HOW MY CHRISTMAS THEME BEGAN..

 Hello everyone,

Sometimes  I like themes for my Christmas card, I get an idea and if it flows, it flows, and I make over 200 cards for the season, family, shop, friends, special friends, overseas and then the orders in between.

This year...this is how my theme began..

I shopped on amazon and bought this..

and started cutting..

and card stock backing to make them studier 

I do nothing perfect with my eyesight, and don't really care, 

but all the ephemera was hand cut out and matted with card stock..

and sometimes a die worked, but the tags etc are different sizes so pretty limited.

but the hand cutting was okay and I inked the edges to hide boo boo's.

after buying my  Hero Arts nesting dies I found one good enough for the round ephemera, so that was lucky, I cannot cut a straight line, so a circle was never going to work..

double sided these one as they are pretty small.

and you can see by now my theme is " Animals "

different sizes in this book, so that was fun.

I made so many animal themed cards and tags which I will share as time goes by

and still had bits left over..

Here we are at the end with all the pictures cut and matted and ready to go..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you tomorrow..

Luv CHRISSYxx

LET'S FLY..DT

 Hello everyone,

Time for Little Red Wagon and a new challenge with JanR as our fabulous hostess and her theme is..

LET'S Fly - anything that flies in the sky..

I weakened and bought this Tim Holtz 12x12 paper pad..

and cut into it..I know!

Steampunk die cut balloon and made the base out of gold card stock by cutting again.

added some Bee's and the girls face along with a number.

Dry embossed using my favourite embossing folder

some builders mesh..

lot of clocks and more numbers

and layered my cogs, gears and clocks up 

Sentiment, or quote really, not added a sentiment as yet..

Close up of quote..

and close up of my stacked cogs and gears

and DONE!!

So there you go, 

Come on over and join in HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by,

hope you are getting on or finished Christmas stuff, all my overseas ones are done, family done, special elderly ( the old lady says ) are done..and even my gifts are 99% done..I'm so proud.

See you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

CHRISTMAS SHAKE UP

 Hello everyone,

Sharing a Christmas shaker that nearly sent me into a spin of no return, I shook it, and the stuff fell out, I was so cross with myself, started over and it did it again..I didn't realize that the bag I was using for my shaker window had a hole or ten at the other end, I thought it was a sealed bag..anyway, it work out in the end..

Using my arch die ( love this die ), I cut out a window in  the card base.

Then glued the bag in place ready to fill it with my shaker bits..

Die cut a Santa picture..

filled my bag up..

and glued it inside..

die cut some snowflakes in music papers..

added a pocket with a tag on the backside..

added a music strip on the inside seam.

a die cut Merry Christmas in the music papers..

I love these cellophane bags with the snowflake print on it.

and there she is..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

See you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

The Holly and Ivy Challenge  ( Anything goes Christmas )

The Daisy Chain Challenge  ( anything Christmas )

The Merry Little Christmas Challenge ( Anything Christmas Goes )

#833 GOLD OR SILVER...DT

 Hello everyone,

it is LITTLE RED WAGON  and I'm hostess this week and my theme is GOLD or SILVER

Well, I'm a gold girl now, I used to be silver when younger as my hair was silver white, very blond and curly and a lot of it, but as the time has gone by I'm grey and thinner, my hair, not my body, ha ha ha..

Okay, seriously though..gold or silver..

I altered a school note book..

Notebook covered with book pages..

then just stuff glued on, nothing matches, 

no reason for any of it as you won't see it by the time I'm finished, 

well, you will but differently..

I stuck stuff on and took stuff off, but finally stopped doing that and ...

painted it black, all over the place, in the nooks and crannies..

until it was covered everywhere, looks grey here, not sure why my phone had a hissy fit

Then when all that was dry, I rubbed Simon Hurly Solar gold cream stuff on the edges and all over the things I glued down..

I inked the pages and added pockets front and back inside covers.

I then decide to add these little stones I found, 

glue down then sprinkle and press gently with finger..

Aren't they lovely, the grey ones, well all of them are those moisture stones they put in new handbags and stuff..my daughter in law saves them for me, they gets thousands of those packets when shipments come through and I benefit..

need more things, so added the gold leaf charms 

on the edge.

see...

                                             and a little rose in the middle....now  I'm satisfied.

So do come and join in with your gold or silver 

HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by, hope you are having a great week, 

I am and will share soon, what I have been up too..

Luv CHRISSYxx