MDF Baubles

Good Morning all, can you believe thats another week gone and next week will be the big day we've been building upto for months?

Ive added a page with all the amazing handmade Christmas cards ive received from friends, so if you fancy a peek its a tab under my header along from my home button.  

So today im sharing a set of MDF baubles i decorated, instead of cards for close family and friends this year i made them a bauble to enjoy year after year.  I had great fun making them all differently.  They are approx 5" square (13cm)  They see my funky set of paperartsy stamps in action, along with those penguins again!

Snowman in the twinkling fairy lights

So for this one.  I first stamped and coloured the snowman with inktense pencils as they are permanent when you add water so better for long term projects.  I then added texture paste with a stencil and once dried i used a mix of starlight paints on top.  Then splattered on white paint to act as snow.

The then added texture paste snow to the bottom for something for my characters to stand on. 

The fairy lights were die cut from white card, then coloured with inktense pencils and then glossy accents added.  I also added glossy accent to the snowmans eyes and buttons. 

Twine ribbon bows and hanging loops to finish.  The backs of each bauble i painted in the same colour starlight paints. 

Just a close up showing the light hitting the starlights background 

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Christmas Characters in the moon light

This one has the paperarsty totem characters, all coloured with inktense pencils and cut out, glossy accents on the eyes.  A die cut sentiment behind, i added a little yellow ink to the centre circle to act as a 'moon' in the night sky. 

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Polar Bears

This one has the starlight and snow background, but only texture paste for the snow, while the paste is wet i added loose glitter which sticks.  Fairy lights as before, this time a die cut polar bear, once die cut in white i gently added a little blue ink around him.  I added glitter glue to his little snowflakes. 

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Jingling Penguins.   

I first covered the bauble in snowflake patterned paper, sanded the edges and then painted the edges and back in silver paint.  Added a large die cut snowflake, torn paper snow bank, to which i then added snow texture paste and glitter.  Stamped the penguins and added a little colour before cutting out.  To this one i added jingle bells to the top with the bow.

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Hide 'n' Seek

This one was made for children so wanted a fun feel.  As above to cover the bauble with paper and snow.  I then stamped my characters and coloured them all in and cut out.  Rudolph, the penguin and Elf are hiding among the snowpeople.  Santa is trying to find them! 😁.   Again jingle bells added to the top. 

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Penguins.

Now this one was a late make for my dad who absolutely loved the penguin cards i made for mum to send and asked for one for himself.  After id added the circular frame with the fancy inner edge it reminded me of some very old baubles my mum has, where on one side they are open with a fancy edge.  Anyway i coloured the penguins and cut out and added orange gems to the sky as stars that also pick up on the orange in the penguins.  The brusho/pixie powder background was left over from my penguin cards.  

He loved it so that was worth it! 

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and below is a few cards i made similar

6x6 white cardblank.  Background made with the starlight paints as before, Torn white card snow drifts which i dry embossed.  Die cut sentiment, i lightly inked the inside yellow to kind of act like the 'moon'. Those pesky penguins again. 

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Same as before but with the paperartsy characters which were all coloured with inktense pencils.

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Paperartsy characters and fairy lights

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and lastly the paperartsy snowman and fairy lights.  Die cut sentiment.

Items used:

Paperartsy Stamps - totems ZA19

Katzelkraft stamps - grumpy penguins

Imagination Crafts Starlight paints - 134, 135 & 139

Golden Modeling paste

Derwent Inktense Pencils

Brusho's

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie powders

Spellbinders Circle grand & Exquisite circle dies

Spellbinders Snowflake Pendant die

MFT Christmas Sentiment die

Tattered Lace polar bear & Cub die

Fairy Light die

Cheerylynn Sentiment die

That Special touch - circle mask

  Thank you for stopping by, especially when you are all so busy this time of year.  Emma