Imaginarium post

A visit from Santa 

By Sue Smyth 

and 2 tags 

Now I know you have seen these before lol 

But I don't think you will mind seeing them again plus

all of the step by steps. 

I love working on small items for Christmas, you can

really pack in lots of details and there is 

so much out there to include.

Today I have used one of the small billboards

from Imanginarium to make a Santa Decoration

I have painted all of the kit with gesso, several coats

and covered windows etc with

Dimensional magic and sprinkled liberally

with fine white glitter

(my favourite way to alter chipboard)

Remember not to cover tabs!

For the top I have created a little enamel cabochon to put

the letters for SANTA, see how to below.

Then I have made a little scroll to stamp

on.

For the base I have made Faux snow. 

I shared the recipe last year about this time. 

I have set little trees and a snowman brad into

the snow .

Add a few snowflakes from an old christmas garland 

Here it is again for those who want it.

2 teaspoons of Diamond Dust or silver coarse glitter

1 teaspoon of white gesso

4 or 5 drops of dimensional magic

stir until thoroughly mixed 

and store in air tight container.

This makes a neat and very beautiful decoration

you could also put a photo of the children

on Santa''s knee to personalize it 

Paint the oval chipboard with 2 coats of white gesso

Spray with Postbox red dylusions and dry off.

Dab with versamark and sprinkle with 

clear Utee. 

Heat set for a glossy shine.

Spritz with white dylusions while hot and 

continue to heat for 3 seconds 

Top Tip

I did not have the right size holly leaves, but

I did have some small regular leaves.

So I attacked the edges with a large 

hole punch to give the neat 

notches of holly...

Imaginarium chipboard

Santa's Tag

I have made this detailed little tag

to place on a miniature easel.

First cover the chipboard 

tag with Christmas patterned paper  

Then add details in layers to make your tag.

Because this is small you can use little pearls,

and tiny snowflakes 

Add a double embossed Happy Christmas and 

you have the most festive of all tags.

Imaginarium Chipboard

Reindeer Mixed Media Tag 

Next is a Mixed media tag, this is different to 

the one above as I have not used any paper to decorate it.

You could use this on a present for the recipient to keep

or use as a mini canvas on an easel to decorate your

house 

The gorgeous reindeer is covered

with dimensional magic and then

drenched with brown glitter for 

a wonderful shine, add some small 3mm

pearls for the spots and 

a little red one for the nose.

Take a large tag, in this case a pre used one, and 

cover with gesso.

Add stars with a stencil and texture paste for the 

sky, arrange chip trees and corners, using

the wet texture paste to adhere.

For the base place the palette knife flat on the 

texture paste and sharply pull up to

give a wonderful lumpy snow look.

Spray with inks to create a sky and snow field 

as pictured. Dry off and rub over

with turquoise glitter paste and then

white gesso for a snowy look.

Decorate with Christmas greetings

and reindeer as above 

Imaginarium Chipboard 

Happy Crafting and 

A Merry Christmas to all

megs garden blog post

Santa is knocking on your door 

canvas 

by Sue Smyth 

For Christmas this year I have made a canvas to celebrate

the season, using the Meg's Garden microscope slide images of

Santa.

They make awesome decorations, but I wanted to use them en masse!

So I have adhered them all to chipboard, trimmed them and edged

them in gold paint and then covered the edge with

dimensional magic and dipped into gold glitter.

When dry cover each image in dimensional magic for 

shine and sturdiness.

I have altered the lovely azalea flower by wicking. 

You may have seen this in past posts.

Wicked flower

1.Spray flower with water.

2 Spray craft matt with red dylusions ink

3 Dip flower into ink and twirl 

around to control the flower of ink

4 Dry off with a heat gun.

5. Spray with adhesive and sprinkle with a little 

white glitter

The microscope slides are then adhere to a textured canvas.

Add trinkets, like keys and door latches.

Cover the holly leaves in a little gesso to soften them and tuck

under flowers with teased muslin

I have finished by layering over top chipboard 

letters.

Meg's Garden materials 

Megs Garden Santa Microscope Slide Images

Megs Garden Paper Azaleas

Megs Garden green holly leaves

Megs Garden gold german scrap

Megs Garden Trinkets and Hardware

Happy Crafting 

Sue Smyth

Couture Creations

Sweet Treats for Christmas 

By Sue Smyth 

Hi Bloggers 

do you have any last minute gifts to make or little blank 

spots on the tree that need a decoration?

I have a super project for you 

This gorgeous decoration is made really simply 

from an old cookie cutter and Couture Creations 

Glitter Paper.

This one is a tree 

And this one is a ginger bread man 

You can follow my step by step below to make

 your very own and decorate with 

Couture Creations 3 mm pearls and rhinestones 

Select the easier shapes to start with.

Dry brush with gesso inside and out.

You can also add a bit of crackle medium

for an interesting shabby look.

When dry spray with a matching ink, in 

this case green

Place over glitter paper and mark

and out line with a white paint pen.

Trim out to fit the cookie cutter

Decorate the inside with pearls and rhinestones.

Use pearl drops to colour the edge and add 

further embellishment

With a crop a dile punch 2 holes in the 

top of the cookie cutter 

Thread through gold string, to hang with

before you add the cheeky gingham bow.

Couture Creations Materials 

Couture Creations Glitter paper pad

Couture Creations 3mm self adhesive pearls

Couture Creations Gold Pearl drops

Couture Creations Cafe Cream self adhesive pearls

Happy Crafting 

couture creations blog 1

Christmas Joy Deer 

Centrepiece 

by Sue Smyth

With the Christmas season upon us, it is always great

to be able to whip up a last minute gift or decoration.

I had this MDF deer  in my stash for over a year and decided

this was the time to use it. 

Of course dies makes this a snap to do.

Add a little bit of glitter and snow and you have 

a winter wonderland

I have used some of our new glitter paper to add some

bling to the project.

I have also used our new pearl medium to 

add lustre and shine to the snowflake.

The first thing to do is paint the MDF shape with gesso 

as an undercoat. Ink the edges with a brown ink to give definition.

Next cover the Deer with dimensional magic or glue.

Sprinkle with white glitter and allow to dry

Cut 6 trees and adhere together, offset some of them to make them

resemble 2 trees behind each other.

Decorate with pearl medium for shine and dimension

Die cut Joy from red glitter paper, then cut the background

die from white cardstock, adhere both together and place over

the deer.

Add pearls for the eyes and also on the rump for spots.

Continue to decorate the base with trees and other

 die cut shapes as pictured.

Die cut the tall flourish and cut up to decorate around the base.

Couture Creations materials

C0724774 Couture Creations Secret Garden pointy fence die

C0724280 Couture Creations Secret Garden tall flourish die

C0724423 Couture Creations Christmas Eve Collection - Evergreen Trees die

C0724309 Couture CreationsSimones Style Amaryllis die

C072 4429 Couture Creations Christmas Eve Joy die

Happy Crafting