Hangin' out with Tim Holtz

Been a while since I posted. Really busy doing artsy stuff. Soooo much to post, so little time. What a wild weekend I had! Finally stepped outta my hermit shell and took a plunge into the realm of Idea-ology Intrigue and the world of Generation Grunge with Tim Holtz around the corner at Scrapbook Territory on Saturday. Thanx Diane, for inviting Tim over to do the classes at your store! So freakin’ cool! The workshops were amazing, with 45-50 of us laughing, talking, and creating such wonderful pieces of art for about 3-4 hours in each class. Some of us took both classes, some took all three. There was a class on Friday that I did not take. That would have been waaaay too much for me. Tim and Mario were such gracious hosts and so much fun.

Mario, Deb, Tim

This was my first, and certainly not my last class with Tim. An excellent teacher. Funny, helpful, and such a warm spirit. He’s not the kind of teacher that stands in one place to teach. He’s interactive with his classes. Has conversation with you, looks you in the eye when he talks to you and makes you feel welcomed and happy to be in the class. You can see and hear his passion for what he does. Love his teaching style.

I have to give a big shout out to Mario (the other half of the well oiled machine) for his awesome prep work too. He put all the kits together, made sure all the tools and materials were set for each seat at the tables, and he even came to the rescue when someone needed something. That's 50+ kits for each class! The Idea-ology class itself had 6 projects per kit by itself. Multiply that by 50! Yikes! I luv a man. So kind and helpful. And that was just what I could see. Thank you for your hard work! Tim even threw in some extra goodies (full packs, not samples) of some Idea-ology products for each of us! Not sure if there were others who worked in helping behind the scenes, but if they did, thank you too! Two very generious students even brought coffee and donuts for the classes.

My first workshop started at 10am and ended around 1:30. That was the Idea-ology class. We played with, and assembled jewelry pieces with a lot of the trinkets from Tim’s Idea-ology line. Six projects in all! Man that was good! There were lots of tips, tricks, and ideas. A lot of oooo’s and ahhh’s, followed by instant gratification. Most satisfying indeed. I was having so much fun that I forgot to take some of the pictures, argh! These are before and after pics of some of the goodies that we got to play with.

The makings of the first piece.

It had all the makings of a necklace, but I chose to save the extras for a future use and use this piece for an assemblage piece that I will work on.

This is one of the pieces that I forgot to take before pics of. This is my favorite piece.

Think my daughter will like this piece. I will give it to her.

Loved working on this one

Adorable!

The Bird House

This piece is about 4.5" long.

Next up was the Generation Grunge class. That was at 3:30, ending at 7:30. We dove right into the makings of a mini grunge book. We played with inks, embellishments, paints, sanding, papers and various other tools as we put our books together. I did not get a chance to finish mine. It was labor intensive in the preparation of the pages (8 in all, front to back). So there are only two pics for now until I finish it. Will post more pics then. And ya know what, Tim and his crew stayed on after the class for those who wanted to stay and finish up their projects. Gotta love it!

The makings of My Journey

I was wiped out by days end. But I walked away very, very happy and satisfied. It felt good and I’m so glad that I did the classes. My ATC workshop was the next day at 11am, and I hadn’t even set up my classroom yet. Yikes! Was up till 3:30 getting it ready. But that’s another story for another day.

Tim, you have such a beautiful spirit and a passion for what you do. Never lose that sweetie. Thank you for being such an awesome teacher!