Gingerbread House - AVSC

 Hi all,

This month in December we have a theme going called:

SANTA v's JESUS

I brought the Village Dwelling die by Tim Holtz -Sizzix  ages ago from Aunty Vera and thought the paper is all about Gingerbread so why not make a gingerbread house..

I Love love love the stencil I have in my kit and thought I would use it for the house and then paint over it or add cut out papers around it .. I used Aleen's Glitter Snow  over the stencil to give it a little glow. 

How brilliant did this turn out!!

I put it together and thought it needed something else. I inked around all the edges and place a little strip of red on the door step.

It still felt very flimsy so I cut out a frame from a cut apart and glued the frame on a painted 

 canvas I did earlier.

I added adhesive to the little stand and glued it to the canvas. I also glued the tree on the little stand and used a little fluff for the smoke.

I have to be honest I loved the house so much I didn't do any fussy cutting or place stickers anywhere.

I did add this sticker on the back only because it looked too bare.

I glued little balls in the tree for decorations and placed yellow cello paper on the windows.

Though I glued the base and tree down I wanted to place a battery candle in it so I left it as is..

How darn cute is this house!! 

 Products are:

Funky Festive Die Set- Tim Holtz

Baubles Stencil - KaiserCraft

Pointettia Flowers - Eyelet-Outlet Brads

3" Brush Trees - Fancy Pants

A Gingerbread Christmas Paper Pack- Echo Park Paper Co

A Gingerbread Christmas Ephemera Pack- Echo Park Paper Co

A Gingerbread Christmas Cookies and Milk Stamp Set - Echo Park Paper Co

A Gingerbread Christmas  Co-Ordinating Solids Paper Pack

You can purchase the items HERE

and check out the facebook group to see everything the Creative Team will be creating throughout December..

  

I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things.

Hugs

Donna xx

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Three Card Swap - AVSC - March

Hi all,

Join us over at Aunty Vera's Scrap and Craft  AVSC for our March Challenge which is Create Three Cards with different techniques with the themes: Friendship, Birthday and Open.. These are mine for the challenge..

Card 1.  Friendship - I love the medium of Encaustic Art which is a wax.. I just love that there are never the two the same and each piece is unique.. I added a mat behind the art piece to highlight it, I added three black pearls and a Tim Holtz Gold sticker 'Quotations'.

 A close up of the gold in the wax. just gorgeous in real life..

Card 2.  Birthday.. I die cut the small Tattered Floral dies by Tim Holtz several times and adhered it to the watercolour card mat.  Using the blending tools I blended Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Mermaid Lagoon, Dusty Concord, Pickled Raspberry Distress Inks over the front of the card and blended it together with a little water on a brush.. I then splashed some white paint over and let it dry..  

Using a black pen I doodles around some of the flowers and leaves and drew tiny circles in some of the flower centres.. Stamping the bird and crown from Shabby French by Tim Holtz on to watercolour paper using the same inks as the background. I then fussy cut both items and added gold pearls to the crown.. The quote is from the Crazy Talk Collection - Tim Holtz and embossed with Hero Arts Satin Pearl embossing powder on black cardstock..  

I created another card for a video tutorial and run into so many problems, all I could do was laugh out loud.. This is that card, same as above but more vibrant in colours.. I used a chalk marker to make little dots around the quote.. 

Card 3 Open.. I love this technique of using Distress Oxide Inks on photo paper, Again it is a medium that is unique in every piece.. I stamped the quote from 'How About Never' from Dyan Reaveley - Ranger; rearranged the quotes, placed the on 3D foam tape and laced them on the front after inking around the edge in black.. I then added three silver pearls to finish the card.. 

I Inked around the quote in black after embossing it in black embossing powder. A little blue and pink on the front of the words brings it all together.. 

All the products except the Encaustic Art waxes are available from Aunty Vera Store.. AVSC

I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things

Hugs

Donna xx

Journal - It's A Brand New Day - AVSC

Hi all,
I hope you like what I created with the Box I received from the Evil Enabling Aunty Vera
 this month..
I love the wrapped Journal Die from Sizzix -Eileen Hull. There are just so many things you can create from it and I thought for it's a brand new day in January why not create one for my poetry
and stories from 2019.. 

I cut a Wrapped Journal HERE from a piece of strong cardstock and painted both sides with
Gesso HERE.
( Don't use a shim with this die as it cut all the scored lines, ask how I know this lol)

I sponged the journal with Distress Oxide Inks HERE in the order as follows:

 Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey, Iced Spruce, Fired Brick and Frayed Burlap.

Spray separate colours with water and dry before adding the next colour. I did this to both sides.. 

Looks Pretty don't you reckon...

I embossed a piece of brown cardstock with the 'On The Go' Texture Fades HERE by Tim Holt and cut a strip for the front of the journal.

I die cut the Credit Card Sleeve and Tags HERE by Eileen Hull in embossed dark brown 

and edged it in gold pen HERE.

A strip of washie tape HERE and a stamped coffee cup backed with 3D foam tape finished off the front.

The three tags from the Credit Card Sleeve and Tags using the stamps with the Core Products.

How great does this look together..

The inside of the right hand side of the Wrapped Journal. I stamped the coffee cup rings all over the inside of the journal. I then punched the cups (minus the handle lol) and popped them up using 3D Foam Tape over two strips of the lovely paper..

Inside of the journal. Using the same coffee stain stamp, I stamped it over the journalling card to give it a uniformed look..  A small coffee cup stamped on the flowered paper and fussy cut finishes off this side with a bit of glitter (of course)..

I cut a piece off the border paper for the front and covered it in Nuvo Crystal Drops after adding a little Kindy Glitz to her dress and lights.. I then fussy cut two tea cups (tea for me please) and popped them up using 3D Foam Tape. I also painted them with  Nuvo Crystal Drops.

The Wrapped Journal..

I Hope I have

Inspired you to Create

Glorious Things

Hugs

Donna xx

Core Products:

Coffee Understands Stamps- Picket Fence Studios

Coffee Paper - Echo Park Paper Co

Coffee - Solid Paper Pack - Echo Park Paper Co

Did you know Aunty Vera has layby options, and she can order you anything you need..

Other:

Distress Oxide Inks

On The Go Texture Fades - Sizzix

Credit Card Sleeve & Tags Die - Sizzix - Eileen Hull

Kindy Glitz

Nuvo Crystal Drops

Coffee Time Washie Tape

Assorted Cards

Assorted cards I made...

Accordian Cards

 

I love this die...

 

 

 

 

This card was made for my cousin who is music crazy..

 

 

My first card using metal to make the flower and butterfly.

I cut the top and bottom off a diet coke can, cleaned it then using a die cut the flower and butterfly out, colouring them with ink