Joyful

Hello friends!

I've got one more joyful project to show you.

It's packed full of Inspiration Emporium goodies!

I got out several Alterations dies and started cranking!

I used the Artful Dwellings for the houses,Chip block alpha for the word JOY and Vintage Lace for the white scallop along the bottom and the chimney top. I got out my Idea-ology Vintage Shabby paper stack and cut that along with the chipboard, actually, it's the back of a tablet. I used the Mini Blue Prints stamp set from the Tim Holtz Collection by Stampers Anonymous. I stamped an image for each house with poly sparkle embossing powder by Ranger, and VersaMark ink onto Distress Core-dinations cardstock. I  painted on the roofs with Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and sprinkled on diamond dust glitter. I wish you could see this in real life, it's all crackly and sparkly, so pretty. 

 I added buttons from my stash with Glue Dots, colored a scallop and colored in the snowflake with my white Gelly Roll pen. I twisted a silver pipe cleaner and attached it to the back of the chimney for the smoke.

 I attached white seam binding across the back of each house so it would fold up and tie for gift giving.

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I'm all ready for Christmas, I just have to shop for the food and wrap a couple of presents and I'm ready to go. We're supposed to have some stormy weather tonight, and maybe a snowflake or 2 by morning. We don't get much snow, not like we have in the past, whats up with that? I'd like to have 1 deep snow in the winter, just 1 ;)

I hope y'all have a very Merry Christmas, thanks for stopping by!

 

Toy Soldier

Happy hump day my friends.

Hope you're keeping warm, it's freezing here, blech!

Today I'm showing you the toy soldier tag I made into a candy cane holder.

I think these would make cute little gifts.

The first thing I did was heat emboss the toy soldier from Tim Holtz Collection Christmas Blueprint stamp set. I inked the stamp with VersaMark, poured on white embossing powder and heat set it. Next, I added Distress Festive Berries and Evergreen Bough ink with my blending tool. I wiped the white soldier a bit to remove the ink.

To make the water spots I sprayed water in my hand and flicked it onto the tag and dried it with my heat tool. I scored the tag, folded it and put on a piece of black cardstock that was die cut with Alterations Vintage Lace die on the front and wrapped it around to the back and adhered it.

I put red Kaiser Rhinestones on the lace and soldiers hat. I ran some white seam binding over the Evergreen Bough ink pad for matching ribbon.

Finally, I die cut the soldier with Alterations Toy Soldier die, using Coredinations cardstock.

Isn't he the cutest thing? I had to have him the minute I saw him!

I put him in the tag with foam dots.

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Well, that's it. When you're doing your shopping at the Emporium don't forget to use my coupon code IEIRISGARDEN for 10% off!

 Hope you enjoyed the tag, thanks for looking!

Inspiration Emporium ~ Joy

Good morning friends!

Today I'm showing you my December project for Inspiration Emporium.

We can make anything as long as the word Joy is in it.

I decided to make a spoon Christmas tree ornament.

I used my metal punch stamps to stamp JOY at the top of the spoon.I wanted to put stuff in the bowl of the spoon. I wrote over the word with my black Copic and used the blender pen to clean up around the letters. 

This is my punch set, a hammer and a this metal square, I can't for the life of me think of the name of it, ugh.

But, it's supper heavy.

Here's the ornament finished. 

I used my new Alterations snowflake rosette die and white cardstock. I sprayed it with adhesive glue , I figued that would be way easier than trying to put glue on it. Then I poored glitter, and diamond dust glitter over it. I colored white seam binding with fired brick Distress Stain and tied it on the spoon handle.

I put some Glossy Accents on about half of the spoon and sprinkled on the glitter and added my Idea-ology fractured doll while it was still wet. I glued the wings on her first, I got them out of my stash, I picked them up somewhere. I colored my Idea-ology festive foilage poinstetta and leaves with my red pepper and citrus paint dabbers. I added the Kaiser Rhinestones on the edge. 

Now it's your turn, make something JOYous and upload it to the Inspiration Emporium blog for your chance to win $$$ to spend in the store, fun, fun, fun!

Oh, use my code IEIRISGARDEN to get 10% off your order!

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Have a great day, thanks for looking!