Tim Holtz’s Tags of 2012

     This tag has been sitting on my desk for a week half-completed. Today, I finally got back to my craft table to finish it off.      The background is inked, sprayed and embossed. I used a Tattered Angels heart stamp that has been sprayed and gold heat embossed. The key and flourish are painted [...]

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Pin It Yummy

     I have finally had time to indulge in Pin interest. Can I just say it is addicting and fun. I love how you can search through pictures, click on the one you like and go right to the website of origin. I love that you can put pictures of all different subjects together on [...]

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Fields of White

   First off, I have been out of touch with everyone because I been in bed sick since Saturday. Stuff like the chills, sweating, sore throat, vomiting, muscle aches and a high fever. I thought I was feeling better and then this morning around 12:30 am I woke up drenched in sweat and my throat [...]

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Steampunk Altered Book

     Greetings everyone! I hope your Thursday has been enjoyable. Today, I want to share the second set of pages I have completed in my altered book.    This first image is by June at Dezinaworld. I love it! I used some gears, beads and TH stamps.     I really wanted a dressform on at [...]

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Grungy Monday

  I am so excited to make Grungy Monday this week. As you know, WordPress had some glitches which prevented me from participating last week. The theme is ‘Love Tim Holtz Style.’      I had fun using all my new grungeboard shapes. What awesome stuff. Can’t believe I have made it this far without them. [...]

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Giveaway Winner

     The winner of my First Bloganniversary box is Sam. Congratulations Sam. Please email me at katesscrapyard@gmail.com with your mailing address. I will be mailing your box out on Friday. Thank you for all who entered. I wish I could send something to each of you.     Happy Valentine’s Day! Kate

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Stories Journal Page

    Much of my inspiration on this layout came from Donna Downey’s Inspiration Wednesday from last week. Lots of fun techniques I never thought of putting together. This page turned more into a collage. A little of this and a little of that. All scraps.    And here is a close up of the texture. [...]

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Test and Appologies

    This post is a test to see If WordPress is working correctly. I appologize for all of you who may have gotten notifications yesterday with posts that did not work. I uploaded my Grungy Monday post 3 times but was unsucessfull with the image. I had to delete each post. Needless to say I [...]

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Le Romantique Cards

     I like to hoard Graphic 45 papers. I am sure you can relate. We all have something in our scrap room that we just like to look at. Well, I am trying to get over my hoarding. I made a pact with myself to use the papers on the shelf before buying any more [...]

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Valentine’s Treat Bags

    Here are a couple of bags that I made to inspire my gift giving next week. I’ll will be making chocolate coverted fruit to fill up these lovelies. Hopefully all the fruit will make it to the bags and not my stomach.    To decorate, I used the Le Romantique collection by Graphic 45 [...]

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Scrap Paper Collage Cards

    Recently, I decided to clean off my very messy table. I have limited talent when it comes to card making but I remembered a recent blog post (can’t remember where) about collaging scraps of anything together. I figured this technique would be fool proof. How did I do? I really like the outcome on [...]

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Rare Is Beauty Journal Page

   As you can tell by now, I am addicted to turquoise and teal. I am finding it difficult to not use it on every possible project. And here I have used them again. Perhaps it is just a phase I am going through. I wonder how long it will last.     The images on [...]

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First Blog Anniversary Giveaway

  This is an altered brie cheese box. I used Lindy’s and paint to color the box. On top I added flowers and some vintage embellishments. The image is from Graphic 45′s Le Romantique. The side has lace underneath a layer of painted skeleton leaves and black pearls.   For the inside of the box [...]

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