CHA 2016 - Recap 2 (Ranger Designer Challenge)

I'm back...a little later than I said, sorry...I've been preparing for taxes...yuck! Anywho, here are all the wonderful pieces of Art that were included in the 2016 Ranger Ink Designer's Challenge. They were all wonderful, and I'm sure everyone (I know I was!!!) was honored to be asked to use Tim Holtz's new Distress Crayons! They are WONDERFUL to use, and I need every color! Each of us were only given one pack, #8 tags to use, and Dina Wakley's new Media Board for the substrate, and then left to discover on our own. Pure JOY I tell you! I've also included the tutorial for how I created mine titled "Roses are Red", so grab some sustenance!!!

2016 Ranger Ink Designer's Challenge - Distress Crayons

 

 

 

Aren't they all so unique and different?!! I love love love to see everyone's style, and the way we've all used the same goods, but they are all completely different.

I took inspiration from my own den! The bricks were modeled after the ones on my fireplace, which I painted years ago, and the table too, which I inherited from my Grandparents. Then I took my favorite color red (I used the whole crayon up!!!) to create the roses, and inserted them into a wax vase, YES WAX!

I used Glue N Seal to adhere dictionary pages to Wendy's Clearly for Art for the roses.

I mashed up some of the Festive Berries Distress Crayon (So super luscious and soft!) and mixed it with water to make a paint.

I die cut the Clearly for Art with Tim's Sizzix large and small Tattered Pinecones, and painted them with the Festive Berries Crayon. I did the same with the leaves from the Garden Greens die.

To make the table, I adhered chipboard to Tim's Core'dinations cardstock and die cut the pieces with Vintage Cabinet Card die, and then layered them onto themselves for a 3D beveled table look.

I colored the table with stripes of Festive Berries, and then coated the whole thing with Black Tie Paint Dabber. Then I used a paper towel to wipe away the paint that was resisted from the crayon. COOL!

I coated Dina's Media Board with her white Gesso, let that dry, and then adhered some music note strips with Clear Gesso, added Wendy's Gold Embossing Paste, and some torn tags onto it, which made for great texture. Then I stared and stared at the board, waiting for a new idea.

I colored each leaf with mixtures of Festive Berries, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, and Peeled Paint Distress Crayons, and use a Bold Water Brush to watercolor the look. I shaped them and the roses with a Heat It Tool. I also hot glued the roses to flower making stems.

Back to the substrate, I decided to smudge on Fossilized Amber Crayon with my finger all over the board, darker in some areas and lighter, then I did some stamping with Tim's Stamper's Anonymous script from the Letters to Santa stamp set with Wendy's Watering Can Archival. Then I smashed up some more Distress Crayon and added it to Wendy's White Embossing Paste, and spread it through Tim's Brick Layering Stencil here and there. I didn't like how orange the bricks were, so when it dried, I coated them with Fossilized Amber Distress Crayon with a baby wipe. I added dots of Paint Dabber here and there on the bricks, and outlined them with a Hickory Smoke Distress Marker. Then I loved them!

I make the vase, I coated a #8 tag with white Gesso, and then colored on stems with the Peeled Paint Crayon, then coated the whole thing with clear wax from the Melt It Pot. I fused that, and then laid Tim's Gothic Stencil over it, and brushed on more wax over the stencil. LOVE!!! I cleaned the stencil between strips of newsprint using an iron. So COOL!!! I fused that, and then rubbed the Chipped Sapphire Crayon all over the tag to get into all the cracks. Using the warmth of my finger, I moved the crayon all over and smudged it where I wanted it. Once it was dry, I rubbed the Platinum Foil Sheet over it here and there to give it a little sparkle. Then I colored some Gum Drops with Cloudy Blue Alcohol Ink, and adhered them onto the vase. I used pieces of Wendy's Art Part material to form a pocket on the back of the vase to slide the flowers into.

I found an old knitted doily, and adhered the table top and doily on, and then stamped the 'Art' wording image all over the canvas with Tree Branch Archival. Yes, I cut the stamp apart from 'Artist' to 'Art'...it's all good. Then I adhered the vase, tucked the flowers in, and die cut the 'love' words from Tim's Handwritten Love Thinlets, the heart from the Mixed Media Thinlets, sanded and inked those, and added the Small Talk Stickers. Finished!!!!

