The Funkie Junkie's 12 tags of Christmas, Jane's Journal style; week 7

I have tried to get a little ahead with this week's project as I won't have any crafting time now until next week. This is because we have a real treat coming up tomorrow afternoon after work....Daisy is coming to stay with her Nanna and Granddad aka my Hb and I for the weekend! We are so excited. Her Mummy and Daddy are going to have a weekend away which they are also very excited about.

Everyone is welcome to join in with The Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas challenge. It closes on 21st December by which time you need to have submitted all 12 creations using Linda's tags for inspiration. You can make anything at all. 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 . I am choosing to make 12 Christmas cards instead of tags.

This week's tag can be seen here. For my inspiration I wanted to use the Tim Holtz Gothic stencil as this is one of my favourites. I also loved her ornament stamp but I chose to use my Memory Box ornament die instead of a stamp. Linda also added some holly leaves too and I wanted to include these on my card. I decided to go back to some more traditional Christmas colours for my card.

I made a backing card using ice spruce, evergreen bough and pine needles distress inks and then stencilled festive berry DI through the Gothic stencil

I decided that I wanted to get some extra texture on my card so I pressed some embossing paste again through the stencil and sprinkled fine gold glitter on top.

After tapping off the excess this lovely sparkle was left behind.

Now that I had a festive background I die cut my ornaments and decided to have a play with alcohol inks. I have only ever used one colour before but I had bought some more with a challenge prize win so it was time for some inky fun. A couple of drops of festive colours....

 I added some gold too...........

 I then swooshed my die cuts through.................. and this is how my ornaments came out.

I had so much inky fun.................

I decided to mount a couple onto gold vellum and cut them out.

Then it was time to put on my creative hat and put together my ideas for my card. I decided this time to make a rectangular shape for a change and mounted it on Kraft card................here it is.

and a close up of the ornaments. The gold and green holly leaves are cut using my favourite Cheery Lynn die. The sentiment and little tag are both LOTV.

Below is a close up of the glittery background, it's all so much more sparkly irl. I struggle at this time of year to get the best light for my photos.

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

The Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas #7

Simon Says Stamp Ornaments

Merry Monday Christmas Ornaments

Crafting with the Dragonflies anything goes

Party Time Tuesdaysanything goes

Creative Card Crew Christmas joy

Christmas cards all year round no patterned papers

The Artistic stamper Christmas is coming

Jelly Park Christmas

Stamping Sensations simply Christmas

Inspiration Journal Happy Holidays
Winter Wonderland Christmas decorations
That Craft Place anything goes

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, we certainly will....filled with special Daisy time.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x