From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Jazz it up with Timmy!! part 2!

31 July 2010

We had such fun playing with around with the Tim Holtz dies and texture fades other day, we have another card to share with you.  The red background paper is dry embossed with the Retro Circles texture fade then swiped with Distress Embossing Ink and given a generous coating of black UTEE (Ultra thick embossing [...]

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Jazz it up with Timmy!! part 1!

29 July 2010

This is a great card made with love from a mixture of Tim Holtz Alterations Dies and Texture Fade Plates! We’ve used a few different Texture Fades including the background which is Dot Maxtrix.  Doesn’t it look effective? It was actually embossed on black “stardream” cardstock and then rubbed over with a silver ink pad [...]

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Last call for Twinchie swap!

27 July 2010

If you are planning on joing us for our first ever TWINCHIE swap, we ‘re just reminding y0u there are only a few days left to get your 2×2″ works of art to us.  If you decide to be industrious & creative over the weekend and get some twinchies made, you will find all the information [...]

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NEW WORKSHOP!! 14th August

26 July 2010

We are delighted to announce our next workshop, “Vintage Foundation Book” to be held on Saturday 14th August at the Lower Kalgan Hall here in Albany.  It’s a wonderful 3.5 hour workshop playing with 10 Seconds Studios Metals.  You will make a beautiful book from 6×4″ canvases covered in embossed metal with a lace spine and [...]

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Tag Recycling

23 July 2010

This project is a great way to show how you can turn a simple old clothing tag into something special! First thing we did was coat the entire tag in distress ink Frayed Burlap, after it was dry we stamped a background image in distress ink Black Soot over the tag.  That gave us the base [...]

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“Adore” tag

21 July 2010

You can’t get more cuter than these kids in a row from “Collections”!  We’ve distressed the edges of the photo with the Tim Holtz paper edge distresser and then treated with distress ink in walnut stain.   The background was a flourish image from Tim Holtz that was first stamped in Crushed Olive, after a light [...]

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Reflections ATC

18 July 2010

This ATC was inspired by the two little girls stamp used in it from our new range of “Artistic Outpost” unmounted images.   Gathering by their identical dress they must have been sisters so we thought “Reflections” was just fitting.  The background paper started out quite a grungy paper from the new “Collections” 6×6 papers but [...]

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Dressmaker Tag

16 July 2010

This tag was made with the yummy chipboard dressforms from the “Collections” range, inked with crushed olive distress ink from Tim Holtz and run through the cuttlebug with one of his amazing ” Texture Fade” plates.  The background paper is also from the new 6×6 Collections range.  The dressform was then highlighted with black soot [...]

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6×6″ Canvas Project

14 July 2010

  This is a canvas made with a background sheet from new 6 x 6″ Collections papers.  The tree and birdhouse is also made from Collections chipboard.  The tree is painted black with Adirondack Paint Dabber in Pitch Black and then overstamped with text images in Brilliance White Ink Pad.  The numerals are from the [...]

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Winter’s Day & Workshop this weekend!!

12 July 2010

It’s a wintery day here in Albany and what better way to spend it than indoors with a warm fire CREATING!!! Hope you are going to find time to do the same! Here’s a little twinchie offering, we can’t wait to see what YOU come up with for our 1st Twinchie Swap (scroll down and [...]

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Mega Post

11 July 2010

Yes, we ‘ve been offline for a while (broken down stupid computers!!!, colds and flus, family & work commitments, network and server issues), all the curve balls life throws at you!!!!  The good news is we’re back (new computer – oh so lovely, faster and fired up to go, time to make art, lots of  lovely new [...]

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Notebook Cover Project

1 July 2010

This spiral bound notebook was a cheap find at the stationery shop.  We’ve given the cover a facelift with some papers and various bits and pieces, this is how we did it.  First thing for this project was to make the JOURNEY tile at the top of the cover using Collections Flash Cards. These come [...]

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