Cool, Cool Xmas Tag

Just been doing a little Xmas catch-up. Wanted to do an icy cold background for this one with a touch of gold to warm it up a little.

I started with a tag cut out from pale blue cardstock and a home made mica mist made from weathered wood Distress Reinker and pewter cosmic shimmer mica powder, shook up in a mini mister with a little water. I sprayed over a small scroll glimmer screen and dried quickly with a heat tool. I then used faded jeans Distress reinker on its own with water to overspray as required until the desired effect was achieved.

Next I took a swirl stamp (?) and loaded it with gold Ranger paint dabber, stamping a couple of times top and bottom on the tag. If you do this ensure you quickly clean the stamp before the paint dries !

I then inked a text stamp from PaperArtsy with onyx black Versafine ink and stamped in three places as shown.

The square Santa stamp (PaperArtsy) was stamped in black Stazon onto the same blue cardstock base and trimmed out. This was then coloured with Caran D'ache Neocolour water soluble wax crayons using blue, red, white & green and a water brush. Once dry I heat embossed the plate twice with clear UTEE. This was embellished with a gold screw brad and applied with foam pads to raise it.

The blue paper ribbon (bottom left) was made separately using a small snowflake stamp inked with onyx black versafine, adding dots of Stickles glitter glue and swiping with a blue dye inkpad when the Stickles has dried. This was then applied with glue stick and stuck in place and trimmed to fit.

Finishing touches were made by adding a silver rub-on snowflake and the words 'Seasons Greetings', a white eyelet applied with a crop-a-dile and a small length of narrow powder blue velvet ribbon threaded as shown.

The whole tag was edged with mid blue chalk ink.

Sid xx

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12 Days of............Day 7

Here is my Day 7 of the 12 Days......... series. Once again I have been a bit creative with my bird stamp. You will have to think swan rather than dove !!!

I started with white cardstock and I made the waves using a damask heart stamp from Elusive Images which I stamped in archival black ink. Making a mask and stamping the top of the heart to make waves. These were coloured with Caran D'Ache water soluble wax crayons and a waterbrush. I used blue & green. Once dry I then used a few colours of Versamagic chalk ink and some clear stamps (?) to stamp a few layers of borders for the top half of the plate (Aegean blue, Aloe Vera, Purple Hydrangea & Pumpkin Spice).

I then overstamped with a text plate (PaperArtsy) in fawn Impress dye ink, and a ruler stamp (PaperArtsy) in chartreuse Impress dye ink at the very top.

The text was diecut using 'The Ginchiest' text from Sizzix and a Bigshot from brown dots printed paper and stuck in place with glue pen. The chipboard number 7 was coloured with tan ink and overstamped with text and applied with Glossy Accents to finish.

The swans....ahem !! were stamped using archival black ink and a polymer stamp (?) 7 times onto pale blue card and trimmed out. They were applied over the 'waves' with foam pads and small amounts of stickles added between the waves. The card was edged with cottage ivy Memento ink pad.

Sid xx

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12 Days of............Day 6

This is my entry for week six of the '12 Days of' Challenge being run over on UK Stampers Forum. This one depicts 6 Geese a-laying ! Not sure whether these little birds qualify as Geese but they are there anyway.

The base card is a piece of 4 x 4 inch white cardstock.

The background of checkered printed paper was applied and trimmed and was then stamped at the top with scruffy numbers & letters mini text stamp from PaperArtsy using lavender Impress dye ink. The birdies are from a set of clear stamps by Basic Grey and I have stamped the birds in Versamark onto mid green printed paper and heat embossed with seafoam white embossing powder. I did two strips of three birds and trimmed as shown and applied with glue stick, top and bottom of the 4 x 4 plate. A little bird footprint stamp (Basic Grey) was stamped in black archival ink onto these once in place.



Next I used an egg stamp (PaperArtsy) and stamped this 6 times on pale blue card with Versamark and heat embossed with blue glass embossing powder. Once cool I trimmed out the eggs and coloured with a water brush and Caran D'ache soluble wax crayons in lime green and mid blue. They were layered onto a large foam pad in the form of a flower and applied as shown.



The number 6 was made from chipboard and I coloured this brown and distressed it with sandpaper before swiping with a maroon chalk ink pad and applying with Glossy Accents as shown.

The edges of the plate were also coloured with the same chalk ink to finish.

Sid xx

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