    

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you Ranger and Tim for asking me to be a part of this!!! I was so so so honored, and it was just a joy to my creative heart!

Supplies:

Wendy Vecchi Clearly For Art Modeling Film in Clear	Inkssentials Glue N′Seal	Alterations Pinecone Bigz Die	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Jumbo Tattered Pinecone Bigz Die	Sizzix Tim Holtz Garden Greens Bigz Die
Ranger Water Brush Wide Flat Tip	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #2 TDBK47919 (February Pre-order)	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Vintage Cabinet Card Base Die	Core-dinations TH Kraft Core Paper Stack	Ranger Multi Matte Medium
Ranger Paint Dabber in Black Tie	Dina Wakley Media Board, 9x12" 3PK MDA48695 (February Pre-Order)	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - Clear Gesso	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso	Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste in Gold
Ranger Dina Wakley Palette Knife	#8 Manila Tag	Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool	Letters To Santa Stamp Set	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Watering Can
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Bricked	Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste in White	Ranger Paint Dabber in Pearl Metallic	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker in Hickory Smoke	Mini Classics Stamp Set
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Tree Branch	Ranger Melt Art Melting Pot	Tim Holtz Collection Stencils Gothic	Ranger Foil Sheets in Vintage	Idea-ology Gumdrops
Sizzix® Thinlits™ Die Set 4PK - Scribbles & Splat by Tim Holtz®	Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits in Handwritten Love	Idea-ology Small Talk Stickers	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Big Chat Stickers

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

CHA 2016 - Recap 1 (Ranger)

Hello everyone! I'm back from CHA, and after appeasing the family with some quality time, and then sorting and editing tons of photos, I am finally doing my first blog post about my time there. And what a time it was...the best CHA ever!!! Here is a quick, although long, synopsis of my time in the Ranger Ink booth.

This was my first day on the job! Everyone in the booth was so super nice to me, oh my gosh, I cannot tell you in words what this time was like for me...SUPERB!!! All the people I met, and rehashed with, mixed with working with a bunch of great Ranger loot, made this experience AMAZING!!!

This was my demo cart! It had my name on it, and was loaded with everything I could possibly need to demo with! I almost cried when I saw my name! SWOON!!!

So many people came by and visited and listened to my blabbing about the goods. I demoed Perfect Pearls Powders, Paint Dabbers, and Dye Inks. I even got to play with the new colors.

 Ranger even did a video of me demoing...don't judge!!! ;0) Thank you Ranger!

And Marjie Kemper did a Periscope Video of me as well, and even saved it to YouTube. Thank you Marjie!!!

 

Dyan and her glorious pose! She was so gracious to share her demo place with me! I called myself the "Chair Filler"...like at the Oscars...when a star goes to the bathroom, someone sits in their space until they come back so it is never left empty for the camera. That is what I was! ;0) When Dyan and Dina went to lunch, I filled their chair! What a blast!!!

And this fantastic lady, Dina, also shared her space with me! She is pure joy, and I enjoyed watching her work! Thank you Dina!!!

There were lots and lots of sample boards all over the booth, and here are a few with my work. Sorry for the fuzzy photos, but I'll be showing you tutorials with these later on with much better photos.

Specialty Stamping Paper

 

Liquid Pearls

More Liquid Pearls

Watercolor Paper and Stickles

Stickles

And then there was many, many more! I could stare at the samples all day...always my favorite samples to see. 

 

Dyan

More Dyan

Dina

This painting Dina created was my favorite! If they had an auction for it, I would have maxed my credit card for it...LOVE!!!

I adored Dina's samples too. Love her bound books!

Wendy! I loved her samples. How I didn't get a photo with her, or with Tim is beyond me. I was so crazy busy, and missed many photo opportunities.

There were lots of Tim samples everywhere...so gorgeous.

 

 

Tomorrow, I'll be back to show you the Ranger Designer Challenge pieces...it was a thrill to be included. I'm sorry I didn't get pics of all the Ranger employees...they made this the most wonderful experience ever, and I thank them from the bottom to the top of my heart! 

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!