Altered Gypsy Christmas Swap 2010

Here is my swap items going out to my secret Altered Gypsy...

Meet David Matthew Jason, my first grandchild

David Matthew Jason arrived this morning at 1:05 am California time... 7 lbs. 9 oz. - 20" long and healthy....Mom, Dad and baby are doing fine...just a bit tired...long labor for all...

Altered Gypsy birthday card

today's experiment - my first attempt at printing digital art on printed papers....the women, child, and top border are digital...the rest is rubber stamped and dimensional/layered...

Halloween for Queen's Ink in Savage MD

Here are a few samples I made for Queen's Ink in Savage MD...a really great paper arts store..the Alice tag is a layering of an embossed acetate tag from Hero Arts combined with Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland images...the card is also Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland and both projects were designed to show the Ranger Enamel Accents, a dimensional feature...plus a splash of Tim Holtz in there...

Tim Holtz Calendar Organizer

Tim Holtz Calendar Organizer con't

I designed a book that organizes your special occasion cards...each month has a pocket to hold your store bought or handmade cards for birthdays, anniversaries and whatever....the pages are all Tim Holtz papers and embellishments....

Altered Gypsy 6x6 Halloween Swap

Altered Gypsy is putting together a Halloween book...these are some of my pages for the project...the "Party" is digital art and the vampire is paper art...most made from the new Halloween paper from no other than Martha Stewart - Martha has jumped out of the box...these are a fresh and freaky look for her...

Altered Gypsy Raven Round Robin Book 2010

Another page for Kersten's book....there is more dimension in these pages than shows in the photo...the ravens are raised and the copper key hole piece is embossed metal...and a few other things are dimensional...

7 Gypsies - Archievers Contest

Just returned from Wright City MO near St. Louis...while I was there visiting my dear friend, Jan we went to Archievers Scrap/Stamp Store...Archievers was having a 7 Gypsies contest using the 7 Gypsies wooden trays...thanks to Jan I was able to complete this project in a bit of a day or so and submit it to Archievers...she had lots of the Tim Holtz metals and papers that she gave me to use...what a sweetheart Jan is...so here is the results...enjoy!...you can't tell it by the photo but each cubby is a different height...one way I achieved that was by using mounting tape or cardboard as a backing...there are lots of different layers on here...the large image of the car w/ the two gentlemen in the center has 4 layers...I sure did have a great time cdesigning this project...

Altered Gypsy Kersten's Raven Book Pages

Altered Gypsy Palma's Pages

Another fun swap with the Altered Gypsy group...this is my work in Palma's Raven Round Robin book...on the right page is a pull up with Poe's photo hidden inside...

ATT canvas swap

Grandbaby Jason Book due Oct 17

First Grandbaby....his last name is Jason and we don't know the first name yet...this is my photo album that I will be sharing with all my friends...there are additional insert pages under each of these...when they are decorated I will post them...enjoy!

Digi Art

Since I am on the road with no art supplies I decided to play with DigiArt.....here is the result...this will probably be used for our Round Robin Raven Book swap...

All Things Tim - A Compendium of Curiosities Challenge

All Things Tim Yahoo group is doing a challenge using Tim Holtz's new book - A Compendium of Curiosities...the first challenge is using the technique on page 35 Water Stamping...here is my result...very cool technique...the lighter background stamped is the technique...

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

This is the whole layout....the right and left pages are the back of the popup....and the last pages of Suzanne's book...

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

Another page down and one more to go for this Round Robin Raven Book...I used one of the transfer techniques that I learned in the Claudine Hellmuth class...the raven that is wearing the crown is a transfer using the Sticky Back Canvas...the large Ravens are painted with Adirondack Acrylic Paints...they have a shimmer to them....

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

Another page completed....

Postcard

This is from a box of flocked cards I bought on sale at ACMoore that I have turned into a postcard for some lucky person....the card was just tan with white flocked flowers and I tweaked it a bit well a lot and voila a new distressed and altered postcard...

Tim Holtz Distress Challenge

This is my Tim Holtz how do you use Distress Inks....I used mine with a 4x12 art canvas and here is the result -


Couple of tips:

The words down the left side were in a cluster and I wanted them stamped in a row so I took taped off the words I did not want to ink, ink the stamp, removed the tape and only the words I want were easily inked...

Edging was done with Distress Inks and I set them with Fixative...that was a new experiment and it worked...

I trimmed the spinners tails off to make clock hands....

Claudine Hellmuth Technique Tag Class

On Saturday I took a techiques class from Claudine Hellmuth....if you don't know the name Google it and you will....awesome gal, fun, creative, smart cookie...these are the 13 tags I created in the class...



Techniques tags were:
1 - Gesso Etching
2 - Gesso Transfer
3 - Paint Transfer
4 - Faux Batik (used Sticky-Back Canvas (SBC) by Ranger)
5- Embossing Paper Tinting
6 - Watermark Resist -SBC
7 - Extra Time Stamping - used SBC and here Extra Time product from Ranger
8 - Extra Time Photo Tinting
9 - Glazed Paper Tinting
10 - Transfer on SBC
11 - Embossing on SBC
12 - Watercolor using her Studio Paints (these are fabulous - totally different than any acrylic I have use, very creamy and fun to play with...
13 - Peeled Paper

Altered Design House Swap #2

This is called "Fashion House"...the jacket and window open...I will post that later....Drew took the good camera on his fishing trip so I am using my cell phone for photos...

Later just arrived...

Free bird sheet I designed....

I was playing around with my photoshop and decided to make a sheet of birds I was practicing with to share with all...

Altered Designs

House swap for Altered Designs 2x2

Liisa's Postal Lady Card

Here is a card I made for Liisa in Paris....she is losing her mail lady and want a RAK for her....I also decorated the inside of the card...the lady is an image I received in the Altered Gypsy Image Swap...very cool stamp...glad I had it to use...worked perfect with my theme...thank you to whomever sent it...

Our remodeledl exterior

It has been a long road however the workmen who were updating our drab house finished their part yesterday....now Drew and I just need to do a bit more for it to be completed - hopefully this weekend, weather permitting....

Altered Gypsy RR Raven Book

Altered Gypsies are doing a round robin book with a Raven theme....these are the pages I created for Nigel's book....I did think of something else to add to them but they are in the mail so I can't make any tweeks....

All Things Tim Chaos Swap May2010

My tags for the swap...11 different multiple size tags will be mounted on to a canvas to showcase 11 All Things Tim artist...these are my tags for the swap....

Raven Round Robin

Altered Gypsy Raven Round Robin Book...I am planning on making my own background papers digitally...here is the beginning of the first one...so happy to have a new Laser printer so I can do this...

Altered Gypsy Round Robin Kris' Book - Spicy Women

Finally I came up with an idea for Kris' round robin book - Spicy Women....this was a tough one for me...don't know why...muse just wasn't there...however she came back and here are the results...sure hope Kris likes them...

More Raven in my book

the black raven diamond is made from a Tim Holtz stamp, toilet paper and black gesso....just turn your stamp image up...spritz with water then begin layering with TP, alternating a sheet then water then TP, water for 7 layers...let dry and apply gesso...