Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I had a little fun using a real leaf to add some interest to this pretty tree image. Because the leaf is so cool I kept the stamping simple. I stamped the trees on the card in Versafine Clair Nocturn, and framed it with a white die cut thin frame. I then heat embossed my leaf with gold, brown and blue embossing powders.

The leaf is one I collected on my walk, I was looking for an interesting shape with holes and partly torn.

Use glue (any craft glue) to seal the leaf on both sides, I hung it up to dry.

When it was dry I painted one side with more glue and sprinkled embossing powders randomly over it using gold browns and blues heating between colours and adding more glue for each layer of embossing powder, You can paint the glue on small areas and then add the embossing powder.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Trees

0766.

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

It's been a while since I've pulled out my texture pastes and gesso so I thought it would be fun to make a grungy mixed media Christmas card for you today.

I used a large tag and adhered rice paper to it using some matt medium as a glue. I painted over the image on the rice paper with some gesso and wiped the excess off to give a dull muted effect. I stamped a Christmas script in blue randomly over the tag then stenciled the stars using light modeling paste. When the paste was dry I stenciled the Christmas Ornament again in the light modeling paste. Light modeling paste when it dries can be coloured with watercolour paints. I used Finetec metallic paints for the ornament and the stars. I stamped the holly sprig and coloured it using Posca acrylic pens and added some glossy accent to the red berries. Before attaching the tag to the card base I used the Christmas script along the edge.

I hope you like my grungy Christmas card 😀

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

07.1065.N

Holly

02.325.W

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

07.1022.I

Ornament Stencil

TM135

Stars Stencil

TM328

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a Christmas card in non traditional colours for you today. The background is coated card smooshed in layers of distress oxide ink in pinks and purples each layer dried before the next one is added. I then stamped the Noel image and coloured it with a mix of Posca, gel and watercolour pens. I then stenciled the stars around the edge and stamped a sentiment in first and second generation stamping to give a distressed effect. The border was then edged with a gold pen and mounted on a white card base.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Noel Birds

02.321.P

Wishing you a Merry Christmas sentiment

07.1024.H

Stars Stencil

TM328

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a couple more cards with direct to stamp watercolour crayons and the poinsettia stamp.

The first card I just added some stenciled poinsettia around the stamped poinsettia and distressed the edge of the panel.

The second card has some stenciled poinsettia and a script sentiment around the stamped poinsettia.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Poinsettia

02.327.P

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

07.1024.H

Seasons Greetings

07.994.F

TM327

07.1022.I

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone I have a Pinecone and Bauble Christmas card for you today.

I used Ranger watercolour pencils and a direct to stamp technique to add colour to the Poinsettia stamp. I dipped the tip of the pencil in water and coloured the stamp with different blues while it was in the stamp platform. I sprited with water before I stamped the card. I mopped up excess water on the card using a kitchen towel. I stamped the pinecones and berries in Versafine Clair inks and coloured the pinecones with a little distress ink. I stamped the three baubles and connected them to the pinecone branch using a T-square ruler and a silver gel pen. I painted the baubles with Drops of shimmer - glitter paint (Kuretake). You cant see it in the picture but they have such a pretty shimmer. the sentiment was stamped and then the paper moved ever so slightly and stamped again. It's hard to see in the picture but it gives a really pretty shadow effect

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Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Poinsettia

02.327.P

Bauble

02.330.E

Berry Branch

02.323.F

Pinecone Branch

09.261.K

07.1019.F

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a glittery Christmas card for you today.

I stamped the image on acetate using stazon ink, when it was dry I used glue to fill in the back of each section of the acetate and sprinkled glitter on the glue. I let the glue dry before going onto the next colour, you don't have to do it that way but I'm a bit of a smuder so thought it would be safer 😀

I die cut a circle aperture for the ornament to fit inside. Before assembling the card I stamped the snowflakes, Christmas script and tiny sequins to add some interest. I glued the acetate to the card face and place a piece of card as a back.

Throw caution to the wind and have some fun with glitter but make sure you have a swiffer cloth handy for the clean up, it's well worth the effort. 

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

02.100.G

Snowflake

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

07.1022.I

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

07.1065.N

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, todays card is a quick Holly and Berry card for my Christmas stash.

I stamped the holly sprigs using Versafine Clair morning mist in a row along the edge of the card. I  coloured them with pencils and added a little glossy accent to the berries to give them a little dimension. edged the cream card with a strip of red and some designer paper. To add a little interest I distressed the edge of the Designer Paper.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Holly and berries

02.251.G

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

07.1065.N

Merry Christmas

07.993.F

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a Christmas card for you today.

The background is distressed oxide smooshed onto a craft sheet spritzed with water and the card dragged over the colour. Before I added a new colour I heat dried the first.

I stamped the snowflakes in distress inks using first, second and third generation stamping. and stamped the Christmas tree in Versamark and used gold embossing powder. I coloured the greenery and berries with posca paint pens and the  baubles were filled with liquid pearls and liquid glitter. I drew in the wood log that the tree is sitting in by hand.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Christmas Tree

02.328.P

Snowflakes

0830.L

07.1057.J

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi Everyone, I've been playing with some stencils and Nuance Powders. This technique gives you a twofer, one with the powders sprinkled through the stencil and the second as a monoprint.

I placed the stencil on a piece of water colour card sprinkled nuance powders over the open areas and over some of the solid areas. Once I was happy with the amount of powder I spritzed with water which activates the powdered colour particles. I place the card on something to elevate it off my work counter to make it easier to remove once it has been spritzed with water. When the stencil has been removed use a piece of kitchen roll to blot up the excess water. I stamped a little script in the white space around the stenciled area and outlined the edge with a gold marker to create a faux mat.

This is the second print. I placed the spritzed stencil on another piece of card lay a piece of kitchen roll over it to absorb the excess colour seeping through the stencil. I outlined the birds using the stencil with a black pen once I had dried the ink and then added the gold pen over the black to tone it down a little. I love the inky background a stencil monoprint gives.

While I was at it I made a couple of Christmas cards using the same technique. there was so much ink on the stencil I made a second monoprint by spritzing again with water.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

TM298 Birds and Blooms

Poinsettia Stencil

TM327

24.012J

0830.L Snowflakes

07.1065.N Have yourself a very merry Christmas

Wishing

you

a Merry

Christmas

and

a Happy

New Year

07.1024H

07.993.F

07.1057.J

Nuance Powders

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, my card today is a gell print from my stash adorned with some pretty butterflies.

The base is ink rolled onto a gell plate and then stamped the blossom branch onto the gell plate using versafine ink before pulling the print. I stamped the daisies butterflies then randomly touched the inked script stamp to the card. To make the flowers a little brighter I added a little pink and white to the petals.

I stamped the butterflies again on card, coloured them, added a little wink of stella to the wings and fussy cut them out placing them on the stamped images on the card base. I added a little shadowing with a black pencil behind the lower edges of the butterflies.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Daisy Large

48.018.N

Script

07.916.Q

Bee Sweet Apple Blossom

0761.N

Agrias Amodon Butterfly

0858.H

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