Christmas in August

Good morning, yes I know that there are still 135 day until

but at Visible Image HQ the 2019 Christmas stamps are being released on 17th August and today I am sharing my first DT make with them. 

I have made several samples and today's uses stamps mainly from the Christmas chaos set.

 I love the whole concept of a set of mixed media Christmas stamps, very unusual. I decided that for my first make with this set I would make a tag with slightly summery colours. As I was brainstorming my design I  had a little light box idea that I could make a Christmas Eve and Christmas day tag so I ended up using the Santa and sleigh from my favourite set (yes I know I'm not supposed to say that) too. This one is called Christmas Eve

So this is what I got up to.

I sprayed pine needles, ground espresso and vintage photo distress inks onto watercolour card and add some pewter spray too for a touch of silver sparkle. I die cut some tags (I will use the spare for something else). 

I die cut a star out of one and used it on the 2nd. 

The grungy number line makes fab edging and I stamped this in red archival ink.

I'm afraid there aren't many process photos as I have been so busy making I didn't have time to  photograph lots.

I also stamped the parcels from the
Santa Claus set

onto scraps of Christmas backing papers. 

I then began to put my tags together, I used some corrugated card too for adding some dimension to the large tree.

So here they are;

Christmas Eve on the left has Santa out delivering his parcels.

 You can see his footprints through the forest too.

and on Christmas morning the tree is holding some surprises underneath

Excited children will be waking up, rushing to the tree and will be shouting, "He's been!"..(well at least I will!😉)

Here is one last shot.

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

The Artistic stamper 2/3 anything goes

Crafters Castle 3/3 anything goes
Crafty Calendar anything goes
Craft stamper Take it make it 2/3 anything goes
Creative artiste 2/3 anything goes

ABC Christmas P, Q, R mine is R for reindeer.

Christmas cards all year round Add a tree

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide.

And the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

The 2019 Visible Image Christmas stamp release is currently being show on social media. The stamps are on pre release now and can be ordered on the web site here. And a little heads up is that if you order now you can get FREE WORLDWIDE shipping using the coupon code christmas.

 Thanks for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x