PaperArtsy - Topic 17 - A Vintage Christmas

2019 Topic 17: A Vintage Christmas

Hi everyone, on the PaperArtsy blog I'm sharing my take on topic 17 which is 'A Vintage Christmas'. I chose to work with gorgeous recently released Christmas stamps and stencils by Kay Carley. All the stockists for the stamps and stencils I used can be found on this post.  It's nice to do a pretty project like this now and again with lots of sparkle and a gorgeous palette of colours that I feel can reflect vintage from Tracey Scott's new Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint release. Stockists for the paints can be found at the end of this post.

I enjoy decorating gift bags and making tags for my Christmas gifts and everyone seems to appreciate them which is nice so I feel it's worth the effort. This one will be for my mum, it can be easily pegged onto the top edge of the bag.

There's a gel print in the background using some of the paints listed above. The Fresco's  create a really nice base for stencilling and also for colouring with pencils, the mono print gives an even coating of paint on the card with a little tooth for the pencils to grab. Die cut holly, a silver skeleton leaf, silver mini clothes peg, and a silver glitter matting layer all help to add the vintage sparkle.

The gift bag follows on from the tag above in style with a stencilled and stamped mono print and then stencilling over the top. The die cut this time is cut from another mono print where real leaves were used on the gel plate.

The recipients name could be written in the heart instead of using a gift tag.

By using different parts of a gel print you can achieve a nice variance in the colours but they all co-ordinate and the new Fresco colours are so pretty together. 

A bit of glitter card is another favourite thing of mine to use at Christmas and some wrinkled seam binding too.

Have a good week.

Chris x

Season's Greetings

Wishing you a very happy festive season!

 

Origami Christmas makes

Hi everyone, I'm sharing some some more Craft Barn Christmas Club makes and into these makes I've worked in some origami made from my gelli plate prints over stamped with a Stampendous snowflake stamp set.

My gelli prints were made using DecoArt Media fluid acrylics in various colours some of which were green gold, quinacridone gold, cadmium yellow, quinacridone red, primary magenta, cobalt teal and ultramarine simply laid down with a brayer. I made up the wreaths and the background for the card from cut down pieces of the gelli prints and added some acetate to the centre of the small wreath to have a floating snowflake in the middle. By varying the sizes of the interlocking segments different sized wreaths can be created.

I added die cut snowflakes to decorate, these were also cut from leftover pieces of the prints.

I'm entering my makes into the anything goes no 65 challenge at Inspiration Destination challenge blog and the challenge 26 anything creative/mixed media challenge at love to create challenge blog.

If you're preparing for Christmas I hope you're getting there, I still have lots to do tomorrow. If I don't manage another post over Christmas and you celebrate then I wish you a happy and peaceful time.

Chris x

 

Craft Barn Christmas Club

Hi everyone, hope you've had a nice Sunday. I'm sharing a sneak peek of my Craft Barn Christmas Club project for tomorrow. This is the last of the Christmas club classes for the year and we're re finishing up with some git bags, tags and a die cut 3D album flip card.

Using some gorgeous Woodware stamps, Brilliance, Versamagic and distress inks I've created the stamped background on the die cut card pieces cut from white card before building up the card itself. Adding a sentiment strip and die cut poinsettia flower, swirls and snowflakes finished it off.

We won't be continuing the Christmas club in 2016, we're looking to change it probably to a mixed media style club which will be fun.

Back soon,

Chris x

 

Kirstie Allsop's Handmade Fair, Manchester 19-21 November

 

Hi everyone, hope your week is going well. I took a few photos of projects I made for the Artcuts stand at Kirstie Allsop's Handmade Christmas Fair at Manchester Central last weekend. I had a great time demonstrating and chatting to lots of lovely ladies and families and also helping out on the make and takes. It was a lovely event. In the central square beside the beautiful Gothic revival style town hall the Christmas Market had started and we had a treat of a hot cherry and amaretto drink to keep us warm, it was very cold and we even had a tiny bit of snow. It was my visit to Manchester and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

On the Stand Christmas tree I made a heart bunting stamped with Hobby Art Stamps 'Fergus' bear and coloured with Versamagic inks. There's a liberal coating of Wink of Stellar pen too.

Amongst many other things I decorated a couple of gift bags with Hobby Art stamps and Artcuts label and pieces from the Christmas embellishments pack.

 

A bauble with holly leaves and gems

 

More bunting this time for the sponsored foyer tree which we decorated in red and green. Wish I'd taken photos inside of the trees.

There were many more samples which I'll hopefully get to photo later. A couple of photo grids of photos around central Manchester, I found the architecture very appealing, enjoyed the Christmas market very much and all the trees were covered in white twinkling lights which were all around the city centre. I look forward to visiting again.

I'm back tomorrow with my make for the Paperbabe Stamps challenge, see you then.

Chris x

 

Craft Barn Christmas Club

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good weekend. I'm sharing a project for The Craft Barn Christmas Club tomorrow which is inspired by some lovely rolled paper creations I saw on Pinterest.

