Doodles in my Sketchpad

Play Day Wednesday…and the End Result!

OK so I had a little bit of time at lunch again this week to play around with Tim Holtz's new Jingle Bell Movers and Shapers die. I cut this one from grungeboard. I then painted it with distressing paint, shaded it with distressing ink, dried it, added a bit of Picket Fence distressing pen and ... View Post

Tip #2 for Garage Saling

Just wanted to stop in right quick and post my next tip. Tip #1 told you where to look for sales. Today I want to tell you to read the ads carefully. A garage sale is truly just that, namely a sale usually held in the garage. An estate sale however, is something that means items from an ... View Post

Technique Tuesday or Wednesday!

Today my co-worker Lynda and I played around with Tim Holtz's distressing inks and paints. We had no agenda so it was really like coloring outside of the box. The first pic shows a distressed tag that has been run through a watery solution of distressing ink misted with water. I then looked at my ... View Post

Tip One for Garage and Estate Sales

Well it's Friday and I'm actually off to an estate sale, of course! I said that I would start giving you all a tip for the day for garage/estate saling each week. So today I'm gonna start at the very beginning. First of all, what I like to do is to read the garage sale listings under Craig's ... View Post

Tuesdays with Tim

Hi friends! I have so much to share with you but one post at a time! Several weeks ago my friends and co-workers at Sizzix were challenged by Tim Holtz to spend one hour a week playing with his dies and Ranger and Idea-ology products. Seemed simple enough but with the pressure of eminent ... View Post