3 of Tim Holtz Tags doing my version.

H Ladies,

My last post of 2011.  For my birthday my son gave me a weekend at a scrapping retreat.  So my friends were there and we had a birthday party and scrapped all weekend. 
On night we ended up doing new techniques doing Tim Holtz Tags of Christmas.  We shared and pooled our Tim supplies and this is what I came up with. 

The tag pictured was Day 10 and by far it was the most beautiful.  I loved the technique of putting Santa on the pendants.

This was my favorite technique of kissing the stamp.  I love how the deer came out and it really amazes me.  This was one of the extra tags he showed and I forgot what day.

Last we did  Day 5 and that is a really cool technique that fascinated all of us.  I used a Martha Stewart punch to do the wreath and I think it came out similar to Tim's.

Hope you enjoyed my spin n the 12 Tags of Christmas.  Next year I will do more and I promise to finish the other 9 throughout the year and frame them.

Look at some of the things I made

As I told you this weekend was my birthday and my son paid for me to go to a scrap weekend with some friends.  He ha been planning it since August.  I think I will keep him.

So I thought I would share the Christmas Cards, Gift Cards and Ornament I made.

Not sure which is my favorite card.  They were all fun to do and my friends will love them.

Note to self this ornament takes a lot of time, but does look nice.  I think it took about 2 hours an would you believe I am giving it away to someone who will appreciate it.

Loved doing these ornament they were Tim Holtz techniques.

Winner, winner not of a Chicken Dinner

Hello to everyone in blogland.  I realized it was the 13th and had something to give away so I had better draw and get this mailed off.
So without further ado Here is what Random.Org says.

I can't copy and paste it so you will have to trust me.  There were 28 comments (took repeat out) and the number that came up was 26 -- that is GinniC.

Congrats Ginni !!!!!

Welcome to MY SKETCH WORLD Blog Hop

Calling all card sketch lovers! We’ve asked our designers to choose their favourite Lucy Chesna card sketch and challenge their partner to show you ways to create wonderfully inspiring cards, each with their very own a twist!  Our international designers on this hop are:

My Sketch World 

Jan Tatomir 

Karen Zabuska

Lisa Moen

Lucy Chesna

Marion (Majo) Wybraneitz

Nicole Wise

Sherri Priest

Stacey Wright


My Sketch World

The details:

1. Visit each blog and leave a comment.  Read carefully, there maye be individual requirements as some desingers are offering little prizes of their own!

2. After you have visited each Designers blog come back to My Sketch World blog and let us know what you thought. Part Two of the hop ends Monday, December 12th, 11:59 EST.

3. Everyone who posts a comment on each blog will be entered to win ! Winners will be randomly chosen.

4. To receive and additional entry, scraplift a card and link it back to the My Sketch World blog and tell us in your comment what inspired you!

6. Have fun! Be inspired!

 
My Challenge Partner is JAN and she gave me this challenge sketch on my card with the fact that she threw in to use use circles 2 ways on your card.
 
Here is the sketch:
 
 

Cute card and loved the sketch so I .....

As you can see I turned the card sideways and put 3 circles on the right side with 3 pom pom's in te circles.  So I did the challenge of circles 2 ways.  Hope you enjoy.

NOW FOR A BLOG PRIZE.  I WOULD LIKE YOU TO BECOME A FOLLOWER  AND LEAVE A COMMENT.  I will draw from the names randomly (On December 13th)  and send to the winner a Tattered Angel Glimmer Mist.  you must respond to me within 5 days.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!!!!!

WINNER ALERT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME AND...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

I used Random.Org but did not have enough time to copy and paste it so trust me.
Please use the contact me on top and send me your email as you get an e gift certificate and I will send it to you on Sunday.

First is #1 --Corrine for the $25 certificate
Second is #6 -- Lisa for $10 Certificate
Third is #10 -- Reel girl (Shelly) for $10 Certificate
Fourth is #4 -- Alex for the $10 Certificate

Congrats to all and thanks for joining in.

Stop and Scrap Blog Drawing, just follow the directions and enter

Hi Everyone,

Today I am sponsoring with Stop and Scrap.com to give away 2 gift certificates and all you have to do is two things to enter.
1.  Go to Stop and Scrap.com and tell me how you would spend a $25 certificate if you won.
2.  Become a follower of my blog.

I want to tell you that I have shopped here a lot and have used the points to earn free stuff to add to my collections of scrapbooking paper.  I like the fact that I can pre-order items and they tell me when it will be shipped.  They have all the newest and greatest items.  Last thing is they are very fair with their shipping.  Go try them out, you will love them.

This drawing will be held on Friday, December 9th, my birthday.  I decided to give you a present for visiting me.  It will be a random drawing and I hope to draw your name.

The prizes are:  1 -- $25 gift certificate to Stop and Scrap and   3 -- $10 gift certificates to Stop and Scrap.

