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

Magnolia-liscious Christmas Blog Hop

 Hi everyone, hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I'm part of a fantastic Magnolia-liscious Christmas Blog Hop and if you arrived here from Ruby's fabulous blog then you're in the right place but you can always go back to the Magnolia-licious blog for all the information.

Wonderful prizes!

By calling in at all the of the blogs on the hop you can gather all the letters and clues to make up a phrase. One randomly chosen winner from those who correctly get the phrase will receive a fantastic suprise gift package to the value of  $50.

There is another way to win and for all of December until the 31st you can enter a Christmas/winter themed project to the challenge blog inlinkz. There are two great surprise gift packages to be won, $100 to the first place winner chosen by Diana and $50 to the runner up which will be randomly chosen from the entries.
 

I've made a little gift bag as my Christmas project for the hop cut using my Sizzix die from white card. Before putting the bag together with Scor-Tape I sponged on the snowflake design through a Crafters Workshop stencil with some Shabby Shutters distress ink and punched a hole through the top of the bag for the gingham ribbon. I coloured the absolutely gorgeous Penny Black stamp from the Mimis Winter Friends transpartent stamp set with distress and watercolour markers and a little bit of pencil then cut it out to mount on the bag. I've finished off with stickles glitter glue, gems, a die cut and glittered snowflake and a chit chat sticker. This makes the perfect gift bag for a small Christmas present and can be hung on the lower branches of the Christmas tree, I think anyone would be delighted to receive a gift packaged with these Penny Black cuties.

Now it's time to send you on to Cabio's fantastic blog and you need to take the following letters with you to help with your collection for the phrase.

N, y

Have fun!