He Sees You

Have you been keeping up with Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas??  O.M.G. that is just about the most talented human on the planet.  Every single day when I think there is no way he could top the previous day's tag, BAM!  Sheer genius!!!

So, day 1 I was TOTALLY inspired and rushed right over to my craft table to play along.  And while it doesn't really resemble Tim's tag it is inspired by it in its rudimentary form:

The two items that most inspired me on Tim's tag were the crackle paint and the wired ribbon.  I didn't use any wired ribbon on this (oh, but I'll use that trick sometime!) but I sure played with my crackle medium.  I realized I really need to get me some of that Tim Holtz crackle.  His cracks so BIG.  While you can see the crackles pretty well on the chipboard swirl:

it doesn't show up as well on the tag itself, which is covered, because I think I painted it on and doing it that way with my crackle medium thins is out too much. 

Santa's covered with some glittery Stickles, as only Santa should be.  :o)

So I made this tag with a couple of the papers you will get in the December Torendi kit "Modern Red"!!!! 

This kit includes:


3 pieces of American Crafts Cardstock
2 12x12 sheets of Jillibean Soup Toasted Cumin Paper
2 12x12 sheet Jillibean Soup Alphabet Pasta Paper
1 12x12 piece of Shinzi Katoh Red Hood Fabric (blue)
1 I Love NY stamp from the Shinzi Katoh NY Stamp Set
1 Red Hood Postcard (one of two possible designs)
6 Jillibean Soup Square Kraft Journaling tags
1 Random Decole Little Red Clip (varies with kit)
Multiple Earth Toned Buttons

I soooooo have plans for that Red Hood Fabric & clip (I got the wolf one) and the I Love NY stamp.  My poor craft table is just crying out for my attention.  Soon, dear table, soon. 
 

Stinkin cute, no?

And if you purchase your Torendi Modern Red kit before the 21st, you can have a chance to go to CHA** in January and be a Torendi honorary employee for the day!!!!!  I am sooo jealous!  I'm unable to make it out there this time but why shouldn't you go in my place??!!!!   Check out this post for more details!!
 
** This is for tix to CHA only - Torendi is not covering airfare, hotel, meals or any other travel expenses.
 
Details:  Jillibean Soup patterned paper (from December Torendi Modern Red kit); The Paper Company cardstock; Stampin' Up! stamp and tag corner & circle punches; StazOn & ColorBox ink; Ranger Crackle Medium; Dymo tape; Fancy Pants chipboard; Adornaments fibers; American Craft white pen; Staples; Unknown eyelet and ribbon. 
 
OK, I know you're sick of hearing about it and I'm SICK of doing it, but back to the contracts.  Ugh.
 
Hope your Friday is awesome and you have cool plans for the weekend!
 
Heidi

Blog Candy Winner!!!!

Thank you everyone who is following this humble little blog and who checked in on, blogged & tweeted about, and linked up my fun blog candy!    I'm one of those people who thinks nothing I do could possibly be interesting to anyone else so I am always so overwhelmed with the kind and encouraging comments I get from you wonderful people every day.

Of course, some of the reason I offered up this little blog candy challenge was to increase the number of my readers.  (I'm growing quite fond of the feedback!) 

MOST of the reason, though, is the hope that I can expose every person who checks out the happenings on this blog to all the other blogs and sites that I enjoy.  Gotta spread the love! 

So, I'm guessing you're getting a bit impatient with me at this point, huh?  You wanna know who won the blog candy?  LOL.

I employed the help of my little friend Random:

There were 65 comments and 99 followers at the close of the candy last night...





I started counting from the first comment...comment #25 was:


S said...


Congrats, your hit counter is just spinning like crazy!

November 14, 2009 2:43 PM
 
Congratulations S!!!!!!  Email me at heidi at heidimyers dot net to claim your prize!!!!   See this post HERE to check out what you won!
 
Thank you again to everyone who participated!! 
 
I can't wait to see how December shapes up.  Lots of fun holiday projects and challenges coming up.  
 
Which reminds me...Tim Holtz started his 12 Tags of Christmas today!   Have you ever seen this?  This man is the most creative person and his tags are AMAZING!  Every day he's offering up prizes AND gives the step by step instructions on how to make the tags!  Check it out!!!!!  LQQk at day 1:
 

 
Have a great Tuesday!
 
