Baby Book for Shower Gift

My daughter-in-law is having her first baby shower this Saturday so I thought I had better make something to add to the gift that I am giving her. This is what I came up with. I couldn't find the baby word book in any of my craft stores so I designed it on my gypsy and I made the faux chipboard by cutting poster board and used multi-medium to adhere them together. I love how it turned out! I used Sweet Pea by The Paper Studio paper stack....yummy colors! It is a boy but I didn't want to make it totally boyish since they can be wrong sometimes. Baby isn't due until July 14th!

A Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge/ Custom Foam Stamps

Here is my creation for A Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge that is being run by Linda at http://studiol3.blogspot.com/ This is my tag that I made from page 66 of Compendium of Curiosities 2 book by Tim Holtz. It is a great inspiring Volume 2 that he has come up with. What is awesome is that the sponsor, www.simonsaysstamp.com , is giving away a gift certificate to boot!

She's Different

Here is my newest creation that has been posted in my etsy shop. I love the crackle paint effect that I stained with distress stains. I love the sentiment because a lot of us women do march to the beat of a different drummer. Come visit at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueRoomInk

It's Sew Good

Here is a new easel art piece that I have made and posted in my etsy shop. I love this sentiment as we all have to make something out of what happens to us in life at times.

New item for my Etsy Shop

I decided to make another piece of easel art for my etsy shop. I have utilized many of the techniques that I learned from Tim Holtz's Chemistry 101 online class. The numbers 7 and 13 both have stigmas of good luck and bad luck. The sentiment of Encourage your hopes not your fears rings true since I have committed to going out on this etsy "limb." I am going to be doing a craft show in the Cleveland area in July so that I can get out there. I do love creating so this gives me an excuse for being in my "BlueRoom" "inking" all the time! If you know of anyone that would enjoy my art please send them to my shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueRoomInk.

12 Tags of 2012/April

I had to improvise since I didn't have the die cut so I stamped one of Tim's bird stamps on grunge board and hand cut it out and used the branch from the holly branch die cut for the branch on the tag. I mixed a brown regular embossing powder with black distress embossing powder for the limb. Having no crown I added a metal flower to the bird's neck. I used tiny paper clips to hold the twine on that holds the destiny tag. I think it all works.

Chemistry 101 Day 10

Oh, I am so sad that this is the last day of online classes with Tim Holtz. I loved every day learning some new things about all of the products that I have. I will use these techniques on projects that I am making for personal use as well as for my etsy store.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueRoomInk?ref=si_shop

Chemistry 101 Day 9

Perfect Pearls was the topic of today in Chemistry 101 Day 9. These make really cool backgrounds and are fun to work with. Thanks for another great class Tim!

Chemistry 101 Day 8

Here it is day 8 already! Not too many classes left! I will miss them. I love working with crackle paint but it takes a lot of patience to let it dry! These three tags were fun to make. Thanks Tim!

Chemistry 101 Day 7

Embossing powder techniques! Very cool effects. I love learning about different ways to use all my products. Tim has really out done himself in the Chemistry 101 online classes.

Chemistry 101 Day 6

Well, my favorite day is here. We played with Distress Markers today. Did I say that I love, love, love them???? Here is my finished projects. I intend on using them on some products for my etsy shop. I look so forward to these classes online with Tim Holtz!

Etsy Store

My etsy store is up! Yeah! It has taken a bit of time getting things ready but I finally am live! I have more listings to post but that takes time. Hopefully I will finish that up this week and we shall see how things go. This is a whole new adventure for me and I am loving making things to sell. You can see it at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueRoomInk?ref=si_shop

Chemistry 101 Day 5

Well, I caught up! Yeah! Love all these techniques. Super cool tags are the result! So fun being in class online with Tim Holtz!

Chemistry 101 Day 4

I am behind and posting late! I had a seminar all day and it killed me to miss out on my Day 4 & 5 so I am trying to catch up. Here is Day 4....I love these techniques. I have done them before but it is nice to have a refresher course!

Chemistry 101 Day 3

Tim's Chemistry 101 online class today was about techniques that I have done before but I love taking the class nonetheless! So fun working with alcohol inks!

12 Tags of 2012/March

Well, here is my tag for March. Boy, it's tough keeping up with Tim!

Chemistry 101 Day 2

Here is another tag from Tim Holtz's techniques in the online Chemistry 101 class. So fun!

Chemistry 101 with Tim Holtz

I am taking the Chemistry 101 online class with Tim Holtz and used his techniques to make this tag. He asks that we don't write about the techniques on our blog but it is okay to share our projects. The online course is fun! So enjoy!

Word Collage

I used the word collage cartridge and mini markers instead of a cutting blade and colored the words with copic markers. I embossed using a script embossing folder. I hope to be opening an etsy shop soon and planning on trying to sell some of my crafting art! I love making it and would love to share it with others.

Engagement!

Okay! My youngest was married this past August, now my oldest just got engaged! Woo Hoo! Here we go all over again! I made them an engagement card and will take it to them tonight as we are off to visit them. The wedding probably won't be until the summer of 2013 so at least we have some time. I used Sweethearts cartridge to cut out the couple and heart balloons but the congratulations came from Birthday Bash. I made a matching envelope using my Martha Stewart Scoring Board.

12 Tags of 2012/February

I am a little late but I completed my tag. I adhered it to a piece of cork board and used the Tim Holtz little easel to stand it up. I really like how it turned out. I do not have the valentine stamps that Tim used so I made due with what I had. Of course it is symbolic for the "the key to my heart."

Baby theme!

Yup! I am going to be a grandma this coming July! Woo Hoo! So therefore, I am in the baby theme mood. Here are a couple easel arts that I created. I love using my chromes markers to write instead of cut. I used word collage cartridge. I am not sure why you cut from this cartridge at all.....but I like writing with it. We shall find out if it is a girl or boy in March!

In-law vintage photo book

I just got back from a weekend crop and managed to get some vintage photgraphs of my husband's family in a small book. We recently just sold my mother-in-law's house and upon cleaning it out we found these photos of my husband's family. I used the 7 gypsies book covers and tried my new Tim Holtz mover and shaper broque die. I was a little off center so I just cut down the book so that it looked more centered. I found these 7 gypsy book rings at 75% off! I love how they have words on them but found that you need to punch a bigger hole than a standard punch makes to have the pages fit properly. I used Tim Holtz paper stash for the pages and embellished with his swivel chains, umbrella man die, as well as the clock die. I used his paper distresser to distress the edges of the paper and then distress inks to color them. I hope to add more pages to the book but I love how it is turning out so far.