Red Sky at Night

Sailor's Delight... As the old wives tale goes... How about a Red Sunset:




This card was created for this week's Just for Fun color challenge:


As you can see I am doing a better job embracing red! The Tropical Sunset image was colored using my blending tool, distress inks and a post it to mask the sun. The sand was created using a piece of card stock and Frayed Burlap Distress Embossing Powder - it feels like sand - well sand paper anyway!

Click around to see what the other designers created this week:

Just For Fun® Blog
Kat Tucker ( you are here)
Sandy Sandrus

Starla

Sherry Cheever
Terre Fry

Magarita

Make sure you visit the Just For Fun® Blog and leave us a link to your own project!

I'm off to a crop for the weekend to work in Christmas stuff - YES Christmas stuff!

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:

Stamps - all Just for Fun - Tropical Sunset, Sketchy Grid, Thank You

Inks - Jet Black Archival, Distress Inks (Ranger)

Other - Frayed Burlap Distress Embossing Powder

ISC Inspiration Challenge

Yes - moving past reliving my Tim Holtz classes today - sigh...

How about an Inspiration Challenge from Innovative Stamp Creations?

To see the inspiration piece to go to the ISC blog... Here is my interpretation:


I chose to use the funky paper layout as my inspiration and I kept with the flower/bug theme. The back most panel is distress ink direct to paper, the squares are wrinkle free distress and all the pieces are water colored with distress inks. The wings on the bee are stamped on vellum.

So how would you like the opportunity to win a Free ISC stamp Sheet of your Choice? All you need to do is create a card using the inspiration piece as your starting point and use only ISC images. Then post a link on the ISC blog... You have until Sunday May 9th to participate!

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - All Innovative Stamp Creations - Beautiful Flowers
Other - Distress Inks, Coffee Archival (Ranger)

Intrigue and What to Wear...

Today the pictures from Tim's Idea-Ology Intrigue Class and what we wore to the event.

We made a Necklace:

Here's a close up - the heart is made from a mold out of mold and pour and black UTEE. We then added some paint and wiped it off to give the heart a stone look.

A Floral Pin:

This was made from lots of flower cut outs from Tim's new Tattered Floral die. There were different fabrics ranging from burlap, tapestry, cotton weave, mesh, fake silk and lace. There must have been about 25 flowers that we used. There are also two layers of grunge paper flowers covered with dictionary text.

Here is a side view:

The really neat thing about this pin is how we made it look all tattered - we used Tim's Tonic Scratcher to fray up the edges of the fabric!

Finally a Charm Bracelet:

You could pick any word that you wanted and we used Tim's new Lost and Found Paper for the fragments.

Now What's a Girl (insert Tim Fanatic here) to Wear to Tim's Classes? My SIL and I made this:

An apron with Grunge Board pockets, muslin plackets, misting and stamping.

The Plackets - misted and stamped:

Close Up of Bird Cage with my name KAT in Type Charms:

Pocket - sewn Grunge board:

Other Pocket:

Close Up of Memory Capsule:

Another Pocket Close Up:

Bird Nest on the Pocket with Hand Made Wire Nest:

Stamping and Masking on the Apron:


These were really fun to make BUT very time consuming - specifically the pockets!!!

Here is a picture of my SIL and I with Tim (Warning the Apron Adds About 100 lbs):

And of course we could not leave out Mario:

My SIL Apron is different from mine - once I get my hands on hers I'll share more pictures. If you have any questions about how we did the apron either leave me a comment or send an email!

That's the end of my Akron Journey with Tim! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

KAT

Tim's Exploring The Adirondacks Class

So now on to the second class that Tim taught on Friday - Exploring The Adirondacks. In this class we also made four tags:

This tag's background is paint resist with distress inks. The bird cage was painted by pouncing the silver metallic paint dabber onto the grungeboard cage.

This is a better look - we just pounced the paint and allowed it to "fluff" as Tim called it and then hit it with the heat gun just to speed up the dry time. Awesome huh.... Makes it look like old metal!

The second tag is emboss resist. The blue panel was black card stock with the text embossed with clear embossing powder. The heart is grungeboard painted black and embossed with clear embossing powder. For this technique it's important that you let the paint dry only until it's not tacky any more - if you allow it to dry too long you won't be able to remove the paint from the embossed area.

