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Participating in "Grungy Monday" challenge

The Grungy Monday challenge this week was to use either Tim Holtz tissue paper or tissue tape to make something (and use a Tim technique.)  I did something very simple and used alcohol ink to color the tape after I layered it on the front of the card; here is a blog post by Tim showing this. [Simon Says Stamp sponsors this challenge each week.]  

The embossed postal stamp in the upper right corner is one of Tim's and the sentiment is embossed onto a scrap of kraft resist cardstock.  The dimensional images are from K & Company (Par Avion Grand Adhesions.)

Thanks for visiting,

Laura

Probably not going to post any more December Daily photos

I've actually taken pictures of all the days, but find I lack the motivation to edit and post them.  Hope no one was waiting anxiously.  Ha, ha

I hope to have something crafty to post soon.  

Thanks for visiting,

Laura

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 132 (WOYWW)

Happy Wednesday!  To share what's on your workdesk today or to see what this is all about, go here.

It's sunny today and I've got the day off from work -- woo!  Time to make some cards for my friend that I'm meeting for lunch!  

This Papertrey Ink birthday set is my go-to set for birthday cards.  I wouldn't mind if the stamps were a little bigger, but it's pretty useful.  

You can tell I've been busy if I haven't even cleaned up the paint from my last project.  I like this patchwork paper from The Girl's Paperie brand and decided it would make a pretty card.  I have some die cuts from the Paper Girl line, too and when you are making cards in a hurry, pre-cut things are super handy.  

12 Tags of Christmas 2011: Day Twelve

This is my tag #12 -- here is Tim's.  I substituted tissue tape for the tissue paper and used diluted acrylic paint in place of the picket fence distress stain.  I used Frosted Lace Stickles in place of Rock Candy Stickles.  Then I hit a creative wall.  I decided to wait to finish the tag until today, as I really didn't know where to go next, given my lack of anything else to decorate the tag.  I decided to emboss the tag with the snowflake texture fade, and ink the raised snowflakes to make them stand out.  Then I added silver Stickles to their centers and added the snowflake ornament to the top.  I really like how it turned out.  

12 Tags of Christmas 2011: Day Eleven

Tim's tag #11 featured shrink plastic and UTEE in a melting pot, none of which I had, so I substituted this reindeer ornament in place of the holly leaves.  I colored it with red and green alcohol inks mixed together, so it's a bit of an odd brown, but I think it's sufficient.  :)  The stamping and the background inking was done on glossy cardstock, which gives it a nice clean look.  

December Daily 2011: December 11th

December Daily 2011: December 10th

December Daily 2011: December 9th

12 Tags of Christmas 2011: Day Ten

This was a time-consuming tag to make, but I really like the results.  Check out Tim Holtz's version (and the inspiration for mine, obviously), here.  I had the patterned paper for the Santa images, some fragments left from last year (not the faceted ones, but these are fine) and picked up some of the foil tape at Michael's. It's a little pricey, but I had a coupon. :)  I substituted music patterned paper for the stamped image Tim used (but I definitely want to get that stamp sometime.)

Administrative note re: comments

Thank you to anyone visiting and wishing to leave a comment!  I don't get many, so it's always fun.  Except when it's a spammer, which is why I just changed the settings on the blog.  If you're signed in to Typepad or another service, I don't think you will see the random letters box, but if you are commenting with just an email address, it will ask you to enter one of those blasted codes.  I've been getting a lot of spam comments, so I decided I'd better add this.  Thanks for understanding! :)