Hellooooooooo… it's Wednesday again ... which means it is that time of the week… without further ado… here are the results for last week's Tim Holtz Technique challenge ... the winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher ... oh yes $50 is ... Number 26 Susan Killam
Congratulations Susan ... Please email Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start your shopping spree :0) The three winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was amaaaaazing! Please email Linda and she will in turn send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We had lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part. Okay guys ... that's it for now ... don't forget to check out this week's Something from Yesteryear Challenge ... we have another wonderful $50 prize and we are looking forward to seeing what you make :0)
Happy Monday People ... Thank you for playing along with last week's challenge ... The winners will be announced on Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your lucky week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Something From Yesteryear! Due to everyone being so busy with Holiday preparations this challenge will run for two weeks ... which means we will be back on Monday 3rd January 2011 with a new theme.
If you want to join in the fun over the next two weeks... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! To start you on your way... take a look at some inspiration from the Design Team ...
Lynne loves all things from yesteryear.......For this project she pulled out her vintage crepe paper (not the roll kind) and a tassel. To add to this vintage look she used Vintage Glass Glitter to accent her Tattered Floral flower and a she stamped a Flourish, which she traced with white glue and sprinkled on more Vintage Glass Glitter. The Bauble added just the right touch when coupled with the vintage tassel and of course a bit of Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Remember those paper chains, she created one to be used to hang the cone.
This week's challenge began with a book Nancy found at a flea market. The book was written in 1942 by Kathleen Norris and bears her initials on the front. Nancy is using it for her niece who has the same initials (K.N.) and turning it into a junque journal with lots of empty pages for her to add her own thoughts and dreams. After binding the cover with signatures, Nancy used Crafty Secrets Seasonal Calendar to decorate each month of 2011. Added tags with ribbon to each month to make it easier to pull the tags out and then to each tag added various quotes from Tim Holtz Just Thoughts and Good Thoughts. With Maya Road and 7 Gypsies envelopes, there's plenty of room for her to add what she wishes.
When Lori hears the word "yesteryear", she thinks of vintage, aged, or things reminiscent of days gone by. For Lori, Graphic 45 always represents vintage, so that was the focus of her project this week. She used paper from Renaissance Fair, the Ornate On the Edge die, a Gold and Espresso paint dabber, and a Curio knob to turn an ordinary paper mache box into a vintage gift box!
Kim decided to make a vintage looking ornament, to capture the feeling of yesteryear. First she created an oval tile using images from the mini holiday stamp set, masked, coloured with copics, then completely covered with crackle accents. She used gold Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber for the edges. It was then adhered to a frame shape made from Tim's vintage shabby papers, with inked edges and adhesive stones, the very edge has a generous amount of stickles too. Kim has added a crepe paper frill to the back of the ornament. The 'merry christmas' is also from the mini holiday stamp set, inked and covered with clear embossing powder! The glittery poinsettia shrink plastic flower was created using Tattered florals die, coloured with distress inks and lots of gold stickles glitter for the centre. Finished off with a bow made from Webster's pages Holiday Trim attached using a fabulous charm clip and jump ring. The Idea-ology facet covers a stamped image and is attached to ribbon with a trinket pin.
Please do stop by the Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work ... just click on their names.
The Design Team are looking forward to seeing your work! Drum Roll required here ... Because throughout December our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday 2nd January 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made! And who knows ... if you don't win this prize ... your work may be selected for the much sought after Top Three Blinkie.
Have fun everyone :o)
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you :0)
Ho Ho Ho … it's Wednesday again ... which means it is that time of the week… Fan Fare please … here are the results for last week's Holiday Greeting challenge ... the winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher ... oh yes $50 is ...
Number 68 Larisa
Congratulations Larisa ... Please email Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start your shopping spree :0)
The three winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 4 Neil Walker 5 Candy Colwell 9 Hellerlittle
Congratulations to each of you ... your work gave us all so much pleasure! Please email Linda and she will in turn send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We had lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Okay guys ... that's it for now ... don't forget to check out this week's Lord Tim Technique Challenge ... we have another wonderful $50 prize and we are looking forward to seeing what you make :0)
Blimey ... it's Monday again already ... Thank you so much to all of you that played along with last week's challenge ... The winners will be announced on Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your lucky week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... a Lord Tim of Holtz Technique! I know a lot of you guys that join us each week are Tim Holtz fans like us ... we thought that this challenge would be a great way of Thanking Tim for all the effort he goes to every year imparting his knowledge; inspiration ... and not forgetting a generous amount of his time ... sharing his 12 tags of Christmas. So join us in Thanking him by showing ... what we have learned along the way!
