A christmas wreath explosion

Start off with a plain polysytrene ring

Intertwine a length of tinsel

Add two more!

Hot glue old balls onto it *tip stick the balls to the ring not the tinsel

Tadaaaaa, a burst of christmas!

A few christmas present makes

An altered canvas for my parent in laws

A tag for my next book club (I give someone a tag at each meet up!)

A 6x7" album for my mum for christmas

A 6x7" album for my sister, I made the paper using the gelli plate!

Some DIY christmas makes- altered mini drawers and altered matchboxes

 This originally was pink and hideous I painted it with a paint dauber and stamped with a prima word stamp to create texture. 

 Altered matchbox in the first drawer, personal joke with my sister when we used to see someone he was a ride so I made a handsome skeleton suitor for her, shrink plasticed a bike and added what a ride to the outside

Fimo magnet from a Dyan Reavley set

She loves Dr Who so i painted the tardis on a match box

For Matt Smith on the inside!

Larger matchbox with a seaside theme inside

The back

Few layouts

Have a few photos that I had to scrap but lack of time prohibited me! I just went hell for leather today determined to do something! I used my new times & seasons echo park pack for this layout

 

And a few scraps left around for this. I really want to get a bracket stamp, I always think I have one until I need it!

 

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Christmas tag

A friend asked me how I did this tag so very quickly here's how!

I sprayed the tag with a light blue & green spray & dried with the heat tool

I heat embossed the music note stamp in gold in the middle of the tag

Using the TH flourish die I covered it in pva & guilded gold pieces, attached ith glue

I inked the deer & stamped the dots onto it

Using TH itty bitty grunge set I stamped with medium or added texture but don't think it worked too well

I used one of D's bottle caps as an embellishment & put a charm into it with glossy accents

The few embellishments added finished it off, it's not too complicated of a tag but I had fun making it :)

 

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A Christmas tag of sorts...tutorial

I tag I was inspired by Pinterest this morning and I had to try it. I love this dress form die and always end up doing the same thing but it's just so cute! The tag feels a good weight and I love that in a tag, really makes you feel like you made something worth while! I did a quick tutorial on how I made it below.

Using my note stamp I covered a tag in grey Stazon (not the best for stamping but I just needed a light back ground as I didn't want a heavy stamped image)

In between the notes, I used my large Hero Arts french script in brown stazon. I used stazon because I wasn't sure how much blending I was going to do and wanted to keep my background true.

I held back here as I usually pile a load of colours on but just used Old Paper to cover the tag and Stained Glass and Peeled Paint around the edges

I cut a larger size tag out, distressed, inked with Walnut Stain and stamped the script stamp in brown stazon

 I embossed the top half of the dress form with hallographic embossing powder and clear UTEE for a nice sparkle, I didn't notice at the time but the embosser pushed all the glitter to the edges when I heated it up. It's a nice effect, like I did it on purpose *cough. I got a barbie dress for Elf on the shelf for the same bric-a-brack I got the clock and had no other use for it so cut the bottom off! I quickly pulled a stitch through the top to make a ruffle and finished it off with some Prima lace (see the lace reel in the background, I got it in TK Maxx yesterday for €6 it's HUGE but smells like old woman house :/ ) I sprayed the dress with whatever I could get my hands on, I think it was Glimmer mist in gold I used and dried with the heat tool before attaching to the dress form

At the bottom of the dress form I piled a few embellishments on, the Tim Holtz Pinecone made into a flower on top of a tattered flower middle die, pinned with a  Prima pin and some metal embellishments I got from Anne. The sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink cut out onto a quick banner and inked. 

I had to make her christmas knickers since it 'tis the season. A quick thong made from some lace and the barbie dress

I used the Tim Holtz die to get a rough shape on the wings, made them smaller, covered in Christmas vellum on both sides and inked slightly. Added natural and brown raffia finish off.

My finished tag, quite happy with the way it came out!

Tree decorations

Grab a twig from the garden, pop a twizzly eye hook into the top and add your name to the front. I used scrabble tiles from a letter pack and made one for each of us. Glue was an issue sticking the  tiles to the wood, so I ended up using no more nails.

I'm ready December- Bring it on!!

I seem to be getting more intense in my album making and creating more hassle and work for myself by having ideals in my head and wanting only that. This was a precut album that I won from a competition at GBCE from Crafting Ireland, it was just a plain chipboard cover and I snipped pages out and added some new ones. Used some spare bits I had lying around so it's a bit mish mash but think it will work for what I need!
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1st of the Christmas Cards

So I really am not feeling the Christmas spirit card wise this year or more so because I've put a ban on buying new stash and feel bored with what I have so I have to get inventive!

The stamps are PTI and TH deer die. After teaching the Montessori kids about the northern lights it inspired me to brighten up the sky a bit. Really wish my handwriting looked like that stamp!