Merry Christmas - Elena's Post

I want to start my Christmas post by saying MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you. I hope you enjoy your holidays. I'm here with you today  to show you my Christmas projects. This time I decided to try something new and to challenge  myself with some OTP projects, so here they are. My first project is a set of Christmas tags for my darling daughter  who demands me to be creative and prepare something new for  her every  year.  I didn't want to make a simple Christmas Card  so I thought I would  make some tags for her instead.  

When I received my recent package of 2Crafty Chippies,  she looked through them and told me,  ''I want this, that and that one in one card". It was a little difficult   to combine all 3 large chippies in one place, so I have managed  to make 3 different tags for her.  

I decided to use acrylic sheets from Clear Scraps  to achieve some  transparency.  I love it when I see frosty trees outside .

   I primed Fir Xmas Tree with Gesso , then I stamped it with Crystals  Antiquites Embosssing powder and misted it with some Starburst inks. After that I added some bling, stars and added some  sprinkles of white acrylic paint

I glued it on to the acrylic sheet and here you can  see the back side of the tag.  

  I didn't change the back side of the chipboard as I wanted to add  some warm kraft color to the set. For the next tag I used Prancing Reindeers

I used the same techniques on the 2 pieces of chipboard  that come in the pack.  

and the smaller one......  

Next project is a shadow box.  (Keep in mind I had a task to use almost all Christmas  themed chippies for my DD decorations)

So I used another tree there  - Retro Xmas Tree  

I painted it with Green acrylic paint, covered it with texture paste,  daubed it with red ink and golden gouache, and added some  pearls and beaded thread to decorate the tree. I didn't want to much painting, as the papers from Meg's Garden are  very bright on their own. So I came back with heat embossing on my  next chipboard pieces.  

  I added texture paste on Mini Santa's Sleigh and embossed it with  Aged Mahagony and Golden embossing Distress powders.   I just covered the Fine Snowflake with golden gouache and  decorated it with the flower.  

  The last project that I traditionally share with you is made for  Manor House Creations. It is a Christmas Wreath.  

I used my  favorite fabric there - linen, then added many flowers and Corner Whispy Vines  

  I have misted  these  with shimmers and covered them slightly with gesso. The same technique was used on Ornament Sampler  

I hope you have enjoyed  my Christmas post and I wish you Merry and bright holidays. To find more inspiration with 2Crafty chipboard  you are welcome to visit  my blog.