"Before" January Art Journal page

Samarium Element

Tim Holtz techniques used. Samarium is used in electric guitar pickups so I used one of my husbands guitars for color inspiration.

Silver Element ATC's

Silver ATC's almost done

Don't the backs look pretty?

Another ATC

Periodic Table again! Magnesium. Clubscrap Interior Design paper.

Periodic Table ATC Swap

Clubscrap paper, manila file folder, Tim Holtz gears embossing folder.

While the hubby is away.....

The wife will play in the living room for a whole week. All needed supplies are here for ATC's and Clubscrap's Weekend of Workshops. More stuff to work on when above projects are done.

Scramp Camp 2012 Planning Year 9

Wow! It's called Scramp Camp fever...you are so happy after a weekend with the girls, you sign up to host the next year. What was I thinking?

Anyway....I've been preparing for a planning meeting I have with my co-hostesses tomorrow...hehehe

I've been creating

......just not finishing anything...hahahaha

Templates, Oil Pastels, Sharpies

More than one today :-)

Day 2 Visual Journaling

I found the greatest templates for making faces! Crafter's Workshop Balzer Designs

Visual journal day 1

I ran out of time to play, but so far I used my Portfolio water soluble oil pastels ( YUMMY), Sharpie paint pens and my new Stampington stamps and 7Gypsies tapes.

Smash book cover Tim Style

Halloween tags done

I join a Halloween tag swap on Allthingstim yahoo group. I started with honey Distress Stain, flicked with water, embossed black soot distress powder, stickles, white pen, yellow Sakura pen for cat eyes.

Vintage Valise binder

Grungeboard, glassine, binder rings

Prototype for Halloween tag swap

Smash & Washi tape

Elements 2 ATC swap

Perfect Pearls Mermaid

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Tracy
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Tim Holtz Distress Stains

Getting crafty!

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Tigger and I keeping warm

Testing posting from iPhone.

Made some cards yesterday

I finally made some new cards yesterday....finally. I haven't been very creative lately. Just haven't felt like it. I've spent some time cleaning up my craft room which has helped. I had to make room to be able to get to my supplies....lol.

Now all I need to do is mail the cards out!

Tour de Cure

Kirk is riding 45 miles in this event. If you help sponsor him, I'll send you a handmade thank you gift that will be sure to treasure!

American Diabetes Association
Tour de Cure
Silicon Valley, Sunday June 13, 2010

Donate Now

Clubscrap PSL Time!!

Christmas Crafty

Still doing that Christmas stuff that I can't post yet because they are gifts. I'm taking pictures along the way.

Here is a great shopping site: http://www.eclecticpaperie.com/timstags.html

I'm placing it on my favs list :-)

Bad Haircut

I got such a bad haircut 3 weeks ago, I'm seriously thinking about flying 3,000 miles round trip to have my cousin Laura fix it!

Time

Where has the time gone? I can't believe I haven't blogged in a long time. I guess I've been paying more attention to Facebook. I'm busy now creating Christmas presents and cards, so I don't have anything that I can post yet.

Tiggy's cousin spotted on hiking trail

Kirk saw Tiggy's cousin on the hiking trail at Rancho San Antonio this morning...a mountain lion. The mountain lion was about 75 feet ahead of them on the trail. Of course he didn't get a picture. Kirk and his hiking buddy were a little scared to even think about getting a picture.

Quickutz Epic vs the Big Shot

Well, I used the Epic with the clear cutting mat it came with and a clear XL Big Shot cutting mat. They are very similar in height. I was cutting a Bigz XL Sizzix die. It was a little hard to get it started, but once I did it worked fine. I'm not too thrilled with the handle. A little flimsy for such a big die. I still like my Big Shot more.

I'll give an update once I use a Quickutz die in it.

I can update my blog from my cell phone now!

got my Quickutz Epic today!

upgraded my mobile phone

Kirk's LiveSTRONG bike ride pics

LiveSTRONG San Jose

Kirk completed his 50 mile bike ride around San Jose today. I'll be posting a picture of him finishing by tomorrow.

Altered Book entries

I've been a creating fool. An altered book page swap I'm in is almost done. Well, my entries at least. I only have 4 more to do. Here is the latest pages I've turned in.

Update...Moms visit

My mother came to visit for 2.5 weeks. We had a good time...a lot of shopping and day trips to Napa, Gilroy and the beach.

