Snow and Sparkle Thistle

Ingredients:

Dry thistle

Blue and white paint

Very fine clear or white glitter

Glue spray for scrapbooking (or something similar)

Medium and small paintbrush to get into hard to areas of the thistle

Newspapers

Instructions:

Make sure you clean your thistle before painting them. I painted the tops of the thistle a very light blue (mixed white and blue) and the rest white. I let it dry overnight. Next, I place the newspapers down on the floor and place the painted thistle over it. I spray glue the tops (I do not spray glue the whole “branch”) and immediately glitter lightly each thistle. Do one at a time so you don’t have to redo them.

Note: you can do this on pine cones and acorns (or anything else that would look attractive). Also, my photos don't do justice as they are very pretty, sparkly and look like snow.

Christmas Cards 2015

These are a handful of Christmas cards I made this year to send out to friends. Nothing too complicated as I wanted to finish and send out quickly. This year I joined a Christmas card exchange for the first time and it was a lot of fun. I hope to do the same next year but with handmade cards instead of store bought. 

When I started this project, I noticed improvement as each new card was made. I made two of each (one for myself and one to the other person).

I used various papers, cardstock, embossing folders, stamps (both regular and digital), inks, colored pens, paints, and even tried dryer sheets with glitter shown through them. I had fun doing these and can't wait to do more.

 The two cards below are my first creations.

All the cards below are a progression of my design and creativity.

Christmas Papers

Here are five high res Christmas papers (for all of your crafting needs) to download. All are 300 dpi. Size of each paper is below each image.

To download: Click on image, then right click and save image.

paper001

2504 x 3449

8.347 x 11.497

300 dpi

paper002

2536 x 3489

8.453 x 11.63

300 dpi

paper003

2550 x 3509

8.5 x 11.697

300 dpi

paper004

2550 x 3509

8.5 x 11.697

300 dpi

paper005

2550 x 3509

8.5 x 11.697

300 dpi

Two postcards with birds with holly

Two postcards depicting birds with holly.

This will be great for crafts such as tags, greeting cards, scrapbooking and atc's.

300 dpi jpg. Click on image, right click to download.

3 santas

Three Santa postcards.

All are scanned at 300 dpi in jpg format. They are of "regular" postcard size.

Right click and save image.

These images would be good for any crafting project including Christmas cards, tags, ATC's,  and scrapbooking.

A Christmas Vision

These images come from The Illustrated London News – November 22, 1926.

Images scanned at 300ppi.

These images can be used for many things such as greeting cards or cut up and used in tags, ATC's, journaling, etc. All images can be resized to make smaller. Click on image, right click to download.

Image dimensions - pixels - w2543 x h2745, inches - w8,477 x h9,15.

Image dimensions - pixels - w2362 x h712, inches - w7,873 x h2,373.

      

A Christmas Fantasy

This image comes from The Illustrated London News – November 22, 1926.

Image scanned at 300ppi

This image can be used for many things such as greeting cards or cut up and used in tags, ATC's, journaling, etc. All images can be resized to make smaller. Click on image, right click to download.

Image dimensions - pixels - w2371 x h3121, inches - w7,903 x h10,403