The Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas 2014 Jane's Journal style

Wow I cannot believe that it is whole year since Linda of the Funkie Junkie blog hosted this brilliant challenge. I had such fun last year and I used the challenge to create 12 very unique Christmas cards.
Everyone is welcome to join in with this fun challenge which closes on 21st December by which time you need to have submitted all 12 creations. The full rules are over on her blog here . Linda offers 3 very generous prizes of gift vouchers to spend in her terrific on line shop, The Funkie Junkie boutique. Do have a look at the link here .

This week's inspirational tag can be seen here

I loved the red and green colours Linda used and also the watery stencilled background. I was also inspired by the Father Christmas stamp as I own a similar one. I think this card has a really retro feel to it so I wanted to try to capture this in my creation.

Off I went down to my garden studio after work and the first thing I made was a stencilled background. I used Kraft card stock to add to the retro feel. I used my TH stars stencil for this with Festive Berries Distress ink.

 I spritzed it with water and also used the negative as a mask/stencil too.

Next I made some more backgrounds to use for tags and the background of my sentiment which I also stencilled.

I wanted a little sparkle on my tags so I stamped a snowflake and added embossing glitter and also a little glitter aound the endges of the tags.

I know this is a bit blurred but it gives an idea of the sparkle

 After this I added some stamping to my background. The postage greetings are Lili of the Valley Grunge Christmas stamps.

The Father Christmas and the black Miracle of Christmas sentiment are both by Visible Image

and here is my finished creation.....................

As there is still time ahead for me to make my special cards I have put this one up for sale in my Etsy shop. The link is here

And so now starts the countdown to my favourite time of the year......yes just 12 weeks to go.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

The Funkie Junkie's 12 tags of Christmas 2014 Number 1
We do doobadoo Christmas
Natalie and Amy colouring on Kraft
The artistic stamper memories these are childhood vintage/retro memories for me
Whimsy stamps anything goes
Simon says stamp finishing touch my finishing touch on this card are the 2 little green Cheery lynn holly die cuts with gem
Die cut divas anything goes my dies are the Cheery Lynn holly and the sizzix tag
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas something beginning with P mine is P for presents on santas sleigh

Thanks for visiting me here today and seeing what I have made. I will try to get my cards made weekly and posted but as I well remember last year nearer Christmas life gets really busy. For those of you who are counting...there are only 82 days left. Enjoy your weekend ;0)

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x