THE HOLLY AND IVY #188

We are back at The Holly and Ivy  after a little break with some more Christmas inspiration for you.  

I've used some of Tracy Evans' Boutique Designs stamps and stencils for my card.  I started by stamping the word Christmas as a simple background.  The vase is a stencil which I coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide.  I then added some more words and a crackle stamp.  

I masked off the stencil to add the Christmas bauble and added some holly in the vase and underneath the bauble. 

I'm adding this into the following challenges also:

Rudolph Days Challenge - 

Peace on Earth

Avenue 613 - Christmas Holiday 

Polkadoodle  

Just Add Ink - Christmas 

CRAFT - Christmas 

Unicorn Challenge - Christmas in July 

THE HOLLY AND IVY CHALLENGE #184

Welcome back to another Anything Goes Christmas Challenge at The Holly & Ivy.  

I've used the wonderful Robin stamp from Tracy Evans together with some of her foliage stamps to create this little wintery scene for my robin. I've kept it in cool colours with lots of white splatter for the snow.

I'm adding this into the following:

Krafty Chicks Christmas 

My time to craft Christmas

Outlawz Festive 

12 Months of Christmas 

DD Triple B - Bird 

ABC Challenge - I is for ice - my icy background 

Girlz Creative Christmas 

Peace on Earth - 

Inkspirational - Christmas/winter

RUDOLPH DAYS CHALLENGE - GUEST DESIGNER

I'm delighted to be a Guest Designer this month over at Rudolph Day's Challenge.   The theme is Anything Goes and I've chosen to use some stamps by Alison Bomber for my card.  

I used the water colour technique on the rubber stamps to create the borders.  Simply add the ink direct to the stamp and spritz with water.  It gives that very soft ethereal effect.  I love Alison's Christmas stamps with the Christmas Carols on them and wanted to use the Holly and the Ivy which is one of my favourite's at Christmas time.   It also enabled me to use the holly stamps I had in my stash.  The background music stamp is also one of Alison's.