12 Tags of 2013 - December

Hello again, I wanted to share another Christmas project with you. Of course the month wouldn't be complete without participating in Tim Holtz's 12 tags. Here's the link:

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-december/

I started making a tag, but it is Christmas, so it kinda grew a little bigger. I absolutely love the way the pointsettia turned out. I colored the CFA with Copic markers.

Background is old paper and antique linen DI with a touch of bundled sage on the stamp.

The stacked words are inked and double embossed with UTEE

And because I couldn't stop there (plus I had a lot of good leftovers on my desk) I made another card.

This is a jumbo tag scored and folded to resemble a matchbook. The background colors are peeled paint, brushed pewter and picket fence distress stains.

I colored the silver staples with alcohol markers.

The stencil was inked up with Evergreen Bough. 

My "leftovers" included a tattered banner, some tattered pinecones and a mini pointsettia, oh and some beads I had dyed red with alcohol ink. 

I hope you enjoyed my 2 cards. I'm kinda sad that all the Christmas projects are winding down. I LOVE making Christmas stuff. I hope you have a creative and joyful New Year.

Christmas Configurations

Hi again, 

So remember the last blog post, when I mentioned the configurations book and  the card to go with it? Well here was my inspiration, thank you so much Jan Hobbins, you are a creative master.

Alright, so I had most of the supplies in my art room and a few that I changed up at bit, 

Lots of evergreen bough and antique linen distress inks and clear rock candy dry glitter used on this project.

Inside...

Inside cover

I love the way the carollers turned out. I used black distress crackle paint and graphite viva paste over top.

I had an extra picture lying around, so I lined the box with it and added some embellishments. The fox is from Bo Bunny paper.

This picture of Santa and the little boy was another pic I had lying around. Tim Holtz had provided a link to all these great vintage Christmas photos. ( I think it was one of the 12 tags of Christmas 2010?)

The sled is from Bo Bunny, the skis are made from a popsiscle stick. 

I had so much fun making this. It took about a week, but it was soooo worth it. Hope you enjoyed the tour. Merry Christmas everyone! 

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 12

On the twelvth day of Christmas my true love of paper gave to me: a trip to the north pole.

Welcome to day 12. Santa's on his way. I was inspired to make a matching card for the configurations book I completed a couple weeks ago. When i saw the project that Sizzix design team member, Jan Hobbins had made with the configurations book, I literally drove straight from work to Urban Scrapbook to see it in person. And oh my gosh, it did not disappoint!

It's so beautiful.

I found the 12x12 paper at Urban as well, but it was in the teal tones instead of red. I was ok with that. 

I cut the paper down to a 5 3/4" square highlighting the north pole map.

Next i die cut the reindeer and sleigh, (Couture Creations) inked it up with evergreen bough distress ink then applied 2 coats of UTEE.

The greenery and pointsettia were a variety of dies and punches. I used the tattered pointsettia embossing folder to add texture to the flower.

Here's a peek at my version of the configurations book. To be continued...

12 Days of Chistmas Cards - Day 11

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love of paper gave to me: deers and birch trees.

Memory box dies on tiffany blue cardstock

Inside

I found this great pop up die from Joy Crafts. I cut it out and then used the snowflake on the edge die from Tim Holtz. I added some ink behind the pop up and mounted a sentiment on a frame die cut.

Enjoy, it's my birthday today so I am writing this while getting ready to go for a fancy dinner with good friends, hence the hastiness of this post

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 10

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love of paper gave to me: the tenth doctor in a blue box.

Ok it's no secret that I am a Dr. Who geeky girl. Oh to have a mad man in the TARDIS ask you to go on crazy adventures in time and relative dimention in space (and everyone you meet has a British accent)...sigh, it would have to be the tenth doctor though. Giggle.

TARDIS card layered and snow added for fun.

Photo credit linked back to Sqidoo.com

Here's another wholiday pic

Aaaaaand My TARDIS lantern

Thanks for dropping by today. Alonsy!

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 9

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love of paper gave to me: a steampunk accordian card.

Hello again, welcome to day 9. I have these great steampunk Christmas images from Make It Crafty.com so I printed them up and did a reverse image as well for all 3. That way, the card is reversible and looks the same on both sides.

I cut a window out of the 4x6 double thick card, decorated the panel with some homemade stamps

(I die cut some gears and a flourish out of fun foam)  then I used tissue tape to tape the panels together.

The images were colored with Shinhan touch and copic markers, cut out and glued back to back. (That's why I needed the reverse image)

I liked the way this one turned out, you've probably noticed over the past few posts that I've made quite a variety of cards, but that's what I like about making my own. You can personalize them so much. Now don't get me wrong, I don't make 25 different cards, I will make a few "in bulk" but for the most part, I really enjoy playing with ALL my different dies and stamps. 

Here's another steampunk card I made with the same images, just a little smaller and the Karen Burniston accordian die

That's all today, thanks for checking in on me.

12 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 8

On the  eighth day of Christmas my true love of paper gave to me: a nativity scene.

I always do a religious themed card at Christmas time. After all "that's what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown."

I found this great die from Taylored Expressions. It's simple and elegant.

I embossed a white card panel with the snow flurries folder (Tim Holtz)

I added a bit of blue ink in a couple different colors to highlight the snowflakes

Then I die cut the Nativity with dark purple cardstock mounted it with foam tape and added an Ideology star. 

That's it, not too complicated at all.

I used the same die to make a lantern. I used black cardstock and antique bronze distress paint.

 There's lots of die cuts decorating the top all in a bronze/brown color tone

Oooooh pretty

Thanks for popping in. See you tomorrow.