Create Together Tim Holtz & Heidi Holiday Collage Card

 A funny true story. I have a ton of Tim Holtz products, you knew this already right? but, I don't really use much of the papers and chipboard pieces I think I am more of a collector of them more than a collage person. I use a piece here and there so, I was really excited about the live class they were offering from Simon Says Stamp and teaching it as an YouTube video. (you can watch the replay here) I also had assumed that the 11th was going to be a Saturday when I bought it without looking at a calendar so, I heard part of it at work yesterday between payroll and customers and our IT guy coming by so, This morning I started watching the video where I could just sit and watch it. It starts with a collage card. 

 

I opened my box this morning so, no homework done here. I do have packs of some of these packages from last Christmas that are open in a container so, I picked and chose from both the kit box and my Tim Holtz papers stash box.

This is what I was thinking my card might turn out to look like. 

I built my shaker frame piece and I had not used that liquid glue much and I got it too close to the acetate and I thought ok, you're going to have all this shaking sparkle inside anyways it does not matter, but the glue leaked out the front of the frame under where you see this girl sitting. and I thought OK but, as I was moving piece around to do the collage building part I thought, you know you could move her to the other side of the frame the way her back is in the mugshot she'd probably look more natural posed there, so. I did. I also stacked one of the smallest poinsettias tilted on top of the medium one under her feet so, the flowers are a little 3-D here also. 

I think she turned out pretty cute, I shot all of these photos with my cell phone and the colors are a little off to me but, not in a this is terrible kind of a way. (that card base is a very deep green color in real life) I did use the Candied Apple crayon on her hat and the mowed lawn green on her coat for tinting, the cheeks are worn lipstick. I had not ever thought to do this, and I love how that turned out.  

I am excited to see what the next project is. I am also thinking I just may add some stickles or something to the center of that poinsettia for a little more sparkle. I probably could have added a little more to my shaker window but, I do like that you can see the corner bit of the layer under it as well so, there is that. 

The bits and pieces I did not end up putting on the card, some have been inked with the iced spruce ink. I am thinking I may also add some of that cello tape to the top of the green ticked under her feet as well but, I have not gotten that far. I have replenished my cuppa Joe however and this means the creating can continue. I hope you are having a really creative Saturday as well, Thanks for stopping by. 

and I stopped the video too soon, they added tape after I thought they were done with the cards haha.

 So I cut a piece of the tape sticker and used it at the top and bottom and decided the flower stamens just needed that sparkle as well. I am not sure how it works but, this class has a hashtag that is #sssholidaycollage if you are playing along on maybe Facebook?  
 

Inspired by {Kuyike}

 This week Kia is sharing the Kuyike store site that has pinterest boards seen here. And right on the home page I seen This top with what looked like flowers painted over woodgrain, and I had an Ah-Ha moment as I have a pack of this Brutus Monroe rustic florals printed paper that is flowers on woodgrain prints...

So, out came the pack of paper and the Hero Arts nested Tee Shirt dies. ( this is the largest die in the set) 

 I had this piece of green printed paper just laying on the table from the watercolor earlier in the week and I needed some contrast so, I ran it through the bigshot in this Penny Black stitches folder. The Sentiment here is from Riley & Company and I had stamped it on this pale green scrap a while back and die cut it. ( I think that is a MFT die but, I don't remember what that shape is called. The base here was finished out at A6 in real life and it's just a simple one but, the idea that there are no pants in the scene made me snicker. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

Watercoloring a Floral Meadow

 This week Brenda is sharing this video called easy loose floral watercolor seen here on YouTube by Cecy Catalan Painting a Meadow. There is no closed captioning on that video but, it is short and I think most people if you have been trying the videos at SCS this last few years will understand what you are seeing and you know if you have questions, ask them someone will know the answer. 

 I watched the video and decided to just start a painting real quick on some Arches cold press paper and as soon as I shot this as layer one I knew there was just not enough paint on it for the background. So, I immediately painted another layer over this while it was wet.

 So my second ( blurry background layer) is how I thought of it. 

What I added next, some foreground grass and splatter dot flowers. Some ground shadows of deeper green with a little brown tucked in. 

what the layer above dried to. So I added a little more paint, some more flowers. I did use regular watercolor paint for the yellow centers in the daisy type flowers added below and the white blooms are white gouache paint straight from the tube. 

I also added some grass sprig (leaves?) what ever you call the top of grass that makes it look like its seedy. (grass seeds?) ha, its been a crazy long day we are getting new emails at work and home so, my brain is tired. I had thought I was going to add more paint to this but, the last two days were nope. Its been really hot here as well so, this is where I stopped. 

