Featuring Special Guest Star Designers
Welcome to a new week and new Grungy Monday challenge, everyone!
I try to leave my personal life out of these challenge posts, but I just have to share this with you guys, since you feel like old friends. For the past couple of months, I've been putting a lot of time into a huge project at my "day job" as Member Services Coordinator at the Boise Co-op (a big gourmet and natural foods store). We've been through some serious managerial upheaval this year, and as a way of marking a new era, we decided to host a free dinner for our members. Well over 2,100 people RSVP'd! YIKES!
Once we finished hyperventilating, my co-organizers (including the crew from an awesome local nonprofit called Life's Kitchen) and I put our heads together and came up with a plan that, I'm delighted to say, worked better than we could ever have hoped. The dinner finally happened this past Wednesday, and it was a success! It really was! Here's a link to the photos if you'd like to see the end result: Boise Co-op Member Appreciation Dinner 2011.
The extra-good news is, I'll have a lot more time now for my crafting and blog friends. I so appreciate your patience with my blog visit delays and slow response time for emails.
Okay, enough of that. Let's get rolling with Grungy Monday 11, and take another hop back in time to Tim's blog for this beautiful bit of inspiration:
Okay, enough of that. Let's get rolling with Grungy Monday 11, and take another hop back in time to Tim's blog for this beautiful bit of inspiration:
I'm delighted to introduce you to this week's Special Guest Star Designers, both of whom created something magnificent for Grungy Monday 11. A round of applause for:
Dan99
Deborah Mahnken
Beautiful work, Dan and Deborah!
Here's mine...
Please click here for a list of the products I used.
Follow that link above to learn how to make your own richly-colored, faux batik piece, then add it to the collection here using the InLinkz button at the end of this post. You'll need to have a blog or an online, public photo album in order to participate. This challenge closes at 8pm MDT on Sunday, June 19.
Please remember, you really MUST mention that this is a Tim Holtz technique in your blog post or photo comments, and include the link to the technique from his blog. Submissions that don't meet this requirement will be removed. It breaks my heart to have to unlink anyone's art, so please follow this one little rule and all will be well.
Remember, too, to add your photo to the Grungy Monday album at All Things Tim, where fabulous List Mom, Gloria, has created an easy way for you to share your work and make some wonderful new friends!
Have an absolutely wonderful week, everyone! I can't wait to see what you create for Grungy Monday 11!
Thanks to Deborah and Dan for their gorgeous Design Team samples!
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28 comments:
Yet another brilliantly inspirational challenge and ideas form you all. Watching the clock at work until I can go home and have a go myself!
Oh Man! the Iron?? Again? Well, ok, but I swear, if you ever ask me to iron clothing, I'm done!! LOL! Great design pieces! All three of you show off this technique's versatility.
Linda... you are superwoman... can't believe everything you are involved in. Congrats on the successful dinner and looking forward to this week challenge !!! xoxo
HI Linda, really gorgeous artwork from everyone and I got a HUGE surprise when I clicked on the link to Sir Tim's blog as I had no idea this is one of his techniques.
If you're curious at my spooky moment, just check out this link:
http://stamperschef.blogspot.com/2011/06/die-cut-or-punched-flower-with-make-my.html
I still can't believe it!!!
Fliss xx
Congrats on that huge undertaking, Linda. What a major sigh of relief you must be exhaling (over and over, I imagine.) GM#11 looks great - and this will be one of the rare times my iron sees the light of day.
Wonderful card, Linda, and lookit chu, gettin' all Wendified! lol! I LOVE it!
These are all excellent examples. And Congratulations for pullnig off the dinner event!
I just came back to link mine up and realise I've used the stars you did - sorry! These 3 pieces are fabulous.
Congrats on your wonderful dinner...it looked amazing. Now you can concentrate on the important stuff. LOL. Seriously, glad to have you back. Beautiful card this week, love yr color choice. take care, gerri
So glad I found this blog...anything Tim...I'm in!!!
What a week you had. Sounds like it was a rousing success! I remember the first time I realized you had a full time job and was so surprised- you were always making these amazing creations and I had visions of you home all day with your lovely cats 'creating'. Your card this week is beautiful. I use those stars all the time. You really made them 'shine'!
Yet again, you and the guest designers have amazed and inspired me! This is one of my all-time favorite techniques. :-)
Your event was fabulous. There is nothing better that smiles and sun.......Congratulations!
Hi Gorgeous Linda!
Congratulations on your own CHALLENGE!! So happy to hear it all went well. You're a SHINING STAR!
Blog love across the miles
Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art
You can never use too much Tim Holtz stuff!
The colours in this week's samples are stunning! Thanks for the inspiration!
Gorgeous tags, ladies!! So glad to be playing along again!!
More wonderful inspiration! Such fabulous art! I won't be sitting this one out!
Another great challenge with great guest. Glad you'll have time again, but the dinner looked amazingly well done. Great job.
Thanks for the brilliant inspiration guys! Great technique Linda! xx
OMG what a dinner event - that sounds amazing, well done.
fabulous inspiration and great tecnique challenge.
luv brenda xoxox
Great technique this week - luuuurved it.
That is such an amazing project and spirit going on there in the kitchens - fabulous work...what a superwoman you are. I hope you didn't offer to make the name badges...Enjoy a little rest and you time.
Congrats on the success of your event. It's so satisfying when you have worked hard and it all turns out so well. Another great challenge. Love your piece. Great colour combo and sentiment.
Marilyn
Hi linda, just finished the copic blog hop, love your tags :)
Great pieces from the DT once again, and I love this technique it's so effective. I'm only just in time this week though as everyday life has been getting in the way of crafting time LOL. Hope you are keeping well Linda and thanks for all your lovely comments. Tracy Evans x
Absolutely wonderful technique!! Thanks so much for sharing, sometimes it doesn't matter how many times I've read a post/blog I need to try it out to see just how fantastic it really is!!
A wonderful technique and great examples. I'm really late this week, but just in time.
I wanted to say I love your art and all you do! I did add my piece on time but I guess inlinkz isn't liking Picasa, again! :( I hope you can take a look here: https://picasaweb.google.com/iamvictorias/GrungyMonday#5620091865635985058
Vic
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