Quite often I've seen this style created using patterned rolled scrapbooking papers but I decided to go opposite to the usual style and have a mainly white tree and colourful background so I used plain printer paper.

I've added a bit of stamping on the tree and dimension using glue gun dots and punched stars.

My background has stencilling with texture paste, stamping and texturing with black ink and paints, DecoArt acrylic paints and treasure gold gilding wax.

I've added some sparkle with stardust sticklers and given the tree some dimension with a wash of acrylic paints blended out.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the lovely ladies that join me once a month interpret the project, they always give it their own twist which I love.

Back soon,

Chris x

 

Paperbabe Stamps challenge 29

Hi everyone, it's a new challenge at Paperbabe Stamps blog today and for this fortnight the challenge is '9 weeks 'til Christmas' . As always there's a great prize from Kim and any stamps are welcome.

I've used several Paperbabe stamp sets and they're stamped over a blended ink background on Artcuts birch ply shapes. On the heart shape I've stamped over a blue and white ink background with a stamp from 'Spritz and Speckles' for a snowy effect followed by the stag, and several small stamps and reindeer names from 'Reindeer Fusions' then I've added a dotted border in white pen. The stag came out quite well considering I stamped onto wood; I added a bit of colour with watercolour markers and wink of stellar glitter pen which shows up quite well in the photo above.

I've added a bit of dimension around the stag with a mid grey marker blended out with water. The stag was stamped in brown brilliance ink and I used that to edge the heart as well.

As before I blended a blue and white ink background over the tag and then stamped with the Christmas text stamp 'a lot like Christmas' in white ink. Over the top I've stamped with several stamps from 'Sparkle Bright' in different coloured inks around the tag and I finished with a white pen dot border.

I hope you'll join us for the challenge.

Back soon,

Chris x

 

Paperbabe Stamps December Release - Happy Thoughts Sentiment Set

Hi everyone! I'm back today with my samples for Paperbabe Stamps gorgeous 

HAPPY THOUGHTS

Sentiment stamp set 

Over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog there are more details of the sets so far and Kim's fantastic samples together with links to Simonne's beautiful creations.

This is another gorgeous set and there are so many ways of using it and many options for making up the perfect sentiment for a card. As you can see above I've used the 'happy' solid stamp to create my typographical style card together with one of the smaller sentiments and the hearts kissing strip stamp which is a continuous stamp end to end so I was able to make a vertical border with it. I've highlighted some of the words with white pen, some with black glitter glue and added some white lines between the words.

 I created my background with Dylusions ink sprays and after all my stamping was done and the glitter was dry I added a strip of black card raised on dimension foam to finish off.

 So that I could show another way of using this lovely set I took the smaller stamp 'Christmas' and stamped it onto a die cut label which is mounted on dimension foam over the tag. My tag background is stamped with the Ribbed Background stamp in red ink for the Christmas stocking effect :-) and then I've used the Happy outline stamp to stamp a border around the edge of the tag, that's been filled in with a silver pen. I've finished off with a die cut poinsettia, holly leaves, pearls and twine.


Thanks for all your lovely comments on my sample yesterday, they're always appreciated and I'm back tomorrow with the 'Fabulous' sentiment set! Enjoy your day.

EEK, I've been elfed again!

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates, I wish you a happy and peaceful day!

Katzelkraft Christmas tag

Hi everyone! Today I have a Christmas tag to show for the Katzelkraft blog and I've been enjoying making tags for my presents this year, I think it makes them much more personal. I started by embossing the tag with a woodgrain texture fade folder and then inking all over it with Antique Linen distress ink, after that I inked over the raised areas with walnut stain distress ink and stamped over with a tree stamp  from Arbres 02 plate and snowflakes  from Santa KTZ46.

My tree and deer are cut from grunge paper using Sizzix Alterations dies and then inked with distress inks, tea die and walnut stain on the deer, pine needles and walnut stain with black edging on the tree. I stamped over the deer with the tree stamp and the tree with snowflakes stamp using archival ink on the deer and black archival and white acrylic paint on the tree.  I also die cut some letters from glitter card and attached these after adding the snow effect and stickles. 

I'm entering my tag into Linda's Studio L3 challenge which is currently running two weekly so lots more time to join in :), thanks Linda! At Simon Says Stamp and Show the theme is tags and at SCD it's about snow so I'm entering these too.

Enjoy your day today!

Kadoodle and A spoon full of sugar challenge 71

Hi everyone! A card today for A spoon full of sugar where this time the challenge is a Christmas Creation so I thought I'd show this card which I haven't had a chance to upload. I've used my new holly swirls stamp from the Joie de noel set for Kadoodle at the Craft Barn as the focal image in dark green Ancient Page ink and also to stamp all the background papers throughout the Tri Shutter Card with a brilliance gold pearlescent ink. It's a very easy card to make, it just takes a long time to cut all the panels :D. There's a great tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers which shows how to make it. I used Oval nestabilities, a craftwork cards die cut greeting, some green ribbon, punched snowflakes, gems, pearls and red flower to finish.