Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post today, to wish everyone a very blessed, merry and peaceful Christmas!

Materials used:

Patterned Paper - Authentique Paper - Festive Collection - Merry

Chipboard Sticker - Creative Imaginations - Christine Adolph Chipboard Layered Sticker

Trims - Lace from Prima Marketing, ribbon from own stash

Journal Stickers - Cosmo Cricket - Tiny Text

Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap

Adhesive - Beacon's 3-In-1 Advanced Craft Glue

Joy

This is my DT layout for My Creative Sketches' December sketch challenge. The sketch is a beautiful one by Kim Keane, and I had fun playing with it, using papers from My Mind's Eye's All Is Bright collection.

I love the cheerful colours of the papers, and found flowers from Prima Marketing and Farm House Paper Company to match the blue and reds perfectly!

Here are some close-ups.

So do hop on over to the MCS blog for a look at the fabulous prize for this month, and for the lovely sketch!

Thanks so much for dropping by! :)

Materials used:

Patterned Papers - My Mind's Eye - All Is Bright Collection - Merry, Collage, Joy, Bright, Ephemera Frames

Flowers and Leaves - Prima Marketing - Tea-Thyme Collection - Timido, Perles, Plume; Farm House Paper Company - Fair Skies Botanicals

Chipboard Pieces - My Mind's Eye - All Is Bright Collection 12 x 12 Chipboard Accessories

Brads - My Mind's Eye - All Is Bright Collection Decorative Brads

Crystal Flourishes - Zva Creative

Lace - Minton

Twine - My Mind's Eye - All Is Bright Collection Twine

Ink - Ranger Ice Stickles - Crystal Ice

Stickles - Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap

Paper Doily

Adhesives - Beacon’s 3-In-1 Advanced Craft Glue, Kokuyo Dotliner, EK Success 3D-Dots

Megan

So this is another project I did at Anna Dabrowska-Peckoka's workshop last month, and I have to say it's one of my favourite projects. It's a mixed media canvas which involved lots of layering of fabrics, chipboard pieces and metal findings, and to which we then applied mists, paints and gesso. The result is a beautifully textured piece, with a gradient of colours that moved from dark to light.

While Anna guided us on the techniques, we were given free reign to create our projects in our own individual styles, and each of us came away with a very personalised piece of canvas. I added some of my own findings and laces to mine, and applied mists and paints in various shades of blue, with a tinge of yellow and gold for some highlights. And this is the result.

Thanks so much for dropping by! :)