Hi friends! How are ya? Hope you're having a great week and doing some fun stuff mixed in with the day to day stuff of life! I have been dying to share with you what I did this weekend. Tonight I finally had time to take photos of my projects and sit down and write a post about it.
My friend Richele and I met many years ago when we both taught classes at one of our local stamp stores. She is super sweet and SUPER talented! Mad talent! Her style is Tim Holtz/Ranger/Grunge with the most attentive eye for detail and a splash of femininity too. (Her blog here) She works closely with Tim Holtz and does design for Ranger, among other crafty things. Well…Saturday afternoon I called her up to say hi and she says "I'm teaching classes all day tomorrow at Scrapbook Territory, why don't you come with me?" I had to think about it because I had about a bazillion things I was supposed to get done. Luckily, my gut told me to call her back and say "yeah!" and that's just what I did! Lucky me! That was definitely the right decision.
She taught a melt-art class in the morning and a Grunge Christmas class in the afternoon…it was a crafty marathon…all day! Met some really nice people and made the neatest projects. I'm inspired in a whole different way after letting go and being messy! hahaha. Okay…enough blabbing…here's the goods…First up, our lovely teacher, Richele.
We did some mold and pour molds and made faux resin flowers out of the melted UTEE. I have never done this technique before and I really liked it. I always thought it was complicated or difficult…but it isn't. I may invest in a melting pot at some point!
Here's Richele pouring the UTEE into some fun foam shapes over dictionary pages to make embellies for cards. What a cool idea!
One of the other things she showed us was to take paper flowers and leaves and run them through the melted clear UTEE until it's coated. It dries fast, and dries into this amazing glass like finish. LOVE this! I'm also picturing putting some chunky glitter on them before they dry???
For one of our projects we took one of our flowers and some leaves and used them to make a piece of jewelry. I decided to make mine a pin. Isn't it pretty!? I'm so excited to wear it on my favorite denim jacket! I wear pins a lot so this is great! See the close up of the "dew" on the leaves? That's actually dry! We sprayed them with Perfect Pearls mist. OOOOOOH LA LA! This is hecka fun!
Here are my faux resin flowers!
Now all that stuff we made in the morning class was more than enough fun for one day…but NOPE…there's more! Here are the projects we made in the afternoon Ranger Grunge Christmas class! These cards have a real retro vibe that I like a lot. Very classy.
With this project I became infatuated with Perfect Pearls Spray in Heirloom Gold….wowza!
This ornament is a die cut on a piece of grungeboard and then crackled, and painted and sprayed and on an on. All these layers really make a wonderful outcome.
Richele gave us lots of goodies and stickers and Stickles and we went to town making ATC's. Here are my two favorites. Lots of distress ink and embossing. MMMMMMMM. I think I will probably end up gluing these onto card fronts for some Christmas cards.
On a totally different topic…when I went to leave the house Sunday morning the hubs pointed out that the normally blue hydrangeas in the front yard were doing some weird stuff now that it's November! Check out the color on this one!
Thanks for letting me share my good time and my projects! This week is going to take a serious turn on Friday so I need some good vibes and prayers coming our way. My dear hubs is having a Tonsillectomy. He's been sick and generally not feeling well for a long time and we're hoping that getting his tonsils removed will start him down the path of feeling like his old self again. Not sure when I'll get a post up next – so check back in with me. HUGS!
