Happy Thursday!! Joy's Life Design Team Day!!

Happy Thursday everyone! Today is a sad day for me.  This is my last post as a designer for Joy's Life!  I want to take a minute to say Thanks to Joy for taking a chance on me and giving me such a wonderful opportunity to be part of her AMAZING design team.  Joy you are such a sweetheart and I'm so thankful that I have gotten to know you. BIG HUGS!!! I'd also like to say Thanks to the other designers who have been amazing to work with and very inspirational.  I hope you all have enjoyed my projects. Be sure to head over to Joy's Life to check out all the other designer's fabulous projects.  Here's what I created for this week.

Supplies Used:

Joy's Life-You're So Punny Stamp Set

DCWV-Flower Shop Spring Matstack

Martha Stewart-Doily Lace Punch

Tim Holtz-Distress Ink-Shabby Shutters

Helmar Zapdots

Glue Glider Pro

Misc. Rhinestones

Have a fabulous day! Thanks for stopping by!

Big Hugs and Happy Crafting!

~Erika~

Joy's Life DT Thursday!!

Hello! Happy Thursday! It's Joy's Life Design Team day!! Hooray!! Be sure to head over to Joy's Life (click here)  to check out all the fabulous projects.  This week I used the Mother/Daughter set :)

Supplies Used

DCWV-All Dressed Up matstack

Joy's Life-Mother/Daughter stamp set

Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Tumbled Glass & Shabby Shutters

Twinery-Caribbean & Peapod twine

Prima-Iced Got Flowers-Limeade

Stickles-Lagoon

Glue Glider Pro

Have a great day. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

~Erika~

Tim Holtz resist technique

So after going to Tim's class last Sunday I've been really inspired by all of his stuff. I was looking on his site the other day and found a tutorial on using the Ranger Paint Daubers and Distress Ink to do an Awesome resist technique (click here). So I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday to pick up some of the daubers. Well I hit the JACKPOT!!! I found 1 set that was marked down to $3.59 from $9.99 and then two other sets which weren't marked down. Took them all up front and the girl gave me all of them for $3.59 each. So I got all 3 sets for just a little more than one set would have cost :) YAY!  So I decided to play a bit today with them.  Here are three little things I made this morning.  Be sure you check out the video, it's too cool.

I just cut out a few different shapes with my cricut and then used the Stampers Anonymous Fairytale Frenzy set and the Snow Cap paint dauber to stamp the white floral print on the back.  Let that dry then used various colors of Distress Ink to color over the entire piece of paper.  Then spritzed some water on a towel (very little) and then wiped the ink off the paint.  Then I used the splatterfly stamp from the same set with archival ink and stamped it on top. Finally, topped it off with some Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint. Looks so cool. Have a ton of other ideas using this technique.  I just love how the white pops from the rest of the color. I tried using Metallic Pearl dauber but it didn't work as well, but not sure if I got enough paint on it.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Happy Crafting!

~Erika~

Joy's Life DT Thursday!!

Happy Thursday everyone!!  Hope everyone is having a fabulous week! Head over to Joy's blog (click here) to check out all the over fantastic projects!!! This week's project was a hard one for me, just wasn't feeling it.  Joy asked us to do 4th of July/Red, White & Blue theme. Harder than it sounds :)

Here's what I came up with. 

Supplies Used

Joy's Life-You're So Punny

Paper Studio-White Cardstock

Distress Ink-Stormy Sky & Fired Brick

Cuttlebug-Spots & Dots and Tim Holtz Sizzix-Swirls

Stickles-Silver & Icicle

Colorbok-Petal Point- Alchemy (Silver & Gold)

Helmar-Zapdots

Glue Glider Pro

Have a great week! Happy Crafting!

~Erika~

TIM HOLTZ IDEA-OLOGY INTRIGUE CLASS

Sunday I was lucky enough to go to one of Tim Holtz's classes.  My mom and I went to Idea-ology Intrigue. We had a BLAST! I'm not going to lie, I was totally intimidated at first,  I LOVE Tim's products, but am never quite sure how to use some of them.  We made 6 projects in 3 1/2 hours. He is such a FANTASTIC teacher and is SUPER POSITIVE! I am so glad I got to go. It was definitely a fantastic experience.  Both mom and I had lots of fun. I am looking forward to using the techniques that I learned in the class to create many more projects. I am hoping I will get another chance to go to one of his classes in the near future.  Both Tim and Mario are super nice guys.  Here are some of the pictures of the 5 of the 6 projects we made.

 

Project #1-Pin/Pendant made with Ranger Memory Glass & Memory Frames along with several Tim Holtz products.  We made the nests and used some really cool liquid called Black Patena to change the color from silver to black on the nest.

Project #2- A stopwatch necklace using Tim Holtz Sprockets & Gears, Game Spinners and a few other products. This is one of my favorite things we made.

Project #3-Pin made with a Tim Holtz ornate plate, tulle, some bobbles, tissue tape and prima roses dipped in melted Utee ultra thick. Makes the roses look glass like. Too cool....

Project #4-A ring made with a filigree ring blank, Tim Holtz foliage, a rhinestone and alcohol ink.

Project #5-A charm bracelet using bead chain and type charms. These are really pretty cool.

I can't wait to create more fantastic stuff with Tim's awesome projects!  I got to use Tim's drill press tool. It's AMAZING! I can't wait to get one of these. They punch through metal. We used them to put holes in different pieces. 

Here are a few more pictures... Me & Tim 

 And Me & Mario

Happy Crafting!!

~Erika~

Yay!!! It's Joy's Life Design Team Day!!!!!

Happy Thursday!! Hope you all are having a fabulous week! Have you seen Joy's two new sets of stamps???

Everyday Occasions

 Holiday Occasions

Be sure you go check out all of Joy's other super fun stamp sets (click here)!

This week Joy asked us to do a manly card. So I went with the Wildlife Puns set and used the "To a Fungi" stamp.  How fun is this set?? It's one of my favorites.

Supplies Used

Joy's Life-Wildlife Puns

Create A Critter Cartridge

DCWV-Natural Matstack

Sizzix/Tim Holtz Embossing Folder-Dot Matrix

Recollections-Spice Market Cardstock

Peachy Keen-Simple Simons Stamps

Bic Markit Markers

Helmar-Zap Dots

Glue Glider Pro

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

~Erika~

Thank You Notes & REALLY cool technique

Happy Monday!!! I hope everyone had a FABULOUS weekend :)

Here are a few Thank You cards I made over the weekend, using this really cool negative effect technique that I saw a tutorial over at Bucket Full of Cards, go visit Rachel's blog to check it out (click here). This is so fun and really unique. Thanks for sharing this Rachel!

Supplies Used

DCWV-Holiday Collection Matstack

Marvy-Scallop Circle Punch

Paper Studio-Circle Punch

Pearl Ex Powder-True Blue

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Perfectly Paisley

Misc. Ribbon

Pink By Design-Scripted Year

Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Stormy Skies

Glue Glider Pro

 

Supplies Used

DCWV-Holiday Collection Matstack

Marvy-Scallop Circle Punch

Paper Studio-Circle Punch

Perfect Pearls Powder-Red (from Jewel set)

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Traffic Jam

Misc. Ric Rac

Pink By Design-Scripted Year

Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Fired Brick

Glue Glider Pro

 

Thanks for stopping by!
 
Happy Crafting!
Erika