Christmas Decoration - Creative Artiste December

 Good Morning all

Its the 1st Friday of the month so time for a new challenge over at Creative Artiste where the theme is anything goes mixed media - using at least 3 different mediums.  

The DT have gone with a Christmas theme fitting the season but you can join in with any theme.

Ive made a light up stained glass effect decoration for the wall or internal door.  It is 8x8" in size and Ive thrown lots at it - glitter paste, halo paste, alcohol inks, brusho's and some white gesso for the snowy effect.

I first added gold glitter paste and green halo paste to a piece of acetate with snowflake and star stencils.  Once dry I added blue & purple tone alcohol inks to the back

See below for how I made up the frame... once that was finished I die cut pine branches from brusho powder stained cardstock and my deer from brown card - for the deer I layered 3 together to give them a chipboard like feel and give the antlers more stability.  I tore some white card to fit the bottom and dabbled on white gesso to look like snow for the deer to stand on.  I added the pine branches in place with some mini fir cones.  

To finish I splattered on white gesso to look like snow and dabbed some onto the pine cones and deers antlers. 

You can see the texture paste on the bauble better here, the gold glitter paste is very shimmery and the halo paste is subtle but when the light hits it it has a green pearlescence 

And showing it all lit up

I made up a frame using nesting dies, white card and gold mirror card adhered together and then run through an A4 snowflake embossing folder.  This frame I added over another frame cut using a large bauble shaped die - behind the bauble frame I added the acetate.  By layering several frames together its given it all rigidity to hold upto being handled when turning the lights on and off and hopefully give a few years of enjoyment.

I die cut white card with the largest die I used for the front and adhered clear micro lights to the middle, taping into position.  I then added foam tape around the outside edge and adhered the front panel on top - the foam tape adds space for the lights to sit comfortably in place.  I adhered the light switch and battery pack to the very back of the decoration for easy access.

Items Used:

Cosmic shimmer Ultra sparkle texture paste 'sahara gold'

Stamperia Halo paste 'Green' K3P70B

Tim Holtz alcohol inks - shades of blue

Brusho Powder 'sea green, turquoise'

White gesso

Creative Craft XL Stretch circle dies

Spellbinders ornament die set (old)

Tattered Lace A4 snowflake embossing folder (old)

MFT deer dies 'die love' (quite old)

Pine branches dies (? so old ive forgotton the brand)

CraftUK ltd smooth white A3 card

Gold mirror card

Hop over to Creative Artiste to see what the rest of the DT and Guest DT have created and to join in with your anything mixed media goes. 

This is the last make for my 1st year on the DT at Creative Artiste as we have a break in January.  Its been great fun stretching my brain cells for so  many different mixed media projects this year.  I thought it would be fun to see them all together, just click on the link below each if you would like full details

     

Snowdrops                    Bee Awesome 

                          

       In the nest                                   Butterfly suncatcher

        

                        Key to the heart                       Mother Earth

                             frog ATC trio                        Lemon Wreath

 

                                Pumpkins                            Autumn

Thank you for all your support and encouragement this year.  Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy & Healthy New Year.  Big hugs to you all Emmax

Id love to enter my Christmas decoration into the following:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/11/i-spy-with-my-little-eyesomething.html

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https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2025/12/decembers-challenge-is-christmaswinter.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/12/winter-season-december-2025.html

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Butterfly suncatcher

Good Morning everyone

Its the first Friday of the month, so time for a new challenge over at Creative Artist Mixed Media challenge where the theme is always anything goes as long as you mix your medias

Ive had these empty mini perfume bottles for years, with the idea of using them for a project so the time had come to have a go......Ive made a butterfly suncatcher out of printed acetate & alcohol inks and used the mini perfume bottle for its body.

Approx size 6x6" (15x15cm)  I used a lovely printed acetate by stamperia which is really thick & strong.  I made a butterfly template from paper, drew around it with alcohol marker onto the acetate and cut out....removing any access pen marks with blending solution.

I then coloured the back of the acetate with Ranger tim holtz alcohol inks using a rainbow of colours.   Once dry I used a alcohol marker blender pen to remove some of the colour from some of the patterned areas which I then coloured with contrasting colour alcohol marker....this helps the pattern stand out a bit more and makes it more interesting to look at than block colour.

I added chuncky gold glitter paste around the outside edge of the wings - this really is glittery when the light hits it.

I filled the perfume bottle up with mini gold tube beads, wrapped with a little gold craft wire, adding a loop to the back to hang it up from.  I then adhered the bottle to the wings with some pinflair glue gel which I know lasts well in a hot sunny window so won't fall apart as the little glass bottle is quite heavy in weight.  To finish I added lime green cabochon gems to the top and bottom wings

You can see the colours better here.  What with the glitter paste, gems and gold beads the light really dances around and sparkles.

