Welcome to the start of a new week and soon to be a NEW YEAR

Morning readers,

Hope your weekend went well and that you are all geared up for a splendid New Years Eve today. In case I don't get to speak to you personally - HAPPY NEW YEAR, may your 2019 be a good one.

I got some new stash for Christmas and it seemed like the perfect excuse to make a Christmas card - am I the only one who can't seem to stop making them? And why should I? I so enjoy making them .. and I had new stash, what better reason!

My card

And a closer view of the image panel

 

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White 12½cm square, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of green card, cut to mat
• Snippets of white card and green card - die cut using faux stitched nesting squares and the middle size coloured red using copic markers
• Newtons Nook (Slothy Christmas) sloth and sentiment stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink including once on to white card which was then die cut in to a banner which was then attached to my finished card using dimensional foam tape
• Copic markers and Pro Markers used to colour
• Anita's dimensional gloss and stardust stickles used to embellish and create interest and texture

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 418 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
2. Sweet Stampin' - December 26th challenge - SOMETHING NEW .. the Newtons Nook stamp set was a Christmas gift
3. My Time To Craft - challenge No. 387 - SOMETHING NEW - see above
4. CASonFriday - challenge No. 148 - MAKE A CHRISTMAS CARD - easy, haven't really been able to stop myself!!!
5. Winter Wonderland - December 7th challenge - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

I've also cracked the seal on the stencil and am working on a journal page ..... sadly (as sometimes happens) the Mark I version did NOT make the grade

Mark I

It was going great UNTIL I hit it with the WRONG stencil and the WRONG medium
(in this case, gilding wax ... this particular disaster didn't even get photographed -yes, it was THAT bad!)

Onwards and upwards, I liked the basic premise of the turquoise brusho and the (first) stencil I used so ... here's the Mark II version

Mark II finished

Mark II - first two layers - brusho and brusho/gloss gel medium

Mark II finished, with a little stamping, a little doodling and an uplifting sentiment

Materials used:

• One page of my Crawford and Black journal (£1 from The Works)
• Liquitex modelling paste and a metal palette knife
• TCW stencil 507S
• Turquoise brusho and water spritzed
• I then hit it with a Stamposaurus herringbone stencil and rose gold gilding wax ... and this is where it went horribly wrong!! Sadly, I ended up ripping Mark I out of the journal and starting again! ............. on to the MARK II version .....
• Another page of my Crawford and Black journal
• Brusho in turquoise sprinkled on the page and spritzed before allowing to dry
• Brusho in black mixed with Liquitex basics gloss gel medium before applying through the same stencil and setting aside to dry
• Tim Holtz "Idea-ology" self adhesive sentiment
• Paper Artsy image (from EDY21) stamped using Ranger Archival onyx black ink
• Scribblicious blue glitter gel pen (Christmas stash, from The Works) used to colour the circles of my stamped image except for the circle over the "W" in wonderful to which I simply added Wink of Stella clear glitter gel brush pen - to get some twinkle!
• Sakura white gelly roll gel pen to doodle beneath the sentiment

I'll be entering the above for the following challenges:-

1. Love2Create - challenge No. 15 - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES
2. More Mixed Media - December challenge - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES + option of WHITE ... I left way more WHITE space than I usually do
3. Stamplorations - December Mixed Media Challenge - ANYTHING MIXED GOES + MUST use STENCILLING