This one is some wild colors compliments of Alcohol Inks. The background panel was created by scribbling metallic mixative and alcohol inks on your craft sheet and then drip some blending solution over the inks, place your glossy card stock over the inks and give it a little twist then lift. You can go back pick up more color if needed.

The flourish, butterfly and bead/ribbon are all colored with alcohol inks. What was really interesting is the butterfly and flourish are both grungeboard. By painting the grungeboard with Pearl Paint Dabbers you can make the surface "act" like a glossy cardstock - pretty neat huh... think of the possibilities!

The last tag features one of Tim's new texture fades. They used heating tape (this can be found in your Home Depot or Lowes type stores in the heating section) which is sticky metal tape. The tape was placed on a piece of card stock and then run through the texture fade. We used Alcohol Inks right out of the bottle to color each square. Then we rubbed Jet Black Archival ink over the image and wiped off immediately for the finished look - this removed any color from the raised portions.

This is a better look at the details on this tag.

Mood after second class - still amazed by Tim's brilliance and talent!

Tomorrow the recap of the last class!

KAT

Tim's Discovering Distress Class

I wanted to share with you what we made with Tim Holtz on Friday at his Discovering Distress class at Adventures in Stamping. We made the following 4 tags:



This tag shows how deep his new texture folders will emboss.


This tag used perfect pearls, masking and his new butterfly Sizzix Die - each wing is separate so that you can decide how you want your butterfly to take flight.

This tag showcased his Distress embossing powders. The corners are embossed and then inked over top - the Distress embossing powder resists the ink.

The close up of the flowers shows how Distress embossing gives a beautiful texture to the metal flowers.

This tag features coloring and stamping on photos - per Tim - this is his Yard Sale Cousin. The photo is colored with distress inks with a nib and then stamped. Next is a close up - the dress is really pink but it's not coming across in the photo well.

We had a great time in the class. There were five of us together - so a shout of out to Ro and Krust (we are huge Tim fans) and to our Tim Class Virgins - Diana and Jodi (they too are now big Tim fanatics)!

Come back tomorrow for more class information!

KAT

Just for Fun Friday

Hello! I'm not really here - I am getting grungy with Tim Holtz today (can we do one heck of a happy dance???).

But I wanted to share with you the Just For Fun color challenge this week:

Love blue and orange... hmmm gray - I don't work with gray much but I was thinking about this color challenge when I was cleaning up my workspace looking at the grunge paper that I was putting away - I had an duh moment - plain grunge is gray... So:


The scroll work and butterfly are plain grunge paper. The tag background is wrinkle free distress. The tag and butterfly are the Societe du Lourve stamp from Just For Fun. I will admit that I liked the butterfly better before I added the distressed stickles.

Click around to see what the other designers created this week:

Just For Fun® Blog
Kat Tucker ( you are here)
Sandy Sandrus

Sherry Cheever
Terre Fry

Make sure you visit the Just For Fun® Blog and leave us a link to your own project.

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:

Stamps - Societe du Lourve (Just for Fun)

Inks- Broken China, Spiced Marmalade, Pumice Stone Distress Inks; Jet Black Archival (Ranger)

Other - grunge paper, trinket pins, mini safety pin (idea-ology), Scrollworks Alterations Die (Sizzix), Spicec Marmalade Distress Stickles

Just a Quick Hello!

I've been busy creating this week something a little different for the Tim Holtz classes I'll be taking tomorrow - but it's a secret so I can't share yet....

This is a twitter picture taken by Mario of some of the supplies that we'll be using in the classes!



Look at all the Grungy Goodness - Can't wait to see what we are making and what we'll learn. There is a group of 5 of us going so I know that we will have a blast!

I will also get a chance to meet the owners of Just for Fun at the trade show on Sunday. So if you are in the area and looking for some creating inspiration - go to Adventures in Stamping at the John S. Knight center in Akron on Saturday or Sunday - who knows - you might even see me there!

Happy Creating!

KAT

Stamping On Fabric

Happy Friday everyone! Time for another Just For Fun Color challenge - this weeks colors are:



I wanted to try something a little different today so I misted and stamped on fabric - tea dyed muslin to be exact:


I used a mask and misted on the fabric background. The fern was stamped using a black paint dabber. The hinge is grunge board and the butterfly is two layers with grunge paper. That black mesh is actually gutter guard material that I snagged from my hubby a while ago (just being green - not a hoarder).

