Tomte Christmas Carols

Hi there, welcome to my blog  :)  I have a Christmas card to share with you today which I created as one of my samples for Chocolate Baroque's tv shows in June.  As soon as I saw these stamps they screamed 'Carol Singers' to me! (Don't know why lol!)

I have used stamps from the CB Tomte Christmas and Christmas Flourish sets; grey Versafine ink, alcohol pens, Distress Ink, fluffy fake snow, a stencil, a die and an embossing folder from my stash.

 

I took a piece of smooth white colouring paper and stamped the large gnome image in grey ink.  I masked it with CB masking tissue then stamped it twice more, one either side of the first image.  I removed the mask and coloured the images with alcohol markers.  I added a shadow line around the group with a grey pen.

I took a piece of black card and die cut a vintage lamp post then added silver gilding wax as highlights.  On another piece of white paper I stamped and embossed the candles from the Christmas Garden stamp, coloured them and cut around them.  I then attached them to the reverse side of the lamps, attached the lamp post to the focal panel and added Glossy Accents to replicate glass in the lamps. 

I die cut a single lantern from black card and repeated the process.  I cut a small slither of the card and attached a curl from another lamp post as a crook.  I then attached the lantern and crook to the focal panel in two pieces, making it appear as though the gnome is holding the lantern.    

I took a small piece of white card and used a brown DI around the edges to make it appear old and distressed.  I folded the card in half and wrote 'carols' on one side, adding a couple of notes.  I cut the two bottom corners off and attached the piece of card to the middle gnome, making it appear as though the gnome was holding a carol sheet. 

I added silver pen around the edges of the focal panel then used a stencil to add rays of light with yellow ink.   I then mounted the focal panel onto black card.

I took a piece of black card and embossed it in a folder from my stash.  I then added silver gilding wax to highlight the pattern.  

I attached the focal panel to the embossed panel then attached the whole thing to a white base card.  I took some fluffy fake snow from my stash and added it to the bottom of the focal panel and on the lamps.  

On a spare piece of white card I stamped and embossed a couple of sentiments in black, cut around them and added blue ink.  I cut a couple of music notes and attached them and the sentiments to the card.  

I think this card is one of my favourite samples from this launch, and it will definitely be one of the designs for my Christmas cards this year!  It's such a cheerful and jolly card that can be sent to anyone.
Thanks for stopping by today I hope you've enjoyed this post, feel free to browse my other posts and I hope you'll come back again soon  :)  

Steampunk Angel

Hi there welcome to my blog  :)   Today I have a mixed media canvas to share with you that I have just finished, with a Steampunk theme.  I wanted to use the techniques that I had learnt from the Creative Craft Acadamy tutorial using products and embellishments from my own stash.  

I began with a canvas that I had started for another project which I subsequently adandoned.  I painted the canvas with two coats of white gesso.  It wasn't enough to blank out the colour that was already on the canvas, but it knocked the colour back and provided a smoother surface to work on.  Using a pallett knife I applied crackle paste around the edges of the canvas, this is a one step crackle paste which I applied quite thickly as I wanted large crackles.  I left the paste to dry naturally.

Whilst I waited for the paste to dry I gathered together everything that I wanted to use for this project:- a greyboard tag coated with white gesso, a panel of primed chipboard in the pattern of circles, a circles mask, MDF mannequin and butterfly wings, assorted metal embellishments and several air dry clay embellishments that I had made previously.
   

I painted the mannequin with black gesso and also some of the clay embellishments.  

I then used a couple of glimmer sprays to colour the primed chipboard.

Next I took the tag and applied crackle paste on just over two thirds of the tag.  I Left it to dry naturally which didn't take too long as I had applied a thinner coat of paste to get smaller crackles.  I then sprayed the tag which emphasized the crackles.
  

I added some purple Soft Form Reliefe Paste through the stencil onto the tag and left it to dry.

By this time the canvas was dry so the next step was to spray the top half one colour and the bottom half a co-ordinating colour.  The spray colours seeped into the cracks emphasising them, and the mica in the colours gave the canvas a lovely sheen.  

I chose a round metal bezel from my embellishment collection and added some gold gilding wax.  I then put Glossy Accents into the center of the bezel and added some blue sand crystals.  When that was dry I added a glass Steampunk cabochon that features a heart shape.  I wanted this to represent the Angel's heart.  

I next turned my attention to more of the embellishments, painting them and adding gilding wax.   

I began to assemble the tag with the larger wings first, attaching them directly onto the tag before building the Angel.  The MDF mannequin formed the body, and I attached the heart bezel to it along with several metal cogs.  Next to go on are the clay wings, then a couple of clay cogs and a metal embellishment on top.  I wanted to create a sort of headress for her.  I then topped it off with the head.  I continued to add more embellishments until I was happy with it.

Once the tag was finished I started on the canvas.  I cut the chipboard panel in half and attached it so that it would show either side of the tag.  I also added metal filigree corners.
  

I attached the tag in the center of the canvas, and added a few gems and pearls to some of the metal embellishments.  

I attached several  more embellishments around the edges of the canvas then added gold gilding wax around the sides of the canvas.

I had an absolute BLAST creating this!  I'm delighted with the way it has turned out, and I really enjoyed using all the techniques, products and embellishments - I shall definately be creating more mixed media pieces in the future.

Thank you for dropping by today, I hope that you've enjoyed this post and that you will visit my blog again soon  :)

Baubles, Baubles Everywhere!

Deck the Trees

Hello there - welcome to my  blog  :)  I'm sharing a few quick and simple cards with you today, all were samples on the CB July tv shows.  For the first card I have used stamps from the Shaded Baubles, Christmas Circle and Robin the Spruce sets; Koh-I-Noor water colour paints, Distress Oxide ink, gold and white EP, a die cut, some ribbon and bows from my stash.  

I stamped and embossed both bauble images, one with white EP and the other with gold.  I then painted the images, the white embossed baubleI I painted green,  and the gold one I painted red.  I then stamped and embossed the Robin image in gold and fussy cut it out before painting it as before.  I took a white base card and stamped some Pine branches around the edges using Distress Oxide ink.
  

I attached the green bauble flat onto the card and the red bauble I attached with 3D foam pads.  I added some ribbon and bows to give the impression that the baubles are hanging from a tree, and stamped a sentiment onto the card.

Bauble of Light.

I have used the same stamps as for the last card; grey Versafine ink, Distress Oxide ink, Luxury smooth colouring paper, glitter, alcohol pens, silver pen, coloured card and a couple of dies from my stash.

I began with a piece of smooth colouring paper and stamped the empty bauble in one of the bottom corners with grey ink.  I then stamped Pine branches around the edges of the focal panel with DO ink and added silver pen around the outer edge.  I coloured the bauble with pens.........

.........and added silver peel-offs to create a string for the bauble to hang by.  

I then took some coloured card from my stash and die cut some Pine branches, blending DO ink to the edges of the die cuts.  I matted the focal panel onto a piece of darker card then attached it to a white base card.  I attached the die cut branches to the card in one of the top corners, then die cut a lantern and added Glossy Accents to look like glass.  When it was dry I attached the lantern to the card, then I stamped a sentiment onto a spare piece of card, matted it and attached it to the card.  

Vintage Compliments of the Season.

For this card I have used stamps from the  same sets as the previous projects; alcohol pens, Versamark ink, white EP, smooth Kraft colouring paper, Distress Ink, and a circle die from my stash.

I started this project by stamping and embossing the empty bauble twice onto the Kraft paper in white.  I then stamped both Christmas Circle images within the baubles and embossed them in white.  I used a circle die from my stash to cut the baubles out, then attached them to a cream textured base card.

I stamped a sentiment with DI on the front of the card.  

I'm very pleased with these cards, the beautiful stamps are an absolute pleasure to work with!  All the designs are simple and quite easy to recreate, they will all be suitable for batch making too - which is essential for Christmas!

Thank you for popping in today, I hope that you've enjoyed this post and have been a little inspired by these projects.  Feel free to browse more projects on my blog and to leave a comment if you wish, and I hope that you will visit again soon  :)