The final tag of 2015, Jane's Journal style

Wow how quickly the year has flown by and I find my self sharing my December card, my final version of Tim's tags for 2015.

Here are all my entries for the year....I love putting them all together in a collage. There are a lot of creative hours represented here.  It's really hard for me to choose a favourite but if I was pushed it was the Mother's day card with all that gold embossing, pastel flowers and butterflies and my Dad's birthday card featuring him as a little boy...how cute is that photo.  All the recipients of these special cards really did love them as much as I loved creating them.

Those of you who have followed my creative journey this year will be able to spot my December creation.

Tim's inspiration tag can be seen here.

I took inspiration from his tag to use the hessian (burlap) background  and his cool spray inking technique using a stencil. Instead of a wreath for the door I created a starry wreath. You can see all the techniques over on his blog.

I used my TH stars stencil and sprayed this background onto my hessian sheet. I carefully moved the stencil over and repeated to cover my hessian. I did "mess up" the first one but I have since made another card with it so even mistakes come in handy.

My Hb and I have  just been to see Kew at Christmas in London and I really wanted to use something to do with one of the scenes from our fab night out. We had a really great evening and I will share a full post in due course but this was the "field of fire". It was so atmospheric in the darkness. You can see where my stars inspiration came from too.

I decided to create a moon face myself, similar to one I made earlier this year. I die cut a circle and drew my moon face. I used Sakura glaze pens to get the shine in the eyes and on the lips.

Instead of the garland wreath which Tim uses, I wanted to surround my moon with a garland of  shiny stars.
I die cut lots of stars in glitter card using my Cheery Lynn snowflake die and Noor stars garland die.

Then it was time to put on my creative hat....

and this is my finished card.

with a couple of close ups

So that's my 12th card completed for the year.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2015 December
Pixie's snippets playground  3/3  #206
Sparkles Christmas 3/3 die cuts for Christmas

A vintage journey  vintage Christmas

That's Crafty 3/3 Season's Greetings
Ribbon Girl 3/3 anything goes
Love to create anything creative/mixed media #25
Simon says stamp Wednesday let it snow
Artistic Inspirations anything goes/Christmas
Visions of Sugarplums 2015 Christmas/Winter
Our creative corner Wish upon a star
Papertake Weekly fun fun fun I had such fun making my 12 cards this year

Anything but cute you've got happy mail
Art with heart December favourite things my card versions of Tim's tag have been some of my favourite creative things this year,
Inspiration Emporium 'tis the season

I would like to thank Tim for another amazing year of creativity which he so selflessly shares. I have had such fun and learnt so much.

I look forward to the 1st January when I really hope he continues with this amazing challenge.

Thanks for visiting me here and for all you kind comments, Billy also wants to thank you for the comments on his post and sends a purr :0) 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x