Let's Celebrate Freedom Blog Hop 2013

 

 

Let's Celebrate Freedom

Blog Hop

July 1st through July 6th 2013

 

 

We want you to join us for a week of techniques from the Design Team at The Hens' Den.  Each Design Team member will be showing you how they made something and in the process give you a look at different ways of documenting such a wonderful day in the lives of Americans.

 

The blog hop will start on the 1st of July and end on the 6th of July.  On July 7th, we will pick a winner at random from all of those who follow the rules.   Here is what you need to do.

 

 

You will start here at The Hens' Den Blog then you will visit each of the other blogs:

 

Anita Mulcahey

Moriah MacDonald

Carolyn Lontin

 Lori McClelland

Janet Bagnall

Nicolle Kramer

Charlie LaBonte

Facebook Page for The Hens' Den

 

You will start here at The Hens' Den Blog. (leave a comment so that we know you where here)   Each DT Member will have the next link on their blog that you need to move onto.   You need to leave a comment on each blog so that we know you where there.  The LAST step is to go to our FB page and leave a comment about the blog hop. 

 

On Sunday, July 7th, we will pick one random person who visited all the blogs and they will be our winner.  

 

What do you win you ask!!!

 

A bag full of goodies from Tim Holtz , Dyan Reaveley and Claudine Hellmuth

Distress Ink, Distress Stain, Dylusions Ink, Distress Paint, Studio Acrylic paint and a hand full of tags to play with. 

 

 

You will have fun getting messy and inky, so have those baby wipes and paper towels handy. 

 

We hope you will join us and have lots of fun.

 

 





February 14 2013 Blog Hop



 

 

 

If you got here first, you need to start with this link

(click here)

 

Valentine Blog Hop!!

Featuring all of the Design Team Members form

The Hens Den

 (This is the last stop on the blog hop)

 

We hope you enjoy your journey today through each of our blogs.  We want to share with you some techniques that each of us use and hopefully you will learn something new from us. ( You should have started with the Facebook posting, so if you got here first, please go to Facebook and click on that link and will take you to the beginning.)

 

Please be sure to comment on each blog.  If you pay close attention, each Design Team member is giving away "a piece" of a kit and one lucky person will win this kit valued at $35.00.  We will select a winner from all of you that comments on ALL of the blogs.  The winner will be picked randomly and we will post how we got that person.   

 

My project is Grunge board/paper.  I love working with Grunge Paper and I find it very intriguing to work with.  I play with scraps a lot.  I just do not want to get into a project and waste good paper on mistakes, so scraps are easy to play with and I usually have plenty around for messing with.  I am messing around in these pictures so, you are going to see the results just as they ended up.

 

I apologize for the glare in this picture.  I used Distress ink on the top piece and I painted the bottom piece.  I wanted to see what it would look like both ways.  Grunge paper/board is easy to cover and take color of all kinds.  Do not be afraid to play and experiment.

 

 

This piece I pained with Gesso because I wanted to play around with stains on the gesso and see what I came up with.

In this sample, I used several Distress Stains and dried the using a heat tool.  the color turned out really cool and I loved the texture that I ended up with as well.  I will use this for a project down the road away.

On this sample I used embossing powders to create a different look.  As I heated the grunge paper, it curled up but later flattened out, this is normal so do not panic if you have never played with it before 



 

 The top piece is the one that I inked using Distress ink and then I sprayed some gold glitter ink spray and it turned out really cool.  I think I might pair it up with the piece shown.

 

 

 Here are the two pieces that I made while playing with embossing powders.   I can add letters or a saying to the center of the sign and be very happy with the way it turned out. 

 

The entire purpose of this project is to give you encouragement to play with something new and not be afraid to mess around and see what you come up with.

 

 

I hope you had fun today and commented along the way.  We will be taking all the names from everyone that did play and one person will win all the items that will make up a kit for your enjoyment and pleasure.    ~ Charlie

The Hens Den FIRST Blog HOP

The Hens Den FIRST blog hop starts NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

We are so excited over at the Hens Den to do our very first blog hop. The design team has been working hard on some new product that we got in the store and we are all going to share with you what we have done using the Echo Park Halloween line called Apothecary Emporium Collection. 

Team member Charlie created this amazing altered "Boo Box" it has so many layers and is super spooky!!

Here it is already October 1st, can you believe it? Well it’s true and to kick off the month and spooky Halloween, what better way to celebrate this blog hop by giving away this Echo Park line to one lucky winner! 

That’s right, the winner of our blog hop will be announced on October 3rd and you will have a chance to win the Echo Park Apothecary line that you can view you can view (HERE) in the Hens Den store, as well as a gift certificate to the store to do your own shopping! 

Now what do you have to do? 
First and foremost you must become a follower of the Hen’s Den Blog, This is where the hop will start. Become a follower, and head on over to the next blog which will be Charlies blog. Charlie is the owner of THE HENS DEN.  

CHARLIE’s blog is : CLICK HERE (CHARLIES BLOG) After you go to Charlies blog you will then go to the next DT’s blog which will be Cheri’s blog, become a follower and leave a comment. 

Cheri’s blog is : CLICK HERE (CHERI'S BLOG) Then you will head to Brittney’s blog, become a follower and leave a comment. 

Brittneys blog is: CLICK HERE (BRITTNEYS BLOG)Then head over to Elish’as blog, become a follower and leave a comment. 

Elisha’s blog is : CLICK HERE (ELISHA'S BLOG)And last but not least, go to Carla’s blog, become a follower and leave a comment.. 

Carla’s blog is: CLICK HERE (CARLA'S BLOG) 

Once you have become a follower of the Hen’s Den blog, and left a comment for all the DT member’s on their work, and became a follower of their blogs, you then need to go to the Hens Den facebook page and LIKE us. Click here (THE HENS DEN FACEBOOK PAGE) You then must leave a comment on our facebook page that you have completed the blog hop, by following all blogs and leaving comments on all blogs. Once we received this notice on FB we will enter you in for the chance to win the Echo Park Apothecary Emporium Collection. 

Good luck to everyone, and have fun hopping!

The Hens Den Design Team Blog Hop Announcement!! Mark your calendars!!

The Hens Den FIRST blog hop.

We are so excited to do our very first blog hop, that we wanted to send out a SAVE the date so that you do not miss out.

October 1^st and October 2^nd are the dates that you need to mark down for our blog hop.

The hop will run all weekend starting at midnight September 30^th and will run through Sunday at midnight October 2^nd.

We have an AWESOME prize to give out from the Hens Den Store, want to take a sneak at what we carry? CLICK HERE http://thehensden.com/

But you won’t know what the prize is until the START of the hop on October 1^st. Trust me you are not going to want to miss out.

So mark your calendars and we can’t wait to see you come hop along with us.