Posted in News, Techniques on August 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
Well I have! Of course it’s no big secret that I love using alcohol ink when creating, but this weekend I had about 24 other scrappers join me in exploring how much fun alcohol ink can be! My good friend, Teresa Wilkins, invited me to Russellville to teach a class on alcohol ink. It was [...]
Posted in Techniques on March 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Grandad
One of the techniques we demonstrated at the Memory Villa Retreat this year, were a series of what I call “5 - Minute” layouts. To my surprise, this ended up being one of the most requested techniques throughout the weekend.
Now to be honest, even though I call them 5 - minute layouts, this [...]
Posted in Techniques on January 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
MemoryVilla design team member Nancy Peterson recently created some beautiful distressed tags!
Distressed Butterfly Tags
There are a couple of different techniques used in this tag and I will try and explain them all for you. For the base tag the technique comes from Tim Holtz, using Distress Re-inkers and Pearl-Ex powder. On the [...]
Posted in News, Techniques on October 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
On Friday night, they had something called the Friday night extravaganza. It started off with Heidi Swapp talking about a book that inspired the events that were to come.
Quoted from the CE book and Heidi’s speech that night:
Ever Wonder is a book of questions. And when the questions are asked and the answers are [...]
Posted in News, Techniques on September 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
We were each placed into groups of around 70 or so and we traveled with our groups from class to class. Classes started promptly at 8am and the first class we took was “A Year to Remember Calendar” taught by Heidi Lynn Schreiber.
Angie and I weren’t sure if we were going to like this [...]