Merry Christmas to all!

 Just some of the Christmas cards I made this year .... 

the top layer is an acetate with Tim Holtz Snowfall Grit Paste using a snowflake stencil

Almost ready for my Summer Art Retreat

I go on an annual Summer Art Retreat with a great group of ladies from an online group I belong to ... this is our 8th year of meeting and having fun ...... This year we each have done our own Beach Junk Journal and during the retreat 3 people will work in our books and I will finish mine .... I will post what the Junk Journal turns out to be after the retreat and share other photo's as well later ...... hope you enjoy, it's been a long dry art spell for me ........

a little more Christmas

Alcohol ink on foil tape die cut on
embossing folder cardstock

embossing folder on foil tape over embossing folder
on metallic cardstock

a little Thanksgiving - a little Christmas

well I was kind of productive today in between chores ... hope you like them ....

 

"Olde Curiosity Shoppe" journal

This is what I have been working on for several weeks, not that it's that complicated to make just that life kept happening and wouldn't let me work as often as I wanted to .... I will use this as a photo/journal of some future event, therefore so many blank spots and mats/tags to add things to .... I enjoyed using the G45 metal butterflies by embossing them and using the Vintaj Patina system to color and age them ... of course Tim Holtz dies makes it easy to cut interesting things on the edges of pockets to add lots of visual interest ....  if you like the construction of this book you can easily make one just follow this link to my online classes for full instructions ... http://lindamanningfindley.blogspot.com/2015/06/i-have-had-request.html  .... hope you enjoy

Christmas in July - nothing like it

Came back from a super art retreat where we made this Christmas book ... had such a great time, laughed so much my side still hurt and I have been home 2 days .......

Click to enlarge .... hope you enjoy

Valentine Tag

Well I have been able to have a little art time again and I did this tag for a mingle I am in with an online group .... I wanted to try out this method of making a cardstock flower ... I think I am going to love it so you will be seeing more of these ...... click to enlarge

More with Tim Holtz dies

it seems like I can only get cards made right now ... maybe I can experiment more in a couple of months ... until then hope you like looking at cards ........

Flag/Pennant Banner

This was a 5 day challenge from an online group I am in ... we did a step each day so that at the end of 5 days we each had our completed banners .... I used a new Tim Holtz edge die cut on the top and 2 of his new "Spring Sprung" stamps (the bunny and the twigs/leaves) and his Elegant Flourish die for the gold flourish .... the paper flowers are out of scrap paper and tulle on the end flowers, the center one is just paper (you cut/punch out scalloped circles. at least 5, then you punch hole in the center add a brad and scrunch up each of the circles in to balls then unscrunch them one at a time) a friend taught me this ... I kind of cheated and only use 6 or our 9 flags we made because I wanted mine to be for Easter ...... it was fun and now I have another Easter decoration thanks "E" ...... click to enlarge