CofCIII- Photo Tinting

After taking a couple of challenges off, I am back at it with the 12th challenge! This week it's all about Photo Tinting. You can read all about it in Tim's third book because as you know by now, I can't share the technique with you! You should also head to Linda's blog and see what the Crew created with this challenge. Our sponsor this week is The Funkie Junkie and they are donating a gift card for one lucky winner. 

One of the Curiosity Crew members, Annette Green did a FABULOUS tribute to her late mother in law and it got my wheels turning. I used one of Tim's burlap panels for my memorial. I colored some Ranger Texture Paste and ran it thru a stencil and darkened the edges of the panel with some Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.  We have a picture of John's mom when that was on her passport when she came from Japan to marry dad and move here to the States. So I did the technique per Tim's instructions then set about to make a memorial to her. She loved her prayer blessings and she had a bunch of them that I gathered up before we sold their house. I had a piece of a long discontinued Close To My Heart paper laying around, so I incorporated it onto my panel. She will forever be in our hearts. We love you, mom. 

 

Journey

Sister Jan asked me at Christmas if I'd help her get caught up with 10+ years of scrapping the kids pictures. What else have I got to do?! She's got 4 ginormous boxes of pics (thankfully) in order, so I brought one box home with me and with this layout, I have the first packet of pics done! There are probably 50 packets in this box! It may take me 10 years to get them done! I will share a few here and there as I finish them up.

I've subscribed to Unscripted Sketches blog for a while now and I've even made a card or twelve but never entered them on their blog. I had this one picture of Jan and Jacob and was unsure as to how to proceed with it. Until I saw this week's sketch! And as is generally the case with me, I had in my head exactly how the layout would look. So for the first time, I am going to enter this layout on the Unscripted Sketches #238 sketch. And now that I've entered once, I'm sure it won't be my last!

Thanksgiving

Well hello there! Bet you thought I got lost or something! Had a few computer issues and some family stuff going on, so I'm sorry about my lack of postings. We will take care of that today with not one but TWO posts in the same day.

First up, a recap of our Thanksgiving festivities. Both of my sisters and their families joined us for a day of too much food and lots of fun. This is a picture heavy post, so lets get at it!

 Appetizer table. Too bad everyone hated the deviled eggs!

 Foods on...lets eat!

 View from the other end of the table.

 Jacob loves him some gravy!

 Jacob also went "fishing" in our pond with the brand new ballcap I gave him when he got here and caught one of the crawfish that lives in the pond. Mean 'ol Aunt Sue made him put it back!!

 Brother-in-law Bruce, John, Favorite Only Niece Joy and her dad John.

 The Three Sisters. Janice, me, Kathy.

 Miss Joy sitting on the little stool my father in law built as his high school graduation project.

Centerpiece for the holiday table I made with the burlap flowers I am crazy about making right now!

Family

I cleaned the mess I call a scrap table the other day. I have a class this Sat at Posh Scraps with Roc Nichols. We will be creating our own journal/book out of an old book that we will recycle/upcycle. So there was a laundry list of things for us to bring. Plus the kitchen sink added to the laundry list! I figured rather than drag "new" stuff out to take, I'd start with the flotsam and jetsam that was right in front of me. Cuz I tend not to put stuff away when I am creating and have leftovers, figuring I will use them "later!" And "later" never comes! Will it kill me to tell you I filled two gallon size Ziploc bags AND a smallish brown paper bag? Just from the crap on my table! And then I used a 12 x 12 clear bag for my 12 x 12 papers that I DID pull out of from where they belong to add to it.

Since I have a nice clean table where I can once again work unincumbered, and found a great layout design on the Basic Grey blog, I decided I'd get back to scrapping the old family pics of John's that we found earlier this year. I used (retired) CTMH Bliss paper pack. John says this was taken just before they moved from Ft Rucker to Tarpon Springs.

RIP Neil Armstrong

In memory of Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moons passing earlier today, I go back 5 years to a post I did on the 13th anniversary of my dad's death. Miss you dad. Tonight Mr Armstrong walks among the stars with you.

Sixteen years ago

Enameled Birthday

It time for challenge 15 at Linda's and it's based, as always on CofCII by Mr. Grungemaster himself, Tim Holtz. This week our challenge is Enameled Metal and it's found on page 56.

Since I was such a baaaad Aunt Sue and brain farted Favorite Only Niece's birthday, I thought I'd go ahead and work a full month in advance and get Favorite Youngest Nephew's 13th birthday tag done using this challenge. I used t!m's gears texture fade for this and added a bunch of gears and screws (that John nicely cut the heads off of for me!) and I even found in my stash a piece of a ruler with "13" on it, so I added to the tag as well. I even used another technique in the book, Faux Patina, on the largest gear! Now I have a month to get a gift card and get it in the mail in a more timely fashion so it gets to him before  his birthday and not after like his sister's did! It's hell gettin' old, I tell ya!

