Worn Christmas Cover

It's November, and you know what that means.. the Countdown to Christmas is on.

Christmas is my very favourite time of the year. There is just something truly magical about Christmas.  Even though for me,  Christmas is normally spent at the beach, I would one day love to have a cold Christmas, or even better a White Christmas. Until then I will just have to make do with the gorgeous Christmas lines that are available..

 

Today I've got just the outside of my Christmas Journal to share with you. I am actually organised this year and have it finished before December.! ( well the cover anyway!) There are so many options and choices of gorgeous Christmas lines out right now.. Í have of course gone with Vintage Christmas and some gorgeous Tim Holtz lines..

Coutdown to Halloween..

Hi Everyone!  Karen here with you again today, for me the middle of September is a marker for a lot of upcoming things, birthdays, Halloween and of course Christmas.

Even though we are not big on the whole Halloween thing here in Australia, I absolutely love Halloween, and am happy for any excuse to get a little bit spooky!

So with that I mind I have a Halloween tag to share with you today, using of course you guessed it, some of my favourite spooky Tim Holtz bits and bobs!

 

Butterfly Love Tag

Hi Guys.. Yup it's Karen here with you again.. and yup I've got another tag to share with you.. hope you aren't getting sick of them!!

 

Today I'm going to go through with you step by step how I did this Tag..

 

 

I had been eyeing off the Wendy Vecchi stamps that are in the store for a little while, and finally got a set. These stamps are just lovely to use, they are so nice to stamp with,  The one I have used is now sold out, but the others that are left are just as nice, There is only a couple of sets left in the store here and here ( at a great price too) so you'd better get in quick if you think you might like some.

 

I started off by inking my background using a mix of distress inks in Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Walnut Stain, then flicked with water and dried.  ( I think this may be my new favourite colour combo!).

 

 

My next step, I stamped the background stamp from my stamp set with embossing ink, and embossed it with Ranger Sticky embossing powder, and then sprinkled it with peeled paint distress glitter while it was still sticky.

 

I love how it looks, with nice subtle vintage sparkle.

 

 

Next I took the quote from the stamp set, and stamped it onto waxed kitchen paper using archival ink in Jet black, fussy cut around the quote and stuck it on to my tag using Multi Medium in matte. By using the multi medium and waxed paper when it is dry all you can see if a very feint outline of the paper,  as you can see in the photo below. I also added in a stitched border around my tag at this point..

 

 

Next I pulled out a few bits and pieces.. a fussy cut butterfly left  over from an old project, some wooden prima embellishments, and a Tim Holtz Numerals and pen nibs, and a Graphic 45 Keyhole.

 

 

I played around with them a bit till I had them arranged just right and finally stuck them down, again using my multi medium and I was done.

 

 

I really love the pop of orange against the background!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by again, I hope I've shared a little inspiration with you.. Don't forget we'd love for you to share your gorgeous creations with us on the Wild about Scrap Facebook page, so why not pop on by and show us what you've been up to!

 

Happy Creating

Karen

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Photos Tags

Hi Guys, Karen with you again today. I wanted to share with you an idea today to get you thinking and maybe think a little beyond the normal adding photos to a layout.. How about adding them to a tag?

They would make a great little gift for a family member for a special occasion, a party invite, and thank you card, an inclusion for an Art journal, an addition to a scrapbook layout.. so many possibilities.