Snow day = Craft day!!

The snow is coming down here today, and since we ran errands last night before the storm, I thought today would be a perfect day to sit and craft!  I'm catching up on some of my scrapbooking - all of the pictures I had printed are done, so now I'm looking for more pics to print ;)

And I remembered I had not made my February - Tim Holtz inspired - tag so here it is:

I followed his directions for creating the background - collaged some paper together, sealed it, traced it with a marker, sanded, added spots of white paint.  For the hearts, I used a couple of heart punches I had.  I punched out a bunch of each one.  The big heart is five layers to gather, the others are anywhere between one and three layers.  To finish the hearts, I used some walnut stain distress ink around the edges.  Once all of the pieces were put together, I smeared some red stickler around with my finger to add some glitter, but not too much ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

Starting off the New Year right!

It's been awhile since I've crafted just for the heck of it.  I haven't had much energy so what I was doing was for the design team obligations (which I love, I just didn't have any energy to do much else), so things around here have been neglected a little.  This weekend I've found my energy again (or maybe it's coming back now that I'm past the first trimester!) and I've decided to take up the Tim Holtz tag challenge.

Every month I see his tags and think I need to try it for myself.  I never have until today!  It was so much fun trying out some of his techniques.  I don't have all of the distress products, so I've substituted some as I went along, but boy it does make me want to go shopping ;)  The first substation was the tag size.  I didn't have the #8 tags, so I went with the #5.  Much smaller, but I still made it work!

Here's my tag:

And if you want to see the original with step by step pictures and full supply list visit the Tim Holtz blog here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

Honeycomb Hello

I can't believe it, but there is absolutely NO stamping involved in todays card!  So rare when that happens for me :)

I die cut a few sheets of patterned paper from the same die then inlaid them back into place.  Popped up the sentiment from a coordinating embellishment back, and viola!

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Angie

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Free Your Dreams

I got messy today with some paint and, boy was it fun :)  Here's the art journal page I came up with:

I guess I was feeling pretty butterfly-y today as well.  So I found a great quote - 'Free your dreams and take flight - that I thought would go well with it.  The pages are covered with some 7Gypsies tissue paper and sealed with a matte medium.  Then I added some watered down acrylic paints.  Added some Tim Holtz butterfly stamps, some painted sencils.  The butterfly on the right page is a Martha Stewart stamp black embossed on watercolor paper then colored with Distress Markers.  I added some of the purple acrylic paint to an embossing past for the flight pattern.

For the quote, on the left page, I painted in two different butterfly stencils and wrote in the saying.  I started with a white gel pen, but couldn't get a good ink flow, so ended up tracing the letters with some white enamel accents.  

Any crafty plans for this weekend??

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie