Christmas tags

The first four tags are part of the TimHoltz 12 tags of christmas-go to his blog to get all the instuctions on how to make them. The last tag is a tag group challenge from Sketches For U & the theme for the week is "vintage". Luckily I had just bought a Christmas collage stamp that went perfectly with this theme! Who says I don't need more stamps!!

Christmas is in the Air

I have actually made time to make some Christmas goodies. The cards were made in blues & silvers & the words were die cut from sizzix dies. The tag is number 2 in a challenge-something to do with snow-hence the cool colours & the teardrop beads. The acrylic bauble can be bought from "The Greenbank Scrapbook Shop" & classes are also held to decorate these. They come in clear, white & black. The Christmas gift boxed are cut from a sizzix die, painted & embelllished. These can be made for any occassion, not just Christmas then filled with goodies!

November Challenges

This tag is one I did for a challenge on sketches 4 you. It had to be non-traditional Christmas colours with something shiny. I Chose pink & turqoise with white glitter embossing powder & pearl paint. I made a string of beads in the colours I chose with bling & pearls to match. There is a tag a week for the next 3 weeks so there will be more to come!

This layout challenge was a combination of 3 challenges. 1)Stash challenge-using circles 2)scrap lift from a sketch 3)make own embelllishments. For 1) I used a circle mat & used circle embellishments. 2) is from the sketch but I replaced the rectangular mat with a round one. 3) I made the flowers from a punched scallop circle with twisted tulle on the top with a button in the center. The background was masked & sprayed with glimmermist. It was all a lot of fun! Have a go if you like & see what you can come up with.

Christmas Spirit

To make the leaves on the first set of cards I drew a holly leaf shape & tore it out.Then I embossed the leaves in an embossing folder & lightly inked the top & the edges. The center leaf was raised with foam mounting tape. Once put together I put glitter glue along the edges of the leaves & drew in veins.

The santas were stamped in black ink & coloured in using tombow markers. On the white areas I used "Ranger embossing Puffs", which is an embossing powder that puffs up slightly when you heat it. The front of these cards fold back on themselves & a u-shaped cut it made to create a flat folded piece where I mounted the santa pieces.

The baubles on these cards were cut out from patterned paper & then embellished with glitter glue & blingy bits. I made the cards with pearl & metallic papers to give a shimmery Christmas feel to them.

Christmas is in the air and some people I know have already done their Christmas shopping and wrapped the gifts already-mind you, they don't scrapbook either!! I made some cards ready to send at the beginning of December. I just love Christmas time and all that comes with it.

Christmas is nearly here!

The top photo is of my craft area. We have our house for sale & I'm hoping for a bit more space to spread out in the new place! Since Christmas is so close the card classes at the Greenbank Scrapbook Shop are getting into the Christmas spirit early. Each week we are doing something Christmasy including scrapbooking & off the page for gifts or just spoiling yourself!

Long time, no blog!

Yes, it's been awhile but we have been madly painting our house so other things have been put on the back burner for a bit. The four layouts are ones I made as double sided, double layouts. I liked both sides of the patterned paper so I just scrapped on each of them! A couple I cut up & joined to the other ones but they all could be mixed & matched. The bottom picture is of 2 tag cards that I stamped & embellished. They concentina out to 3 panels. Hopefully I can get back into scrapbooking again & maybe get a head start on some Christmas cards!

This layout was done in greys & blacks & silvers to mimic the rainy day grey tone of the photo. The flowers were made from layers of book paper, tulle & paper flowers with a stone in the middle of them. I used mesh ribbon & cutwork paper on the background. The card sets are some of the classes held at the beginning of September at the Greenbank Scrapbook Shop. The bottom set of cards are made using the Graphic 45 papers which I just love.