When Joyful Nativity met Father Christmas...

Stand back in amazement... I have done some colouring in!!! Who needs adult colouring books when you can buy a lovely stamp set and colour in to your hearts content and then send your art out on your christmas cards...

These toys in a sack in the Father Christmas set are rather cute... but definitely stray into my "oh my word I can't see where to colour these... with or without the aid of glasses!!

Coupled with my much used JOY from Joyful Nativity... and the small greeting from Christmas Magic

And a bow from Perfect Pines has snuck in as well... Did I tell you that the co-ordinating Christmas Pines stamp set has 25% off this month!!? 

Now I am hoping to share some of my favourite & special Christmas projects this year over the next few days... so watch this space....

The green green door of home.....

 

Last but one of my On Stage Stampers Showcase samples... featuring the new 2016-18 In Color Emerald Envy ...with its co-ordinating ruched ribbon... and the new and coming Swirly Bird stamp set...

Now cough... and an admittance... I didn't actually like this card!! There I have said it! Too much bright green going on for my taste... but I was determined to do a green green door (of home) project... as well as some topiary using the Swirly Bird swirly flower stamp...

But as there are some other great features on the card ... and as also out of time... the card made it through to the display! Hope that the parts made up for the whole...!!

So other things to point out... 

• great flagstones for the base using a Sahara Sand inked Brick Wall embossing folder and a piece of Sahara Sand...
• I know that many of us will be lamenting the loss of the Wide Oval Punch used with our favourite Decorative Label... so I used a Project Life Cards & Labels die cut instead - which looks great too...
• imagine it with a white door!! Much more subtle... 
• this is a Centre Step Easel Card - link and tutorial for a white door version here

I also old favourites Hearth & Home dies, Brick Wall embossing folder, Circle of Spring stamps and co-ordinating Wonderful Wreath dies and the flowerpot from the Perfect Pines dies...all of which are happily carrying over...

Peaceful Pines Home For Christmas

Another monthly training make (and it's twin!) I used in my Cozy Christmas & Home For Christmas class... 

Thanks again Julie....

Love this tree...

I also flipped the paper and made this one... 

One card...two ways...

Using my remaining Home For Christmas enamel dots as baubles...

Seemed rude not to....

And here are the pair together again....

Hearth & Home Tardis Tutorial

For all you Dr Who Loving fans... and as it is Tuesday Tips, Tricks & Tutorials today - a tutorial as promised a while ago! Knew I would get there eventually.... 

A simple enough little box & lid  - just dressed up with another version of my doors...

But before I start... here are the links to a couple more versions...

New 2016-18 In Colour Dapper Denim version made for On Stage Telford display in April 2016...
One with more authentic signage...

Recipe
Box - Night of Navy A4 Card (or 12" x 8 1/4")
Lid - Night of Navy 4 3/8" Square (11.3cm); Basic Black 2 1/2" x 3/8" (x4) [6.4 x 1cm]

Directions for Box
1. LANDSCAPE. Score 2 3/4", 5 1/2", 8 1/4" & 11" (7,14,21, 28cm)

2. PORTRAIT. Score 1 3/4" (4.5cm)

3. Dart base sections & adhere together as an open box

4. Die cut 8 Night of Navy windows. Snip and glue! Note - do retain your cut off parts...

This is just another version of my doors... This time the 2 windows are adhered together using just one thin section (rather than the thicker 3 sections on the original doors) and those final centre panes are not snipped to make the long inside panels ie the window panes are left as they are!

5. Pick up 9 Whisper White window panes ( know you have lots of these lying around by now!)

I sponged 8 of them using Soft Sky and then used my Night of Navy marker pens to draw in the lines.

As I was doing a few...I drew on my grid paper to aide my lining up... on the centimetres side... my 2 vertical lines are at 0.8 and 1.6cm ( about 1/3" & 2/3") - and my 1 horizontal line is at 1.5cm ( almost 5/8")

And the 9th was stamped with the Celebrate the Season stamp from the Happy Scenes stamp set - one word at a time...

Directions for Lid
1. Score 3/4" (2cm) on all 4 sides

2. Dart 2 lines on 2 opposing sections & adhere together using the tabs

3. Die cut 4 Night of Navy planters

4. Pick up 4 x 3-section Night of Navy window cut offs - adhere to planters

5. Ink up & stamp Whisper White POLICE BOX using your Rotary Stamp Alphabet (x4) on the 4 black panels...

6. Die cut 2 x Night of Navy Small Festive Fireside Tags & adhere together

7. Die cut 2 x Night of Navy Perfect Pines plant pots. Score & bone fold at 1/8" (3mm) from straight edge. Adhere notched edges to either side of your double tags and use the scored sections to adhere to your lid.  Add a large Iced Rhinestone embellishment to finish

8. Decorate with boughs and stockings for the season! My stockings are just coloured using Old Olive and Real Red marker pens. And the boughs are stamped on Old Olive - using Mossy Meadow ink pad plus over-colouring of Early Espresso marker on the cones - stamped - and then the cones coloured in with my Tip Top Taupe marker . And Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details for the berries...

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Peaceful Pines Duo

 

Simple little duo using the Peaceful Pines stamp set and the marbling technique...

Straightforward on white... 

Or Softly Falling embossed on Lost Lagoon...

Colour combination Mint Macaron, Lost Lagoon & Night of Navy... been using this combination rather a lot recently! And this marbling technique...which is very effective in the flesh!

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Looking Inside the Window

Back to looking inside through the window!

Wallpaper and curtains care of the Merry Moments paper stack.
Christmas Tree care of Peaceful Pines stamps and dies

Window and planter with greeting care of Hearth & Home dies/ Festive Scenes stamps
Bough of pines and pinecones care of Festive Fireplace and Festive Fireside stamps and dies

Red glitter for berries care of my Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details

But a tip for you… don’t add glitter to the tree when you have already die cut out the tiny circles “tinsel/baubles”. They show well enough through to that Cherry Cobbler wallpaper behind….  In my opinion… I spoilt this card by adding the red glitter to the Tree … Just sayin'!!! ... and I also had to keep re-applying as the glitter glue sank into the tiny holes!!
So a quick remake and quickly edited to add… here you go …same card without that extra glitter…

See the tinsel/bauble effect – that’s just a quick secondary cut with the die in the Perfect Pines set!

That’s better!

Peaceful Pines meets Snow is Falling

Another Sneaky Peek of the new stamp set... Peaceful Pines... 

A fabulous collection of trees, accessories & greetings...along with the fantastic set of Perfect Pines co-ordinating dies in a Stampin' Up! bundle (which means 15% off for the bundle!)

This is a set that has attracted the eyes of most when first viewing the new 2015 Autumn Winter/ Holidays catalogue...so I will be running a Peaceful & Perfect Pines class in due course...so there will be more projects to share using this set in the future...

Not that you can really see in these photos... but the Snow is Falling embossing is finished off with highlights (blobs!) using my trusty Dazzling Details...rather therapeutic! Giving texture, glitter and dimension all in one go!

And on a final note... the 2015 Autumn Winter/Holidays catalogue is revealed to the world tomorrow, 1st September ...so don't forget to come back tomorrow and check it out!!

I will also be sharing a project or two made with my favourite product from the new catalogue! Warning...I have got quite carried away with one particular product!! Anyone like to take a guess which...