 2x2

Liisa's Postal Lady Card

Here is a card I made for Liisa in Paris....she is losing her mail lady and want a RAK for her....I also decorated the inside of the card...the lady is an image I received in the Altered Gypsy Image Swap...very cool stamp...glad I had it to use...worked perfect with my theme...thank you to whomever sent it...

Our remodeledl exterior

It has been a long road however the workmen who were updating our drab house finished their part yesterday....now Drew and I just need to do a bit more for it to be completed - hopefully this weekend, weather permitting....

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

Altered Gypsies are doing a round robin book with a Raven theme....these are the pages I created for Nigel's book....I did think of something else to add to them but they are in the mail so I can't make any tweeks....