I diecut the painted layer with an Hero Arts rectangle die and then glued it crooked to a printed paper (green) from a Carta Bella (home again pad) and then used an xacto knife to straighten that out a little so, I roughed up the edges. The sentiment here is from the Clearly Besotted Sweetest Sentiments set and I used some Versafine ink for that and even as hot as it is it, did not dry so, I hit that with a heat gun after blotting it a few times and getting ink transfers. I am telling you I am impressed I remembered to do this, I cannot tell you how many things I have painted on this paper, added a sentiment thought it was dry, die cut it and smeared that ink all over the cutting plates.. The base here is some PTI vintage cream and its finished out at A6 in real life. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

Inspired by {Style Motivation}

 Happy Independence Day People! Tonight Julie is linking us up to the Style Motivation site and I found it easier to look at the photos on their pinterest boards. But, a lot of their boards are group boards so, the pins are on them from random people. And I stumbled across this pin on the weddings board of these tins with scrabble tile words in them. And I thought oh, that would be cool as a tag. 

I have a few old jars filled with scrabble tiles in my space and you know its Love if I give up a J as there is only one in each box. So, that being said I really do not have many J's here ( I found 2 in two of these jars) so.. I just may keep this tag and add a small tag with Hubs name to the Yarn/Hemp string in the hole. That wide edge eyelet is a new thing I found on Amazon not too long ago and I used my crop o dile on it, and it did not work well on the back side so, I did whack this (a bunch) with a hammer and a setter and it did not make a difference in smoothing out the metal) so, that was the reason I chose yarn to go through that hole. I am thinking lace would have just snagged. The jingle Bells I've had some time now and I don't remember the MFG info on them. But, that base was cut with a tag die from Mama Elephant ( retired) its A2 in real life and the plaid ( Tim Holtz old Christmas paper was just eyeballed on the paper trimmer to make it fit inside the stitched detailing of the diecut. The label is an Gina K Designs stamp ( very old ) heat embossed with white powder on some Cherry Cobbler cardstock and cut with a spellbinders die. Those tiles are on the diecut layer with "craft" glue dots. ( the big ones) And that's about it from me, I hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by. If you find yourself with free time to play along with us you can find this challenge here and Everyone is so excited the behind the scene's team of IT people at SCS were able to get the galleries up and visible again today after the big update recently. 
 

Watercoloring Magnolias with Push & Pull accents

 This week Kia is sharing a video from Debbie Walker Art seen here on YouTube where she shows some glazing over a previously painted Magnolia branch using the tip of a round brush in a push and pull motion. So after I watched that video I hunted down this other video of hers that I think is the how she did the Magnolia's used in this weeks tutorial. So, I did start this with my (not so great paper) notebook that is small and I used a small brush to try the strokes here.

 My thought with this was, its a smaller piece of paper use a smaller brush. ( that was hard, its like making it harder on yourself to use not so great paper and not do what you just seen.) So, I left this to dry and then tried it on (better Cotton ) paper in an A7 size. 

 And my hand had a mind of its own and my branch became a bush peeking into the scene from the bottom. I don't have the color she used so I just messed around with some colors I have and made them various shades ( those petals) 

 What It looked like this morning, with a little extra added on and then when I came home from work it looked like (below)

 Which was encouraging so, I picked up the first trial and added another layer to the top of that branch.

 And some sprinkles of splatters. I prefer the one that is larger done on the better paper in all reality this is a not so bad trial. I did date these after I shot the last two photos and called it "good enough". I have always had a Magnolia bush on my mental garden wish list and this is something Hubs is very aware of that he will be planting for me when we do a forever home. ( preferably where it does not snow) and so, the color choice of these is I don't know, but the ones I have seen in person were either white or very pale pink/mauve so, I like the idea of these but, I the petals I remember seeing were shaped more like little scoops so, I cam curious about what other ones may be possible for my someday garden. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.

 

July Dirty Dozen Christmas Sample

 It's the beginning of July and I am back with a quick little Christmas card that was jump started by this months Photo inspiration for the Dirty Dozen Christmas cards prompt. ( seen here in the special forums for Fan Club members of SCS) 

I started by digging out this pad of woodgrain prints from Crafters Consortium and I pulled out one white sheet and this blue sheet. and started pushing around the red Merry diecut stack ( that was on the table) and When I went looking in the drawer for some trees I may have done in the past I found these that had been cut from the sheet music print and so, the one closer to the center is up on foam pop dots. That bitty red house is a Memory Box diecut Probably from one of the village sets. I have this tiny milk glass tray on the table that has tiny die cuts and sentiments stamped on tags and such in it. So the Impression Obsession word dies came out of there. I had thought to tie on the charm but, I didn't think of it until the glue had dried under the Y so, I ended up tying the hemp string into a bow and just laying it on top of the swirls. The lace here is vintage and the tiny star circle is a die cut from a K & Co. package of misc. Patriotic things that is in a bin on the table. I never got around to using any of this but, this tiny circle piece. This is A6 in real life and the base is some Papertrey Ink white. That's about it from me, I will be back later tonight with a sample for this weeks Watercoloring challenge as well. Thanks for stopping by.