29 November Christmas

Holly swirl

Stamp and emboss with ‘golden pine’ embossing powder. White gems to snowflakes, large red gems to sentiment, tiny red dots to berries.

White poinsettia +stars

Gilding wax to black ribbed strip, stardust stickles to moon and stars.

Blue bauble

Stamp and emboss with ‘pine trees’ powder. Cut out bauble and put foam pads under, white gems in border snowflakes.

Village in a bauble

Apply stonewashed adirondak ink through bauble mask with large brush, silver gel pen around edge of bauble  before removing mask. Flower soft to trees cottages and ground, sakura clear pen to windows. Edges faded jeans ink.

Circle poinsettia

Gilding wax to edges of poinsettia and red circle, curl poinsettia petals.

22 November Christmas

Black/silver holly

Stamp with perfect medium onto black card, apply silver mica powder. Cut three strips of black. Prick holes around edge of white layer using pierced ruler.

Snowmen

Sky chalk. Spots, hat bands and edges of picture and sentiment  sleigh bell yellow, hats and scarves oasis blue, noses bright orange, skates ice grey 2, sakura clear pen to buttons,  flower soft for snow, stardust stickles to snowflakes.

Gold Nativity

Emboss 2 smallest leaves with brilliant sparkle gold powder. Antique linen ink to edges of poinsettia not embossed layers, sentiment and embossed layer.

Green Tree

Apply green texture paste through stencil, tiny red gems on tree, on embossed layer berry red promarker to berries and edges. Add sakura clear pen to poinsettias.

Father Christmas

Holly leaves marsh green, ivy and poinsettia leaves pine and marsh green, Santa’s face satin, poinsettias berry red, centre of poinsettias and bell sunflower yellow and sakura pen, birds burnt sienna and caramel. Sakura pen to berries, flower soft for beard, eyebrows and hair.

8 November Christmas stamping and gilding flakes

Red window

Stick acetate to inside of window. Snowflakes in the sky are white correcting pen. Scratch the white ground and add frosted lace stickle to ground and roof tops. Edges bundled sage ink. Foam pads under window and sentiment.

Bauble

Stamp and emboss  baubles with aqua tinsel powder, cut out and add foam pads between the layers. Gems to snowflakes and centre of bauble.

Snowflakes

Stamp and emboss snowflakes with white powder. Add silver gilding flakes to a strip of double sided tape. Stardust stickles to snowflakes.

Poinsettia

Gold gilding wax to edges of leaves, put double sided tape either side of centre strips and add Verdigris gilding flakes.

Log cabin

Chalk sky, trees march green plus sakura clear pen, cabin walnut or other dark brown, windows and door glass sunflower yellow. Fence firewood or umber, edges frosty sky or cloudy blue ink, apply tacky glue with end of paintbrush for flower soft to make snow. Roof, top of chimney frosted lace stickles. Stardust stickles to snowflakes.

Christmas step cards 1 November

Tree

Parcel ribbon berry red, foam pads under parcels, sakura pen to join the dots on tree.

Bauble

Stamp and emboss with green powder then cut out, foam pads under bauble, tiny red dots to bauble.

Church

Gems to snowflakes, sakura pen to holly leaves.

Snowman

Along the long edge of card crease at 1½” 3” and 7¼”

Fold and cut off excess card.

Snowman scarf berry red, buttons and eyes black nose bright orange, hat china blue and mouth ice grey 1. Edges of snowman and sentiment frosty sky or cloudy blue ink. Gems to border, stickles to snowflakes.

Wreath

Gold gilding wax to edges of red background.  Stick wreath to card then put back all the leaves, add red dots for berries, gold dots to poinsettia and tiny peel off dots to flower centres.