A Valentines Tag

Oh no!  I missed this tag some how when posting about Valentines tags!  Not that is unusual in that I don't post everything I make and/or do but...I thought this one was too cute to get away! 

I used all Tim Holtz Distress Inks, dies, embossing folders, and crackle paint I had left over that hasn't dried out yet.  I hand lettered the Love Potions labels.  Cute huh!

a tag or two!

I thought I would share a tag today that I taught in a class last Thursday night.  There were a total of 3 tags taught  and everyone seemed to have a great time making them.  I know I enjoyed visiting with the new students and look forward to having Denise and her daughter Heather come again whenever they can...now I say that cause Heather lives down in Houston and only gets to Oklahoma infrequently.  Hope to see Denise next month though!

I make all my tags using manila folders to cut down on cost cause I make so many of the darned things.  I think they do as well as the 20 tags for $5 card that you buy pre-cut.

In celebration of St. Patricks Day

The St. Patrick's Day tag was made using a Tim Holtz picture frame folder, Tim Holtz sentiment, Distress inks, Graphic 45 Paper, Martha Stewart 4 leaf clover punch, paper roses, gold coin from the party shop, and a cross that used to be a button!  The ribbon fob is jewelry findings from Hobby Lobby and the ribbon is seam binding from Stampin' Up!

A key to the city!

The key to the city was made using the Tim Holtz mini stamp set  Paris to London that came out last year and the voyage sentiment stamp.  I first inked with distress ink, stamped the collage stamp in white and then the fleur de leis and postage stamp in black.  The Eiffel tower is stamped on manila card and cut out and pop dotted up.  I found a bunch of these keys and cards of crowns in the dollar bin at Michael's and bought several of them for future use.  The leaves are cut out with the Tim Holtz Tattered Foliage die and I love the paper roses.  

The three tags together.

I posted the middle tag a couple weeks ago...if you want to see a bigger picture go here.  All the products used on this tag are by Dyan Reavely of Dylusions and Ranger Ink except for the Tim Holtz sentiment stamp!

I love tags.  Little pieces of art and so much fun to make!

WOYWW #249

Wednesday and I remembered...OMG!  I think something must be wrong here.
It was such a beautiful day on Monday and Tuesday with temperatures getting into the upper 70's and lower 80's that it must have released a chemical that activated my brain!  All joking aside it is WOYWW and I think you should go check out the blog hop that is originating on Julia's blog Stamping Ground!  Each Wednesday we get together and show off our desks so the other bloggers can take a snoop and see what we are working on.  Go check it out and come join in.

This my desk this week.  Once again there isn't much change but I have cleaned it up and trashed it out 3 times since last week!  Today there is a whole lot of bling laying out there because I have been busy trying to enter it into a new program I am beta testing for the iPhone. 

 

My son in law is developing a new inventory program app and if you are interested in testing it go here...http://tflig.ht/OICxCv  where you register and he will get back to you.  It looks very promising as a way to inventory and store our stash in a logical way!

If you would like to see the self portrait canvas I was working on last week go here to see it.  I think it represents me totally but looks nothing like me.  Everyone at the store loved it though!

Here is a fun tag thing that I have been working on.  I love making tags!  They are little works of art.  My DD bought me a wall decor bird cage that I can use to display my tags on for Christmas.  It is a real problem storing these things and I really like to have them out on display.  It is a lot of fun hanging tags on the rack to show off. 

Just a few tags and I have room for a lot more to be displayed!

All done for today.  Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather.  Look forward to being able to get out and garden soon.  Have a great week!

Latest endeavors from the room of stash

I can't remember if I told you I teach classes at Scrap That a scrapbook store in Norman, Oklahoma.   Terri the owner decided she would like every instructor and every employee to make a "portrait" of sorts to put up in the store using products from the store.  I am the only multimedia instructor...if you will that is a loose way to say I have no limits or bound to what I will use in my creations.   I love to stamp, I love to paint, I love to play with paper, stencils, pens and inks.   Needless to say sometimes my 'creations' become works of art and other times pieces of crap that are only fit for the can but...I try.  Here is the canvas I made and turned in to be put on the wall of infamy...

Its got the multimedia down...all the paint, stamps, stencils, sparkles, flowers, ephemera etc etc etc.  I don't look like that of course but the canvas is definitely me....  what do you think?  Should I bring it home when they are done with it or leave it for the can?  I actually kind of like it!

WOYWW #248

It has been a couple of weeks since I have been able to participate in WOYWW due to various obligations on my time!  I have been thinking about all the fun have been missing but I have also been having a great time visiting with friends and traveling a bit.  What's WOYWW?  Click the link here or to the right and it will take you to Stamping Ground and Julia's explanation of how to play!

We went to Colorado over the weekend of Valentines holiday and stayed in an awesome suite in a fantastic hotel in Denver.  Not all was fun and games for DH as he had to give a talk at Chaser Con 2014 I had a blast chasing around with a girl friend shopping and having a good time.  Luckily we had time to visit with friends and had an all around enjoyable time. 