Good Luck everyone.

The French Birthday Card for the Reveal at My Sketch World

Well today is the 15th so that means a reveal from MY SKETCH WORLD.  Once again I had fun with this sketch and use the color combinatin of a beige and black.  I used Graphic 45 which is usually a challenging line to work with.  I wanted to make a birthday card for our French Teacher and I think I nailed it.

Here is the sketch:



and this is my take on it:

 Let me know what you think of it.

Boys Rule Scrapbook Kit -- ROCKS!!! Check it out.

Hi Everyone,

I have something to shout to you about what I am doing this month.  I am a Guest Designer for a fairly new site that has 2 kits a month that deals with BOY.  One is for the younger set and one for the older boys or Men.  The site is called:  Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits.
This month's kit is fabulous for the older boys it contains a lot of Tim Holtz and I have had so much fun playing with it and still have more I want to do.

Here is a layout I did with the kit"

I did this layout of Matthew from last month.  I used Walnut stain around the edges of the pattered paper, Tim Holtz Kraft Core that has been distressed, burlap that I frayed the edges, the sprocket gears are grunge that has been embossed by the CuttleBug and stained along with smooch and then I added some Tim Holtz trinkets on top.  Everything, I mean everything was in the kit except the Kraft Core paper.  I had fun playing with this.

Here is a close up of the Idea-ology sprocket gears and the grunge sprockets with smooch spritz

The next layout is another one of Matthew and I call it "my handyman", this is when he remodeled the kitchen.

on this one I used grunge, screw brads, CuttleBug to emboss on the grunge and spray it with smooch Olive Green, then I used the cording to put around my journaling.  The blue paper is Coredinations from my stash.   

Here is a close up of the grunge, brads and cording.

DT call for Sketches in Thyme and here is the information

Sketches in Thyme is having a call and I thought I would share this with everyone.  I also did a layout based on the sketch.  It is of my son Kenny on his 25th Birthday in Catalina Ziplining.  I used Jillibean Soup's Apple Cheddar Soup Collection., including their tags and letters.  This is a fun manly layout.

Sketches in Thyme Design Team Call!!

The 6 month term for our talented Mavens is drawing to a close, and while some will be staying on, we are looking for new members to join our Sketches in Thyme design team! If you enjoy creating layouts from sketches, participating in blogs and motivating others to take part in fantastic challenges, this might be your chance to be a part of our fantastic Design Team! Your term would run November-April, and you would be asked to complete 2 layouts per month. If you would like a chance to be considered, here's what you need to do:

1-Create a new layout based on our sketch below.

2-Post about our DT call on your blog, along with your take on our sketch.

3-Leave a comment here telling us that you would like to be considered for the DT, along with a link to your blog post!

And here is the sketch:

And here is my take on it:

 The deadline for this call is October 31st, and our new Design Team will be announced on November 3rd! We look forward to seeing what you come up with!!

Brandi in her Tutu using Sketches in Thyme #57

 
 I was inspired last weekend by this sketch at Sketches in Thyme:


I knew I had taken some pictures of Brandi in her Halloween Tutu, but she was NOT liking it at all.  she just wanted to play with the range bear that squeaked.  so I had to make these pictures really fast and here is what I got.

I used Authentique's Halloween collection with orange pearls, fuzzy cut the diamonds and used Creative Imaginations Sparkly alphabet letters.


  

October's Card for My Sketch World

Hi everyone in Blog Land,
I created a card using a sketch from My Sketch World and it was totally out of my box, but I jumped in and took the challenge and made it into a Halloween card and I think it might be my favorite one.

Here is the sketch that Lucy did:

Remember the challenge is circles and the card, but this is what I came up with.

I added a different shape that I cut from my Stampin'Up die, orange and black construction paper, prima flowers, glittered pumpkin from stash, elastic ruffled white ribbon and I made the circle using Doodlebug Halloween Twine.  The card was a vintage Halloween Clip Art.

My GDT challenge at Citrus Tree Studio using the kit with American Crafts paper

Today is the 10th and I am so excited that I get to issue a challenge on Citrus Tree Studio today.  I hope you come play since we always have a change to win a prize for the challenges you do.

My challenge deals with COLORS.
I did not want to make it the Halloween colors unless you wanted to, so I came up with I want you to use BLACK & WHITE with a splash of any color (just one) that you would like.  So you can use Orange or any other colors you want.
In my example I used Black, White, with a splash of Goldish Yellow. 
Here is my example:

I used the pictures from Kenny & Christine going to Canada on the Ferry.  I used the papers from the kit that is sold at Citrus Tree Studio, it was so great to work with and has a lot of paper to work with along with great embellishments.  I did use a strip of black paper from my stash and some letters from  Creative Imaginations.

Hope to see you come play at Citrus.