Guilded Glassine Birthday

Baaaaaaad Aunt Sue here. Completely brain-farted my Favorite Only Niece's birthday which is tomorrow. But Linda rescued me!! It's time for Compendium of Curiosities II, Challenge 14. As always, based on the book by Tim Holtz, who's latest and greatest thing is his own app! Yep, Tim Holtz...there's an app for that! You can get it for your I-phone or pad and also for Android. Just click his name above and look for the app link in his sidebar. One really cool feature is you can input all of your Tim Holtz supplies based on manufacturer as an easy reference for when your shopping so you don't get duplicates. :::not that I know anyone who has done that!::: And there's also a "wish list" section so you can put all the things that you don't already own that you want. Ummm...wouldn't that be everything else he's created that I don't own?! This week, our sponsor is The Funkie Junkie and one lucky player will win a $25 shopping spree to her Zibbit store.

This week's challenge is the Guilded Kraft Glassine technique located on page 39 of the book.  I decided to do a "Dyan-esque" tag for Miss Joy since she's more of a girly-girl than gears and sprockets (not that there is anything wrong with that!) So I started with three of Dylusions Spray Inks and then used Dyan's ghosting technique with stencils and water, then splooshed a bit of Spray Inks on some stamps and rolled them here and there for some layering and texture. Used the head and legs from Pondering Petunia and painted them using Dylusions Spray inks. I did the guilded glassine technique and used my Heart Wings die to cut out the heart for her body and crown, which I applied some pink bling to since Joy is a Princess and must  have some bling on everything Aunt Sue creates for her! There's also a tiny bit of the glassine on the right leg of her pants which had a bit of a hole in them! Since she will be 10 tomorrow, I used a 10 BINGO chip and painted it white then once it dried, painted it with Dylusions Squeezed Orange Spray ink. A little Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the outside edges and a piece of grosgrain ribbon dyed using Squeezed Orange, Lemon Zest and Bubblegum Pink Spray Inks finished this tag off.

A Groovy Birthday

Next week, my favorite Aunt Groovy is having a birthday. Yesterday I got my new Summer Limited Edition t!m Holtz Distress inks. Ohhh so pretty! So I had to play with them this morning and make Groovy a cool birthday tag. I smushed all three colors on my kraft mat and spritzed both the inks and my tag with water and ran the tag (and two others!) thru the inky puddle. Then I dried it and re-inked thru the puddle for more depth. I distressed the edges and used my Vintage Photo ink pad and inked the edges. I used Eyelash Lady for my main image and used my red and brown Dylusions inks and hand painted her eyebrows and mouth. I used Fruit Punch Stickles on the tips of her eyelashes. I used the leaf stamp from Around The Edge stamp set at the top and highlighted usign my Signo Uniball white pen and I sprayed water thru a stencil on the bottom.

Footloose (and fancy free!)

On a roll with my scrapping! Although I did have to walk away from this one yesterday. My mojo went away mid-page and I've learned not to force it. Walk away and come back later and hopefully the mojo has returned and it had this morning. Once I sat down and started playing with the different elements, it came together really quickly.

Jan sent this pic of the kids in my Mother's Day card. She took it when they were on Spring Break in St Augustine. Jan, Kathy and I were about the same age as Jake and Joy when we first went to St Augustine, so hopefully they will have some of the same memories that we do.

I used CTMH Footloose paper pack for this layout. The chipboard are more hoarded Deluxe Designs (and they aren't even in business any more!) that I used CTMH inks and sponged on the colors. The title uses the CTMH Newsprint Rub-Ons and I went around them with my Broken China Distress Marker to make them pop just a bit.

It's a guy thing!

I decided I needed to get back to scrapping those pics of John's we found when we were cleaning closets before the holidays last year. This is the first, in what I hope will be many more to come!

John thinks he was 4 or 5 in these pics. He got to go spend a couple of weeks with his dad's folks in PA and Grandfather started teaching him about guns. He said he remembers the shotgun knocking him out of the back tof the truck when it went off. AND he missed the turkey he was shooting at!

The background cs is Creative Impressions and it has a resist on it, so I used my Vintage Photo Distress Ink and covered it. The circles cs is from the CTMH Dotty For You collection. I used a now retired CTMH stamp set called Stitched Together for the faux stitching around the edge of the circle cs and the stars. The conchos are long retired from CTMH. So I'm using some of my HOARDED (Anna!) stash!!! I think it still needs something under the "guys" title, which is CTMH retired Irresistables Eclectic Alphabet, so I'm thinking I may journal a bit about John's memory of getting knocked out of the truck. And he also proudly told me that he has that gun that is in the pictures. It was given to him after his Grandfather passed away.

