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Cruise blogging

If you take a look at Tim Holtz's blog you will see his video of the Alaska adventure. When he pans around the audience at the end, I'm on the left, second row back...........hummm, I couldn't find myself, either.

And, this is the blog of The Creating Place a neat scrappy store in Juneau. They were very excited to see Tim!!

Cruising Day 7 - the final gift.

At the end of the session, Tim said he had a very special gift for us. He showed us this cute little suitcase.



He had it made just for us (remember, presentation is everything) to hold the special gift.



The suitcase was soooo cute and opened up......







A stamp made just for us to match the logo for the entire artistic cruise. The stamp will never be available for sale.



Tim was nice enough to sign each one for us. We were sworn to secrecy since ours was the first group to receive them.

Cruising Day 7 - Alaska Memories - a picture frame

So we were given a paper photo frame, a page of colored Alaska images and several pieces of clear acrylic. We used a glaze to adhere the acrylic pieces here & there over the various images. When dry (like 5 seconds later) we cut out the acrylic pieces from the paper & had lots of little acrylic Alaska images. We were given a grungeboard tag which we inked. We then used the glaze to attach the pieces to the paper frame.



This is Tim's example.



This is the one I did:



These are the gifties we received.

Cruising Day 6 - Words & Windows - Ketchikan

Oh boy, alcohol ink, Hambly & Prima overlays. We used the blender solution in a Koi waterbrush. There were six drops of ink in each well of the pallet. It was totally dry and we used the blending solution to wet it & put it on the transparancies.



I only colored the Prima overlays because the pattern is sandwiched between two layers and the blending solution would not have any effect on the design. The Hambly overlays are not sandwiched & so the paint that makes the design would be dissolved by the blender solution. I didn't color the Hambly overlays. We were also given plain transparent pages & two heavier duty transparent pieces for the front & the back. All the projects already had the holes punched in them, but there was a bind-it-all on the table & we used it to bind all of our books.






And the gifties so we could decorate our books some more:

Cruising Day 5 - Weatherd Reflections

Glacier Bay. Wanted to share some of the photos I took from our veranda off our cabin. It was beautiful.




Ice particles in the water.




And then the project. A 12x12 frame with a mirror in the middle.



Many strips of grungeboard pre-cut into 1/2 inch wide lengths. We then painted them with various color daubers. When dry, we used sand paper on them and then a wire scratching tool. We then cut the strips into various lengths & glued them onto the frame, including the four edges. We then wiped the grungeboard with an ink pad and blended it in.



Then we were given some Thickers and some ribbon to finish the decoration....something I still have to do.

Cruising Day 4 - Skagway

No Creative Journey today - just a rainy day in Skagway.



Um, yeah, and then it started to SNOW - OK May 14th & snow...well, it is Alaska :-)



And that evening, ScrapMap sent each of us some chocolate covered strawberries. Yum, watching it snow & eating strawberries!!

Cruising Day 3 - Juneau - Parts & Pieces

This was a mini project created by Karen (key chain) one of Tim's friends who helped him during classes. Basically, it bits and pieces of clock stuff, brads, wires, clips, chains, etc. all presented (per Tim - "it's all about presentation") in a little coffee stained bag - yup, the bag smelled like coffee. You can see the monogram stamp on the bag (more info about it below in this post).




And here is what I came up with. I still have lots of bits & pieces to play with, but now I know what do to with them!!



And, I attached it to my journal we made the first day.



Some more goodies we received. Yup, that's a monogram stamper kit. Tim had several set up so we could stamp our projects & then he gave each of us one of our own. I went into the Creative Journey Emporium & purchased a set of tiny letters and numbers to go with this.



John & I went on a photography tour of Juneau - several miles of walking and taking photos. Here's our ship as viewed from Douglas:



John & me at Mendenhall Glacier:



The end to a wonderful day.

Cruising Day 2 - first Creative Workshop - Memories of the Journey

Yup, I'm at the right place.



Class kit, donated by Ranger. Had to bring it to class each day so we could use the goodies. Distress ink, crackle paint, black paint dauber, mister, white pen....see all the goodies below.




The first project: Memories of the Journey. We made a small book with Grungeboard covers, covered with crackle paint and inked. 7 Gypsey's knob, ribbons, new prima flowers and all sorts of goodies. The book was made to fit in the tin - I'll be decorating mine later.




Here are some of the internal pages - each inked with our ink blender and decorated with fun stuff. Tim likes stuff and knows we like stuff, so there was lots of stuff in the workshops.




Speaking of stuff...here's some of the free stuff we received on the first day. Lots of companies donated goodies for us.



And my favorite picture....Tim and me...he is such a funny and creative person.

Cruising Day 1

Welcome reception in the Spinnaker Lounge. We were given our name tags & a tote to use every day. Had to wear the name tag, or we weren't allowed into the classes. The name tag holder was big enough to hold the schedule of events, my camera (Sony Cybershot) and ATCs for trading. Had to bring the tote EMPTY to class....hummm, I wonder why???





After a bit of housekeeping details, Tim was introduced and he is such a wonderful & funny guy. He wouldn't give away any secrets as to what we would be doing each day. But, that's OK, we were ready to roll!!

Do you post your family photos online? Read this!

ORPHAN WORKS OF 2008

There are two bills that are coming up in the House & Senate that will change copyright as we know it. They were shot down once before because of action against it, but now they are back as bill numbers HR 5889: The Orphan Works Act of 2008 (House of Representatives) and S 2913: The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 (Senate).

This is text from the Illustrator Partnership web site:

Due to the lack of publicity about this bill, the most innocent victims of this plunder – those who put images online - are still completely unaware of it. Who am I talking about? Average American families who have enjoyed the internet as a way to share the happiest, and even saddest, moments of their lives with their friends and family across the country, and even around the world, through the wonders of technology. Google has already said they plan to use these orphan works in the millions. Why should companies like this be allowed to to harvest our property from private web pages, blog sites, share sites and the like?

If you are posting your photos online, you should send the email letter on the Illustrator Partnership web site (all you do is enter your info and press send!)Takes 1 minute!!!

I've been looking at the Basic Grey new lines and am in love with Boxer.

Aren't those colors and patterns just gorgeous?