Maya Road Palette Valentine Challenge

Hello all! Today, I have a challenge project bestowed on me by The Crafty Scrapper, in which I needed to make a Valentine project using a  Maya Road 6x6 inch wood palette. Thanks for having me Crafty Scrappers!

I misted the palette with Tim Holtz Weathered Wood (of course), Old Paper, and Pumice Stone Distress Ink Spray Stains from Ranger.

Then I inked over the whole palette with Hickory Smoke Archival, and inked the edges with Vintage Photo.

With help from my cat Roxy, I cut various widths of wooden sticks to fit on a chipboard heart, to fashion a smaller palette.

I misted the sticks with different hues of red Distress Spray Stains.

I used Skor Tape to adhere the sticks onto the heart, trimmed around it, and inked everything up.

I stamped Tim's 'L', 'V', and 'E' Cirque Alphabet letters with Black Soot Archival, and heat embossed them with Clear Powder. The heart serves as the 'O'.

I colored in the openings of the letters with a silver Sharpie Marker, and then attached the key hole and key to the heart, before adhering it on.

I hot glued the Maya Road zipper the left and bottom edges of the palette.

I gathered several Idea-ology foliage pieces and metal flowers and beads and adorned the rest of the palette.

  

 

All Supplies Found at The Crafty Scrapper:

-Maya Road Palette: 6x6

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain: Weathered Wood, Pumice Stone, Aged Mahogany, Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick

-Ranger Tim Holtz Archival Ink Reinker: Hickory Smoke, Vintage Photo, Black Soot

-Ranger DIY Archival Pad

-Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Cirque Alphabet

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Clear Fine Detail

-Sharpie Silver Metallic Paint Pen

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Foliage Flowers, Long Fasteners, Jumprings, Screw Eye, Key Hole, Word Key, Spinner

-Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Mixative: Silver Metallic

-Ranger Multi Matte Medium

-Maya Road Zipper: Maroon

-Skor Tape: 1 Inch

-Craft Sheet, Heat Tool, Craft Pick, Scissors, Cardboard Heart, Popcicle Sticks, Tongue Depressors, Stir Sticks, Glue Gun, Metal Flower Beads, Metal Butterfly

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

CHA 2016 - Recap 3 (Eileen Hull and Maya Road)

I'm back for Recap 3!!! I was so fortunate to be able to demo for Eileen Hull in her Scotty Booth, and for Caroline Lau of Maya Road in the Designer's Showcase Booth. To say that I was busy while at the show, is an understatement, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. Thank you ladies for having me!!!

This was the Scotty Booth. Talk about cute cute cute! You just wanted to plant yourself there and camp out a while! Eileen had lots of minions everywhere...Karen Bearse, Susie Bentz, Beth Watson....thanks ladies!

I demoed Eileen's new Twist and Style Tool. Talk about cool! You can twist wire, yarn, embroidering thread, just about any kind of string, into all kinds of stuff. I made earrings, flowers, tags, words, bracelets...I could have played with it for hours. Everyone was intrigued with it!

I forgot to take better photos before I handed these to Eileen, and hopefully she has some, but I created a bouquet of steampunk flowers, and a metalicious tag with more flowers, using the tool and her new Heart Petal Flowers from Sizzix.  I did however take step out photos of how I created the flowers.

Her new die has three shapes of flowers that can nest together or use apart. I cut die Ranger's Silver Cardstock using it, and then embossed the flowers with some of Tim's industrial looking Texture Fades from Sizzix.

Then I got painty coating all of the flowers with Black Tie Paint Dabber. When they were dry, I sanded them a bit to reveal some of the silver.

I also inked over the silver portions with Wendy's Tree Branch Archival.

To prepare the stem, I doubled wire, and strung it through an Idea-ology Mini Gear, placing it in the center of my wire, that was cut about a yard long.

I wanted the flowers to look a little fluted, so I cut a petal from each, and then fold them over and secured them with adhesive tape.

I nested the flowers littlest to biggest and strung them on the wire, pushing them to the gear. Then I strung on a small gear charm that dangled underneath the flower.

(NOTE: This is not what her new tool looks like. This was the actual prototype that she used to design hers, which is much better, has an anchor, and ergonomic handle...so cool!) Then I placed the wire on the end of the tool, and held it in place while I turned the tool.

This is a fuzzy photo, but the gold and silver wire was now twisted and had a look like rope..addicting!

