Happy Craftmas!

   Season's Greetings to you!  I have been bitten by the Zentangle bug, so here's another great bauble stamp from Woodware that lends itself to being tangled.

      I stamped the bauble on white card and tangled each flower using a Sakura Micron Fineliner pen. The background is filled in with  red alcohol marker. The centre of the flowers are decorated with tiny Stix2 glue dots covered with a mixture of micro beads, transfer foils and glitter.
     The background is embossed with snowflakes and mounted on to a white card with a red mat in between, the mat is white card coloured around the edge with the same red marker so it matches.
     There is a die cut pine branch mounted on foam pads for the cut out bauble to hang from. With the addition of a gold bow and a die cut snowflake stamped and embossed with a greeting the card is finished.
     My tangling is quite basic as a beginner, I found it helped to just see each small part to be tangled rather than the whole, somewhat daunting project. Over the holiday I shall play some more and see what I can come up with, it really is quite relaxing to just doodle and colour, it has also made me look at my stamp stash in a new light.
     I hope you have a Happy Holiday where ever and what ever you are doing but most of all Happy Craftmas!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

The Artistic Stamper - Christmas

Card Mania - Christmas

Let's Craft and Create - Christmas

Through The Purple Haze - Christmas

A Snowflakes Promise - Christmas

Holly Jolly - Christmas

CASE-ing Christmas Finale

     Sadly this is the last card for CASE-ing Christmas, the blog is closing due to the owners other commitments, we all wish her well and thank all of you for joining us each month.
     This card is made with a clear stamp from Woodware called Patch Robin Square. It is stamped in Versafine Black on to white card, then Zentangled, and yes I did cheat and use a ruler for some of it!

     I chose to paper piece the holly and the robin's wing and red breast, this was done using some lovely papers from a polka dot 6x6 set. The paper pieces are stamped and embossed, unlike the main image, so they stand out a little more.
     The berries are silver holographic dot peel offs coloured red, the border around the picture has been coloured with an alcohol marker in a pale green. After colouring I used a Layer Perfect, which is an 'L' shaped metal edge ruler with graduated markings and holes, to prick out the holes. This tool is good for piercing and great for matting and layering.
     The image layer is mounted on foam pads over a red on green backing before going on a white card blank. In the corners of the green layer there are square clear foam pads covered with Transfer Foil to look like brads.
          Come and join us one last time at CASE-ing Christmas, this month it's just a Winter Holiday card for our challenge, we have three prizes to be won too.

Materials list - available from your  local craft shop

Woodware Craft Collection - Stamp - FRS164 Patch Robin Square

                                          Versafine Ink Black

                                          Stampendous Embossing Powder - Midnight Black

                                          MSP228V Perfect Prints Dark Dots 6x6 paper pad

                                          98091H  Holographic Dots Silver

                                         

Stix2 Anything -  Clear Foam Pads Square

                         Foam Pads

                         Transfer Foil

                         Layer Perfect Tool

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Merry Monday Christmas - Birds

Cute Card Thursday - Festive Colours

Jingle Belles - Anything Goes

12 Months Of Christmas - Anything Goes / optional Santa

A Snowfalkes Promise - Anything Goes