Have yourself a Merry little Christmas

 

Wishing you all a wonderful and peaceful Christmas time. Enjoy the festive period!

 

Have yourself a retro Christmas

Hello everyone and I hope you're having a good. Today I am back with more Christmas cards!

You know when you have soft spots for certain cards you create and don't want to give them away? Well this is one of those! 

I've used Pink Paislee's City Sidewalks collection (papers, chipboard snowflakes, die cut embellies). You just have to love some retro colours at this time of year, and they seem to work so well along with the pop of gold glitter.

The large die cut tag has been texturised with a chevron mask and gesso, then sprinkled with chunky glitter whilst it was still damp to create some interest and shimmer. I've layered a 3D star, twine, Crate clothes pin and glitter Thickers for the "happy" greeting. Can you tell how much I like these? ;) To finish off, I strung the little die cut pennants along to form a cute banner.

Bye for now!

Festive treat bags

Hey-lo and happy Friday! I have been hammering away at the Christmas projects recently and today I'm back with some festive gift bag.

We all need boxes and bags this time of year! Here I've made up a kraft pillow box decorated with Finn's Vintage Vanity papers, burlap, twine and topped off with this beyond kitsch plastic reindeer sat on a rosette (Tim Holtz die)! Don't you just love upcycling weird and wonder junk?!

For the bag, I've mixed up some papaers, using Vintage Vanity again and Hello Pastel - interesting to use Spring paper for Christmas!  Also used inked and embossed canvas, distressed doily and a 3D star which can double up as a Christmas decoration.

The star is detachable, made with a die cut that has been scored and folded up to create the dimension. I've added Prima flowers, vellum snowflake and a bubble sticker then pegged it onto the bag with a Prima clothes pin.

Last but not least....

I created this treat pocket by cutting a sheet of 12x12 paper in half and then folding in half again (short way if that makes sense!) to create the basic bag. The two side edges have been glued down and next was decorating, using some scraps of paper (Hello Pastel, North Country), fake "snow" and a layered up snowflake.

Hoping your festive crafting is running smoothly!

Bye for now,

12 Days of Christmas

I'm back today (I know, a sudden flurry of activity, but I have lots to share :) ) with some cards I created for Prima's 12 Days of Christmas card challenge. The idea being to make a card using a set of products or particular range over 12 days.

This one has papers, masks and metal embellishments from Finnabair's line. I layered up Vintage Vanity papers, canvas which I texturised using the chequered mask and embossing paste then coloured with mists and ink. The giant chipboard "25" was painted in crackle paint and spritzed with gold mist. decontructed one of the zipper flowers and added that to the 5. I created a 3D star and decorated with Finn's metal embellies along with a Prima canvas snowflake. I really like the olive green with the pale blues, it makes a change from red!

 

This next card was the most fun to create! I started out by printing a stags head image which I snipped out and covered with my spare / random / odd letters. All those Z's. Q's and X's came to good use! Really like the way this turned out, so different and resourceful! I've also used some resist canvas full stops as decoration.  Another fun idea was to die cut some large flowers (coincidentally the range are called Snowcone) into snowflakes. I finished with some metal accents, glittered bubble stickers and mesh.

The next card is meant to be "frugal" - a complete contrast to the last two cards! Layered paper with added interest of stitching created interest without many products. I've used a North Country rub on, Prima crystals and net trim as my frugal accents.

And finally...

This card was for the Ingvild Bolme day, using resin corners, bird and clock hands from her range. The wreath was created from a Prima vine which I twisted into shaped, added some extra festive red flowers. I've coloured the birdie with pens and inks to transform him into a robin... and of course some ink and paint splats.

Hugs,

Winter Issue of Paperhaus

Check out the fab new PAPERHAUS WINTER ISSUE, which you may notice includes a little something made by me :) It's a great read, full to the brim with gorgeous ideas and inspiration for Christmas and Winter!

 Enjoy browsing and have a lovely day!

Winter Bright LO's

Hello! Today I am sharing a couple of layouts created using Prima's Build A Page sketch. First up is November's sketch:

I think I chose colours to brighten up a dull Winter day! As I've used a stark white background, I decided to add lots of poppy colours in the form of ink, liquid pearls and misting. I kept with the denim theme throughout using a Prima zipper flower (Sunset Sunrise) which I pulled apart for leaves and edging.

And as you can see I'm currently rather obsessed with denim..... This was using the September BAP. I've used a beautiful aqua background (Prima Firefly) and added masculine embellishments and colours. The "Lifetime" arrow stamp is so cute! I stamped and cut out aforementioned arrows, then added extra stamping. The main feature is made up of denim, cotton material, mesh, Prima metal "junk" and a splish sploshing of ink.