DT November 2008 Assignment

WOW! It is hard to believe that our year on the Treasured Memories 2008 Design Team is already finished! I have had such a great time and really enjoyed working with Melissa. She Rocks!!!!! The other 5 women, Lisa G., Jeanne, Mandy, Heather and Charlotte are wonderful women and I have learned so much from all of them. We had so many good times and laughs that I am really going to miss getting together with them! Anyway--tonight we get to vote on the new DT and turn in our last assignments.
For this assignment we were given the following products from Tim Holtz; trinket pins, mask, journaling tickets, adage tickets, fragments and grunge board. We had to use all products on our layouts. We also had to complete 5 of 13 trends on our layouts. I used the following 5 trends-
1. Use Tim Holtz Distressing embossing powders
2. Use water with Tim Holtz distress inks
3. Use buttons
4. Combine tags and distressing
5. Use paint
I used my TH mask on black Card stock. I painted over the mask with periwinkle Lil Davis paints. I then trimmed down 2 sheets of Basic Grey Urban Prairie Bonnet paper. I adhered the Bonnet to the Card stock. This is how I got the Blue border for the lo. I then took 4 of the Grunge Board squares and used the Tim Holtz Black Soot Embossing powder to distress the squares. I adhered these to the 4 corners of the lo. Then I painted the title with the periwinkle paint. The title is from Chip chatter the hip collection. I backed my big picture with Basic Grey Urban Prairie "weather vane". After adhering my pictures I added the embellishments on the left side and right corner. I used a TH Journaling ticket and distressed it with TH Tattered Rose Embossing powder. I then distressed the edges with TH Distressing Ink "weathered wood". I also distressed some TH grunge board swirls that I had with Black Soot Embossing Powder. I used Paper flowers by Bazzill in Primula White. I used TH Distressing ink "weathered wood" and "Black Soot"on the flowers then sprayed them with water to soften the look. I also distressed the edges of the TH Adage tickets. I adhered them with the Trinket pins. I added the word Sparkling to the title using rubons from MM "simply stated" font. For the TH fragments I glued them using clear stickles to papers by Basic Grey, from the Urban Prairie line. The papers were the weather vane and wild flowers. I ran some ribbons in black and pink shear through the holes and adhered it to the grouping. I also used various flowers from Prima-Essential 5 collection and Sandi's favorites, Scuba Blue. I used buttons from my collection for the centers . Lastly I stamped the journaling lines from my clear stamp collection and black soot. Thanks for checking my blog and good luck to the new DT.

DT Oct Group Project

For our October meeting, we had to pick a name of another DT member. I picked Heather. The person we picked sent pictures to us and we were to create a layout for them. These pictures were of Heathers' girls during a ceremony at their school. They were releasing some balloons that were bound together and shaped like a rosary. I found it a challenge, but I enjoyed the challenge! I used the new Doodle Bug Glitter papers in white and red speckle from TM. I also cut out the design from the Prima Paintables. I highlighted the dots with black stickles, I used Prima felt flowers with bling and I used the white prima paper flowers, inked them with black soot and used the new inkables inks to shine them up. The center is black bling. In the upper corners I inked Tim Holtz grungeboard flourishes the same as the flowers. I went to our local Christian bookstore, found a beautiful rosary (not a blessed one) and used it on the left upper corner. I hope Heather likes it.