Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells

Hallo Everyone!

Whoop! Whoop! It is Saturday 

and here is the last jingly project.

Feel almost sad - it has been such 

fun to see the different 

interpretations applied to the theme

Helen Chilton is going to

see us out with some

winter snowflakes......

jingling all the way of course!

"I used standard sized cards that'll fit

 a standard sized envelope (usually my

 cards never fit anything!) and the 

Precios Marieke Snowflake dies.

This was my first one, very quick and simple, 

in fact too simple for me - I don't like it much!

The greetings are from a

 JOFY and Kay Carley set.

I thought things got a lot better when 

I added some colour in the form of Brushos - 

Pixie Powders would be good too as they've 

got a bit of a shimmer (didn't think of them

 'til afterwards!). You only really need a tiny

 sprinkling of powder here:.

Stamp a greeting and glitter the snowflake...

...and add an embellishment.

Then I thought I'd add a bit more texture with

 some embossing. I've used a Tim Holtz embossing

 folder that looks vaguely like snow, but any 

would do - swirls, patterns etc. 

When embossing directly onto the card like this, 

emboss with the card open so that you can

 get the pattern right up to the middle fold.

Sprinkle the Brushos again - I liked them

 over the textured background....

...and then add the glittered snowflakes 

and twiddly bits.

This one's embossed again and I've 

painted the snowflake with Starlights 

and then glittered it:

As I had the Starlights out, I decided to back

 the snowflakes with a painted circle.

This one ended up like this:

The hardest thing for me with all these was 

keeping the card clean as I'm not 

by nature a clean crafter!"

Products used:

Find It Trading Dies: Precious Marieke:
PaperArtsy stamps: Jofy and Kay Carley
Brushos:
Cosmic Shimmer 
Imagination Crafts : 

Rich Gold, Orange Oxidised, Bright Fuchsia

Glitter
Cards & Envelopes
Tim Holtz Texture Fades embossing folder: Bubbles

Nice little masterclass to send

us jingling on our way Helen.

Many thanks

Now that die looks a useful

one to have in one's stash.....

'Till tomorrow 

Mickie xx