With this week's Color Challenge Just For Fun is offering a 25% discount for one lucky participant - see the Just for Fun blog for more information. Also visit the other talented designers to see what they created:

Just For Fun® Blog
Broni Holcombe
Kat Tucker ( you are here)
Sandy Sandrus

Sherry Cheever
Starla Nelson
Terre Fry

Make sure you visit the Just For Fun® Blog and leave us a link to your own project for your chance to win!

Happy Creating!

KAT

the Stuff - All Stamps Just For Fun - Fern, Collection

Ink - Jet Black Archival (Ranger)

Other - Hardware Findings (Alterations - Sizzix), Mists (Tattered Angels); Grunge board, Grunge paper, trinket pin (idea-ology); Pitch Black Paint Dabber (Ranger), Scrap of Tea Dyed Muslin

Artistic Projects - Nature's Beauty

Today is the last Artistic Inspiration project for Innovative Stamp Creations - Nature's Beauty:

I love the background on this card - I used 3 different script type stamps, blended 3 pieces of scrap paper slightly different shades of brown and flicked on some either water or brown ink. Then I could not resist sewing around each of the pieces (I did this late at night and I may have been losing some of my marbles...)

Oh - a side view for you:



So - today is your last chance to leave a blog comment to be entered to win an Innovative Stamp Creations stamp sheet of your choice - just leave a comment on this blog post and if you like to increase your chances visit these talented ladies too:

Kathy Tucker (you are here!)
Joanne Grzelak
Sabrina Jackson
Karen Dunbrook
Wendy Weixler
Julie Warner

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:Stamps - All Innovative Stamp Creations - Bush Flowers, Odd Findings, Butterflies, Assemblage, Friends Are Special
Inks - Distress (Ranger), Archival (Ranger)

Artistic Projects - ACT Trio

Today is the second day of the Artistic Projects for Innovative Stamp Creations. Today's inspiration was a trio of ATCs where the design spans across all 3 ATCs. I don't work with the ATC format much - I find the 2.5 by 3.5 inch area confining to me - but I have seen some great works of art created these small spaces!

To span the design across all three I created the background first (the paper is 3.5 by 7.5):

I used pink ink to color the paper, embossed the flowers and then blended and stamped over top - an emboss resist. I then cut them into the ATC size.

Here are all 3:

Close up of the Butterfly:

Close up of the flower:

Each of the words are stamped behind film strip ribbon.





So a reminder - if you would like the chance to win an ISC stamp sheet of choice leave a comment on this blog post. You can also visit the other creative architects and leave comments on their blogs to increase your chance to win:

Kathy Tucker (you are here!)
Joanne Grzelak
Sabrina Jackson
Karen Dunbrook
Wendy Weixler

Julie Warner

Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for the next inspiration piece!

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps (All Innovative Stamp Creations) Nature Silhouette I, Let it Bloom, ATC Elements, Friends Are Special
Other - Caged Bird Alterations Die (Sizzix), Film Strip Ribbon, Tiny Attatcher (idea-ology)

Artistic Projects - Template Inspiration

This week Betsy from Innovative Stamp Creations asked us to dust off some of the ISC images that we've had for a while and create three Artistic Projects based on inspiration pieces. Today's inspiration is a template card - I chose to make a Template Wall Hanging Beautiful Spring:




This piece was created on an 8x8 piece of 1/2 wood. I kept the color palette simple using my new distress inks Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet. I added the pink to all the images to help pull your eyes to each element.

So why not dust off some of those old images you have not used in a while, find your missing Mojo or try something new?




Leave a comment on this blog post for your chance to win a free stamp sheet from ISC. You can post on each day, now through Wednesday, to increase your chances to win! Good Luck!

Please visit all of the ISC blogs - another way to increase your chance of winning!

Kathy Tucker (you are here!)
Joanne Grzelak
Sabrina Jackson
Julie Warner
Karen Dunbrook
Wendy Weixler

Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for the next inspiration piece!

Happy Creating!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - (all Innovative Stamp Creations) Nature Silhouette II, Rustic Artsy Swirls, Artsy Victorian, Assemblage, The Tropics, Alterable Words, Oriental Nature Elements