Winter Mini-Album

Here’s a quick vid on a mini-album I created today.  If interested, it’s for sale at my NEW Etsy shop:  SweetBiscuitGirl.etsy.com

Happy New Year!

I hope 2010 is the best year ever, for you!

Today I spent a little time making a new magnetic wall-board for my new craft room.  Here’s the vid of it:

I started off with an old cookie sheet which I brushed with copper colored dabber paint along the edges that wouldn’t be covered with paper.  Then I added the paper, some ribbon, and made a few coordinating paper flowers with magnets on the backs of them.  It was easy peasy!  More importantly, I love it!  It really brightens up my new craft room!

Until next time…

G

On the twelfth day of Christmas, Tim Holtz inspired me…

So I’ve mentioned Tim Holtz’ 12 Tags of Christmas here a time or two and am finally getting around to posting a picture of the twelve tags that I made from inspiration taken from his tags.  Here’s the pic –

The first tag, on the upper left corner of the photo has paper flowers that I “grunged” up with Tim’s Distress Inks, and the reindeer were stamped and embossed on Tim’s Grungeboard.  Then I inked up the Grungeboard with Distress Ink to give it the background color.

The second tag, next to the first, is actually the first tag I did for the 12 days.  It also has a Grungeboard snowman, that was painted first with a paint dabber in white, then stamped with the snowman image and cut out.

The third tag again utilizes Tim’s Distress Inks, as well as heat embossing, and Stickles!  Love those Stickles!

The fourth tag used vellum stamped with a large script-style stamp as the background.  Again, the image (lamppost) is stamped on Tim’s Grungeboard.

Tag 5 (2nd row, left) is probably my favorite tag out of the bunch.  It uses Tim’s filmstrip along the left side where I placed teensy-tiny photos of various Christmas trees inside each frame of the strip.

Tag six uses Tim’s Fragments as ornaments along the top, with stamped images adhered to the back of the plastic fragments with Glossy Accents.

Tag 7 (tilt your head to the side, girls) also uses Grungeboard, like so many of these tags, but for this one I covered the image with red and white Flower Soft product (gasp! not something of Tim’s)

Tag eight uses alcohol inks and applicators on glossy cardstock.  That’s the key to create these colorful plaid backgrounds with ease!

Tag nine (bottom left) uses various distress inks on the tag itself, but the real focal point is the little ‘house’ on the chain. That was created by using Ranger’s Memory Glass and Frames.  The rooftop?  It’s made with one of Tim’s metal corners. How cool is that?

Tag ten is fairly simple, but uses Perfect Pearls mixed with water and then splattered onto the stamped tag to give it a little bit of ‘zing’.

Tag eleven was time consuming, but oh such results!  This one uses a grungepaper flower, made by little old me!  You can bet this won’t be the last flower I make like this!

Finally, tag twelve uses the alcohol inks again, but this time with a thin metal burnished over Grungeboard letters. Pretty neat!

You can find the inspirations to these tags at Tim’s blog —  http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/12-tags-of-christmas-2009/

Merry Christmas to me!

And to you too, of course!  But…WOW!  What a day!

Some of you may already know that I was in a bad car accident last week and my car was totaled.  Well, today…late in the day…I received a phone call from my insurance carrier and they had settled my claim.  And I was able to receive my check this afternoon!

So, since the check was more than what I owed on the car, I felt like I could spend a little money on myself, guilt-free.  And just in time for Christmas!

*shakes head*  I think I might have gone overboard a bit.  But oh, it was so much fun!  Anyhow, be on the lookout over the next couple of weeks for a few more haul vids than you’re used to seeing from me.

And, in the next day or so, I’ll be putting up a really short vid of a Christmas pressie that a friend gave me.  It’s just way too cute (but not craft related…sorry!)!  I’ll also be doing a vid on the tags I created during Tim Holtz’ 12 Tags of Christmas.  And I haven’t forgotten about making a vid of my new craft room.  It’s still a work in progress, though.  I hope to make great progress in that area over the holiday.

Stay tuned and Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!!

Just a quick heads up…

I’ve posted a new Michael’s Haul vid on my YouTube channel.

Pole Dancing

Craft videos take a bit of time…time I don’t necessarily have at the moment.  BUT, I do have a craft that I can share fairly quickly with you…the craft of writing.  Please enjoy the little ditty I wrote last night and found below, entitled “Pole Dancing”.  Merry Christmas!!!

“Today I’m going to do it.  I’m going to do it this time, for sure,” he thought to himself, feeling his heart begin to pound and his throat dry up like a week-old gingerbread cookie, even as the words formed inside his mind.  He steeled himself against the fear, however, and glanced around, making sure that no eyes were upon him.  He might have finally convinced himself to do the deed, but he needed no witnesses to his actions.

Satisfied that no one was watching, he quickly trotted toward the pole and gazed at it in awe.  He shifted his focus to the top of the shiny rod and felt his heart flutter even faster, realizing how taboo the act he was about to perform would be.

He almost skittered away when he thought he heard footsteps lightly pattering behind him, but a quick turn of his head and he began to calm again, the area surrounding him still devoid of life other than his own.  Carefully he closed in on the pole and considered his options for mounting it.  He had spent countless hours watching women perform on such a object many times when his boss wasn’t aware of his transgressions, and thought back to some of the different ways they had moved upon the slick metal.

Throwing caution to the bitter wind, he leapt toward the pole, hoping it was as sturdy as it had always appeared.  His first attempt failed miserably as his hefty body simply sank under its own weight and he snorted, disgusted with the result.  He backed away from the pole to regroup and contemplate a second try.

Cautiously, he again approached, and more slowly wrapped his legs around the pole.  He hung there, afraid to move, for fear he would again land at the bottom, in an undignified heap.  After a moment, however, he found the lack of action just as tiring as if he were working his busiest shift of the year.

He adjusted his weight, feeling his body begin to swing around the pole’s circumference, and he felt another snort, this time of amusement, well up from inside his broad chest.  He leaned back, letting gravity tug him round and round and had to fight making too much noise, for fear he’d be caught in a compromising position.

But as he became bolder in his movements, a grunting sound exited his body, and then another, and yet another.  He wondered why he had ever feared the action he was taking, enjoying himself more and more with each passing second.

His amusement soon turned to horror, however, when he heard the sound of a clearing throat come from nearby.  He slid slowly to the ground and tried to find his footing on suddenly shaking legs.  He turned to face the person he most feared finding him acting upon his whim.

“Rudolph,” a deep voice boomed toward him and he felt his face turn bright red in embarrassment. “Stop molesting the North Pole! You’re scaring the elves!”

12 Tags of Christmas

Have you been playing along with Tim Holtz and creating your versions of his daily tags during the past 12 days?  Well, I have!  I’ve still got a couple to make (hopefully tomorrow) before I’ll have the full set complete, but let me tell you it’s been a blast!  He is SO creative!  I can’t wait to share with you my adaptations of his designs.  Coming soon!!!