Saturday's Workout

A cool challenge at Saturday's Workout today -- jewelry. Not something I usually make, but as we did have an opportunity on the cruise in one of Wendy's classes to play around with some of the Tim Holtz Fragments, I thought I could share what I started in class and have been working on at home this week.

I created this piece by applying alcohol inks to the underside of the clear fragment. I then

attached a vintage image to the same side as the AI so that I would not have a sticky side on the front.

I did the same thing here, only I attached a bit of patterned paper to the underside and then stamped on top with Staz-On inks.

I thought the S&H Green Stamp was a bit of fun. Just attached that, as I did the other papers, with Ranger's Glossy Accents to the underside of the clear fragment.

The longer charm was simple, too -- I just cut out the image which came with the frame packaging.

Cruise News Part 3

Well, here we are -- the three amigos in Mexico. Mazatlan to be exact. That's Pam, Sarah & Me.

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One of the very ambitious projects we took on in Tim's class was this grungeboard album for our trip pictures and memorabilia. No one came near finishing it in class and we weren't expected to. That didn't stop Tim from forcing us to create without thinking by getting the book itself assembled in record time.

We started with this map of Mexico which Tim had copied for us on Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky Back Canvas. We adhered that to the front and colored it with distress inks. In record time we attached 7 Gypsies paper to all our grungeboard as well as inking, stamping and distressing the bags we incorporated inside.

Many people worked on their albums during the week as we had a conference room assigned to us for that very purpose. It was open 24 hours a day for anyone that wanted to use it. There were supplies to use as well, including Tim's stamps.This is an exclusive trip stamp we received the last night of our cruise. I am so glad I hadn't created my cover yet, as I decided it would be perfect for the front of my book.

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The shipping label I used here is actually the ATC that Mario gave away. He'd been up to his eyeballs in shipping labels, so this made a great ATC.

The bags above and below are great to insert journaling tags, photos or other souvenirs.



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Another view of Pam, Sarah and Me.

Mazatlan was our first stop on the cruise. We visited the Mercado (Market). I'm so glad Sarah told me to take all these great pictures there. Love the pig's head!



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In Puerto Vallarta, Sarah and I spent a day at the beach. I had a foot massage while I enjoyed a Margarita right on the beach. Can you say "bliss"?



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These are the ATC's that Tim and Wendy made. I don't think I need to tell you who made which ATC.

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To see more Art, Sarah is showing an apron we made in Wendy's class.

And Sherry has pictures of a cool necklace we made in Wendy's class.

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Well, that's it for the cruise round up. Hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of our journey!

Cruise Video

Tim's got a great video of the cruise up on his blog. Check it out here: http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/the-voyage.html

Look carefully at the end -- at the give-away party, there's a sweeping picture of Pam,

Sarah, me, and Pam's husband, Kim!

Cruise News Part 2

This shadowbox was one of my favorite projects we made on the cruise. It was from one of Tim's classes. It also happened to be the day at sea we had some rough weather and we lost more than a few of our crafters to seasick type symptoms.For my shadow box I added these dominoes once I got home because they were the perfect size for the space I needed to fill.
The bird and the background were made by applying strips of paper with a gel medium. A whole lot easier on the background than on the bird! But I loved the results. The bird was finished off with a rainbow of distress inks.
For the background we added a layer of beeswax followed by some gold Perfect Pearls. I went a bit heavy on mine, but was still pleased with the way it turned out.

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To see another one of Tim's projects that we made, check out Sara's blog.

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And what about all those ATC's we made you might ask? Well, we traded throughout the cruise with other crafters. And Pam was smart enough and kind enough to make these wonderful tins for both Sara and me. Which turned out to be the perfect place to store our newly traded ATC's!

I also received some very crappy paper from Sara. Before you gasp -- let me just say I mean literally! Paper made from crap.....the elephant kind.
**** Thanks, Sara & Pam! ******

Cruise News!

I've never had a vacation that was perfect from start to finish. But the Tim Holtz cruise came off without a hitch. From the time I got to the airport to make the trip to LA until I got back home, everything went just as it should. (I was astonished I didn't get seasick at all.)

We had great classes with Tim and I'll be posting some of those projects later in the week. One of my favorite parts of class was when Tim would play the Mexican Hat Dance. As soon as we heard the music, we knew free stuff was coming our way.

Like this....And this.....

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Wendy Vecchi was another one of the instructors on this cruise, so I'm showing a bulletin board we made in her class. I'm showing this one first because it's one of the ones that I actually finished. Many of the things I started in class need some finishing touches which is while I'll be showing them a little later.
We started this project by using an old sewing pattern. We cut it in strips and applied it with a gel medium to cover the whole background. When it dried we stamped a splatter background over it.
"Make Art" is Wendy's signature phrase and I copied it for my project.

Wendy is famous for her grungeboard flowers, so we had plenty of practice making those.
We colored them with distress inks and then stamped on them before shaping them and adding some snap centers.

I love this art doll we added to our bulletin boards. Especially love Tim's new film strip tape which we added as glasses as well as the metal necklace she is wearing.

Got lots more to share -- so check back later!