Oh Christmas Tree

Welcome to DECEMBER , Wow not long to go now

until we are in holiday mode. This week its my

turn to decorate the tree. Our hop this week starts

at Imagine If .

 

I had this Idea of making my TREE all sparkly

and white, so I pulled out all of my glitters

and things all shiny





I used some of these items not all of them.

 

 

 

I started with the basic Tree, (can be seen here ) . First I used

Gesso to seal it , then painted it white using acrylic paint .

 

Once it was dry I used a clear gell medium to adhere the tiny

stars ,once I had done a portion with stars, I would cover the

area with Tim Holtz rock candy glitter.

 

I continued doing this until both pieces were covered on both

sides.

 

Now at this point every thing was going along fine, BUT!!!

I didn't think this idea through properly, as when I went to

slide the two , together it was tough going, because of the

extra thickness of the glitter .I had to use a little bit of

brute force lol but it did go together in the end.

 

 I also added some snow drifts to make it look
colder.

Here we have Snowy and Gwiny putting up the

lights

 

Thanks for visiting . Next you are of to Brendas
Blog HERE

Its Nearly Christmas

 

Hi and welcome to this weeks hop, you should have started at

Imagine If, and arrived here from Tashes blog

This week I am making a double sided Christmas tag with

movement. One side has snow (glitter) and the other side

has bells.

I used x 3 Tags from Imagine If .I had saved the clear plastic covers
from packaging. I chose some images to used from

After chosseing my images, I put the glitter into the plastic and

glued the images to the back to hold the glitter in

Next i covered my tage with paper and cut out a square to the

exact size as the plastic cover . I then glued this to a blank tag 

Above you see the dimention

 

I did the same for the other tag, but this time i added tiny bells

 

 

 

 

I then glued this tag to the back of my glitter tag to mack

it double sided

 

To decorate  I used tiny pine cones, berries and matching ribbon

 

Brenda from the Imagine If Design Team Kindly sent me a

container full of these cute looking pine cone babies

 

I used tiny lettering on one side of my tag and Imagine If lettering

on the other side

 

I covered the word "JOY" with gold glitter to match the bells

 

Added the matching ribbon to the top, this could be used to tie

the tag to something like a tree or parcel, what ever you decided

on really.

The words say "jingle bells jingle bells " These 3 photos are to
show you the movement of the glitter

 

I kept to 3 main colours  brown gold and red

Thanks for coming to visit, your next hop is off to
Brenda's blog HERE

Santas Sleigh

Welcome to this weeks blog hop, you should have come from

the Imagine If blog. This week I get to make Santa's sleigh

The sleigh comes in 4 pieces which means it is easy to

put together. You can paint it or cover it with paper as I have done.

I used one of the papers from Kaiser craft base coat

 Christmas collection  called flora I love the look it gave of

old worn wood, as below

 

 

Gold peal craft is great for Christmas stuff.

 

I positioned my paper so the dark line was along the sleigh ski.

I gessoed the bows then covered with green glitter and arranged

some green berries in the Centre

And this is the finished bow, love how it come out

When using small chipboard things like swirls , bows etc

the best thing to use to get into those small places that your

ink edger's wont go is a black memento pen, this is a must have

in my stash

I used gold  peal craft corners to make a snow flake on the

back of Santa`s seat and along the sides

I hope you have fun and get inspired to make your own sleigh
they are so much fun. Thanks for visiting my blog, your next
stop is at Brenda's blog :)

Christmas layout

 

 

WOW November all ready, I love Christmas, what about you?

This week at Imagine If  we have started our Christmas box\

of GOODIES .... yes, with a blog hop , you should have started

at the Imagine if blog and come from Lillian's blog

 

 

I like to get started with my papers, then I get a bunch of

chipboard that relates to or works with my page,I

play around with it until it works for me.

The Santa on the sled is very cool, you can find it HERE

 

Even though we don't get snow in Auckland, I

still like to have snow flakes on my page

Snow flaks can be found HERE

see what I did to this one next

 

I Sealed it with gesso first then used fake snow on the top, this

gives dimension and sparkle

 

Next was the bow, and yes, I even got some punches out :)

 

I used the bow of a gift box set

  HERE  then covered it with matching paper

 

Added some twine . Love the deer to, its so delicate

 

 

I cant remember what this squiggly is called, but I cut

it in two and added half to top and half to the bottom

of the page

I love Christmas, it brings back many happy memories as well
as giving me an excuse to put up decorations and lights :)

Have a good week , not long to go till we are on holiday.
Thanks for visiting :)

Next DT Blog is Brenda's Blog