TWINKLE TWINKLE BIG GOLD STAR

Hi all, Kat here,
on this chilly December morning,
I thought I would shear with you a Christmas decoration
I made to hang in my window this year,

Don't forget if you make a purchase in the shop
this month you will be sent out a free stamp
click HERE for the details.

I started with a gold star I got from a pound shop

& decorated it with the following :-

the Santa off mini Christmas plate

stamped with black archival ink

cut out & glittered round the edge,

& stuck with foam pads onto a gold nest ability shape,

I then cut 2 lengths of patterned paper from the

Rosette Decorative strip die & stuck them together

to make a bigger rosette, edged with a Gold acrylic paint dabber

I then stuck some foliage bits cut from

brown glittery & antique gold paper using

Tattered pine cone die & Festive Greenery strip die

between the layers,

then I added some gold bells on ribbon (to hang down)

& a bell/bow embellishment to finish.

Here are some close ups.

Hope you like it!

well this is my last piece, this side of Christmas,

so I would like to take this opportunity to say

a big thank you to all you lovely people that

leave me such wonderful comments each time

I post something, they are so appreciated.

& to wish you all an amazing Christmas, 

& a very creative new year.

Also a big thank you to Jennie,

for having me on her design team.

Big Hugs, Kat x.

Christmas Tag by Sioux Jenneys

Hello everyone! Sioux here and I've made a tag to share.
...now I wonder what put that idea in my head! LOL :)

1. Spray red and blue Perfect Pearls mist inks onto tag
...unusual combo for Christmas I know but I was after a vintage Victorian feel

2. Stamp the holly from Mini Christmas 1 plate in Distress Ink pine needles
...using this on the slick surface of the perfect pearls gives a mottled look which adds to the effect I think

3. Add red glitter to the berries

4. Stamp the seasons greetings (again from Mini Christmas 1 plate) in Archival coffee

5. Stamp T!m's snowflakes from Mini Holiday 2 set using Adirondack gold paint dabber on the edges
...this is not showing up too well on the photo due to the light bouncing off it

6. Prepare some textured card by inking with a combo of Distress Ink wild honey and brushed corduroy that has been spritzed with Perfect Pearls mist ink

7. Stamp the Christmas star with trees image from Mini Christmas 1 plate onto the card in Archival sepia and cut out leaving a small border then mount onto black card and attach.

 

Don't forget to keep posting your work on the monthly challege for the chance of a prize ;)

This is my last scheduled piece for this year so I'll wish you all a

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

See you again soon in the New Year :)

xoxo Artyjen

Tag 7 1/2 by Jennie

The phenomenon that sweeps the stamping world early this month has grabbed hold of some of us again, and certainly has done me....lol what am I talking about? If you haven't been there, then you must visit Mr Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas! Now some of his tags are mind blowing exercises in lots of techniques, and complicated things to make!
So, I took some of the elements and techniques that has used so far to make a simple ten minute tag ( hence the title , as today is Tag 8!) for you to copy if you wish. I love simple, the simpler the better! So with this in mind, I use the Merry Christmas Artistic Stamper stamp, and inked it up using cut n dry felt. Stamp your stamp using black archival ink onto the material part of the felt pad, and using distress ink re-inkers colour up the inked stamp. Then place your stamp back onto the pad ink, and stamp in colour!  Keep the felt in a plastic bag, and it should last for ages. If you haven't felt then just ink your stamp using distress inks. I clear embossed the words.
I have to say I cheated here and used the same felt that I used when making his tag no 2!! and it had kept its colour perfectly!
I then inked the tag using Forest Moss , Crushed Olive ( love that name!) and edged it in Barn Red ( my favourite of all the colours!)
You can ink up over the clear embossing with no fear of the embossed image being discoloured.
I stamped the cones from Tim's Winter Sketchbook using the same method.
Add lots of Idea-ology baubles, and a facet. I glued a tiny picture from the Seasonal pad to the back of it with Glossy Accents. I added a few pearls on the bottom too.
There you go a ten minute tag perfect for your presents!



Happy Tagging
Jennie

It's Advent Time!!

Thank you Jennie and Hels for inviting me to join the Creative Design Team, I have already had a ball on my project for this month. Christmas is always a very busy time for everybody and I am sure I am not the only one who, come Christmas Day, is frazzled and worn out! So I have devised an 'Advent Calendar' just for me. Not a Choccie everyday, but a few 'me time' treats. Each day on my own blog I will be picking a tag to show you and sharing a treat with you, along with showing you how I have used the gorgeous stamps Jennie sent me to use and some of the fabulous products she sells.

So here is my tree - I have got to admit that you can's see too much on the photo as its so large, but it looks great on my wall. 

traditionally you start your advent calendar on the 1st of December - well who wants to be traditional? Not us at the Artistic stamper! The blog was a bit busy yesterday announcing the new monthly challenge, so I opened my tag on my ownsome (all together now..... ahhhhh......) but I'll share it with you today. All the tags are made using mountboard, which is nice and stiff and will withstand alot of battering - which is just as well, I am not a delicate girl as you will find out! I love using UTEE and for this tag I covered the whole piece of MB (which was a dark cream colour ro start with,  with Versamark and covered with with a couple of layers of clear UTEE, heating it between layers to melt the powder. If you are quick you can get the second layer on whilst the first is still warm (but mind your fingers!!) but if it does cool down you can give it another coating of Versamark. I then sprinkled on various colours of coloured UTEE - you can use ordinary embossing powders at this stage if you wish. I had the AS Harlequin Background stamp ready inked with versamark, when the UTEE was still hot I pressed the stamp into it and allowed it to cool - you MUST wait for the UTEE to harden before you remove the stamp or else you will make a right mess of it! Then I inked the edges of the card and edged it with a gold UTEE, get you heatgun nice and hot and try to work quickly, just directing the nozzle at the edge, otherwise you are in danger of remelting the triple embossed area and losing your stamped image.

The main embellishment is a large A6 size stamp from the Victorian Christmas Plate that I stamped onto shrink plastic and shrunk! Even though it is a very detailed stamp the images still came out really well once reduced in size.

Now what was yesterdays treat?? Well I met a friend to swap the kids Christmas pressies and I had my favourite treat at my favourite teashop of a cheese scone and a long natter with my mate Sands.

Each day I will be 'opening' advent calendar on my personal blog - NicksArtyStuff  so please feel free to join in with our daily treat!

Here is today's tag....please pop over and see how I made it

Thanks for looking, I will see you later this month with another - but very different - project

Nicks xxx