If you want to join in the fun this week ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! The challenge will close next Sunday at Midnight ... and to start you on your way... take a look at what techniques the Design Team have learned from the great man himself ....
Distressing rules where Nancy’s concerned, so it just follows that using Tim’s Distress Embossing Powders would be one of her favourite techniques! They can be tricky to use – and sometimes don’t photo so well! – but, what a great effect they create! Santa was stamped with Ranger’s Clear Embossing Ink, then coloured with Distress Embossing Powder in Antique Linen, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo & Fired Brick. The edges of the card stock & note card are distressed with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, then a German foil accent was added on top of the card stock layers.
With so many technique's to choose from, Nancy says it's really difficult to choose just one. So she chose the one she uses most often - embossing. This time Nancy embossed using Distress Embossing Ink with Distress Embossing Powders to get a vintage look. The two must be used together in order to create this technique. Nancy mixed powders to get her own colour: one part Distress Frayed Burlap Embossing Powder to two parts Distress Broken China Embossing Powder. First, with the caps still on the jars, shake up the Embossing Powders to mix the crystals. Then open the caps and mix the two colours together. Stamp the image on the tag, shake the powders on (and then off) and heat set with a heat gun. Let the embossing cool, then rub your fingers over the embossed image to release some of the crystals.
One of Lori's favourite “Tim techniques” is the Rusted Enamel technique that can be found in Tim's book, “A Compendium of Curiosities”. Her version is a little different than Tim's. She used a 4” x 4” canvas as the base of her project, and Ranger embossing powders in Gold, Copper and Verdigris. A bit of Espresso Paint Dabber was rubbed around the edges. The ornament was cut from grunge board using the Carved Ornament with the “Love” Mover and Shaper Die. Some stickers from the Seasonal Salvage Sticker pack and other holiday embellishments complete the piece.
Kim used quite a few of Tim's techniques on her card, mainly inspired from his tag #3 of the 12 Tags of Christmas, used the tissue tape on grunge paper technique but instead of alcohol ink coloured the tissue tape with copic markers, it works beautifully, has a rich colour and the copic ink remains translucent. She then smudged a generous amount of distress stickles rock candy all over. But what Kim really wanted to try is the extreme masking technique... so, die cut tim's branch tree from mask sheet then turned the tree on it's side to become more of a branch. With blending tool, inked tree with distress inks and stamped script in archival black. The bird is nestled in a little christmas green flower soft. She then used Snow Cap Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber for the snow flurries. The December label is from the mini holiday stamp set, inked and distressed! The glittery felt flower was created using Tattered florals die, stickles glitter for the edges and a pearl centre.
What more can we say ... We Thank you Tim!
Please do stop by the Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work ... just click on their names.
The Design Team are looking forward to seeing your Timspirations ... see what I did there! Fanfare required here ... Because throughout December our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday 19th December 2010 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made! And who knows ... if you don't win this prize ... your work may be selected for the much sought after Top Three Blinkie.
Have fun everyone :o)
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you :0)
Helloooooo … it's Wednesday and you all know what that means … Drum Roll please … here are the results for last week's Tag challenge ... the winner of the randomly drawn $25.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is ...
Number 12 DeeDee Catron
Congratulations DeeDee ... Please email Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start your shopping spree :0)
I am often asked how we pick our winners ... well the randomly drawn winner is selected using a computer programme designed for such things ... but the Top Three really are quite special. The Design Team look at all the entries and each week we all pick our own favourite Top Three ... I collate all the nominations and the entries with the most nominations get the Top Three Blinkie ... On the rare occasions that we don't have clear winners ... I turn to a trusty hat and the top three from the nominations are then selected at random ... since we started the challenge that scenario has only ever happened once.
So you see ... it really is an elite club of vintage artists and the entries that have been chosen to join that group this week ... in numerical order ... are ... 15 Chris 23 Sarah 32 Sue
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was delightful! Please email Linda and she will in turn send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We had lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Okay guys ... that's it for now ... don't forget to check out this week's holiday greeting challenge ... we have a whopping $50 Simon Says Stamp gift voucher to win ... and as always ... we love to see what you make :0)
Hi there everyone ... Thank you so much to all of you that played along with last week's challenge ... The winners will be announced on Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... it could be you! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... a Holiday Greeting! We are an international challenge blog and well aware that not everybody celebrates Christmas ... so feel free to make a project to celebrate any holiday that is important to you and yours. If you want to join in the fun this week ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! The challenge will close next Sunday at Midnight ... and to start you on your way... take a look at what the Design Team has made to inspire you this week ...
