CCC21 - Perfect Distress

Need to get my crafting head back on I've been full of cold this week and had two sick children, so not felt like doing much at all. As usual I've left it till last minute again for this week's Compendium challenge, Perfect Distress. Now I love my Perfect Pearls, but could I get this card to work, no. Took me all afternoon to come up with something I was reasonably happy with.



Apologies for the photo the light kept reflecting off it.

I used an Inkadinkdoo stamp and all the blue distress inks; tumbled glass, stormy sky, faded glass and broken china with the White Pearl powder. The papers are of course from Tim's Vintage Shabby stack, my all time favourites.

You may remember last week I mentioned going to a friend's wedding, it was a fantastic day, the venue and weather were beautiful, the food was out of this world and the bride looked gorgeous.

Here's me and Ali, we go back to primary school, over 30 years ago!



the stunning scenery



the amazing cake



See you all next week, I must get back into blogging more often.

CCC19 - Extreme Masking

It's nearly time for another Compendium challenge so I better post this week's. The fabulous Linda at StudioL3 has set the task of "extreme masking" which can be found on page 61 of Tim's book. I'm not a halloween person but Linda's halloween project is fantastic.

Here's mine, not sure I got the hang of this masking technique but gave it a go anway. I used the Birdcage Alterations die, Fired Brick and Vintage Photo distress inks



Stampin Up stamps were used and dusted with my favourite bling of all time "Perfect Pearls"

CCC18 - Dabber Resist

Left it till the night before... again ... Compendium of Curiosities Challenge this week is Dabber resist techinque, intrigued? Well you'll have to have a look in the book I'm afraid.





I used a Clarity stamp, snow white adirondack paint dabber, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge and Spiced Marmalade distress inks. I embossed the artificial leaf with bronze, brass and gold ep's added a couple of smalled leaves and the garden twine. Stamped Tim Holtz sentiment "Listen to your Heart"

CCC17 - Fragment Charms

Good moring fellow bloggers,

Time to post my latest Compendium of Curriosities challenge, this week's techique is using Tim's fragment charms, well I didn't have any so there were two options - miss the challenge or go shopping, guess which one I choose!

My lovely Hubby took me out for a day to Skipton in North Yorkshire to visit the Stampman and Samuel Taylors and I wasn't disappointed. Even got to meet a fellow crafter who I've "spoken" to online that works in one of the shops. He didn't even complain about my spending, although I don't think he could quite believe how little I got for my money!



As you can see I made sure I got my charms for the challenge, the Sizzix die I have been wanting for a while but was out of stock everywhere so was pleased to find that.

Anyway back to the challenge, there is only one thing to do with charms and that's make a charm bracelet, I used Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby papers in pink and various charms, beads and chain from my stash.



Hope you all have a great weekend.

CCC16 - Wrinkle Free Distress

It's Tim time again over at Studio L3, except this time we get an extra week as lots of the lucky followers are livin it up with Sir Tim himself on a cruise ship, how green am I?

Anyway back to the challenge, this week it's wrinkle free distress which can be found on page 33 of the Compendium of Curiosities.

I used Dusty Concord, Tumbled Glass and Milled Lavender distress inks, stamped the Penny Black "Burst of Stars" in Dusty Concord and and again in Distress embossing ink and covered in Plum Perfect Pearls to add a fantastic shimmer to the tag.



I love how the centre of the flower hit the blue splodge perfectly.

CCC15 - Agate on Grunge

Hi folks,

Well it's a quick post with this weeks Compendium of Curiosities challenge, I've been trying to do this all week along with an order of 15 cards and can't get my head round any of it for some reason.

Linda over at Studio L3 has challenged us to do something with Agate on Grunge which can be found on page 53 of the book.

This isn't one of my favourite tags but I'm running out of time so hope you like it.

CCC14 - Basic Masks

Well it's a quick post tonight, before I forget and the challenge ends tomorrow, this weeks Compendium challenge is Basic Masks. Unfortunately I do not have Tim Holtz mask but got a gorgeous Viva one which is a similar Regal style to Tims.



I used it with Acrylic paints and Silver Cosmic Shimmer on top, you may just be able to see the crest and the lion. I used Broken China and Fired Brick although the cosmic shimmer has turned it a subtle pink and grey colour. I didn't want to add any fancy embellishments to detract from the simplicity of this tag (the photo's don't do the shimmery effect justice).



I'm working on a Memory Box at the moment which is the biggest altered thing I've done and I can't wait to show you, I'm really pleased with it so far, but first I've got to make a Wedding Anniversary card for my Hubby ready for Monday, better get to bed now though and get on with that tomorrow.

