THE HOLLY AND IVY CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE - #183

I love these little robins from Creative Expressions.  I've used them in quite a few Christmas cards over the years and they are always a firm favourite.  Here I've teamed them up with a die cut Christmas tree from Tim Holtz together with a tree stencil from Tim.  

I've kept the background colours in soft Old Paper Distress Oxide and the trees in Peeled Paint Distress Oxide to allow the reds of the robins to stand out.  I used Tim Holtz Festive Berries Oxide ink to colour them in.  Some white splatters and a touch of Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen finishes off the card. 

CHRISTMAS ROBINS

I've taken the sketch from Inspire Create Challenge blog to create my little robin card.  The robin stamp is from Creative Expression and the sentiment is from Woodware called Loving Christmas.

I started by inking my background with Tim Holtz Bundled Sage Oxide Ink. I then stamped the robins in Versafine Pinecone.  The pine trees are an old stamp from Tim Holtz which come with their own die.  I inked tem in Versafine Shady Lane and then sprinked them with Tim Holtz Fresh Balsam Mica Stain to give them a sheen and a shine.  I used a Tim Holtz stencil for the trees in the background and used the same Bundled Sage just to give a subtle look.

The robins were coloured with Distress Watercolour Pencils - these are fast becoming my favourite way to colour especially as you can determine how vivid the colours are.  I added a touch of Spectrum Noir glitter pen to their bodies.  A splattering of snow from a white Posca pen completed the card.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

Inspire, Create - Sketch 

Allsorts Challenge Blog - AG 

Inkspirational - Winter 

As You See It - I love using the Distress Water Colours 

Creative Fingers - AG 

The Outlawz - Christmas 

INSPIRATION STATION - APRIL

Welcome back to another challenge from Inspiration Station. I was inspired by the globe in our picture to create this mixed media tag using stamps by Bipasha BK from Aallandcreate. 

I used a stencil from Tim Holtz and some texture paste to create some of the background.  Lots of grungy inks and stamping to go with the great images which I stamped on tissue paper.  This allowed the globe and phone image to be seen rather than cutting them out.  

 

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART

My tag today was inspired by The Library Challenge No 76 and this image.

I really wanted to try and incorporate that face behind the words. Rummaging through my old stamps I found this old one from Cherry Pie Art Stamps and knew it would be perfect.  I started off my tag by using some blue cardstock as a tag and covering it in Gesso.  I stamped the face image in Versamark and embossed with TH Speckled Egg embossing powder.   I added Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and stenciled with some Frayed Burlap.  I used a Stampin Up hearts mask for the hearts stamping them in Festive Berries.  I added some more old Tim Holtz stamps.

The piece of ribbon at the bottom is from Stampin Up and was just a tiny piece I had in my ribbon box.  

                         I'm also adding this into the following challenges:

Inkspirational - Hearts 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Goes 

Simply Create Too - Hearts

CRAFT challenge - not a card