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.