Creative Chemistry 101

Over the past 2 weeks I have been participating in and on-line class with Tim Holtz. The Creative Chemistry 101 class has been enlightening and fun to do, with PDF's everyday and demo videos. There was a forum where Tim answered questions everyday and where other participants could share their ideas and tips. I certainly feel that I got value for money. Although the class is not 'live' after the 8th April I have a lifetime access if I should need it. It is not too late to join in,

you can still go and purchase the class if you wish too.

Here are the 25 tags that I created using Tim's tutorials.

Blended Distress/Spritz and flick.

Brushless Watercolour.

Wrinkle-Free Distress.

Alchohol Ink Agates.

Archival Resist.

Stamping and embossing.

Watercolouring with Re-inkers.

Layered Misting.

Custom Stamp Pad.

Stained Kraft.

Stamping with Stains.

Marbled Stains.

Watercolour with Markers.

Blending with Markers.

Stamping with Markers.

Nostalgic Batik.

Rusted Enamel.

Distress Powder Resist.

( except I did not have any distress embossing powder!)

Paint Dabber Resist.

Crackle Paint Resist.

Shattered Stains.

Perfect Pearls distress Mist.

Perfect Pearls Distress Stamping.

Perfect Pearls Splatter Distress.

Rock Candy Distress Stickles.

I really enjoyed doing all these tags and I am sure I will be using a lot of these techniques again.

Thanks for looking.

April Tag

I have been participating in the Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101 class and I have used the tag I made in day 3 of the class as background for this months tag. Unfortunately I have no distress embossing powders (yet) so found the nearest substitute!

Thanks for looking.

Artistic License Circle Journal

My Vasarely Artistic license CJ came home this week and is now assembled and sitting on my craft room windowsill.
It started its journey last August and has had a great selection of pages added to it.

My interpretation of Vasarely's 'Kiruna'.

Lou's (UKS lou@papermaker) page is from 'Planetary Folklore Participation#1' and has been done as an interactive piece where the top pieces can be moved around.

Leanne (UKS Leanie) used Op'Art en noir et blanc for her interpretation and obviously used her maths to great effect when working out the logistics of this page.

Jeannette (UKS nettyb) based her page on 'The Zebras', a great take on the original.

Frances (UKS newtothis) used her amazing digital skills for this version of 'Gestolt'

Sarah (UKS Flo) did an incredible job hand cutting these figures for her take on 'Catch'.

Irene (UKS irboo) lived up to her reputation of using gold and bling for her gorgeous page using the painting 'Etude en Multicolour' as her inspiration.

Helen (UKS Tigs) used Vasarely's use of colour and shapes for her interpretation for this page and came up with her a brilliant page.

Thank you to all the Artistic license participants for giving me a lovely Circle journal that I will enjoy for a long time to come.

Jigsaw swap and retreat.

Last year I took part in a jigsaw swap and some of my teamies on UKS thought it would be a good idea if we did a jigsaw swap of our own. We had the swap ready to do at our team retreat in March. Lynne found us the jigsaws on her trip to Canada and posted them out to us. Kay made sure that we all knew what we were doing also making sure we knew which side of the puzzle to use and which way up too! Kay produced a really great grid for us all to follow when the day of the big swap came!

HERE we all are for the group photo.

Alli found us a great property for our long weekend.

In fact we are going back there again in October and plan to do a Christmas bunting swap.

Here is the build up to my jigsaw!

Everyone getting involved in setting up of the jigsaws ready to swap.

My jigsaw.

Sal's.

Paula's.

Lynne's

Kay's.

Kathy's.

Claire's.

Barbara's.

Alli's.

One lovely completed jigsaw ready to hang up in my craft room.

As always it was lovely to spend time with my team.

We have been chatting together online since 2008, when we all did a photo a day and were the 365 group. More info about that project can be found on my other blog. We have since become really great friends who enjoy meeting up when ever we can and are now known as The Crumblies!!!!

Trendy Tag Swap

This is my tag for the March Trendy tag swap on UKS.
The theme for the swap was Chevrons.
I made the chevron pattern onto the tag by cutting strips of corrugated cardboard and gluing them in a chevron pattern then I painted and inked over them. I was still not sure how I was going to finish off the tag but once I had painted it I thought it looked like a garden fence. I added the central chevron strip kindly donated by Kay and then the other embellishments.

I made 3 tags for the swap, I hope the people who receive them enjoy them.

Thanks for looking.

Words

These are my pages Ali's ( UKS Alipeeps ) Journal your art CJ.

Words was the theme and Ali asked us to use our favourite song, saying, poem etc.

I have used Vicki's tutorial for the UKS Art journey step eleven to inspire me, it was to include texture onto our pages.

I used my new toy to print the quote!

Thanks for looking.

Vintage Sewing CJ page

This page was done for UKS 'She' for our Madonions CJ. I raided my lace an button stash to find some vintage pieces to put on this page.
Hope Sheila likes it.

Thanks for looking.