Happy Birthday

My mother in law will be 90 next week. A milestone birthday to be sure! And even though she had a series of strokes 2 years ago and can't go and do like she once did, she's still a mighty fiesty woman! John and I will be going to take his folks out for a nice steak dinner next week, but I wanted her to have her birthday card a little early. I can share it because they don't read my blog!

I used some of Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky Back canvas and stamped the cake using (retired) CTMH It's Your Day stamp set. Colors used were Creme Brulee, Tulip, Juniper and Sorbet. I frayed the edges a bit before attaching it with pop dots for a bit of dimension.

Happy Birthday, Mom. We love you!

Edit: I have been informed that after 50+ years of marriage that my father in law still doesn't know how old mom is! HE is the one who told John that mom was gonna be 90. So I wrote Happy 90th Birthday in her card when I sent it. And she was incensed that we made her older than she is. (Which any woman in her right mind would be!) She is in fact going to be 88. So I stand corrected!

Happy Birthday dad

John's dad has a birthday coming up this week. He was a car guy in his youth, so I pulled out CTMH Crusin' paper pack and the stamp set that accompanies the Workshop On The Go. The old car is embossed with black embossing powder and pop dotted to give some dimension. I used Wishes Lower Layers pattern and turned it on it's side.

School Days

Unka John got pics of the kids in his birthday card last month. I never got last years pics scrapped til this year, so decided I was gonna get this years scrapped before the end of the year!

I basically took the same layout and flipped it side to side. Joy's uses CTMH Roxy and Jacob's uses CTMH Elemental. The canvas is the Compliments Shapes that are supposed to go with Typeset, but I thought they worked well with both of the pp's I used.

Two bits...four bits...

Do they even still do that cheer? Do they even know what a bit is?!

One more layout from the pics Jan brought. Jake skipped football this season to play baseball, but Joy was right there on the sidelines cheering on the Junior Falcons.

I took the idea from a layout I'd seen in Scrapbooks, Etc magazine. Used CTMH Roxie pp along with Canvas badges, white and natural buttons, and Sorbet Waxy Flax. Title uses CTMH Cork Alphabet.

Tricks and Treats

Jan brought pics of Jake and Joy at Halloween when they were here for Thanksgiving. I used CTMH Mischief pp along with the felt and rub-ons for this paper.

Thanksgivng Joy

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you take your camera out and put it on the kitchen counter to take pics of Thanksgiving day and forget all about it til the cleanup is done. Suffice it to say, we needed sideboards for the table! Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed taters, asparagus, green bean casserole, two kinds of cranberry sauce, Monkey rolls, maple glazed carrots and pumpkin pecan cheesecake for dessert. Everyone left the table holding full bellies and one or two people had to find a comfortable spot and check their eyelids for holes while they pretended to watch the football game! Jake and Unka John retired to the man cave to play some Halo on one of the gaming devices. Joy, Jan and I went into the woman cave/scraproom and I taught Joy how to use Pinky to make herself a tag with her name on it. Jan "commissioned" me to make a tag for Jake to put on his viola case with his name on it. He picked the stamp he wanted, a raccoon, and I made him the tag so he won't get any more demerits for not having his name on his case. And I forgot to take a pic of IT! The appointed picture taker for the family certainly fell short of her duties this holiday. I will strive to do better at Christmas! I did manage to remember to get a pic of Joy's tag, so it wasn't a total loss. She wanted an acorn on it and once we had it put together, Jan said it meant Joy was a nut! Truer words were never spoken!

And more cards

This is gonna be a  theme for a bit. Working on Christmas gifts and sharing a few here and there.

Jan put in a request for more Sympathy and Thinking of You cards for this year, so there are quite a few of these. This is just a sampling. This uses up my Typeset paper pack. LOVE the new smaller pp's that CTMH introduced with the Fall/Winter Idea Book. For a paper hoarder (did I just say that out loud?!) like me, this is perfect. I used an all time fave stamp set, Treasure Life. I love the "weedy" looking stems that work perfectly on this type of card. And the Just Blooms Paper Shapes butterflies flitting about them also worked for me. I used some Perfect Pearls Mist on the cs to give a subtle shimmer and some of the Basic Assortments buttons tied with hemp and Bakers Twine.

More Joy!

Made a few more cards for Joy to give her gf's next year. I used the now retired CTMH Cherry-O paper pack for these, along with a couple of old stamp sets, Party Time and Birthday Celebration and the required Stickles Diamond for bling! Oh, and some Magic Mesh that I found when I was cleaning in my room. Had it for yeeears and it's now on my table so I see it and use it! Buttons are from the CTMH Basic Assortment and there's some Foundry Ribbon Slides as well.