I started with some black Bazzill card, painted it with clear gesso and stuck a few strips of patterned paper to it, painting gesso over the patterned paper to stick it down.

I added some paper doilies at the same time. The gold one was toned down with the clear gesso.

Some teal acrylic paint ….it was looking a bit messy here but I really liked the colours and I just kept an open mind. I let it dry for a while before adding some texture paste I have tinted with pink and used a stencil with little crosses on it, to add some texture.

Added some die cuts and hand cut patterned paper and bright red stitching. The colours are really bright and I love how it turned out. Heres some close ups of the finished page. I stuck onto another piece of card to keep it flat, as the paint and gesso buckle the paper a little. When I stitched it around the edges, I had the extra card at the back and it flattened out a lot.

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Some simple mini Christmas cards to use as tags on special gifts. I have used a mixture of papers and ephemera on these, whatever was left on my desk after a Christmas card making session.

The ribbon with Christmas trees on it is from Provincial a few years ago, I love it and have hoarded it, but there comes a time when you need to use the pretty things and move on!

This has to be one of the most enjoyable layouts I have created in a long time. The whole layout came together quite quickly, besides the drying time, as there are a few layers of paint, paper texture paste and more paint. Then a few layers of embellishments! Mostly Crate paper, but have used a Kaisercraft template for the texture paste and Dina Wakely rose gold paint.

Masses of pictures of this one layout with loads of  different photos. It seems to work with every one of them.

 

We had some rainy days recently and I needed some Christmas cards for all the lovely people I get to work with. I had a big stash of christmas stuff from previous years and I hate to throw things out so I pulled it all out and made a whole bunch of cute cards. I think they turned out pretty good!

There was a bunch of different things used, Kaisercraft, October Afternoon, Pinkfresh Studio, Making Memories, Heidi Swapp, along with some vintage items.

 

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