Not the best photo but this is showing it in a window with the light coming through.  With the weight of the bottle it hangs forwards a bit which actually looks like a butterfly in flight

Showing the first stage of colour with the alcohol inks

and the little bottle

Items Used:

Stamperia 'clear print' acetate 'sleeping beauty' range SBA410

Ranger Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Promarkers

Cosmic shimmer Ultra sparkle texture paste 'sahara gold'

gold tube beads

Gold soft craft wire

Mini glass bottle

Hop over to Creative Artiste Mixed Media to join in with your anything mixed media projects - cards, atc's, Journals all welcome as well as assemblage pieces - as long as you use at least 3 different medias.

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/04/ellibelles-garden-party-no-2-anything.html - #2

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https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2025/04/64-anything-but-card.html

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https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/ltccb-86-anything-goes-ltccb-85-winner.html

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https://paper-rocks-scissors.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-4-challenge.html - I used scissors to cut out the butterfly from acetate

 

A Partridge in a pear tree

Good Morning everyone

My first Christmas cards this year using this fab partridge in a pear tree die from crafters companion. 

approx size 6x6"

I had this matt metallic silver card for nearly 15 years so decided it was time i did something with it - So i coloured it with my alcohol inks in shades of blue and green - this totally transformed it into something i liked.  I then cut the partridge die from this card.  

From cream pearlised card (another one that needs using up!!) i die cut my base card and a smaller frame.  As the partridge die cut is square, I adhered the frame over it and then cut off the excess at the corners and then added to the base card.

I die cut just the partridge part of the die again, added more colour and detail with alcohol markers so that it stands out and then decoupaged it onto the base image.  I added green alcohol marker over the pears in the background and then covered them with stickles glitter glue.

Stamped sentiment and added top and bottom of the frame to finish.

When the light hits it it comes to life with the metallic which still shines through the alcohol inks

Items Used:

Crafters companion die - 12 days of Christmas range 'Pretty Partridge' 

nesting die set

Tim Holtz Alcohol inks

Alcohol markers

Ranger stickles 'crystal'

Thank you for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a great week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/cut-it-up-challenge-314-inspired-by-song.html - 12 days of Christmas song

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https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/krafty-chicks-challenge-737-

christmas.html

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https://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-115-anything-goes-christmas.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-2024-challenge.html

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https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/creative-inspiration-challenges-19.html

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https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-602-fur-or-feathers.html

 

Happy New Year

Good Evening everyone

I hope you all had a good Christmas, due to life and ill health I haven't been able to post for a while so im doing a mass upload of my Christmas cards so that I have a record of them.

Wishing you all a Happy and more importantly a Healthy New Year. 

Christmas Poinsettia's

Using up offcuts of acetate, i had some folded thin strips which i adhered between folded strips of white pearl cardstock - these were also offcuts from making card blanks.  Sentiment stamped with iced spruce distress ink using Lisa Horton stamps 'festive flurry sentiments'.  Tim holtz tattered poinsettia die used to cut more offcuts of acetate which were coloured with red alcohol inks. 

Version 2 - the holly was die cut from silver mirror card which was coloured with green alcohol inks  Cheerylynn holly die    Gold gems added for some bling.  I used lightly patterned papers for  my inserts which show through the acetate panels

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Christmas patchwork

Using Lisa Horton 'Diagonal square background' 'LHCCD073'  I die cut lots of little offcuts & scraps from various Christmas papers, green pearl card, red satin card and gold mirror card and paper pieced them together.

Ideal for batch making and very therapeutic to make.

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Nativity

Woodware 'rejoice' stamp set  I have stamped the image onto white vellum and coloured the back with alcohol markers.  Used DL nesting dies to make a frame and mounted onto a white card blank.  Touch of glitter glue added.

The same but different colourway

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Winter berries

aall&create stamps 'squiggles' #498, MFT christmas sentiment die, star die.   I stamped the berries with a green ombre ink pad and inked the edges with the same ink, matted onto a dark green pearl cardstock and then my white base card.  I then raided my scrap box and die cut the sentiment from red satin card and the star from white and gold mirri card and layered up.  Glitter then added to the berries to finish. 

Sadly the photos don't do the satin & mirror cards justice

This version is gold mirri for the sentiment, red satin for the star outline and gold glitter card for the stars body.

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Father Christmas

Using Katzelkraft stamps 'reindeer sleigh' 'SOLO144' , hunkydory snowfall acetate I stamped the image and watercoloured with my derwent inktense pencils and cut out.  I used an Ivory violet pearl cardstock for the base, frames and sentiment.  Using a Christmas paper pad from the works (called let it snow) for my inserts which also acted as the background showing through the snowfall acetate on the front. Sentiment is an old magazine freebie which i stamped with a blue ink so softer than black. 

Different colourways

Thank you all for popping by.  I look forward to getting back into blogland and seeing all your creations this year.  Happy Crafting for 2024! Emmax