Frosty Festivities Inspiration Number 3!

Two posts in one day! Yes, I know, but I wanted to share another item I had made following the inspiration from Jennifer's Frosty Festivities Blog Event. I don't often make tags, but loved how Jennifer made these ones, with a 'Jolly Jumble of Items'.

So I found a tag amongst my stash, sprayed it with some mist, stamped some stars, stencilled some embossing paste onto it, found some embellishments and made this:

Having made it I was pleased with it, but wondered what I was actually going to do with it. Then I had a brain wave and turned it into a card!

I like how it looks on the card and this will be winging its way to one of my friends this Christmas!

Frosty Festivities Inspiration Number 2

There has been so much inspiration on Jennifer's blog this weekend. I don't like to pick out favourites as it seems unfair, but I did like this guest post from Julie Kirk.

One of the inspiration ideas from this post was to 'Stencil all over the background of a layout or project'.

So that is what I decided to do! I didn't have a 12x12 stencil in the shape I wanted, stars, so the first thing I did was to create one using my Cricut.

I then sponged Versamark through all the stars as I had decided to emboss the patter onto the card. I chose silver and gold embossing powder - the gold worked better, but I still liked the effect.

And then it was just a case of creating my layout on top of the stencilled pattern.

 I am enjoying getting my Christmas 201 photos scrapped this weekend!

I'll be back later with another project inspired by the blog event. Hope you are having a relaxing weekend!

Jennifer's Frosty Festivities

Jennifer Grace at Jennifer Grace Creates, is holding her Frosty Festivities blog event this weekend. Do hop on over to see all the wonderful things she and her guest bloggers have created.

I will probably be posting more frequently over the next few days as I complete projects inspired by the event and because I AM ON HOLIDAY! Yes, no work for me for a WEEK! So looking forward to it! Hugh is also off for the week, so we are going to leisurely do some jobs around the house, visit my Mum and Dad and go out for a couple of meals.

So, what has inspired me so far? Well, Jennifer created this decoration, but what inspired me from it was to use glitter through a stencil, using modge podge. I didn't want to make a decoration, but used the idea on this layout.

I used a dotty stencil I had and some blue glitter. I love the effect and will definitely be doing this again!

I love how it is nice and glittery, but at the same time you get even more texture from the modge podge.,

Off to have another look at her blog to see what else inspires me!

Joining in with Jennifer Grace

This past weekend, I have been joining in with the Frosty Festivities 2013 Blog event over at Jennifer Grace Creates. If you haven't seen any of the posts, do hop on over, there is so much inspiration there!

I created this layout having read this post about piling things up in the middle of the page and this post about adding a little sparkle.

This paper had been in my Christmas stash for a year - the snowflakes are stitched onto it and I just didn't know what to do with it! However, by putting one photo in the middle and then piling up the embellishments in the middle of the page, I got it to work. The embellishments were all cut from free papers I have got from magazines over the years. I then edged them in Stickles. I also used stickles in the centre of four of the snowflakes and to completely fill the remaining two.

The letters are 'do it yourself' Thickers and are actually covered in green glitter, but in the photo they don't look sparkly!

I have so many ideas buzzing round in my head now having spent the weekend reading Jennifer's blog! Hope to be able to do some of them and share them on here.