Dan borrowed a technique from the screen-printing process to transform this foliage spray into a folk art poinsettia garland. The image was stamped twice in the same place, first with Barn Door distress ink. After re-inking the stamp with a Pine Needles distress ink pad, Dan used a moist baby wipe to remove the ink from the parts he wanted to show as red and then stamped again in the same position. The same technique was used on the holiday ticket. Stamp sets used were both by Tim Holtz @ Stampers Anonymous - Odds and Ends and Floral Tattoo.
Nancy’s finally cut into Tim Holtz’s Seasonal Paper Pack, choosing one of the Christmas images that works with her kraft note cards. She edged the card with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, then, using a technique she learned recently, Nancy framed a piece of plain white cardstock with Embossing Ink, then applied Detail Gold embossing ink – no need to cut a piece of gold cardstock! Green cardstock was placed under those two layers, placed on the card – then a bit of floral trim was stapled onto the card with her Tiny Attacher, a velvet ribbon bow was attached- and a greeting card is ready to be mailed!
Lynne has been waiting ooooooohhhh so impatiently to create her Christmas Greeting. The inspiration for her card is a copied vintage postcard.....she then used her Tall Trees Texture Fade to emboss the face of the card, cut the Pine Tree from cardboard, inked it with Forest Moss Distress Ink and accented with Rock Candy Stickles. Do you see the Film Strip she used....what a great accent!
During the holidays, Nancy tries to create cards that are easy and stress free. That's one reason why she picked up Tim Holtz Seasonal double sided paper stash. This paper stack includes every holiday throughout the year, from January through December. In this card, Nancy simply cut-out images from the Seasonal pack and adhered them onto a piece of cardstock. To complete the look, add miscellaneous ribbon, Stickles and Tim Holtz Idea-ology Charm Clip.
Please do stop by the Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work ... just click on their names.
The Design Team are looking forward to seeing your Inked masterpieces! Drum roll required here ... Because throughout December our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday 12th December 2010 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made! And who knows ... if you don't win this prize ... your work may be selected for the much sought after Top Three Blinkie.
Have fun everyone :o)
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you :0)
Oh Yes people … it is that time of the week again … without further ado … here are the results for last week's challenge ... the winner of the randomly drawn $25.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is ...
Number 45 Lisa Sparkle
Congratulations Lisa ... Please email Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start your shopping spree :0)
The three winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 16 Paula 46 Stephen 74 Pastilka
Congratulations to each of you ... your work is wonderful! Please email Linda and she will in turn send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We had lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Okay guys ... that's it for now ... don't forget to check out this week’s Tag Challenge ... we have a wonderful prize and we are looking forward to seeing what you make :0)
Hello to you all ... Dan here, standing in for Linda E while she is teaching on far flung shores :) Thank you so much to everyone that played along with our last challenge ... The winners will be announced on Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... it could be you! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... A Tag! If you want to join in the fun this week ... all you need to do is ... make a tag (if you need style guidance, see "About Our Challenges" in the side bar)... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! The challenge will close next Sunday at Midnight ... and to start those inky fingers... take a look at what the Design Team has made this week ...
For Kim, tags are the best way to really experiment and try out new techinques on a smaller scale... So she created a layered tag and thinks fired brick distress ink with copper perfect pearl is STUNNING. Really effective for the perfect distress technique on the large tag and the wings on the grungepaper butterfly. The sentiment has been stamped on sticky back canvas cut using styled labels, inked with distress inks and spritzed with a little distress ink & copper perfect pearls. An extra styled labels tag was cut from the clear acrylic packaging so the butterfly would appear to float. The ball chain was added to give the ability to move and read the sentiment. The seam binding has been spritzed with glimmer mist and tied to the top. Stamps used are Wendy Vecchi and Tim holtz.
I've really been loving all of the vintage Christmas stamps that Tim Holtz has been bringing out lately - I guess I'm vintage enough that they remind me of childhood Christmases! I planned to do a lot more to this tag, but when I got to this stage I was loving it so much that I felt I would ruin it by adding more, and decided to let the stamp images shine! I used Fired Brick Distress Ink, Rock Candy Stickles and one of Tim Holtz's Santas.
After trying a few different combinations of aged, inked backgrounds, Nancy decided to use the direct-to-paper ink application technique, using Walnut Stain Distress Ink, finally achieving the tonal appearance she wanted for her vintage tag. A bit of the same ink was applied to the edges of a piece of vintage ledger paper & a piece of Basic Grey Cappella paper, then the inked areas were spritzed with water to spread the aging. “Believe” from Tim Holtz’ Mini Holidays stamp set was stamped on top of everything with Black Soot, then embossed with Ranger’s Enchanted Gold EP.
