The Christmas Table

The Christmas Table

Hello Everyone!

Such fun to have special place mats

for the Christmas Table, especially

if you have all the family there with

you.

Here's Claire Jackson with her

place mats for this year........

"Christmas will soon be upon us 

and this year my family will be hosting. 

Time to think about a few decorations and

 the table setting. 

There’s nothing better to impress your 

guests than one-of-a-kind place mats.

I chose the 8x8” ClaybordTM which is very 

sturdy and will take a warm dinner plate 

(not recommended for plates straight

 from the oven).

 It provides a very smooth surface and

 will take a wide range of media.

First I brayered two coats of Fresco Finish 

chalk paint in smurf..

. ...before stencilling some blue oyster

 with a Kaisercraft stencil.

Confession time! 

I don’t have a Christmas foliage border

 so it was time to improvise. 

I used the Deep Red nature’s borders 

palm trees and masked off an area to

 stamp the border in Archival ink. 

I reused the masking tape from my 

practice go!

With the border completed I used a stamping tool

 to stamp the Deep Red color me poinsettia

 in the centre.

Next I painted the images with Fresco Finish 

chalk paints, selecting the translucent shades

 so the stamping would show through.

Now for the magic!

 I scratched into the board to reveal the 

clay surface and added highlights.

I drew berries onto the border, scratched

 them back to white and added red paint. 

I added a little water colour pencil to

 the centre image and the border to give

 some shadow, and to finish I added a light

 edge of faded jeans and black soot Distress Ink.

 To seal it all I gave it a spray with

 DecoArt acrylic matte sealer."

Materials used:

Claybord

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish chalk paint

Kaisercraft stencil

Archival Ink

Deep Red stamps

Distress Ink

Watercolour pencils and black gel pen

Lovely place mats Claire.  Thank you

for showing us how you made them

I just love the way Claire solved

the problem of not having the 

right stamp for the job by

using part of another, don't you?

'Til tomorrow

Mickie xx