Yuletide Holly - Alison Bomber

Mini Yuletide

Getting another Christmas panel posted before the new year with a focal image of a beautiful holly spring by my great friend Alison Bomber.

1. Scrape thin layer of gesso over surface of background card with a palette knife and smooth the centre with a paint brush - dry.

2. Dip sides in puddles of brushed corduroy and dry.

3. Blend ground espresso over the edges.

4. Make puddle of bundled sage - dip, drip and dry.

5. Use a leftover holly die-cut to use as a stencil to create holly images background using the green distress inks.

6. Splatter lightly with white and green paints.

7. Make another distressed background, stamp Alison's mini holly stamp on it.

8. Paint holly image using the distress watercolor pencils.

9. Distress the edges.

10. Create collage using some of the Tim Holtz snippets and paper.

Panel complete.

Supplies

Alison Bomber  -  PaperArtsy Eclectica EM93

Tim Holtz  -  Distress Watercolor Pencils  -  crushed olive, rustic wilderness, bundled sage, festive berries, aged mahogany, ground espresso

Distress Inks   -  brushed corduroy, ground espresso, bundled sage, peeled paint.    Snippets

Miscellaneous  -  Coffee archival ink, 

Peace Christmas Card

 Berry Delicious

Blended pumice stone and hickory smoke distress inks over the card. Made a puddle of each colour and dipped, dripped and dried the distress inks.

I stamped the holly and the berries stamps....

 ....with watering can archival ink ....

.... and stamped the text with coffee archival ink.

Using the watercolour pencils I coloured and painted some of the leaves and all of the berries to make them stand out.

I then grabbed a silver sparkle Sakura Gelly Roll pen and a black unipin pen and added some details.

I found the silver 'Peace', the icicles and greeting in my supplies, added them to the card and mounted onto green cardstock.

This is off to a crafty friend for Christmas 

xxx

Supplies

Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Stamptember 2018, Yuletide CMS356, Letter to Santa CMS053

PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber Fodder Berry Edition 

Ranger - Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils - Forest Moss, Bundled Sage, Iced Spruce, Scorched Timber, Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid.

Archival inks - Watering Can, Coffee,

 Core'dinations colorcore cardstock.

Sizzix Tim Holtz Peace, Wish, Noel

A Winter's Tale - Alison Bomber

 I bought some of Alison's mini stamps in the Country View Crafts Advent sale and I've had fun using this gorgeous image of Star Anise and using it in creating this frame .

Background - a scraped layer of gesso using a palette knife leaving a gap around the edges. Dried, dipped in pumicestone DI, dripped and dried again. Blended gathered twigs around the edges and added some text stamping using hickory smoke.

2nd layer using vellum, tear the edges and stamp with textured stamp from Alison's pressed grasses set, using versamark and embossing powder.

Focal panel - stamped with Alison's Winter Tale stamp in coffee, painted in the image using lost shadow and walnut stain DOs and brown distress watercolor pencils. The image has watery tea dye roughly painted around it and hickory smoke blended around the edges.

The winter greenery was die-cut with white card and snow-tex daubed over it for texture,

I found the snowflakes (which are glued to the underside of the frame) and icicles already cut in a bag ..........

..... and used those with the other miscellaneous oddments to add interest to the frame.

Supplies

Alison Bomber - PaperArtsy  -  mini Winter's Tale stamp,EM90, pressed grasses EAB40

Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Festive Gatherings, Paper Snowflakes,

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress inks - pumice stone, gathered twigs, tea dye, hickory smoke

 Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Watercolor Pencils Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Oxides -  lost shadow, walnut stain

Ranger - Seafoam White embossing powder

Miscellaneous - vellum, star anise, silver berries, twigs, pinecone, 

Ranger Coffee Archival ink

49 and Market Garden rub on transfers

Santa - Vintage photo - Tim Holtz

 Memories of Father Christmas

As a child many, many years ago I can still remember being so excited for Father Christmas coming on Christmas Eve and getting into bed wanting to stay awake to see him. Whilst I lay there waiting I was sure I could hear sleigh bells in the distance. Of course I did fall asleep and I would awake to my pillowcase that I had left out on the end of my bed, being filled with presents and always a satsuma, some crayons or paints and a bar of chocolate.

I love this old photo of Santa, a name change? I've used it with Tim Holtz goodies in a collaged panel.

It was a lovely surprise for me this morning to see that Tim Holtz had added it to his Instagram story today. How exciting is that?

I used several papers from an old 12 x 12 pad from Tim and parchworked them together and stitched around the edge. The frame was discarded from a photo frame so I just painted it with glue and sprinkled distress rock candy glitter all over it ad blended some walnut stain around the edges.

The rest were bits and pieces from one of Tim's ephemera packs, snippets from tubs and bags in one of my Christmas boxes.

xxx

Supplies

Tim Holt papers, ephemera, stamp, dies, glitter and photo

Country View Crafts CHRISTMAS Frame 'Grand Christmas Exhibition'

'Grand Christmas Exhibition'

Another project for Country View Crafts 'Christmas' challenge.

I couldn't resist making another Christmas frame for my sideboard display, and again a box frame from Ikea to match the previous one I made for the same challenge.

Process Steps

For this project I left in the internal frame and used a piece of lightly inked and painted background from my left overs box and then over that I mounted the poster ephemera piece.

It was then just fill the frame with bits and pieces that related  to the exhibition of toys, dolls, fancy goods and novelties. I made the gold packages, filled bottles with shiny beads .....

..... and collected together other small elements to add to the top too.

The sleigh of presents was die cut from one of Tim's Bigz dies and painted green with some narrow washi tape added. The sledge part was cut from some card painted painted and distressed to look like rust.

I added some icicles and snow-tex and ....

.... some rub-ons from 49andMarket.

I have to admit the designing and finding all the elements took much longer than the actual making, lol.

 

                                             

Materials

Tim Holtz Ideaology - 

Ephemera pack - Noel

Bottle brush trees

Corked vials

Alpha parts - frozen

Tim Holtz dies - Sizziz

Sleigh

Festive Gatherings

49andMarket - rub-on transfers

Miscellaneious from my own supplies Silver tree, games pieces, small santa, small vial, beads, icicles die - not named, the star is an old punch by Tim Holtz.

Frostie the Snowman - Tim Holtz

 Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul

I had a playtime using the new TH Sparkle Fade stencil and some Distress Watercolor Pencils to create some small backgrounds and I chose 1 to create my first card from the new Mr Frostie set of TH stamps.

Supplies

Distress Watercolor Pencils - prize ribbon, weathered wood, tumbled glass, kitsch flamingo.

Distress inks - pumice stone, dried marigold, blueprint sketch, walnut stain

Archival ink - watering can

Distress Spritz - weathered wood, fossilized amber

Distress Mica Spray - antiqued bronze

Distress Paint - pine needles,

Sizzix thinlits - festive gatherings

Taking a workshop with Zoe Hillman - Advent board

 Advent and grungy project 

On the 1st December I was at Country View Crafts to attend Zoe's first workshop. She had designed this board using some of the Tim Holtz Christmas idea-ology range and also some printed pieces she had made.

Here is my version of her original.

It was a great day and I loved being able to sit and make something beautiful like this.