Night folks,

CCC 2 and 7 Fragments

Finally got round to making these two tags for the Fragment challenges I missed.

The first one is basic fragments





This one was really quick and easy which is why it's called basic fragments, the second however Tinted Vision invloves Alcohol Inks, now I can't quite get to grips with these and the fact that I only have three colours plus a gold doesn't help.





What I love about these challenges is you never know what you're doing but it all seems to fall into place.

CCC13 - Grungepaper flowers

Ooo I love flowers and especially the Tattered Florals, well that's this weeks challenge for the Compendium of Curiosities flowers made from grungepaper - so glad it's the paper and not the board it smells much nicer.

I've made another tag for my collection, we're only a third of the way though the book, so I'm going to have to pick my favourites to frame I think, otherwise I'll have no wall left.

I inked the tag with Tea Dye and Aged Mahogany, stamped Viva flourish in Aged Maghogany.

The image (a freebie from Magic Moonlight) was transferred with Claudine Hellmuth's multi medium, I saw a tip in Craft Stamper to use transparencies instead of paper and it worked brilliantly, grungeflowers covered with T.H Retro papers and inked.

I'm trying to take better photo's and love how a few people have used Tim's book as the background, it looks fab.

Thanks for looking and any comments you feel like leaving.

CCC 6 - Multi Medium Collage

This was one of the earlier CCC challenges I missed, Multi Meduium is a gel/paste that as it's name suggests can be used for many things, sticking, varnishing and transferring images. The technique can be found on page 66 of Tim's book Compendium of Curriosities. This has got to be one of my favourite tags so far.





The letter "S" (obviously my initial) is from a wooden alphabet I have had forever, the image is from an old book and the script from a vintage "Gone with the Wind" bougth from the car boot (a book I've never read). You can't really tell on the photo but the buttons look like fabric.

Distress Inks used: Barn Door, Crushed Olive, Old Paper and Tea Dye
Also used: Claudine Hellmuth Gloss Multi Medium and Ranger Crackle Accents.

CCC11 - Blended Batik

How time flies, another week, another CCC at Studio L3, week 11 and it's Blended Batik. I've recycled a linen tag I just happened to take off a top this morning. I wasn't sure whether the technique would work on fabric or not, but as you can see came out just fine.







Apologies for not using Sir Tim's stamps but I need to build up my collection, all other products are TH though. I would love some floral/nature stamps if anyone can direct me to any please let me know.

Products used

Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Aged Mahagony
Wings from Heart Wings die inked with Peeled Paint and stickles
a bottle top squished in my bug with charm attached
floral embellishments.

CCC 10 - Distress Stickles

We're on Challenge 10 of the Compendium of Curriosities and this week Linda at Studio L3 has chosen Distress Stickles. I've made another tag for my collection.





Products used:

Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby papers which are my favourite all time papers
Tattered Floral die
Sizzix Swirl
Hero Art Cling background
Distress Inks in Barn Door and Fired Brick
Distress Stickles in Rock Candy (tag and swirl) and Fired Brick (flower)

Can't wait for next challenge, I'm really enjoying these, they just seem to come together on their own.

CCC catch up tags

I've been making some more tags for Challenges 1 - 7 as I only began the challenges at number 8. I thought if I made them all as tags I could keep them in a book, but think I might get some 12 x 12 3d frames to show them all off in.

Challenge 1 - Water Stamping (red and orange)
Challenge 3 - Alcohol Ink Mono (purple with birdcage)





Challenge 4 - Shabby Chic (purple in black)
Challenge 5 - Distress Embossing (blue and green)





There's a couple I can't do at the moment because I need to get some Fragments, they are next on my evergrowing Wishlist, along with all the new Tim stuff when it reaches the UK.

To find out how I used all these techniques I'm afraid you'll just have to get the fab Compendium of Curiosites as part of the challenge rules state we cannot share them out of respect to the fabulous Tim's work. The challenge itself can be found over at Studio L3 hosted by the lovely Linda.

Hope you like what I've made so far.

CCC9 - Cracklepaint

It's my second week doing the Compendium of Curiosties challenge over at Studio L3, I've decided to work backwards and forwards as I'd love to keep a sample of all the techniques so I'm off to see what weeks 1-8 were.

Hope you like the tags I made for this one



For the male themed one I used Faded Jeans, Broken China, Tumbled Glass and Tea Dye with Rock Candy crackle paint



For the girly one I covered the tag with a Pearl Adirondack paint dabber, then used Alchol Inks in Wild Plum, Stream, Butterscotch and Gold and covered in the crackle paint then did the same with the heart in Wild Plum. The crackle paint on the top layer of the heart has for some reason come off in places but adds to the distressed look.