GRUNGY MONDAY #35 - A HOLTZIAN ATC

I'm a bit late this week but I've made it just in time. Having said that, I don't always join in with Grungy Monday which is the brain child of Linda Ledbetter, but I try if I can. This weeks challenge is to make a 'Holtzian ATC' using at least one of Tim's products or techniques.
Here is my card:

I used a grungeboard butterfly,
vintage photo and aged mahogony distress inks
blending tools and foam pads,
paper from some of Tim's Idea-ology range
glossy accents.

GRUNGY MONDAY #31 - A BIRTHDAY CARD FOR TIM

Having won a prize from Tim this week, it would be rude not to say another thank you to him so I have joined in the Grungy Monday challenge this week.
Here is what I came up with:

I used a base card 8"x8" and covered the front with a piece of kraft resist paper which I painted with picket fence distress stain. I die cut the hanging sign from core'dinations card together with the autumn gatherings and letters from vintage market strip dies. All from Tim's core'dinations distress card. I also used his jump rings, glossy accents, DIs walnut stain, rusty hinge, peeled paint, shabby shutters, bundled sage and forest moss. I die cut some tattered leaves from shrink plastic, coloured them very lightly with DIs and shrank them in my melt pot using clear UTEE.
This was a lot of fun but quite worrying too. After all, making something for the King of Distress which is worthy was somewhat daunting. Hope it's ok.

GRUNGY MONDAY #27 - 12 TAGS 2007 DAY 6

You can find the tutorial by Tim Holtz here if you want to join in this week over on Grungy Monday. I don't remember the 2007 tags as I only started to follow them from 2008, so this was a real treat for me.
This is what I've come up with for the challenge this week:

I've used the following items:
* Christmas memories kraft resist paper
* seasonal mask
* Distress inks - gathered twigs, evergreen bough, festive berries
* Re-inkers - walnut stain, forest moss, fired brick
* Heirloom gold perfect pearls
* Xmas red stickles
* Grungeboard letters and holly
* Glossy accents
* Tonic scissors
* Tissue tape
* Black archival ink pad
When I first started to become addicted to all things Tim Holtz, I bought some of the products from Simon Says Stamp. Guess what? they are this weeks sponsors.

GRUNGY MONDAY #26 - TIM'S TAGS 2009 #7

2009 was when I joined in with the 12 Tags of Christmas led by the master himself, Tim Holtz.
I tried to follow his instructions to the letter because I was new to grunge and needed to learn. My version of the 2009 tag #7 that I did at that time can be seen HERE.
However, Linda has asked that we use Tim's tutorial to make our own version this time round. I searched high and low for the mask sheets that I thought I had but couldn't find them so I am assuming I never had any in the first place!!! der! I remember cutting some of the spare mask sheet from the corner of my large flourish mask to make the Santa face one in 2009, so decided I would have to use that again. This time though, I have the new winter distress inks and the little festive Sizzlets die so that is what I have used. Apart from the bell, everything else is from Tim's range and I followed his instructions once more.

So Grungy Monday has reminded me of a set of techniques that I found really difficult the first time around, but had fun with this time.
List of Items Used:
A tag sent from Mario
Distress Inks - evergreen bough, festive berries, iced spruce, pine needles, aged mahogony
Snow cap paint dabber
Tim's Santa, greeting, snowflake and pine needles stamps
Tissue tape
Peeled paint distress stickles
Xmas red stickles
mini safety pin,
mini paper clip
Festive Greenery alterations die

GRUNGY MONDAY 24 - PERFECT DISTRESS

Another Monday already, but it means another Tim challenge over at Grungy Monday.
This week it's PERFECT DISTRESS. Have a look at Tim's video - here - to see what this is all about and have a go with those perfect pearls.
I made a tag in autumnal colours so that I could let Hels see it for her Sunday challenge too. I now she usually joins in with grungy Monday, being a Tim fan (and Ranger educated to boot).
Here is my piece then:

Not sure whether the perfect pearls are shining on the photo, but they are on the twigs and the bird's wing. I used a lot of products on this so please bear with me:
DIs
dried marigold, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmons, seedless preserves, gathered twigs, pumice stone, vintage photo, brushed corduroy.
PERFECT PEARLS
forever violet, heirloom gold,
STAMPS
flights of fancy, lost & found, dots, twigs.
Another crafting bit of fun.

A DAY TO PLAN JUST 10MINS

That's how long it has taken me to plan a card to make in just 10 minutes for the Grungy Monday challenge. The title of this week's challenge is TIM IN 10, the idea being to make something in just 10 minutes using at least 1 Tim Holtz item.
I needed to make a birthday card for an 80+ yr old man, so decided that would be my challenge. Here are the items I gathered:

I borrowed my hubby's clock, waited for the top of the hour after showing him how to use my camera and asking him to take photos over the next 10mins - including the time - and off I went.

Ooh! look, I had 30secs to spare.

All that planning and I didn't know where to start....... I did in the end begin by painting the edges of an 8"x8" card with Americana and Adirondak paint, rubbing some off with a baby wipe. The Crowded Attic square on the right was covered in Picket Fence Distress Stain and left to dry.

3 mins in and still doing the edge!!!!

But another minute later and the Crowded Attic paper is going on.

8 minutes in and I've die cut the hanging bracket from Tim's Hanging Sign die and am adding a couple of eyelets using my crop-o-dile. How I wish my fingers would work quicker....

10minutes have gone and my card looks like this. Not finished, but - remember I had wasted 30secs at the beginning - so I rushed the last bit and here is the finished result.

Yippee!
I used the following Tim items:
papers: lost & found/crowded attic
distress edger
tiny attacher
pumice stone DI
scissors
picket fence distress stain
mini paper clips
jump rings
hanging sign alterations die
I also used:
crackle accents
adirondak black dabber
ink applicators
What a blast this was. Roll on next week.