Tickled Pink Stamps Christmas Challenge #4 - Something HANDMADE

Hey TPS fans! Time for our FOURTH Christmas Challenge of the year!! We'll soon have a collection of Christmas-y related projects made up in time for December at this rate!! Less stress when the time comes though, right?!

This month we want to see 'SOMETHING HANDMADE' on your project, this can be anything you can think of, aslong as your fare hands made them! :) Flowers, templates, swirls. If you're a follower of my blog you will know I have been on a journey of mold making discovery. I have been wanting to try my hand at making my own resin and clay flowers and little embellishments, mainly as something to decorate my cards with, but also to sell if I start craft fares in the summer.

Anywho, here is what I came up with. I cut my own tag base from SU! Crumb Cake cardstock and stamped it using a Music Note Standard Wheel from SU! in SU! Crumb Cake ink and added some patterned paper from BG's Jovial collection which I distressed using my Tonic Paper Distresser.

This TPS image is no where near Christmassy, infact, she is Lil' Birthday Kellita available from the TPS Store, but with her present and the right colours she could be giving a little Christmas gift to a special someone. I have cut her out using a nesties oval die and added some Diamond Stickles around the embossed part. The cute little ticket, which is perrrfect for a tag is from a Whimsy Stamps set and die.

Here is a close up of the (close to) gorgeous CLAY 'flowers' 'doileys' call them what you will that I made using a few molds I bought off eBay. They were originally created for sugarcraft, but the woman assured me they were oven safe. I've used Transparent Fimo clay and added my own alcohol inks to create unique colours. The top embellishment was made using Willow alcohol ink from Rangers Adirondack range, and the bottom was made using the colour Pebble. I really like this one, it is sort of a very dark Kraft colours. I've tried all sorts of ink to try and get a Kraft colour, even Old Paper DI re-inker (which for those of you interested turned GREEN, of all colours). I think this Pebble is about as close as my budget is going to allow me to get. There is only so much experimenting I can do! LOL. Perhaps in the next batch I make I will add less drops, so hopefully it will be a lighter colour. We'll see.

I think that just about covers it for today!! Be sure to stop by the TPS challenge blog and enter your Christmas creation this month - I can't wait to see what handmade items you all come up with.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:
× The Spotlight Challenge - Try Something NEW Challenge - I'm hoping my clay embellishments make the mark with this one? *sweet smile*

× HLSC - Lots of Embellishments

× Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Use some Ribbon

× CSAYL - Use a Die Cut as your Main Image

Thanks for stopping by, xo Lou Mac.