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Kraft Resist - Creative chemistry day 5

So, I'm skipping around a bit, but loving this online class by Tim Holtz! He does such a great job explaining all the amazing techniques in his videos.

I needed to make a birthday card and thought I'd use the very cool Kraft Resist paper pack by Tim Holtz and one of the techniques from day 5. I also used the Snow Cap paint dauber, which I love, to stamp on top.

Day 2 - creative chemistry

I'm so excited to be taking the Tim Holtz online class, Creative Chemistry 101! I've especially been missing going to crops and classes, so this has been perfect

The first day Tim talked about the properties of inks and it made so much sense to understand this before creating!

Day 2 he focused on Distress inks, my fav, and we made 3 tags, a Blended ink tag with spritzed water; a brushless watercolor, and a wrinkled free distress tag.

Stay tuned for more fun to come!

Tim Holtz Online Class

I'm so excited to be taking the class by Tim Holtz. I've especially been missing doing crops and classes with baby so this is perfect!

This was Day 1 of the 2 week course, complete with video, PDF download, an online forum and a great gallery of projects!

Check out onlinecardclasses.com for details.

Toonie Thursday at Scrapbookers

Love the card we made with Holly at Scrapbookers Paradise North last Thursday!
Here's how we did it:
First we stamped an image and used clear embossing powder to create a resist. Then on a craft mat we rubbed 4 different Distress Ink pads and spritzed with water. We then finger painted a collage of ink to cover the background. A piece of patterned paper was added to look like a ribbon and a beautiful paper flower with a gem in the center to add some bling!

Thanks SP!

Playing in Paradise #54 & some other fun stuff!

It's been so long since I did a challenge I was worried I'd forgotten how!! But, like my card, it's just like riding a bike..... (lol)

The challenge this week was to add stitching, either faux or real to a project.  It is my hubby's birthday on Friday so I decided to make a guy card and used my CTMH stitching stamps - which I LOVE- to the card.  First I actually used CTMH paper for the background, then I layered on a free vintage bicycle graphic from Graphics Fairy that I printed onto white cardstock from my printer.  I embossed the bike paper with a writing Cuttlebug folder and then added some Distress Ink on top to highlight it.  After mounting it onto cardstock I popped it up with foam dots.  I used the stitching stamps to add black zigzag 'stitching' to the sides of the front, and inside I added a dotted 'stitch' around 3 sides.  I then added a white embossed 'embroidered' flower stamp to the front and inside of the card and "I'm sew happy" to the inside as well.

I have another free vintage bicycle link on Pinterest.  Check it out at http://pinterest.com/karlayungwirth/ on the Card and Scrapbooking Ideas board!

Clearsnap had a link today on Facebook to a video showing a how to for a cute card and thought I'd pass it along:

I also had a very proud moment with my 5 year old said she wanted to do some scrapbooking after we were watching some You Tube videos! I brought her some pics I wasn't using and some supplies and she set to work doing her own thing - mental note to buy more Tombow adhesive! Anyway, she cut fringes on one of the pieces of paper she put on the page and added some Distress Ink and actually tore the edge of a smaller L shaped piece of paper and crumpled it and added Distress Ink to it.  She also stamped some flowers and bugs and added some stamps that came on an envelope in the mail. Very cute!

Well, I've got to head to bed before baby wakes, but I just wanted to say Thank You for reading my blog.  Someone actually came up to me today at Scrapbooker's Paradise and said "I follow your blog!" and it really made my day.  Thanks Angela ; ) It's been a crazy 2 months and I've missed scrapbooking and card making and posting more often, so it meant a lot to hear that!

Toonie Thursday Thank You

I finally got out with baby Erica and Amie to make it to Scrapbookers Paradise for their Toonie Thursday card and, as always, it was a very nice card.

They used the Spellbinders Dies to cut the 3 labels on the front and made cute tissue flowers by cutting 6 layers of tissue each into a flower shape with a punch and adding a brad to the center before scrunching each layer. The tissue is by Tm Holtz and was first spritzed with a color.