I even added jump rings while twisting the wire to create places to hang charms from. AND, I wrapped the twisted wire over a dowel to create loops to add to the bouquet. AND..I used the twisted wire to create the word 'Love' that I added to the tag (Not seen above.). Can you feel my excitement?!! My mind was reeling with ideas for this tool...the possibilities are endless.   It's super fun!

Here is the Maya Road Booth, run by Caroline and her minions, Julia Stainton and Laura, and my bestie Carolyn, from The Crafty Scrapper (How I have no selfie of us is a mystery!), was also her helper bee but not shown in this photo! Caroline came out with a whole bunch of new goodies and 26 new powdered coated steel dies, that are painted Tiffany Blue!!!

Here I am demoing the new dies, and my friend Johnna from Scrappy Camper Sisters came to watch and I couldn't open my eyes! Bad photo!!! I demoed several dies, but my favorites are the mosaic looking flowers and all the fanciful font words. I made a few tags and cards, that you can sort of see, but of course I forgot to take photos. You can see the beautiful blue dies on the table. Funny story...well not really...Caroline came to video me demoing the dies, and I turned into a bumbling idiot. I guess I was nervous, and not to mention tired, because I even turned the base die plate backwards, couldn't get it to cut obviously, and it took me awhile to figure it out. Caroline had to stop filming three times, and we never got the video done. Talk about embarrassing! I'm so sorry Caroline! Let's do it again!

   

That's it for today. Tomorrow I'll be showing you the Designers in Action Booth, and my Booth, and then I'll have one more recap after that! Until tomorrow...

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

My CHA Schedule and Huge News!!!

 

I hope all of you have had a super merry Christmas, full of blessings galore!  I sure have, and truthfully have been celebrating one of the best Christmas gifts ever,  after I received a call from a certain somebody asking me to be a part of some huge things!!! I am still pinching myself to see if I wake up from the sweetest dream ever. So here goes...OH MY GOSH...I will be demoing for Ranger along side of Tim Holtz, Wendy Vecchi, Dina Wakley, and Dyan Reaveley in the Ranger Ink Booth at the CHA Mega Show in Anaheim!!! Yes me!!! No one has ever been asked to do this until now!!! Can you believe it?!! I still can't! I am floored Tim asked me! I am humbled like never before! My mind is blown! I will probably be a bumbling idiot, and be fired after 10 minutes, so please please please wish me good thoughts!!! If you are at the show please come see me and give me a hug! I need moral support! 

And...OH MY GOSH...I am participating in the Ranger Designer Challenge at the show!!! To say I am thrilled is an understatement! I've always wanted to participate, and I've been up to my eyeballs drawing blueprints, testing, designing, engineering, and all that jazz, (Really I've been playing!!!) and hopefully by next week I will have a finished piece to display! ;0)

Thank you Tim Holtz (Everything craftily good has been because of you!) and Ranger Ink for having faith in me, and giving me this opportunity. Thank you to all the Signature Designers at Ranger for wishing me well and spurring me on, especially Wendy, who has always been a cheerleader for me!  I will do my best not to let you all down. 

AND...I will be participating in the Designer's in Action at the show, and will have a booth showcasing my work along with some of the greatest Designers in the industry. I can't wait to meet up with all of them again!

AND...I will be demoing in the Designer's in Action area for Maya Road showing a bunch of the new dies they have started making. 

AND...I will be demoing in the Scotty Booth for Eileen Hull, showing some of her new flower dies and a super new cool tool she has coming out. 

My CHA schedule is below and also on my calendar page, so if you are at the show, please come see me! I love to meet new people and make new connections, and love to see old friends again! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support this year and past years, and thank you for all the good wishes for the upcoming CHA Mega Show!!!

2016 CHA Mega Show Schedule:

Designer's In Action Showcase

Exhibit Hall

The Artful Maven - Pedestal #7

Saturday, Jan. 9 - Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016

Items Displayed Everyday

Designer's In Action Demo

Exhibit Hall

Maya Road Dies

Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Demo for Ranger Ink

Exhibit Hall

Booth #621

Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016:  12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Monday, Jan. 11, 2016: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Demo for Eileen Hull

Exhibit Hall

Scotty Booth #330

Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Designer's In Action Greeter

Exhibit Hall

Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016: 9:00 am - 10:00 am

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!