A Christmas Wish

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 67
Christmas In July

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

Christmas in July, bad enough having it in December never mind twice a year hahahaha.  Oh boy, this card went wrong from step one right the way through - well apart from the printing and colouring of the image that is.  First issue, my beloved Spellbinder cutter died for the third and final time, it is now beyond repair and I have no access to buying a new cutter here in Saudi until I get to the UK (I could but shipment is a fortune and takes ages so is a no go).  That meant all my lovely dies are redundant and I love using my dies :).  Next, I thought I would have a go at this gelli printing as I rather like getting mucky but no gelli plate, again not available here.  I tried to make my own with my redundant Spellbinders embossing mat and a couple of pieces of funky foam - it half worked and I did have lots of fun making some papers but not ideal so that has to be added to the shopping list for the UK :)  This is one of the backgrounds I made using my make shift printing plate and acrylic paints.  Such yummy texture but that led to the next problem, my head did not compute that the texture would mean the rubber stamped tree would not work grrrrr.  Now fun paper and an odd black bitty outline of something that certainly did not resemble a tree.  What to do, Ah!!! fill in the tree with silver ink and a stipple brush - No - that left some sort of strange metal grey smudge, more grrrrrrrrrrrrrrsss.  Time for some major corrections :)  I re-stamped the tree (thankfully I had made two pieces of paper with the same colours but only one using the sequin cut out stuff I had for texture), so I used the un-textured sheet and stamped the tree again, cut this out and mounted on black paper.  I finished off the tree with gold pen over some of the black, gold Stickles and a silver brad for the star.  The sentiment got the same treatment.  Now I am going to say this card was deliberately organic lol, one with a really hand made fee hahahaha as cutting circles by hand with no outline was pretty hard hahaha.

To finish off the card I added some gold braid which I frayed at either end and glitter to the fur trim on Santa.  The tree and sentiment were attached with regular double sided tape and the coloured image with foam tape.  There we have it with admission of all the errors but I do have to say this turned out better than I thought it would and the texture when you touch it is awesome :) :)

Ingredients:-

• image - A Christmas Wish by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Promarkers, Polychromos Pencils
• from my stash - home made Gelli plate, acrylic paints, Stickles, foam tape, glitter, ribbon, star brad

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafty Boots - 2W, SIO - (Week 1) Christmas
• Whoopsi Daisy - M, must use digi stamp, 2E/3E with Whoopsi Daisy image - (July) Christmas
• Come and Get It - W, 3E - (July 3) Christmas in July
• Robyn`s Fetish - W - #323 Christmas in July
• The Glory of Christmas (The Christmas Challenge)  - 2W all crafting projects welcome -  #88 Two or More Patterned Papers (W1 of 2)
• Hiding in my Craft Room W,1E #257 Christmas Colors
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 198 - Christmas in July
• Simply Create Too - 2W - No.112 - (W2 of 2) - Christmas in July
• Fab 'n' Funky - W,1E, C10 - #311  Christmas