Magi Christmas card

I'm ashamed to say that I bought the 'Mini Holidays #4' stamp set soon after it was released but have never used it. However, when I discovered it, unopened, it was a nice to have something new to use. I wanted to make a Christmas card for a man and this is the result...

The base itself is a piece of diagonal striped distressed paper inked around the edges in brown then just mat and layered. For the main picture, I started with plain white stamping card and stained it light blue with dabs of white and then, when it had dried, covered the lot with darker blue stain. I ripped another piece of stamping card to the shape of the dunes before staining it yellow. The lovely Magi silhouette stamp came next, directly onto the 'sand'...

I mounted my image onto white card and then gold mirri card before adding it to my base. For the top left decoration I used a deep red piece of card sprayed with 'Raisin' ink wash and the a gold shimmer mist before cutting out the asters to make then a chrysanthemum. I inked and shimmered some leaves for good measure...

I have to admit that I often find bare spaces a little awkward and have the tendency to fill them, one of my quirks I guess, lol. The space on the top right was filled with a banner die and some clear gems...

Bottom right I added the lovely scrolling sentiment from the same stamp set cut out with a Spellbinders label die and inked around the edges...

The quirky star, which is part of the same set too, is stamped in white and highlighted with Stickles...

Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by to take a look,

Chris xxx
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Victorian Carolers

I just love the silhouette shapes of the Victorian Carolers and have used the Tim Holtz die with distress stains and remnant rubs for my card today

Starting with the rub-ons I rubbed some over my background card leaving a space where the silhouettes were going to be placed.

I dispensed the colours of stains I wanted to use onto my craft mat and followed the wrinkle free distress technique by Tim Holtz.

When dry I added the silhouettes and used a white drawing pencil to go round the edges and make the silhouettes 'pop' more from the background.

However the silhouettes looked rather stark so I cut another set and stamped them with a Tim Holtz Christmas script (use could use any text or music score if you haven't got this one)  .....

..... and adhered them using foam pads to create some depth and dimension.

Three stars cut in chipboard from the Crescent Moon and Stars die were covered with Stickles glitter and I made the poinsettia using crinoline fabric. I was rather please with the quite colourful outcome.

All supplies from the Country View Crafts Shop are listed below.

Have fun with the remnant rubs and distress stains.

hugs Brenda xx

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Flutter by, butterfly...

In all the preparation for Christmas I'm continuing the break from Christmas cards etc today with this butterfly tag...

You can use any background paper and colour scheme you like, I decided on a brown, cream and green palette. Having covered the tag, inked it and added some strips of scrap paper at the top I then used the beautiful Marianne Design butterfly die for my main theme. I cut it from kraft card, inked it and then decorated with clear gems...

You can use any stems, ferns or fine branches that you have in your stash (dies or die cuts), mine are highlighted with green glitter glue. I cut a doily with a punch and quartered it to use as a corner or the bottom of the tag then decorated it with clear gems...

You can use any floral punches or dies to make your flowers up. If you have no glitter gems you can use more of your glitter glue for the centres. Alternatively you might like to use pearls or buttons. The stems are mounted on the doily with the flowers on the top. These are then finished with American seam binding which has been lightly coloured with a distress ink pad.

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Thanks for dropping by, have a fab week!

Chris xxx

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