Grungy Monday #28 Embossed Metal - This one's "sharp"

Grungy Monday, I've missed you. I have been running around the country and bogged down in work. So, I'm back and I participate this week in the embossed metal challenge.  I don't have a pumpkin in site, but I do have plenty of fall colors. I've embossed a plum metal with the pattern texture fade and after scrapping the finish off of the raised edges I over-colored with spiced marmalade.  I used Tim's dress form die cut, adding a skirt of daisy petals.  Check out the challenge at Linda's Studio L3, All Things Tim, and Tim's Blog for directions and inspiration.

Grungy Monday #20, 19 & 18 All caught up!

Hey Grungy Mondays I'm back. I missed three weeks so I'm working on catching up, two tonight and one more tomorrow. For week 20 we are challenged with Fragments. I worked a travel and explore theme, one of my many favorite things.

My catch up for week 19

and distress stickles took inspiration from Graphics 45 paper and the fairies of springtime, for me fairies just need some stickles on them.

Grungy Monday #17 Rock Candy

Happy to be back, although vacation is nice too. Even though it's late in the week I wanted to get into there because I had seen so many beautiful examples from everyone! We were challenged to use Tim Holtz's rock candy crackle and stickles and add it to the collection at Linda's StudioL3, and All Things Tim sites. As you can see I used many colors of DI over Tim's resist paper. Then I stamped the bird and the words on top of the whole thing. I added a dash of prisma glitter, which doesn't show in the picture, but it adds some sparkle. Enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Grungy Monday #15

GM 15 wow what fun. This week our guest designer examples and instructions at Studio L3 show the use of Tim Holtz' rusted enamel, as seen in his blog - 2008 tag. I love this technique, so I combined it with another love, travel, oh yeah! I used broken china and walnut DI. I got to put ink on some of my new Tim stamps and used several bits of ideology to round it out. For me it's fun because the old plane reminds me of times when we used to dress up to fly and owning one of the coveted "Pan Am" vinyl carry-on bags... are you with me? Fly over to All Things Tim to it all check out.

Grungy Monday #14

Grungy Monday at Linda's Studio L3 and All Things Tim, using Tim Holtz technique from 2008. I whipped out my white dabber, distress inks, perfect pearls and misters and started my concoction. I used fired brick and was surprised when it turned out kindof brownish, so I went back in with some ink on top of the spray. I used the dress form stamps and sizzix die, which I love. I keep coming back to the jalopy and dress form. I styled a dress on the mannequin, it's a runway design 'in process'. Hope you enjoy it on this 4th of July!

Grungy Monday #11 Faux Batik

Faux batik is fun. It's one of those techniques that I forget about, but I always like in the end. Even though it involves ironing. Besides Tim Holtz' techniques I used many of his delightful products, along with victorian velvet, milled lavender and walnut DI's. Since I was ironing anyway, I also used the crumple, ink the wrinkles method that I learned directly from Tim years ago when I got to take a class from him. Soar over to Linda's Studio L3 and All Things Tim to check out all of the beautiful pieces.

Grungy Monday #10 Distress Ink

I made this beauty using distress inks combined with Distress embossing, in my attempt to play along with this weeks Grungy challenge over at Studio L3. I used Master Holtz' Sizzix gears, Generations stamps, Concord Grape, Shabby Shutters and Forest Moss inks and Walnut embossing powder along with a technique from his Compendium. Enjoy my attempt and check out the other great DI projects over at Linda's blog.