Lighting the way to Christmas

Good morning its time for my last 2021 make for Country View Challenges. Our last challenge of the year is "Anything Christmas" and so feel free to share all your Christmas makes. Please remember that you can enter a maximum of 5 times and combine you make with 10 challenges (including ours) in total. As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here. 

I love Christmas so much and on 5th December I went to Lapland UK with my family. It is so gorgeously vintage that it inspired my make today. This is my 2 grandchildren being told by Father  Christmas that they are on is "good" list...of course!!

Check this out for snow

and just look at that vintage lantern bottom left....

So for this make I knew that I wanted to use my very favourite die that Tim Holtz released this year. Although it was a Halloween release I knew it would also be perfect for Christmas. Sadly it appears to be sold out everywhere, if I had a pound for every message I have had asking me where I got mine from I would have a lovely Christmas bonus. Susan did have it in and I have added a link here so that you add can add your email in case she gets more in. 

I made up several lanterns and candles.

and chose this one for my card. 

I made a background using festive berries and hickory smoke distress inks which I blended onto a slimline card sized piece of smooth cardstock.  I knew which set of snowflake stamps would work perfectly with my diecut lantern....

I white heat embossed the gorgeous snowflakes from my favourite Visible Imge Simply snowflakes set (which is in stock and is a mere £5.99)

I added a black soot distress border

and the fab Christmas sentiment die cut from the Christmas 2021 Vault series by Tim, which again is in stock on the CVC website.

I added lots of "snow" to the lantern using my favourite mix of Snow tex and silver Glamour dust glitter. I also added some stickles and a hint of glitter pen to the candle which you can see in the final close up photos. 

Then I matted my slimline panel onto a black slimline card blank. 

Here is my finished card.

with some close ups

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our December "Christmas" challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the December challenge are here. Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50. The amazing annual Advent sale is still running, so do check it out 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Enjoy this very special time of the year, have a very merry Christmas and I will be back on 1st January, bright and breezy, with my first make for our first Country View challenge for 2022. Thanks for all you support and kind comments you left me here and on my Instagram account during 2021. I so appreciate it.

Jane x