Hang It On The Tree

Big Challenge 2 from the Just Bex forum was- Your challenge is to make a Christmas decoration to hang on the tree . Your decoration can be made however you like, as long as it hangs, and is small enough to go on the tree.

To start I had a plain piece of Basic Grey Chipboard in the shape of the snowflake. I covered it with Bazzill Bling and spent a gruelling (lol) hour and a bit cutting around the snowflake with my craft knife!!! I attached the hanging ribbon using a diamante brad and then placed sticky gems on the other 'arms' of the snowflake. I then tied a few lengths of ribbon around the centre to finish.

Get Tearing

A new challenge from the Just Bex forum... I quite enjoyed this one- You've guessed it...cards or LO's tear them to your hearts content.

I used some of the 'Tis the Season' Dovecraft papers for this one. The tree is actually a Basic Grey chipboard tree and I have covered with paper, layered onto my torn piece of paper. I tied a small piece of grosgrain ribbon around the trunk of the christmas tree.

To finish I added a few Doodlebug gems and inked around the edges of the card, tree and torn piece with green ink.

Christmas Cards- Using Laurie Sketches

OK so I had another play tonight with some more sketches over at http://laurieunger.blogspot.com/. I decided to make a couple more Christmas cards.

For this one I used last years Papermania Christmas papers for the base of the card, and then for the triangle piece, also for the middle layer of squares. The first and third square are cut from the white Bazzill Bling, edged with lilac and pink Dew Drops.

The snowflake is from the Basic Grey Christmas chipboard pack, I inked it using the Dew Drops and stuck to the top card. I then cut a circle of the Bazzill Bling and stamped a Hero Arts greeting onto it.

This one was made using the white Bazzill Bling as the base of the card. I cut two triangles out from the darker blue Bazzill Bling and stuck them down. I then layered a Penny Black Stickeroo onto some more white Bazzill Bling and layered that onto the card. I finished with some blue ink to the edges and a few snowflake stickers from the same stickeroo sheet.

A Basic Grey Christmas

Ah, that time of year is coming... and I have just made my first Christmas Card of the year, using my new Basic Grey papers!! The scan is slightly wonky, so apologies for that!!

The gorgeous paper is the Basic Grey 'Fruitcake' collection. I used both sides of it to make sure the first two layers co-ordinated! The tag was also from the same collection... I then thread some brown grosgrain through and stuck down with some eyelet brads.

I inked around the edge of the paper with my 'Coffee Bean' Dew Drop and used it along with one of the new Hero Arts 2007 Clear stamp set.