Thursday 20 December 2012

Journal Your Christmas

I have participated in JYC for some years, over at www.shimelle.com, and also December daily over at www.aliedwards.com.  It’s really lovely to look back on them, and I put the finished mini books in a basket on my coffee table at this time of year.

This year I decide to try an art journal style JYC.  Here are some of my favourite pages so far:

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I’ve used distress inks, twinkling H20 paints, mists, paint sprays, stamps and punches, gems and stickles, and had a ball!  I’ve prepared several backgrounds – enough up until Christmas day, and am intending on making up a little kit so that I can keep up once I tidy away and reclaim my dining room!

I used the same technique to make 2 special cards for both mothers:Christmas 001Christmas 004

After I created the background I heat embossed the trees, and stamped Father Christmas on his sleigh.  The churches are cut and layered using my Cricut machine and the Winter Wonderland cartridge.  Finally I added a peel off ‘Happy Christmas’ star and circles.  I am really pleased with the results!

3 comments:

alexa said...

Lovely cards! and I've enjoyed your art journal pages - you use lots of interesting techniques ...

Burnice said...

didn't you do well!!!! Can't wait to see the pages now you have some journaling on them.
Burnice x

Alison said...

What a great idea for your album this year, Linda...it looks wonderful...I particularly like that Father Christmas stamp!
Alison xx