Addicted to Stamps and More - Christmas

We are back celebrating Christmas at ATSM and this time I have a mixed media tag for you made mainly with Tim Holtz products.  The tag itself is a Tim Holtz Die as is the bird as are the background leaves, bow and letters.  The word Joy is from a very old Tim Holtz stamp set.

I started by making a mixed media background with Distress Inks and stamps.  I cut the top layer of the bird out of some old book pages and used Distress Ink in Vintage Photo and Festive Berries for the bird.  The letters were coloured with Festive Berries and Peeled Paint with a touch of Forest Moss.  I used a white gel pen to add some faux stitching around the edge of the tag.

I'm adding this into the following

Krafty Chicks Challenge - Christmas 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday- use Dies 

Simon Says Stamp Monday - things with wings 

Neglected Stuff - the dies and stamps 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #491 - MAKE YOUR MARK

It's time for another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and we want to see your colouring with any type of medium - inks, pens, pencils, water colours. 

I've used a lovely flower stamp from Creative Expressions and used my Tim Holtz Watercolour Pencils to colour it in.  I then cut a rough edge around the stamp and layered it onto some paper from my stash.  The butterfly and sentiment is from the same set.  I cut out the butterfly and used the same colours to colour it in and pop it on a dimensional. 

I wanted this to be a shabby chic style card so added some ribbon, lace and buttons. I stamped onto the ribbon.  

ADDICTED TO STAMPS - #480 DIE CUTS/STENCILS

Welcome back to another challenge at ATSM  and we are asking you to use your die cuts or stencils.  I must admit I don't use a lot of die cuts - I do have some Tim Holtz which get used especially at Christmas but generally I don't use them a lot.  So with that in mind - I've used a stencil lol!  This is one of the Sticker Stencils from Lavinia stamps. I love them - so easy to use and so far mine still have their sticky qualities - and you get the positive and the negative image so that's two in one.

This one is just one of the plain ones that I've used to create a snowglobe/jar.  The little Christmas tree being decorated by the fairies is also by Lavinia stamps as is the saying which is Merry Christmas in Welsh. 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS - BIRTHDAY #478

Welcome back to another Birthdays challenge here at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I've used a lovely stamp by Tim Holtz on my card.  The background was made with a colour wash of various Tim Holtz Distress Inks to give a summery feel.  Not that we had a summer but I must still have been hoping for one when creating this card!

I added a script stamp to the background then added white embossing powder to make it pop. I stamped the stamp and cut out a further butterfly to add on top to give further interest and dimension.  

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - STENCILS/DIE CUTS #475

Welcome back to another challenge for Addicted to stamps and More.  I've used one of the new stencils by Tracy Evans Boutique Designs for my card which is one of her bauble stencils.  You also get the cut outs with her stencils and this is what I've used here.  Taping it down with a little bit of tape to stop it moving while I created the background.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink in Bundled Sage.  

I then added an old stamp of Tracys to create the idea of the tree using Iced Spruce for the branches.  I stamped the robin stamp inside the bauble and added a lot of Spectrum Noir sparkle pen to make it shine. A splatter of white Posca pen and some inking on the bird finished it off.