Oh Christmas Tree

 

Good morning crafters, happy Tuesday. I'd like to show you my final project from last month. Lots of photos in this post, so I will try to keep the words to a minimum.................

 

 

 

Lisa has these cones for sale at the monthly classes, 65p each if I remember correctly. I painted mine with gesso first........

 

 

 

 

Randomly stamped the Woodware Clear Magic Forest stamps with a permanent green ink onto tissue paper & heat set - heat setting prevents the ink from bleeding into the tissue............

 

 

 

Used Mod Podge to stick the tissue paper onto the cone, working in stages & crinkling it as I went. Brushed a thin layer of Mod Podge over the tissue paper to seal it & left it to dry thoroughly..........

 

 

 

Used Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue to attach a length of Diamond Mesh to the cone............

 

 

 

I covered a sheet of white card on both sides with Diamond Sparkle Medium & when it was dry I die cut the stars...........

 

Stuck them to the cone with hot glue.............

 

 

The base is an empty spool, painted with gesso & edged with silver paint. I stamped

 Hobby Art's snowman, Jasper, with Onyx Black Versafine onto white card, coloured him with watercolour pencils & cut him out............

 

 

I decorated the base with tiny vials, a silver poinsettia from my stash & shaved ice fragments from the Fran-tage Encrusted Jewel Kit...............

 

 

 

 

 

The finished tree again.................

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

 

              

 

 

Thanks for looking & for all the kind comments this month, Lisa, the rest of the DT & I really appreciate them.

 

The blog challenge is open until 11pm on Saturday night, so there's still time for you to enter. Visit the challenge page for all the details.

 

Friday is class day in Maidstone & once again, I will be running the classes, along with Jan, Kate, Rosemary & Jo. We will be bringing reduced stock, so please let us know as soon as possible if there's anything in particular you need. As always, the shop will be open from 2.30 to 9.30pm so feel free to drop in.

 

To those attending the classes....

 

Remember to bring a palette knife please!

 

We will have a few spare ones, but there won't be enough for everyone.

 

I think that's it or now. If you've any questions/queries/thoughts please contact Lisa or myself via here on the blog/email/Facebook.

 

Until next time, happy crafting

 

Kirsten

 

Blue Christmas

 

Morning, it's the start of another week & I have the last of my October sample cards to show you.

 

For this card I stamped the Woodware Clear Magic Forest stamps with Atlantic Versacolor ink & heat set with WOW Clear Sparkle embossing powder. The pattern card is Hobby House's 'Check' from the Snowflake Flurry collection. The sentiment & snowflakes were heat set with

metallic silver embossing powder..............

 

 

 

Another piece of Hobby House patterned card for this card, this time it's the Pink Snow card from the Let It Snow collection. The trees were stamped onto white card with clear embossing ink & heat set with Clear Sparkle EP.......

 

To make the snowy hill, I cut a piece of white card, covered it with wet, tacky glue & covered that with the shaved ice fragments from the Fran-tage Encrusted Jewel Kit & left it to dry overnight....

 

 

              

 

              

 

Thanks for looking. I have one more project to show you & I will be back with that tomorrow.

 

Kirsten

Season's Greetings

 

 

Good morning, happy Sunday & happy November. I'm coming to the end of my samples for the October class & today I have three quick & easy cards to show you.

 

This one has the Woodware Clear Magic Forest stamps heat set with silver embossing powder over a background of Weathered Wood, Tattered Rose & Shabby Shutters distress inks & silver liquid pearls. The message is from the Clear Magic Patch Robin set...............

 

 

The Forest trees stamped with Raspberry & Sunset Orange Adirondack inks & elements from the Fran-tage Encrusted Jewel kit sprinkled on top - I attached the larger pieces with

Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue..........

 

 

Here, I scribbled the medium Forest tree stamp with felt tip pens, 'huffed' on the stamp, then quickly stamped onto smooth white card. The greeting is from the Clear Magic Treemendous Dots stamp set........

 

 

                       

 

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow.

 

Kirsten

 

Delightful Daisy.......

Morning all happy Saturday,

Thanks for joining me...... As I said on Wednesday I would show you another card that I made using new dies. The 3D cones die has sold out on the website but I have more coming so it will be back in stock soon. Here is the other card that I promised to show you using the fabulous new Leanne Creatief Flower 006 which I have to say I absolutely love as you all know I love flowers.....

I kept this one pretty pure in its colours just three colours white, green and brown. I used a large A4 embossing folder out of my stash to create the background and for the main topper used my nesties to place the die cut pieces on......

I also added some clear gems to the crossed on the embossed background......

I die cut all three layers of the flower in white for the full flower (top) and then two layers for the bottom one. I love the centre dies that come with these flowers as you can change the colour of them and make all sorts of different flowers with them like sunflowers, dahlias, daisies etc, I love dies that are multi usable.......

I also die cut the leaves fro the set in green card and then used my nail buffer on the edges......

I added some Stardust Stickles to the edge of the flowers and some gems in the centre.....

I also used the Leanne Creatief Pine Cones and Holly Die to create the spruce behind the flowers in dark green.....

For the message I used  Hobby Art Winter Wishes stamp set..........

I hope that you have enjoyed my die cut inspiration and I look forward to catching up with you all next week......

Big hugs 

Lisa.B xx