Christmas Bling!

Hello, its Karen here with some more bling ;-D  I have taken the *bauble branch* and a few little *stockings* to make a Christmasy hanging.

(Its tricky to photograph with so much glitter on it though, sorry)  The baubles and stockings were painted with acrylic paint before being glittered and gold beads added.  The branch has been painted then had liquid glass added.  These were all mounted onto a decorated wooden container saved from last Christmas.  I think it came with dates in it!!!  I lined the box with glittered Christmasy paper and painted the sides green.  Then went over the edges with a Gold Micron pen.  The 'Merry Christmas' is from my stash and painted & glittered to match.

We have an on going challenge where we make a monthly draw for a chance to win some Tando goodies.  As one of our weeks is always an anything goes week you can enter anything you would like and you don't have to use Tando at all...but if you do you are entered twice in the draw.  Take a look at the tab at the top of our blog.

Thank you for looking today, Hugs, Karen x

Domino's on your tree.

haha is it too early to be thinking about making decorations for your Christmas Tree????  nah...never too early for me :D  I have used the fabulously sturdy Tando Domino's as a base for each of the little hanging plaques.
  Shame that the 'bling' doesn't show up in the photos though, sorry about that.

Tando produce 2 types of domino's - WAVY and STRAIGHT and they come in packs of 10 at a very good price.  I have painted & stamped onto two of them and covered the other 3 with patterned paper.  The little embellishments have been painted & glittered (except the stocking which has some paper on it) and are from our MINI RANGE, which are all suitable for card making as they are thinner.  You get lots in a pack making them great value!  Here are the products I used...

Thank you for calling by :D, take care, Karen xxx

Festive Decor

Hello my dears! How are you all getting on with Christmas crafting?  We are all  about HOME DECOR for this week and with Christmas in mind (its my turn to host this year haha) I looked to doing something for the festive table. I found 4 of those plain round wooden napkin rings in a charity shop for 50p...what a bargain eh!!!

I painted them with a light coat of old gold acrylic and then heat embossed gold around the edges. I used 4 little stockings from the Tando Mini Range. This is a fabulous range. The chipboard is a lot thinner and suitable for putting onto cards, into journals and just about everything else. You get so many in a pack too! The main parts of the stockings have been painted red then crackle accented and the tops have been covered with fine white glitter. The 'stuff' behind it is cut from a big snowflake decoration that I found in B&Q :D.

Have fun with your Christmasy makes, HUGS, Karen xxx