Christmas 2017

Here are this year's Christmas cards, really loved using the Paper Artsy Zinski stamps and the Deep Red snowmen

The Magic of Christmas

Merry Christmas from blogland! Here is a configurations book I made for my mom and dad; it was really fun to make and to decide what to put in each section and basically it was any excuse to cover the entire thing in as much glitter and sparkle as possible!

The cover is painted mostly gold and a bit red inside with some added gilding flakes and chipboard letters painted and then some inka gold in red and them some glitter paint and inside some gilding wax and then I used red sparkle medium through a stencil to make the stars. The snowflake is 3d printed.

Inside the snowman is 3d printed and then painted; then the little tree and wreath I inked and then added some white paint to the tree for snow. Then I used some snowtex type stuff. Wooden letters to spell out noel with some berries. Mini bells, string beads, a 3d printed angel; the little green house is cut out on the cricut, mini pretend lights, a wooden 25th December decorated with gilding wax, glitter in tiny bottles; another little bell; a gingerbread man which is patterned paper and then loads of added glitter and sparkles. And it all couldn't have been done without loads of heavy body gel medium to stick everything down.

Well I was supposed to be making Christmas cards but I made this instead......

Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just have to make it there and then otherwise I never will. So I've seen things in the shops that sort of look like little trees and then I saw these trees with bells on and I thought hmmm I could make something like that myself.

I got a twig out of my mom and dad's garden and painted it with viva decor and glitter paint basically just smearing it on with my fingers getting messy hehe!! I did try and invent a base but it wouldn't stand up so I had a rethink and went with a plant pot and pebbles instead.

So I knew if I left it I might not finish it, so there's me scrabbling around in the dark looking for plant pots and pebbles in the back garden.

 I also knew I had some gold pebbles somewhere and eventually I found them to use on the top of the pot. I hung mini disco balls and mini bells off the tree and finally wrapped some ribbon around the pot and voila!!

Cards

Here are some more Christmas cards....

Those are hobby art stamps, with a little added promarker and glitter

 This is a splodge away stencil using grunge paste dyed red and some sprays and ink in the background

 These are hobby art stamps again with a craftwork cards greeting and some fake snow

 Hobby art stamps again on this one and some fake snow and a craftwork cards greeting

 This one is sparkle medium through a tim holtz stencil and some distress spray stains in the background and the toppers are craftwork cards with a little added molotow pen

Christmas card

Here's one more Christmas card I've finished. It's a Hobby Art reindeer stamp stamped using wow glitter embossing powder in red which I then coloured in with Promarkers and I added some glitter around his feet for snow. The greeting is also a Hobby Art stamp - stamped with red archival ink. I mounted it on some glitter paper before attaching it to the card.

Christmas cards

Here are a couple of Christmas cards I've made....

I got this gingerbread house stencil last week and tested it out.....actually worked even better than I thought.....really love the effect. Basically you get two slightly different stencils that you use one and then the other with different colours to get this effect. It's made by That Special Touch. I used distress ink through the stencil is evergreen bough and festive berries. Then I just added a stamped greeting and mounted it on some patterned paper.

This one used a splodge away snowflake stencil with some clear texture paste and then I used silver distress spray stain plus some distress ink.....that must be evergreen bough as well I think and also some gold gilding wax. Plus a stamped greeting at the bottom (from Hobby Art). The paper in the background is patterned as well but you can't quite see in the photo.

The Class of 2013

Here are the remaining Christmas cards I've made from this year...plus also a card I made for a Christening as well....

Card

Here is another Christmas card I made......with little robins.......I had to try really hard not to distress the whole thing hehe and kept it all white instead!!! I stamped some holly in the background and put some glitter on it, and I stamped and coloured in the robins with promarkers and added some gold ribbon.

Christmas already

Well I've already made a couple of Christmas cards because I really wanted to use some Tim Holtz masks that I had................wooooooooooooo!!! I masked off the sleigh and stamped over the snowflakes in red and also blended some of the green/grey which I think is Iced Spruce and maybe another one. Then I used a bit of the same paper and stamped on the greeting and mounted it on some silver card. Then the other one I used the snowflake mask on patterned paper and just mounted that on a couple of different cards, added a greeting and some glitter.

I also had some new stamps including birds because I am bird crazy and here is a card I made, I stamped the image in black archival and coloured it with a craft nib and distress inks, and then I blended some ink around the edge as well, and finally stamped on the greeting.

Christmas things...

Here are some things I can post now Christmas is over.

I painted and decorated the Noel frame (Paper Artsy fresco paints are lovely!) and some tiny little bells that I've been wanting a use for since I got them....

And I made an album for my sister and brother in law......based on Centerparcs! Here are some of the pages....I made the backgrounds with a variety of inks and paints in a green/brown theme and then I chose a theme for each page and cut out the photos and added some words etc.

Let It Snow!

Well here is this years Christmas cake.......a plethora of snowflakes.......I bought some new snowflake cutters for the job and they worked brilliantly! Best of all I got to cover it all in edible glitter......lovely :)

More Christmas Cards!

Here are my final lot of Christmas cards.......with the robin on the mushrooms being my favourite card this year. The robin is a Little Claire stamp, the mushrooms are dylusions coloured with distress inks, perfect pearls and some glitter, and the snowflakes are a Tim Holtz stamp embossed with white embossing powder and the robin was coloured with distress inks too....using a cut n dry nib; and little bit of fake snowy stuff that I forget the name of.

The penguin card is using distress stains and inks, I forget which set those stamps are from, and I went round the edge with perfect pearls.

The next one I created a background with gold paint and I can't remember if it was metallic glaze of shimmer mod podge, then I stamped the snowflakes and added some ribbon and cut the greeting out using a nestability.

The final one was simply a shape cut out on the cricut and some background paper, another snowflake with glitter on and a greeting.

Christmas cards.....

 Here are some more Christmas cards....I really love all the ones I've done with my new Cricut cartridge, although sometimes it can be fiddly to cut all the parts out and stick them together, the finished articles look really cute! The background paper is from Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet collection.

For this one I was trying to go for the keep it simple but I struggle where to stop hehe! The tree is from a set of trees I think it might be Creative Expressions not quite sure tho..... I stamped the Hero Arts greeting on acetate and drew on the baubles on the tree and coloured with distress stickles.

I bought some pre cut out trees and used them here. Coloured with silver paint, a kind of brass type paint that I swooshed a bit to get a pattern and then crackle paint. Background paper is Graphic 45 again and the greeting is from Craftwork cards.







This one is a lamp post stamp from Tim Holtz SA and the houses are from the Hobby Art scene it coastal set. Made them look snowy with paint and gesso and used a bit of picket fence distress stain and some more paint for the snow on the ground. Stamped the hero arts greeting with gold paint and put some glitter round the edge....