BBTB2 - Holiday Inspiration

Hi Everyone, hope you had a great weekend.

We're just back from a fabulous time in Bruges seeing the Christmas markets.

I certainly feel in the holiday spirit now!

 

This week's post  for BBTB2 is for inspiration only and to wish Everyone a Merry Christmas.

We were asked to make a holiday tag.

 

 

I used Winter Woodland for the  cuts and the sentiment is from Warm Holiday Fun set by My Creative Time.

 

Happy Holidays from all of us at BBTB2 and thanks for joining in with our challenges.

I will be back soon with some Christmas houses.

 

Thanks for looking.

Holiday Gift Tag

Happy Monday!

Holiday season is in full swing now and our lovely Laura has asked us to make a holiday gift tag.

I love this challenge as I always need gift tags.

This will be for hubby's present.

Winter Woodland for the tag at 3.75"

DP Bo Bunny Blitzen

Paint and enamel

Snow Folks at 2.5"

DP MME Tis the Season

Twinklets for the star

Check out all the fabulous inspiration from the DT and can't wait to see your

holiday tags.



                                                 

Teddy Elf Tag

Wow,Friday already! Where did this week disappear to?

It's half term school holidays here in the UK and I have to say they have flown by.

My Son and I have just been out playing golf, it's cold but a beautiful bright and sunny Autumn day.

Spent all yesterday packing so it was lovely to get out today.

 

Miss Ruthie over at My Creative Time  is the host of The Designer Challenge and asked us to make a tag 4 x 6 or bigger and to incorporate Emma's stamps and dies.

 

 

I cut the tag at 6" on Winter Woodland which made it 4.25" wide.

I embossed the top layer and added Ranger distress crackle glaze paint  to the tree and topped off with twinklets. The little Elf Ted is cut at 3" from Teddy Bear Parade.

 

There's lots of dimension!Look at the cute sock monkey toy he is geting ready to send!!

 

Rest of Recipe Details

 

DP - Echo Park - season's Greetings

Tim Holtz kraft core Nostalgic Collection

Ribbon from stash

Bell from M&S (yes really!!- it's gorgeous)

The scroll and stamped sentiments are:-

It's a Magical Seaon

Warm Holiday Fun

Just Tags Die (adapted to make stitched mat)

all from Emma at My Creative Time

Glossy Accents

Mini buttons

Pom pom

 

 

I love how this turned out!

 

I am linking this to DL Art - Thankful Thursday Linky Party.

 

Off to see the Fireworks at the Rose Bowl tonight with my family.

 

Have a great weekend.

Winter Skating

Hi,hope you've had a great week. Over the holidays we went ice skating over at Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park. Bitten By The Bug 2 has a Winter Woodland skate challenge so I thought I would make a winter birthday card. We don't have any snow here in the UK but we do have lots of holly and berries and this is where my inspiration came from.

Had a bit of a 'Tim Time' lately. I was inspired by his tags but never found time to play. I managed to  make his rosette trees(although I think he would faint on my take!! heehee!!). Click here to see them.

Recipe

Tim Holtz Christmas kraft resist card

(If you look closely you may be able to see that I used Shabby Shutters and Fired Brick  to paint the holly and berries on the card base).

Winter Woodland for skates and holly.

Art Philosophy for the card. (Santa came! :) )

Tim Holtz ticket die and stamp.

Everything ink distressed,skates sanded..

Crackle glaze on holly.

Holly Berry twine from My Craft Spot

Eyelets

Lots of 3d foam

Thanks for looking.Have a fab weekend.

Happy Birthday to my bestie,Kate.

Hugs

Jayne x

Snowmany Hugs!

Hello Everyone. Hope your week is going great. I have a card for a few challenges today and to add to my christmas card list. Need to work on these a bit quicker as I need to write and post them soon!! :)

Recipe

Winter Woodland - snowpeeps and branch

Inking,glitter,glossy accents

3D foam for lots of depth

Flocking on scarf

Candy dots

Sentiment from Mixed Holiday Sentiments from My Creative Time

Oval stitched die also MCT

You know I am a sucker for when the light shows my sparkly bits!! Lol!

I am entering this over at Fantabulous Cricut - Holiday cards

Cardz TV - challenge#96 - Christmas -  say it with S

Copy Cat Friday - Winter Holiday

Robin's Creative Cottage Tuesday Challenge - Let it Sparkle

Whimsical Designs - Layer It- Winter Theme

Thanks for dropping in. I hope to catch up with you all in the next couple of days :)

                                                      

Oh Christmas Tree!

Hi and happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. We are still having a heatwave ( I'm just ready for autumn to start again now!).
I don't work on a Monday and was super busy with chores and bricklaying over the weekend that I decided to have a leisurely day.
I was taken out for lunch to a lovely pub right on the sea front and it was just fabulous.

When I got home I had an hour before doing the school run and decided to make a Christmas card to enter over at My Pink Stamper. Robyn is having a christmas card challenge to help us get ahead with our christmas cards.

Well,you know how much I 'love' my gypsy!! Not!! But I did get it out to design this card and it went well this time....ooh except for one small detail..I'll come back to that in a minute.

How cute is that red cardinal,I think it adds a lovely touch of colour.

Recipe

I welded and flipped the shadow cut of this tree from Winter Woodland. Now, I struggle with sizing the layers because even if I put in the same size the gypsy says it hardly ever turns out right for me!

So I thought I would be clever and put the width of 1 tree in as 3" before I welded. My shaped card cut out well and I decided I would cut the layers from the cartridge,the only thing is that's height not width....see not so clever was I? The height on the gypsy read 4.3" so I cut at 4.25". Learnt that lesson, Lol!

I ran the blue of the tree through an embossing folder and inked all edges.The 'snow' was cut from DCWV glitter card.

The red cardinal was cut at 1" - chopped his legs off! Ha,it's a good job he can fly!

Popped everthing with 3d foam and stamped the inside with Emma's Mixed Holiday Sentiments from My Creative Time.

To show the dimension.

Thought this showed the glittery snow better.

I'm really pleased how this turned out and think I'm going to make a few of these as they are so quick and easy!

Thanks for calling by.

Hugs

Jayne x