Monday 13 April 2015

Stella's Christmas Shoes

I thought that this was a good opportunity to use my Stella Christmas image for a Bugaboo SSS #307

So here is my Christmas creation:
I took an A5 card blank and folded the front to create an Easel card. Patterned glitter paper of stripes of trees was measured to match the card size, and then adhered to the front. A scalloped circle was die-cut from gold mirri card and the image printed and cut into a circle, coloured with promarkers, and mounted on the gold circle. This was adhered and cut to match the sketch. To the base of the card some spotty christmas paper was used as the bottom layer, with the sentiment layered onto gold card, edged with gold ink and then mounted using 3D foam pads, to hold the top of the card in place when opened. Finally two baubles were recycled from old Christmas cards. The smaller one was inked with a red-gold to even the colour as it was slightly scratched when being removed from the Christmas card.
This is to be entered into the following challenges:
open-minded crafting #34 Recycle something
Jingle Belles Rock Recycle, reuse or upcycle
abc christmas G is for Glitter
Digi Chooseday Use a Die
Crafty Calendar Add a sentiment
papertake weekly Anything Goes
i love promarkers #264 Ink it up
crafting by designs Get Ready for Christmas
crafty catz #274 2 or more patterned papers
left of centre #73 Spots and Stripes

catch the bug Recycle
completely Christmas #58 Add some gold
crafty hazelnuts 224 Add some texture
613 Avenue Create #119 Create Your Own challenge (Easel, Christmas, Gold/metallic)

And here is my recent cross stitched make - it was a free kit in a magazine back in 2006/7, so I thought it was about time I actually stitched it up. It only took 2.5 hours :).

Thank you for looking.

Hugz Tinz

22 comments:

  1. Wow Tinz! I love how you have used stripes of trees & spotty Christmas paper for our Spots & Stripes challenge (73) over at Left of Centre Creative Challenges. Fab cross stitching too! Hope you can join us for our next weekly challenge. AELx

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  2. Those baubles are perfect for recycling ... so very glad you joined us for Earth Day at Jingle Belles.

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  3. Hi and fantastic card just the job at Completely Christmas and thanks for joining us this week very good luck crafty hugs Judith DT xxx

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  4. Beautiful card hun.... Thank you for joining us this week at 'Papertake Weekly'... Good luck!
    Hugs,
    Marjorie xx DT

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  5. Great easel card. Thanks for joining the Recycle challenge at Catch the Bug this week!

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  6. Great card! Love the baubles and Christmas colors :) Thank you for joining us at I ♥ Promarkers this week and good luck xxx

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  7. love those awesome sparkly baubles, what a great save! thanks for joining our earth day fun at JINGLE BELLES! :)

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  8. This is so much fun. Love the sparkly baubles and colours and design. Thanks for playing at ABC Christmas Challenge and good luck. Hope to see you back wednesday for a new challenge. Bettina DT Member at ABC Christmas Challenge xx

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  9. Thank you for sharing your project & creativity with us at 613 Ave C!
    ~ginny,
    DT for 613 Ave Create – [ Create Your Own Challenge]
    Owner: RubberMAD at [GettyCollection.com]

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  10. Lovely card. Thanks for joining in the fun with us at Digi Choosday Challenge and our theme of 'Add a die'. Yvonne (DT)

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  11. Wow! Great easel card and I love the recycled bits you used. (Love the sentiment too!)

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  12. Excellent work to recycle old Christmas Cards! I'm impressed. Thank you for being so creative and joining us at Open-Minded Crafting! Take care and good luck.

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  13. What a fun card! I love the creative way in which you reused the parts from other cards (especially the ornaments). Can never go wrong with Stella in my book! Great project thanks so much for joining us at Catch the Bug Challenges!

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  14. Love the Bugaboo image and baubles -great recycling--Thank you for joining us at Open-Minded Crafting Fun
    Carol DT x

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  15. Thanks for entering your lovely crafting for CHNC challenge 224 and Completely Christmas - you could also enter this into my CHNC challenge extra for April - I'd love to see it there too. x

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  16. Thanks so much for joining us in our Recycle Challenge, I love your project and hope you will join us again very soon!

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  17. Your Christmas card is lovely! hanks for joining us in our Earth Day - Recycle Challenge at Bugaboo stamps' Catch the Bug blog. I'm holding thumbs that your entry comes up drawn a winner! Please join us again soon.
    love
    Jen Leeflang
    BUGABOO DT

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  18. Thanks for joining us for Stella Says Sketch #307. Good luck in the draw! I hope we see you joining us again soon.
    love
    Jen Leeflang
    Bugaboo DT

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  19. Fab card, love the sentiment! Thanks for joining us over at Crafty Calendar this month & good luck!
    hugs Jo x
    Dt

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  20. Such a fun card. Sentiment is soooo funny. Thanks for joining us at Open Minded Crafting Fun and Good Luck! xx

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