Heidi

The Force Is Strong

Soooo lovin' the prompt this week (ok, so I guess there's only about 45 minutes left in "this week") over on The Pink Ninjas: Star Wars or Star Trek? I mean really, is there any contest?? At least definitely not in THIS house.

Who...isthis..."Captain Kirk"...you...speakof? (read it in William Shatner's voice)

My Milennium Falcon can beat up your Starship Enterprise!!

I employed the two-embossing powder technique on the star...I think it gives it good highlight. (I love Tim Holtz Distress Powders - I've got mustard seed and weathered wood here.)

Details: Paper - DCWV, American Craft; Stamps - Technique Tuesday, My Mind's Eye; VersaMark ink; Tim Holtz Distress Powders; Stampin' Up! marker; Zig Milennium pen; unknown photo corners; clothing tag.

The new Pink Ninjas prompt should come out Wednesday morning. I always look forward to them!!!

Thanks for looking!

Heidi

Live the Life You've Imagined...Happy

Happy Hump Day!

I've recently discovered a great new website called Memories Always-Forever. It's full of fun challenges (you know I can't pass that up!), a place to upload your projects and peruse those of other majorly talented contributors, and connect with other crafty people.

They just had a card sketch challenge using this sketch:

Aaaaaaand, here's where I took it:

I had so much fun making this. It's seriously much more impressive IRL. I hate how the camera flattens an image. You know, I've been holding on to that Basic Grey Obscure 6x6 pad forever but just recently discovered how so "me" it is. I L-O-V-E it!

For the two framed areas on the sketch I scribbled/scratched frame outlines. Then I went over them with an embossing pen and then covered them with UTEE a couple of times so there are clear, bubbley, melty, raised frames. The sentiment is stamped on a transparency and then I plopped it on top of the UTEE while it was still hot to "glue" the transparency down. (Here's a little tip...molten UTEE is H-O-T! Use tweezers if you're going to set something down into it. Don't learn the hard way like I did. Trust me, you won't do it twice.) I also "glued" down in the UTEE a couple of transistors. I've been holding on to those babies for ages, too. It's fun discovering the treasures you have organized away over the years. I have some really cool stuff.

~title detail~

For the scalloped area I created a frame with some old Heidi Swapp printed tape - this one is some sort of measuring device. Unfortunately, I have no idea where I got the camera eyelet but I'm glad I discovered those in my stash, too.

The tickets, sentiment, and the umbrella man (notice he's shadow stamped, too?) are all Tim Holtz stamps. That man is wicked talented, eh?

~stamps detail~

Details: Basic Grey paper; Tim Holtz stamps; JudiKins transparency; StazOn & VersaMark ink; Zig Millenium pen & Emboss Writer; Ranger UTEE; Heidi Swapp tape; unknown transistors & eyelet.

This month's Guest Design Team challenge for Unity Stamp Co. was to use a stamp from either the May or June Kit of the Month and this sketch:

I felt like stepping out of the box, so to speak, so I went round instead with a paper mache round hanger:

I thought I'd like to do something really playful so I grabbed my current go-to fun papers from the American Craft Teen collection. It's hard to see in the pic but some of the hearts are glazed and a little bit sparkly. I used a checkerboard pattern for the wide horizontal band on the sketch and cut out a squiggle for the smaller band bisecting it.

The Unity stamp I used was the June KOTM "happy" banner.

I told you you'd be seeing the fan fold flowers again soon! These are also made with the AC Teen papers and are topped off with some Around the Block brads. I backed them with some turquoise floss to make them seem just that much more festive.

And now, of course, I must address the pink elephant in the room - the fuschia feather trim. Oh. My. Gawd. It was like some exotic bird exploded when I cut that trim! There were fuschia feathers floating in the air for hours! I attached it to the hanger with Sticky Strips.

Details - American Craft paper; Unity Stamp Co. stamp; Ink - StazOn, Stampin' Up!; Brads - Around the Block, Stampin' Up!; Stickles; DMC floss; MSI paper mache hanger; Target boa trim; Offray ribbon; Sticky Strips tape.

Hope you enjoyed my creations for the day.

Stay tuned tomorrow for some possibly exciting news.

Have a good evening!

Heidi