With Love at Christmas x

Hi Everyone..........................and a warm welcome to you all :-)

This fortnight at Craft Room Challenge the lovely Mervi is the challenge hostess and the theme is "Vintage Christmas......presents or cards" 

Our sponsor is Rogue Redhead Designs, who make wonderful Vintage and Eclectic Stamps.

Below is my DT project, which definitely has a Vintage Shabby Chic Theme. 

The background card is A4 and the stamped images are from Oxford Impressions 'Christmas Wish' Stamp Plate, which I won in a Giveaway from the very talented  Lynne Moncrieff of Adorn. You can find Lynne's blog HERE and it is certainly worth visiting x. 

The  OI plate is full of wonderful Vintage Christmas Images, which stamp beautifully.  

The drift wood was found during a beautiful summer walk on the South West Coast of Scotland and is attached with twine. 

After blending the card with Vintage photo Distress Ink  I  used the masking technique, blended  and water coloured  the main focal images with Distress Inks and Distress Markers. I also added some Ranger Stickles in Rock Candy to create a crisp frosted effect around the feet of Santa and the children.  The Spritz and Flick technique looks like snow is falling.

 Above is a closer view of the top left corner, with a torn tag stamped with the sentiment.

Below is the lower left corner with the Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die. Here I used felt, which was stamped with Archival ink and  then aged with Vintage Photo DI. More Rock Candy Stickles were adhered to catch the light.

The  double bow was made using some hand dyed cheesecloth and once again Rock Candy Stickles provided that lovely sparkle, which just sets this piece off..... sparkling in the lamplight. 

 I do hope you can join in with us over at Craft Room Challenge this fortnight. You can also view and be inspired by the fabulous makes of my very talented DT Roomies by clicking HERE

I would also like to enter this hanging in the following challenges:

Over at Simon Says Monday Challenge the Challenge Theme is Countdown to The Holidays. My Christmas Hanging with the number 25 included is certainly doing that :-)

At Fashionable Stamping Challenge  the Theme is 'Shabby Chic Christmas'.

Thank You for visiting and taking the time to comment..........I really do appreciate your  visits/comments and always try to get back to you.

Crafty Hugs  as always xxx

My Take on Tim's March Tag of 2013

Hello Everyone ...... I  so love the weekend as I can spend longer in my craft room and get all inky.....which I have certainly done today!!!

 I have a few projects  that are ready to complete and here is my take on Tim's March Tag of 2013. If you would like to join in you can find Tim's recipe for his March Tag HERE

I had some of Tim's ingredients  but not all of them..............so I  had a good look at my stash to see what I could create my tag with :-)

You can see the finished tag below...then I have provided photographs of what I did when improvising. 

Below is a picture of some items that I used. 

I followed Tim's recipe but as I did not have the background paper I used a substitute from  Tim Holtz 'Crowded Attic' Paper Stash.

I had the tinsel but as I did not have the rabbit die cut I adhered the ranger wonder tape at the bottom of my tag, imagining it to be the grass.........isn't imagination such a wonderful thing ......................now I am creating x

  Tinsel now adhered, as seen below, and given the treatment as in Tim's recipe

I decided that although I had the styled labels die I would use Tim Holtz New Sizzix Oval die, as I  imagined it as an Easter egg on my tag !!!  I  embossed it first  and then inked it with Salty Ocean Distress Ink, highlighting areas with gilding wax in blue and gold, then it was edged in Vintage Photo.  ( I don't know the name of the die but it is a Sizzix one.....sorry )

I placed the Sizzix Picket Fence die cut over the grass, blending Gathered Twigs DI and the gilding wax. 

( it was also adhered with Ranger Wonder Tape)

I must have used  all of my ideaology foliage so took some florals from Sizzix Tattered Flower Garland die and painted them with Tim Holtz Distress paint in Rusty Hinge and Chipped Sapphire. I placed some Ranger Stickles in 'Icicle' on the flowers, blending them in with that area of my tag, which was lovely and sparkly.

As it's March and I did not have a rabbit stamp  I used the Hare stamp from 

Stampers Anonymous Spring Sprung set ( CMS084).

He was coloured with a water brush dipped in DI placed on my craft sheet. I used an antique linen and vintage photo mix for the hare's body and a few layers of Salty Ocean DI on his jacket. I dried each layer before adding another to create depth of colour.

The cravat is  painted with a mix of DI Fired Brick and a Barn Door Distress Marker

The vintage Ribbon was smooshed in Salty Ocean DI, which was  well spritzed  with water on my craft mat, then heat dried.

I am off now to link my tag on Tim Holtz blog,  once again you can find it HERE

Have a fabulous weekend and I look forward to  catching up with you all.

Crafty Hugs

Brushless Water Colour and Distress Ink Background

Hi Everyone....Thanks for dropping by your visits are so appreciated. For those of you who read my previous post you will know that last weekend I planned to craft but had lost my mojo.....was feeling tired.

I decided to watch crafty DVD's by none other than Tim Holtz. It had been some time since I viewed them and I remember purchasing them way back in 2005 and loving the outcome of the  Distress embossing powders and Distress Inks. 

Below you will see a piece that I made to send to my crafty friend Buttons, using some of Tim's techniques that I had not used in some time.

I created the background below using Tim's techniques. You can see the water droplets on the top of the card. As I did not have a craft iron I used a small travel iron, purchased many years ago and never used !!!

                                       Once  dried  I blended some vintage photo Distress ink and matted on to some card

          Below you can see the brushless watercolour images, the lighter being second generation.  (I used various Adirondack Inks on the stamp)

I then die cut Tim's new Sizzix Washer Border, inking it with Peacock Feathers DI and a smidgeon of Vintage Photo DI on the edges. 

The brushless watercolour image from Tim's Stampers Anonymous Classics ( SCF001) was torn around the edges then inked with a combination of Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean DI's

To complete the look I matted the stamped image on to blue card, distress with Tonic Studios Paper Distresser and inked with Salty Ocean DI.

I added some twine and a die cut butterfly, which I had rusted earlier, then some chipboard letter, painted with Tim's new Distress Paints. I then rubbed some area of the project, including the letters with Treasure Gold wax in White Fire and Sapphire.

Over at Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog the theme is 'Layer it on and Share a Word'., which this piece meets. 

I am also entering the 'Anything Goes'  over at Through The Craft Room Door challenge blog.

Take care and catch up soon. Be sure and leave a comment and I will get back to you.

Crafty Hugs