Mid Summer's night Blog Blitz - Day 6

Hey again, 

So I have been working lots of shifts at the hospital as well as creating in my art room, hence the delay in another summer post.  Here's a great 3D project I absolutely fell in love with the moment I saw the SVG kit.

Parkside Row from SVGCuts.com

I experimented and did a "flip horizontal" on one of the houses. Aren't they adorable all lined up?

The VW Van is from another SVG kit called "Surf Shack" but I cut the files at 50%.  

Here they are all lit up at night...  I love them. Mary you are the cut file queen. 

Hope you enjoyed a little trip to Parkside Row. 

Mid Summer's Night Blog Blitz - Day 5

Welcome to day 5 of my summer projects blog blitz.

Today's pics are featured at Urban Scrapbook in my hometown - Edmonton.

Our monthly page kit always includes an abundance of supplies to get creative with. This time it features "Lemonade Stand" by Bo Bunny. This line is a favorite of mine ( gee I wonder why) Look at these great colors! My Faves!!!

The map of Thailand is a cut file from Silhouette. Memory Box, Dees Distinctively and IO dies were also used in the layout.

Yes those are my feet in the pic chillin' at the sweet man's house on Ko Siboya, Thailand - our second home.

                                                 The kits are so full of goodies, I had enough to do another layout.

More dies and the 3D orchid die from IO. Once you figure out how the flower goes together, it looks really cool. My first thought was " how does this thing even work?" Luckily they have a youtube video on assembly. 

Thanks for looking, you can check out the other July pages from the Urban team here:

http://urbanscrapbook.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-page-challenge.html?m=1

See you soon

CC3C #7 painted industrial

Hello again,

Oh I do love this technique. I've used it over and over again. It's so verstaile and fun. I think it lends itself to home decor, so that's exactly what I made this time.

Supplies used:

SVGCUTS 3D letters

Silhouette chipboard

Embossable sticky back foil from Ranger

Faux leather paper from WeR memory keepers

Subway and riveted metal embossing folders from Sizzix

Black soot and tarnished brass distress paint

Plastic cutlery

This challenge is sponsored by Inspiration Emporium you can check out their online store here:

http://www.inspirationemporium.com

And all the other fantastic projects for this challenge here:

http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/07/compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-7.html

I got this great "faux leather" paper from the new Indian Summer line (WeRMemory Keepers)

The 3D Letters are from SVGcuts. I used Silhouette chipboard for the construction and then covered the sides with the embossed foil.

It needed a little embelly, so plastic cutlery covered with foil did the trick.

Here it is perched up on top of my kitchen shelf.

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time.

12 tags of 2014 - July

Getting in just under the wire here, I made this tag a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to post it. I love the sea theme this month. I was excited to finally get the dies and embossing folders. It seemed like I waited forever for them to finally come in.

If you want to check out the full step by step, you can go to http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2014-july/

Hahaha just a quick post.  That is all.

See you soon, more Mid Summer's night blog blitz to come

Mid Summer's Night Blog Blitz - Day 4

Welcome to day 4 of my summer projects. I made this one a few weeks ago, but haven't posted it yet. I love SVGcuts.com. Mary's kits are fantastic and cut like a dream. When I saw the debut of the Seaside kit, I bought it within the first hour. I had the pieces cut and began assembling without an instruction video to go along with it. Luckily, Mary makes them pretty straight forward so I soldiered on.

Once the assembly was complete, all that was left to do was embellish (my favorite part)

Prima released these great resin pieces to coordinate with their Seashore line. I also stamped images from Graphic 45's By The Sea sets

I added some lantern die cuts to the front of the house (Spellbinders)

I made another lighthouse using Prima and FabScraps papers. It's a little more vintage looking. It's on display at Urban Scrapbook ( my awesome fun part-time job).

Thanks for popping in again, I have a few more projects in the wing, so keep checking back.

Mid Summer's Night Blog Blitz - Day 3

Hi, welcome to day 3

Here is a fun cut file I downloaded off the Silhouette store. It comes with the box card, sun, flip flops, coconut, front leaves and words.  I added in some more tropical leaves,hibiscus and palm tree using dies and rubber stamps. I think it turned out pretty great. I love the bright vibrant colors

The side panels were embossed and inked with distress inks (picked raspberry and mustard seed)

Paper is from Bo Bunny

Below is a picture of the collapsed card ready to send off to someone, but I think I'll keep this one hehehe

Stop by next time for another summer time project. See you soon...

Mid Summer's night blog blitz - Day 2

I came up with this name while sitting in the back room at work at 3:30 in the morning. I work in an inner city emergency department (no I am not a nurse). It's summer and I have been working a lot of night shifts this month covering off holidays and vacant positions. I'm not complaining, I like night shifts for the most part, however the complete lack of sleep and mixed up schedule has left me with a lot of play time in my art room. 

It's my passion to create tropical and nautical projects, so I wanted to do a blog blitz, showing off my creations. I will see how many I can come up with in the next little while

Yesterday I posted my dream vintage Shasta trailer, today I have a tropical card to show you.

The main part of the card is a Silhouette cut file. I love the outline of the hibiscus. I had a vision of a tropical sunset in the backgroud (which is another cut file) everything was cut from white cardstock and 

Colored with Distress Inks (festive berries,picked raspberry and spun sugar)

The pic below shows the frosted film I covered the background with. That allowed me to go in and color the flower with Shinhan markers.

Thanks for looking, I will be back with another project tomorrow.