Tags for CC3 And H2H challenge and Mother's Day

Compendium of Curiosities 3 (Tim Holtz) Challenge 2, my second chance:

Dear scrappers,

Mothers Day just passed thus, I got inspired by two challenges to reward my scrapbooking club students... One by:

The CC3 challenge 2 at:
http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/05/cc3challenge02.html

I made some tags using the Aryana (CTMH) papers and the CM tag punch to embellish some tin cans, I bought at Michaels... And i use some TH distress glitter in Victorian velvet, which matched perfectly the colors in the card stock. I used some distress ink to complete the more antique look...
Voila here we go:










I was also inspired by garden theme suggested in this week H2H challenge and wanted to include some flowers to embellish this boxes I bought a while ago...

H2H Challenge: In the Garden
http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-garden.html










I gave the latest to some good friends in a brunch...

I hope you enjoy these two challenges and participate as well,
As always I appreciate your input and look forward to hearing from you,
Best Memorial Day weekend
Vicky

Supplies:
CTMH Aryanna papers
May 2014 Stamp of the month ( CTMH)
Tin cans from Ashland (Michaels)
Liquid Glass (CTMH)
Glossy Accents (Ranger)
Distress Glitter (tarnished brass, Ranger)
Distress Ink (Victorian Velvet, Ranger)
Tag punch (Creative Memories)
Punch around the corner (Martha Stewart)
Archival ink (black, CTMH)



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Vicky Tovar

Skylark for the CC3 Challenge 2 and the Garden H2H challenge

Compendium of Curiosities 3 (Tim Holtz) Challenge 2:

Dear scrappers,
As every month, I did my club class today and offered the regular WOTG Skylark (CTMH) and a basic alternative using only the Skylark paper pack and the shipboard elements. I used for my own sample other solid color papers (white daisy for one and parchment for the other LO). When I glued the shipboard embellishment I thought about the CC3 challenge 2 at:
http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/05/cc3challenge02.html






And decided to use some glitz and TH distress glitter in tarnished brass, which matched perfectly the slate color in the card stock.
Voila here we go:




















I also used the garden theme suggested in this week H2H challenge and wanted to include some flowers from the shipboard embellishments:




H2H Challenge: In the Garden
http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-garden.html

I used the flowers in both the double layouts as bullet points for the journaling spots and some other places or bring the rule of threes and make a visual triangle:

I used the birds in the second double page layout for the same purpose:



I hope you enjoy these two challenges and participate as well,
As always I appreciate your input and look forward to hearing from you,
Best Memorial Day weekend
Vicky

Supplies:
CTMH Skylark papers and chipboard embellishments
Liquid Glass (CTMH)
Glossy Accents (Ranger)
Distress Glitter (tarnished brass, Ranger)
Distress Ink (tea dye, Ranger)
Glitz (glue glitter, CTMH)


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Vicky Tovar

Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge- my take

Dear scrapper,
I need to share this great news with you and even though I am delayed, I still wanted to post this project:
Well Tim Holtz did it again and published his third idea book: Compendium of Curiosities 3... You can order it directly from him at http://timholtz.com/a-compendium-of-curiosities-volume-iii/
It is a wonderful and incredible creative book, thus I didn't want to miss it and got it...
His curiosity crew iii open a challenge based on this book two weeks ago and they will post a new one every two weeks at:

http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/04/cc3c01.html

I made my project right away for challenge 1, but I am posting it way to late; it finished last Friday :-(
Anyway, here is my take









I made a origami fold purse for a friend who bought a origami owl locket from me:


This is a guide for the scoring:



I used the stencil technique in page 43, paint marbling, to cover the pieces otherwise blank in this design and used the TH distress paints to match the old CTMH papers I used:









I distressed the folds as well:



This purse has plenty of space for many signatures to be written on it and can work as gift bag as well:



I made a tag to go with it using the same distress paint colors and even painted the back for the signatures.









I hope you enjoyed this project and make sure to comment on it,
The next challenge started last Saturday and involves distress glitter, on page 56 of the book, make sure to check it out:

http://lindaledbetter.com/cc3challenge

Have a great weekend and Happy Belated Mothers Day

Vicky


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By the Sea altered book

Dear scrappers,
I wanted to share the beginning of an adventure I started with a friend (dear Ann).
She approached me with the great idea of doing an altered book for her parents for their anniversary. They went to a cruise ship to celebrate this big event :-) and came home with plenty of pictures and memorabilia...
We started by going to the half price books store to find an appropriated candidate for this adventure. This will be my first take at an altered book:
Ship
David MacAulay













This book has great graphics and potential. After we removed the book jacket with found this gets embossed ship in the back of the book, upsides own... Thus we went to work to cut remove the binding and rebind it upside down at the front and distress it to make it part of the book cover...

We added painter tape to frame the embossed ship and distress it without inking the whole cover. We used some Tim Holtz distress inks with an applicator...















We then diluted some Tim Holtz paint with water in a water mist-bottle and sprayed around the remaining craft colored cover...

Afterward we cut some Graphic 45 "By the Sea" paper borders to connect the binding and the new colored covers. Ann got really exited about burning off the edges to distress the papers, thus she got that job done ;-)













We added some distressed, inked, and glitzzed paper cut-outs to the front cover to highlight the distressed ship and cut the titled and burned the edges as well.

Ann loved the quote in the paper graphics, thus we used it as well.















We added some burlap scraps for framing one of the pictures for the back cover.






The rest of the album will follow later, I will keep you post it...
Have a great week,
Vicky



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Easter Themed Burlap Canvas Class

Dear scrappers,
I had tons of fun today making the sample for my coming class this Wednesday at 10:30 am...



A friend of mine, Andrea, challenged me to make a class using some burlap canvas she got at Michaels in special, well, I did :-)
Here is the result. I got some modeling paste from Teresa Collins and her stencils, thus I decided to play with it and include it in this class:


I added some acrylic beige color to it and sponged some crystal blue ink from CTMH in some places...


I cut the bird, the house and the branch with the flowers using my new Cricut Explorer, which by the way I love!!!!!



I was able to cut and write at the same time, see the green leaves...


I got some old Easter embellishments I got in an exchange by mail long time ago and used along with some new ones I bought from Hobby Lobby...



I sponged some juniper ink (CTMH) to the already glued greenery... I used CTMH liquid glass to glue every piece because burlap is very porous and anything else didn't work as well...


I even added some wood fence, which I wanted to paint before hand, but decided against it last minute...
I left some parts of the canvas without the modeling paste on purpose to show the burlap through...
In the end, it was a great project, thanks Andrea for challenging me...
Have a very blessed week,
Vicky

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Vicky Tovar