Traditional Christmas

Hi everyone, we're heading towards Christmas at Try It On Tuesday with a new theme of 'Traditional Christmas'. The Design Team have a lot of lovely Traditional Christmas designs to show you here.

I have always thought of Holly as traditional, with memories of my dad passing me sprigs of Holly as he cut them to use as decoration in our house when I was a child

I used a Chocolate Baroque text and holly stamp, coloured with Tim Holtz crayons and spattered with a wet brush over the crayon tip.

The background is an old gelli print.

I hope you will join us at TIOT this time and enjoy a relaxing time before the Christmas rush starts whether you are planning a Traditional Christmas or not.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Sparkles!

 Hi everyone, I'm expecting that any day now the grey skies will turn blue and we will have some frosty mornings! I may be wrong but I do hope so - I love to see the frost shimmering on plants in the sunlight.

Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is 'Sparkle All The Way'.

We could be thinking Christmas here (please take a look at the fabulous creations from the Design Team) but we have several family birthdays in November and December and I needed to find a way of making my birthday cards sit alongside Christmas cards.

 I painted a rough square on my card with Cosmic Shimmer pearl paint then stamped this lovely stamp from Crafty Indidviduals.

The sparkle is a combination of a glitter pen from The Works and some Lavinia Starbrights Holographic Glitter. 

Some close ups - the sparkle is much brighter than in the first photo!

Slightly out of focus letters to show that the sparkle on the Happy Birthday is WOW clear sparkle embossing powder.

I hope you won't get too glittered up yourselves when you join us this time (I had a little spill putting glitter back in the pot!)

The TIOT team look forward to seeing your sparkly entries.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Calendar Journals!!!!

Hi everyone, last month was a bit hectic for me so I never got a chance to enter my calendar journal into the 'Autumn Colours' theme at Art Journal Journey, hosted by Alison, even though I photographed it at the beginning of the month. 

I was in danger of not getting this one posted for Wendy's 'On,In Or By The Sea' theme, which was photographed on the 2nd! Soo, here it is!

I used Lavinia stencils and stamps for my background and here's how it looked before adding my journal squares and the seahorse.

Here is last month filled in

..and here is September also filled in

I am on a last push with my craft room re-organisation and then...I hope to have some time on my hands!

Thanks for looking, Chris