52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge
The prompt for the "My Time To Craft" challenge for 25th August 2018 is "Christmas In August". Please do pop over and take a look at the other fabulous makes by the Design Team and maybe take part yourself?
It seems very odd to be creating Christmas cards at this time of year. I tend to leave it till late September/October time, but it does allow me to re-visit my festive goodies that have been packed away for months.
I started off by masking a moon and then painting the sky using three shades of Distress Inks. I then removed the moon mask and gently dabbed a pale yellow and dark grey shades of Distress Ink.
The deer image is part of a Stampin' Up set called "Christmas Deer" which I stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia ink.
I tore card to create an uneven snowscape at the base of the Deers feet. I then used a Memorybox die called "Frostyville Border" to cut the intricate frosty detail.
I added extra star/snowflakes to the card and then some dots using a white Signo pen to replicate falling snow. I added some dots of Stickles to give a subtle glitter to the snowflakes and the decorative border (I'm not sure it shows in this photograph).
Finally, I added a sentiment using a sentiment from another Stampin' Up set called "Winter Memories".
It feels like I've not made a tag for ages, although in actual fact it is about a week.
This tag has got a Tim Holtz Distress Ink background in shades of blues and greys. It can not really be spotted in the photograph, but there are areas of Papermania "Holographic" embossing which gives a nice sparkly/ice look.
I had a couple of off-cuts from the Memorybox "Frostyville Border" die (no.98146), so added them to the top and bottom. I then added a stamped "Let It Snow" sentiment (free from a magazine) and punched some small snowflakes. Finally, I added some Stickles glitter glue to the snowflakes and small self adhesive gemstones.
Week 3 Prompt is "Winter".
Little did I know when I set the prompts that this week would be so apt with recent weather conditions, however, I am feeling a little cheated as we have not had snow here in Anglesey!
My thoughts on Winter are "Cold, Clear, Starry Nights = Frozen Puddles" in the morning. Which I attempted to interpret with this tag.
This was actually my third attempt at a tag for this prompt. Who would have thought it could be so difficult! I was originally aiming for the the feathered frozen windscreen effect you get when you need to de-ice the car, but it just wasn't working for me, so I moved on to "Plan B". My crafting attempts don't always work the first time! Here are the tags I ditched.
The base of this tag was embossed using a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing file. I then inked the higher areas around the edges.
I then roughly tore a strip of cardstock in a similar shade to expose the inner white core on the edges. I then stamped this section with a snowflake design using a Brilliance Ink Pad "Platinum Planet" shade.
Next I die cut a Memorybox Frostyville Border (style 98146) and cut it to size sticking it to the base of the tag.
In my scrap bits box I found a Stampin' up "Swirly Scribbles" wreath which tied in with the colour scheme so I stuck that to the middle area. Using a Stampin' up "Christmas Greetings" die for the word "Peace" I cut and positioned this over the top of the wreath.
Also in the bottom of my oddments box I found some pre punched snowflakes in white, so I added these to the wreath area.
The tag was finished off with self adhesive gems and ribbon.
With my mind back on Christmas again, I played with the Cricut machine and cut some prancing reindeers. I then used the Big Shot to cut the Frostyville border strip (Memorybox no.98146).
I stamped a small seasonal sentiment and die cut it to an oval shape, then added a few bling crystals.
