27 November Christmas

Silver tree on blue

Lightly apply some silver gilding polish to embossed layer. Fold each of the squares to make tree. Red gems to tree and clear gems to snowflake border. Foam pad under pot.

Gold stamped tree

Background candid apple, peeled paint, iced spruce and bundled sage oxide inks. Stencil leaves with stampin up green. Stamp fir cones with brown versafine. Edges any green ink. Stamp gold tree on background and white top layer. Foam pads under tree and sentiment.

Glittered poinsettia

Apply gold gilding wax to green leaves. Apply glitter to red leaves.

Poinsettia trio

Marsh green, berry red, sunflower for centre, sakura pen to berries and centres. Crystal stickles to snowflake borders.

6 November Christmas cards

Snowflakes

Stamp and emboss with totally teal on smooth side. Add glitter crystals to snowflake on circle. Edges broken china oxide ink. Foam pads under sentiment and circle.

Poinsettias

Stamp branch with brilliance pearl ivy ink, stamp on top with spikey greenery stamp and versafine Olympia green ink. Edges iced spruce oxide ink and gems to tag.

Fabric baubles

Mark on gold card position of baubles. Use template to cut out wadding and stick to gold card. Red liner tape around cut outs. Foam pads under sentiment and border. Peel off strip to border.

Nativity

Manger frame and hair burnt sienna. Halos mustard and sakura clear pen. Rays gold promarker and sakura clear pen. Background powder blue promarker.  Floor and seat grey squirrel. Skin satin, Joseph’s outer coat 7119 (blue) or twilight sky blue, under clothing polar blue. Mary outer clothing sugar plum(purple) under clothes bluebell.Baby’s wrap 8280 (green) Manger straw is sandstone (beige) Foam pads under picture.