Altered Page 4 Shoes

I am very proud of how this one turned out. I saw this in the Marie Antoinette issue of Somerset and just had to make it. I used wallpaper to make the shoe cone. The background is an embossed napkin that I painted with Making Memories Glaze paint.

Altered Page 3 Through the Window

I had a lot of fun creating this page. I used the Stampington window stamp and cut it out to place woman image behind it. The flowers are created with Flower Soft. The background is blue acrylic paint. When dried, I sponge white acrylic paint to look like clouds.

Altered Page 2 Birds

Pretty basic. I used Hero Art wood stamp for the background. The bird cage is Basic Grey. I also used my Versamark Dazzle pad to put a sparkle on the acrylic painted items.

Haven't posted much in April

I was sick for 5 days, started to feel better for a day and then had a sinus infection that put me down for 5 days...the day I started to feel normal I sprained my ankle. It's 8 days later and I'm starting to feel normal. The ankle is still really bruised and still hurts a lot, but I can get around much better now. Drove for the first time yesterday. This was the same ankle I sprained in 2002/2003 and that took 2 years to heal so who knows.

That was my month of April 2009, fun huh?

Clubscrap Pro Scrapbookers/Cardmakers League

This is why I haven't posted much on my blog. I joined a weekly card making contest that lasted 8 weeks. Our team, the Penguins had to make more cards then the Gazelle's every week. If your team won you got a project and shopping discount. We won 4 times! This picture has over 470 cards in it.

GAB2009 Page 1

GAB means Girls Altering Books. This is our third round. Here is my entry:

Busy, Busy, Busy

CHA stuff keeps coming into ScrapLovers and Scrapbook Island. Tim Holtz stamps, Brights & Lights Alcohol Inks, Inkadinkado stamps, etc etc

I'm also participating in a Clubscrap 8 week long PSL (Pro Scrapbooker League) making cards every week for points towards the prize. I'll have pics to post eventually.

I also found some of Tim's monthly tag ideas I completed but didn't post yet.

What Tracy is Buying...final post

Ok, I lasted a month, the last couple of days I shopped at Michaels, Scraplovers & Scrapbook Island. I also received an order from Flourishes in the mail.

I'm bored of this blogging project, so I'm going to stop at the end of the month. However, I will post when I think I received something super cool that I'm really excited about :-)

What Tracy is Buying?

My Quickutz order came today: 4x4 storage sheets, cupcake, laterns & cake

What Tracy is Buying?

Monday, January 26, 2009: My Artchix order arrived via the mail. Some cool playing cards that give you ideas on what techniques to use in your art. An ATC kit and some crowns.

What Tracy is Buying?

Scrapbook Island: A "few" sheets of scrapbook paper

What Tracy is Buying?

UPS delivered my Stampin Up new cattie order!!!!! New white organdy ribbon, sizzix dies, hearts punch, texture plates and STAMPS!!!!

What Tracy is Buying?

Ebay: Cricut Tinkerbell cartridge arrived today...got it for $44 including shipping....not bad getting it this fast since I just realized I wanted it last Saturday at the Ranch House Crop.

What Tracy is Buying?

Weds 1/21/09 - After going to the denist for a filling I needed some retail therapy. Just went to a different Michaels and Beverelys and bought some odds and ends.

What Tracy is Buying?

My Hero Arts order came in today...went to ScrapLovers and did a little shopping.

Scrapbook Island: Little Red Bicycle valentines stuff

Michaels: foam brushes 20 for $1.00, wood frames to use with my cuttlebug embossing folders and Perfect Pearls I was missing.

What Tracy is Buying?

Monday 1/19/09: Sizzix.com - Some Tuesday teaser dies and all of the new embossing folders.

What Tracy is buying?

Oops...that didn't take long to totally forget to post.

Friday 1/16/09: Hallmark Scrapbook - Sizzix dies

Saturday 1/17/09: ScrapLovers - paper, adhesive, Pine Needles distress ink

What Tracy is Buying?

I bought a 2008-2009 Spring Summer Spanish Stampin Up catalog from my upline :-) They got different samples, don't laugh.

2008 Tim's Holtz 12 Days of Christmas Last Pic

2008 Tim's Holtz 12 Days of Christmas

2007 Tim's 12 Days of Christmas Tags The Rest

2007 Tim's 12 Days of Christmas Tags