The Magic of Christmas for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got a pastel Christmas card for you today made with one of Leonie's Magic Masks.

Home is the Heart of Christmas

Hello lovely peeps

Just popping in to show you a wooden heart that I decorated with Leonie's Welcome Home stamps and an embossing folder.

The surface of my wooden heart was a bit rough so I covered it with watercolour paper and sanded the edges down with an emery board

Next I painted on a layer of Daler Rowney Zinc Mixing White and then mixed some of this with drops of  'arctic' glitter brush pen from Leonie's Frosty Christmas set onto my craft mat.

I brushed this on with rough horizontal strokes, with some more Zinc white added in to give the impression of a cloudy sky

Near the bottom I stamped on some of the tiny trees from the Welcome Home stamp set with Black Archival ink and then coloured them in with a white gel pen.

I stamped one of the large houses onto more watercolour card and coloured it in with Begonia and Slate Spectrum Aqua Markers (plus the arctic glitter pen for the windows)

I covered the bottom of the heart with a small piece of card that I embossed with the Dotty Days folder and then glued the house on with the steps overlapping the embossed area.

For the sentiment I inked up one of the phrases from the Christmas Greetings set but masked off the 'Home' at the beginning. Instead I used the 'h 'o' 'm' 'e' stamps from the Welcome Home set.

I chose dotty white organza ribbon to hang the heart from, to match the embossed card at the bottom.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:- 

Let's Craft & Create Challenge #127 Just beachy/red, white blue

Pile It On #132 Primary colours

Crafting By Designs Get ready for Christmas

Not Just Cards #46 AG

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Fairy Shaker for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Today's make is a shaker card that I made with Leonie Pujol's Christmas stamps.

First I stamped the fairy from the Fairy Godmother set onto watercolour card with Black Archival ink

I stamped it again onto copy paper and cut it out

before adding Zig 2-way glue onto the back and leaving it to go clear (so it is repositionable)

With my handmade mask in place I overstamped the wings

and wording from the Christmas Greetings set

After covering the wording and wings with more masks (small enough to fit on sticky notes this time), I stamped on stars from the Tree Time set.

Once all my stamping was done I wanted to add a Brusho background, so I removed the paper masks (which would have got soaking wet) and painted all the stamped areas in with Pebeo Drawing Gum

After wetting the background with water, I brushed on diluted Crimson Brusho crystals

then sprinkled on Purple Brusho crystals and spritzed with water

I dried it off with a heat gun, rubbed off the drawing gum and then left the card under a large stack of books to flatten it out overnight.

To colour the fairy in I used Spectrum Aqua markers -
Peach for the skin, Tan and Boulder for the hair, Charcoal for shading

and diluted Crimson Brusho for the dress, shoes and wording.

I cut the top part of the dress out using a craft knife - using a glass mat makes it much easier to cut

I added double-sided tape around the back of the aperture and then attached a square of acetate.

For the base card I glued some more watercolour card to a 6"x6" card blank (to go behind the aperture) and then added two layers of foam tape.

I added more foam tape around the edges for stability and then added little white stars into the well in the centre before attaching the front layer (the white stars did not show up at all on TV, I should have gone with pink :o)

To colour in the stars I mixed Lemon, Copper and Clear sparkle pens on my craft mat to get a light gold colour, then applied with a slightly damp paintbrush.

As I had removed the collar and heart earlier when I cut my aperture, I stamped, coloured and cut out another one to glue over the top of the acetate.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) We're seeing stars
Catch The Bug   Christmas in July - Make It Sparkle
Crafty Gals Corner # 132 Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon #403 Christmas in July
Oddball Art Stamps  AG/ optional A sky full of stars 
 Brown Sugar #259 Colour  

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Holly Wreath for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Our Leonie is on the telly box again today with her fabulous Christmas dies, stamps and embossing folders. The shows are at 8am, 12pm and 4pm on Hochanda.

This is the second card that I made for the shows, using the 'Softly Falling' embossing folder and some of the stamps (if you missed my first card 'Christmas Kisses' click here to see it)

First I made the background by embossing a 7"x7" piece of card

I made sure the folder edge was hanging off the edge of the sandwich before running it through the machine - to make sure I didn't get a line down the middle of the card



After the first pass I turned the card around so I could emboss the rest of it.

It matches up pretty well

This left just one un-embossed area in the bottom right corner which by happy coincidence is where I want to put part of my greeting later :o)

Next I made a topper by die-cutting a large circle from Sheena's Stamping card and stamping the small row of houses from the Welcome Home set in Black Archival Ink.

I made a sticky-note mask to cover the houses up and then stamped some trees around and behind the houses.

To colour them in I used my Gansai Tambi watercolour paints and a tiny paintbrush

These paints are so lush, but it's only the second time I've used them so I had to make a colour chart beforehand to see which colours I wanted.

I also used them to colour in some holly leaves that I'd stamped up from the Perch stamp set onto watercolour card. I ended up using three different shades of green as it looked a bit 'samey' having them all in one colour.

I added a bit of Clear Overlay sparkle pen for the snow and chimney smoke and left it to dry

then added blobs of Pinflair 3D Glue Gel around the edge of my topper

to stick all of the holly leaves to.

There's a lovely sparkle from the pen once it's dried.

I finished off with a sentiment from the Christmas Greetings set, stamped onto white card.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Deep Ocean Challenge #159 Christmas in July
Inky Chicks #85 Christmas
Creative Craft Cottages Challenges #91 Christmas in July
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 93 Embossing
Retarte  #101 Christmas in July
Get Creative Challenges #60 CAS 
My Time to Craft #349 Christmas in July
Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) option die cuts

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Christmas Kisses for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, it's sneaky peek time :o)

 This is one of the cards that I have made for Leonie's shows on Hochanda next Thursday, 13th July, featuring some of her Christmas stamps. The shows are scheduled for 8am, 12pm and 4pm and will also feature dies and embossing folders.

First I stamped the two birds from the Perch stamp set onto Kraft card with Black Archival ink - positioned so they are kissing each other

Next I added some mistletoe - this was cut from the Festive Foliage stamp

I added a couple of sprigs directly above them

then added more along the top of the card.

I coloured the birds in with Copper and Berry sparkle pens

and the mistletoe with Clear sparkle pen with a tiny bit of Holly Leaf mixed in. The berries were painted in with Zinc White acrylic.

For the first half of the greeting I painted a scrap of Kraft card with a wash of Zinc White then stamped over with 'Christmas' from the Christmas Greetings set.

For the second I masked off the swirly part of the 'Kisses' stamp from an older set (called Love Hearts) and stamped onto Kraft card with Black Archival ink.

Then I painted over with a mix of clear/Holly Leaf sparkle pen and left it to dry.
I doodled a border around with a black fineliner pen to match the style of the 'Christmas' part.

I decided last minute to tone down the sparkle pen on the birds and went over the top with a wash of Zinc white. I think this blends in better with the Kraft card.

To ground the birds I painted some Zinc White along the bottom of the card then I doodled in some legs and feet with the fineliner pen. Some black pearls for eyes finish it off.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

My Time to Craft #349 Christmas in July

Unicorn Challenge #23 Christmas in July

Inky Chicks #85 Christmas

Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) optional die cuts

ABC Christmas Challenge N is for new, O is for Old (the bird stamps are new)

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Christmas Goes

The Crazy Challenge #252 animal

Art Impressions Stamp Challenge #212 Bling, glitter or glossy (used sparkle pens)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x