Lynne's tag has a bit of a vintage flair to it...She inked her Silhouette Spray stamp with Mustard Seed and Peeled Paint Distress ink...spritzed the inked stamp with water, then stamped on her tag and paper, giving the image a "watercolor" look. The Maya Road flourish was painted with Gesso, embossed using the Collage/Notebook Texture Fade, the high points sanded then inked with Faded Jeans. If you notice....there is Distress Ink everywhere....used in both the pad and liquid form. The tag was accented with a Tim Holtz Corner.
Nancy chose the Bluebird stamp set from Artistic Outpost to use in a cross between a shabby and vintage-style tag. The background is first stamped with Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Ticket to Art stamp then overstamped with Studio 490's Berry Tree stamp. You may visit Nancy's blog to see exactly how it was finished.
Lori decided to step out of her comfort zone and do something a little different for her tag! She used all Studio 490 stamps, and decided to go with an arty face! She used a background technique Wendy had posted on her blog HERE, using the Ranger Color Washes in Stream and Butterscotch, and Wendy's background stamp from the Dimensional Rose Art set. Adirondack Dye inks in Espresso, Stream, and Cranberry helped to finish the embellishments!
Please do stop by the Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work ... just click on their names.
The Design Team are looking forward to seeing your Inked masterpieces! This week's wonderful prize donated by our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is a $25 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday 5th December 2010 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made! And who knows ... if you don't win this prize ... your work may be selected for the much sought after Top Three Blinkie.
Here are the results for last week's challenge ... the winner of the randomly drawn $25.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is ...
Number 65 Gerrie
Congratulations Gerrie ... Please email Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start your shopping spree :0)
The three winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ... 14 Ellen Vargo 23 Kathleen F 78 Terry
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was amazing! Please email Linda and she will in turn send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We had over 100 fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Okay guys ... that's it for now ... don't forget to check out this week’s Distress Ink challenge ... we have a wonderful prize and we are looking forward to seeing what you make :0)
Hello to you all ...Another week ... Another Theme ... Thank you so much to everyone that played along with our last challenge ... The winners will be announced on Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... it could be you! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Your Distress Inks! If you want to join in the fun this week ... all you need to do is ... make something using Distress Inks... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! The challenge will close next Sunday at Midnight ... and to start those inky fingers... take a look at what the Design Team has made this week ...
This week my project is a Maya Road Chipboard House which I have decorated using only white card; Grungepaper ... The Wendy Vecchi stamps and of course ... Distress Inks! I made my own stand for the house with a few pieces of corrugated card ... I have just got to decide what I am going to put inside now!
Kim most definitely uses Distress Inks in every project! It is the base colour under the crackle effect on her little dimensional bird cage box. It is with a touch of Vintage Photo distress ink that enhances the edges of her die cut bird, cut using the new curio BasicGrey papers, her handmade flowers were cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die then sprayed with some Distress Ink Glimmer Mist. The handmade gem in the centre of the flower was created using her melting pot and UTEE powders. The branch is cut from Tim Holtz Branch die and the cage is secured at the top with a Idea-ology swivel clasp. She finished off with baubles secured with jump rings.
Dan was inspired in this challenge by a song he has listened to a lot lately. For details of what each tile represents, visit his blog! Out of all of his crafty stash, Distress Inks are probably Dan's "desert island" craft product. Items used here include a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad, distress ink pads and Tim Holtz stamps.
Nancy doesn't think any paper project is complete if it's not distressed & this birthday "gated tag" is no exception. Her go-to Vintage Photo DI was used on every piece of cardstock, patterned paper & tag used, with touches of Wild Honey & Walnut Stain. The tag in the yellow pocket was coloured with Tumbled Glass, then over-inked with (again!) Vintage Photo. The tag on the right has a phrase stamped with Faded Jeans, then highlighted with clear embossing powder.
Lynne chose to create a Christmas Wreath using Poinsettias created with the Tattered Leaves die, Aged Mahogany and Forest Moss Distress Ink. She then accented the leaf/petals with Fired Brick and Peeled Paint Distress Stickles. She created a fold in the leaf/petals and stapled with Tim's Tiny Attacher. Lastly, she adhered the parts together with Claudine Hellmuths Multi Medium. For a more detailed tutorial check out her blog.
Nancy W
Nancy says she can't complete a project without using Distress Ink. One of the first things she inks are the cut edges of the paper, especially the white core of each paper cut. Nancy also always uses sponge applicators and a Ranger craft mat, both of which makes inking and distressing a lot easier!
Please do stop by the Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work ... just click on their names.
The Design Team are looking forward to seeing your Inked masterpieces! This week's wonderful prize donated by our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is a $25 gift voucher!
The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday 28th November 2010 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made! And who knows ... if you don't win this prize ... your work may be selected for the much sought after Top Three Blinkie.
Have fun everyone :0)
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you :0)