I am busy playing and making a mess today. I joined in the Creative Chemistry class at online card classes. Last year I did the 101 and graduated so now I can join in the next class.
The class is a technique based class and we make lots of tags of the different techniques we learn with all the various Tim and Ranger products. I have a few of most of the products needed, including 1 distress marker in vintage photo. When the markers were released the budget did not stretch far enough so I purchased one to try it out - it is very cool but the lottery tickets have not been very kind so it remains a loner with no friends!!
I managed to make a big fat mess and have a few photos of my creations with my favourite at the end.
I splashed out on the Distress paints and love them. As always I had to have the browns and metallics but now the rest of the colour range is calling my name ....
Yes - this is what happens when you spill distress paint. The good news is the colour is gorgeous and I have lots of backgrounds ready to go!
I got totally distracted by the studio tours and spent so much time visiting (and lusting after) other studios that I neglected my own blog. So I am rectifying that right now.
Way back in January I participated in a fun challenge on Youtube. The challenge was to create a tussie mussie out of a toilet roll and decorate it.
I covered and created the flowers out of book pages.
It was a quick and easy project and a lot of fun! I was asked to do a tutorial on my flowers. I have finally done this. I did think I needed to created some clever new technique but have realised I like to find the easy way to create and so I shared my simple flower techniques on YouTube here
This video shows the flowers in the photos below. I use all the petals cut from the Tim Holtz tattered flower die and I like to used lots of texture.
I have a few other techniques to share on how I make my paper flowers and will get a video tutorial of them up shortly.
Nearly finished the projects for the Golden Wedding celebration. I have decorated a large notice board for displaying all the gorgeous photos. I have made several different layered flowers for the corners of the board and to decorate the push pins. Made out of white card with different stamps and inking in gold.
Kraft card flowers - ready for the next project
Petals made from the Kraft card in bottom middle of photo and then embossed and inked to look like metal.
Metal Kraft petals layered and ready to go.
I am preparing a few more techniques with flowers and will update you all next week.
Again Thanks for visiting and I hope you check out all the fabulous creations at the Tim Holtz tattered floral challenge
Well, how could I resist? I love my tattered floral die. I have used it to make stamps, stencils, masks,and many styles of flowers. I may or may not have made 18 other flowers before I decided on the above creations. For the last week two things have been on my mind. One, the tattered floral challenge and the Saturday celebration of this lovely young couple of their Golden Wedding Anniversary on Saturday the 23rd of March.
When the two thoughts collided, The tattered floral challenge went golden. Soft old gold of book pages. I decided to create some decorations for the wedding celebration. Topiary centrepieces for the tables
A button hole for the bridal party
A corsage for a lady guest
And a bouquet for the Bride
As I said I may have created a few extra flowers, so there may be a part two when the competition is over!
Thanks for visiting and Thanks to Tim for such a lovely challenge and so much fun with one of my favourite dies!
Hi everyone
I have been dying to show you this Mini. I am so proud of it. I have held off the photos and video to show you after it was received by my swap partner Rose from Texas. It is so exciting to think that it has travelled all the way to her home, where I hope she will love and enjoy it.
I created the paperbag album from a fabulous tutorial from Kathy Orta, and used Tim Holtz Kraft Resist paper.
Sorry for the glare - that is a fabulous 7gypsies transparency. I used a die cut from Tim Holtz for the dress form and made the flowers from the TH tattered florals die. The Kraft paper is coloured with Distress inks - vintage photo, victorian velvet, and broken china.
I couldn't fit all the goodies in the book, so I kept the Mini Journal and Mini mini book seperate. These were so easy and so much fun to make. I will be making another one soon and will do a demo for anyone who would like to make one too.
The spine was made with Grunge paper, which I embossed and coloured, and then I added a huge charm!
I love this charm. I added lots of beads, and used a bottle cap and altered domino, and added a vintage stamp to a Tim Holtz fragment. My daughter wanted to steal it and hang it on her wall - sorry Aleisha, it is for Rose!
I made a simple pocket for the inside front cover.
Each page has lots of pockets for lots of tags
The dressmaker pages are always a favourite for me.
I love these gorgeous ladies coloured in Ink with glitter and Liquid pearls to accessorize.
This tag was made with a favourite serviette image.
The back of the tag needed a gorgeous vintage button!
Lots of bling for this page coloured with Timber Brown Stazon.
The ribbons and bird are from Typo - a gorgeous store in NZ, Australia, and Malaysia
Another Serviette collage.
The back of the above tag with another serviette collage. One of my favourite techniques.
The Inside back cover. The image with the birds eggs is a digital download from Marion Smith of APieceofcraftdotcom
More tags
and yet more tags! I added the little buttons for Rose the recipient of the book.
I am thrilled that my parcel arrived safely in Texas, and that Rose likes her Mini. I loved making this for her.
If you would like to watch the video, I have included the link below. It is in two parts as YouTube wouldn't accept it as one but my lovely son has worked his magic and included links to the second.
I hope you like it and come back tomorrow to see my New Zealand Junk Jounal (and I do mean Junk!)
Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Michelle Mooney.
I love paper, stamps, inks, paints, stationery, altering things, book making, pinterest and lots of other things yet to be discovered. This blog is a record of the things I make and learn on my creative journey.
