Tim Holt'z 12 tags of 2015, November, Jane's Journal style

It's now the penultimate of Tim's 2015 tag challenge. I have been making cards for this challenge all year and decided to use his design for November to another Christmas card. Below is Tim's tag and you can see his process over on his blog here.

As with last month's tag on my first look I struggled to think what I could make. I don't own the pumpkin or autumn dies and as this Halloween has been and gone there would be no point in me making a card with any pumpkin images on. I honestly use all the cards I made; I never make any "just for the sake of makin" cards. Of course in America they are looking forward to Thanksgiving but it is a festival we do not have here in the UK.The only "Blueprint" stamp I own is the same snowman I used last month for my decoupage October card. After some deliberation I decided to use my snowman stamp again.

I used the same technique as Tim to make my background but I wanted to use crisp winter colours and rather then his background stamp I used a Visible Image crackle background stamp to create the acrylic resist for my ink sprays.

I had fun with my sprays; blue and pewter...I love these colours for Christmas card

I added some water and after heat drying this is my finished backing card.

The paint on the crackle stamp gives a wonderful frosty feel by resisting the inks and the pewter gives such a gorgeous sheen.

Here is my stamped snowman

I  coloured him with distress markers and inks.

 I then de- and embossed my snowman and padded him up with foam.  He took up a fun rounded shape.

It's hard to see but he has a nice plump shape now.

I then put on my creative hat and put my card together with some of my own details. Here is my finished card.

I don't have any cut out dies like Tim's autumn sentiment but I really liked the cork texture he used so inspired the cork I went off on a tangent. I used some hessian for texture and added a Tim Merry Christmas stamped sentiment. Rather than the rivets I used star brads in the corners.
I also used his adhesive foil around the edges in random strips.

I added some blue paint to some silver foil Cheery Lynn holly leaves and added some bells and a scarf charm. I added a piece of CL die cut icicles too.

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

Tim Holtz's 12 tags of 2015 November
Rubber dance white/blue/red winter inspiration
Country View Crafts the colour blue
Penny Black and More anything Christmas 3/3
Flonzcraft  Vintage Traditional Christmas 3/3
Our creative corner 2/3 Topsy turvey my piece is topsy turvey as it started out with thanksgiving pumpkin inspiration and I turned it into a snowman Christmas card!
Frilly and Funkie 3/3  let there be light my light is from the glow of the silver paint and card and the crackled background.
The Craft barn Fireworks mine are my glimmery background and the scarf charm..essential to keep warm with on a cold November night.
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas bright or sparkly colours
Mixed Media world anything goes
That Craft place kraft I used a Kraft card blank to mount my piece on.

Thanks for visiting me here today, I cannot believe that next month's Tim card will be the end of this year's challenges. I still have lots more Christmas projects to share with you in the meantime. I hope your Christmas preparations are coming along well?

I thought I would end with a photo of my sweet Daisy Jane from her birthday..thanks for all the kind comments you left for me on my last post and I'm blushing about your cake comments. She had a wonderful day at the zoo. My daughter sent me this photo........

What a wonderful image....I might need to make a journal page of this. Enjoy your weekend, we're off to see Spectre on Saturday night...I do love Bond!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x