Do you remember.....

....these?

Hello Friends

Do you remember me making all these Christmas Trees using the Tim Holtz rosette dies?  Well, I was giving them as presents for various family and friends, but I wanted to make them a lickle schnazzy with their own custom made boxes instead of wrapping them with tissue paper.  

So a little fiddling with my Silhouette machine and some trial 'n' errors and these are what I came up with...

They were all cut from smooth white cardstock and then I placed DI re-inkers into mini misters with some water and perfect pearls.  I chose the colours of DI re-inkers and sprayed the boxes to match the trees which were going to be inside.  I then folded the boxes and inked the edges and then decorated the reverse with either Making Memories trees or glittered TH lamp posts. When I was spraying the boxes, I placed the card Snippets underneath the boxes I was spraying, so that they would pick up some of the ink.  Then using the SU tag stamps I stamped the tags using various DIs and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I then punched the tags using the SU tag punch and stamped the word Joy using a Hero Arts stamp.  Another tag was cut to add the name of the recipient, some Snippets of ribbon and hey presto I had some swish looking tree boxes.  And a bonus is I can enter these into the Playground, assuming it is open!!

I have delayed posting these until after Christmas as I did not want any recipients seeing them before the day!

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas.  I cannot believe it is New Year's Eve tomorrow.  Has anyone got any plans to celebrate bringing the New Year?  

Thanks for popping by.  I know I have been a little quiet on the blogging front but it is Christmas.

Happy New Year to you all and thank you ALL for sharing my crafting fun and adventures throughout the year.

Hugs 

Hettie

Let's Hear it for CC2C! Yeay!

Howdy there Peeps

The Lovely Linda has launched the CC2C (Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge) as of last Friday and I am very pleased to be able to join in this time round.  By the time I discovered the original CCC it had been going some time and so I didn't join in.  Then Linda organised the Grungy Monday so I was able to join in those which I thoroughly enjoyed and now I am pleased to be in at the start of CC2C.  And this week Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring the Challenge.  Woo Hoo!

I am not allowed to tell you what the technique is but I can tell you that it is to be found on Page 66 (lovely number!) and it involves home made stamps! 

So here it is.....

I have used a plethora of inky products including Distress Inks (Crushed Olive, Brushed Corduroy, Antique Linen, Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey, Forest Moss), reinkers (cannot remember what colours as they were mixes I made for the Creative Chemistry 101 Class and included Perfect Pearls!), Pin, Embossing ink, embossing powder, distressing tool, sentiment stamp by Darkroom Door, nature stamps by Hero Arts.

I hope you can see the shimmer on this tag as it sure looks better in real life.

If you have the new Compendium of Curiosities, why not join in on the challenge?  It would be lovely to see you.

TTFN

Hettie

Creative Chemistry Day 4

Hello Peeps

Yes, you have read correctly, today I have been playing with Day 4 of the Creative Chemistry class, which involved working with Distress Reinkers.  It is all Fun Fun Fun.  Hope you like what I have created.....

Hope you like. It is not too late to join in if you fancy trying it! Click HERE to join in.

Have a fantastic and hopefully Craftey weekend whatever you are doing.

Hugs

Hettie