Okay here is a picture of my desk today.  I admit it is a bit staged but I had just finished making my tags for a swap on the Yahoo group Stampers Anonymous and decided to pull out stuff to make a self portrait that will go up in the store where I teach lessons.  It is suppose to relate to who we are and what we create...hmm...interesting possibilities to be had here.  I love purple, steampunk, and grunge so I will try and create something!

 The canvas is a 12" x 16" black gesso prepped so I thought purple doily, purple flowers, some purple glitter paper for hair and a few gears and keys to dress it up.  You will have to come back next week to see how it turns out.

Here is a picture of the tags I just finished for the swap.  It is a large tag...#10 that is suppose to be "girls rule"!  I love this stamp set by Dyan Reaveley and figured it was a good example girls rule!

 It is a little different then what I usually do but ya' know I think I like it.  I stamped the dolly on red cardstock, cut it out and did a little painting and futzing about.  The tag itself was sprayed with Dylusions inks, and a Dylusions stencil was used to layer and texture.  The sentiment is from Tim Holtz. 

That's it folks, nothing more!  Hope everyone is keeping warm and dry this week.  It has been in the single digits here with snow and ice since last Sunday.  Today it got above freezing but it is still very cold and miserable outside.  I am going to try and venture out tomorrow to take my DH to the airport so he can go to Pennsylvania for a talk he is giving there! 
Have a great week!

Hello and WOYWW!

Spent a great weekend trip to Dallas and when I got home Sunday all sorts of things started happening around here.  I felt like that little Peanuts character Linus that has the black cloud over his head.  I almost forgot all about it being Wednesday with all the stress and trauma I have been going through the past couple days!

Here is a picture of my desk today...truly today too...5:27 pm CST counts as today still right?   

 What stress and trauma you say...well I lost my damned iPhone and my life rather revolves around the information I get from the phone...especially since I have such issues with my memory and have to have it to remind me to take pills etc. DD told me that the iPhone store had a special for $.99 you could get a replacement 4s phone so I agreed to meet up with her and ended up with a 5c instead.

my beautiful blue iPhone 5c

I wouldn't have put out the money but she and her husband felt I needed this phone as a replacement since everyone in the family has 5 somethings.  Thank you chillin's for the phone!  I thought that since DD sprung for the phone I should take the first pic on it of her...looks happy with that bowl of pasta doesn't she! Heather hates me taking her picture!

This thing has an awesome camera among all its awesome fun!  I got a blue phone with a case that is opaque and has a purple stripe around it.  Very nice!

Visited a new dermatologist this Tuesday and she tells me I may have some more face cancer and took a biopsy right then and there...imagine my surprise!  I wasn't expecting that for sure!!!  I was popping and cracking getting up and down off the table and she said she was going to tell my rheumatologist to test for psoriatic arthritis since I guess I have that in my ears and family history of people having it.  It is caused by an immune system going awry...well that sums me up for sure...and isn't something you want to play around with according to her.  Hmmm...I love getting old...anyway I will go back to the RA doctor on the 26th and see what she has to say!

I have made a few Valentines this week to share.  The tags are made using Vintage Photo, and Barn Door Distress inks and tags I made from old file folders.  This was an idea that has been rumbling around in my brain...a card made using a large tag with small tags in the pocket.   I probably will put a picture on the back of one small tag and a sentiment on the back of the other one.  I thought it turned out nicely!

 

Another tag was made by embossing the tag with a folder after distressing the tag and drizzling water on it...loved all the water marks.  I then used Vintage Photo to distress the design and bring it to the front.  I used some left over pieces of scrap card and Graphic 45 papers to make the paper bits on the tag. 

Here is a close up of the cupid and the tag fob.

 Another happy thing was a late Christmas present/early Valentines present from my DH.  Isn't he nice to buy me this.  I love the perfume, lotions, shower gel and he gets it for me every Christmas  but this year got away from us.  That's okay though cause this one was bought during a gift giveaway time so more will be coming in the next day or two!  YAY!  Even for a lousy beginning to the week I am faring like a fat rat huh!

Okay that's enough.  Julia is going to smack my keyboard for me going on so long!   Julia likes them short and sweet and this one is anything but...but then they never are if I am writing them.  Julia is the Grand Dame that hosts this desk hop each Wednesday.  Go by Stamping Ground and check out all the fun desks and talks that are going on over there!

WOYWW #244

My desk today.  I had been playing around with making some Valentines  and tags and got called away and this is what it looks like tonight!  A mess.  I am just glad that you can't see the chair and the floor around the desk because it is even a bigger mess.  Went with my daughter shopping at the local Michael's the other day and they had such a sale going on I couldn't turn away.  I think I am going to add shopping for craft products to my list of addictions!  I suppose that would be why I don't have any pictures of finished projects for you to see too...I am out and about too much.

If you are wondering why I am talking about my messy desk go visit with Julia at Stamping Ground and she will fill you in on the whys and how come we are showing off our desks today. 
Okay!  Short and sweet!  Julia will be so proud of me this week!