' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Dictionary Letter X

Tuesday 24 December 2013

Dictionary Letter X

Considering the paucity of X words in my dictionary, I didn't hesitate long and resigned myself to selecting the obvious for the last letter of the Craft Barn dictionary challenge! I expect many of us will do the same, after all tis the season....

The story behind the page: Twas the night before Christmas... Well it's nearly midnight and father Christmas is out an about on his deliveries. It's started snowing again and fresh snow clings onto last week's snow drifts.



Father Christmas (a Christmas set from Katzelkraft) is stamped in black over a brayered background. I added snow with a stamp from the same set, with water for the "background", then with white pigment ink for the foreground.

The snow drifts are made of sand medium and I sprinkled some glitter over the top (said glitter sadly invisible). Later I added some white paint as my snow wasn't "snowy" enough.

On the right I added some texture paste with an hexagon stencil and stamped on top, leaving some hexagons to be filled in with Sparkle medium in Jade (Imagination Crafts). No rhyme or reason for this, I just fancied doing that!
The clock, a die-cut stamped and embossed with a sentiment (Craft stamper freebie) and an embossed snowflake finish the page.

There you have it, Christmas is here!

I am also entering the Imagination Crafts, the Pan Pastel Uk and Lexi's creations challenges.

Happy holidays bloggers,

18 comments:

  1. Oh I love how you have done your page, whimsical and timely (really must sort those presents out soon!) and the hexagons are a super touch, must try to use mine more often, great effect. BJ

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  2. I hope he brings you what you wished for! It's a lovely page!

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  3. Visiting from The Craft Barn - your page is beautiful & all the textures are fabulous. Merry Christmas :o)

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  4. Wonderful pages. Love the blue with the Santa and the snow moutains.

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  5. This is beautiful. Thank you for joining us at imagination crafts for our Christmas challenge
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  6. Elle est très belle, et tes montagnes sont vraiment très réussies !!
    Et ce tampon de Noël sur fond bleu nuit avec les montagnes blanches en dessous donne vraiment un beau rendu... C'est joli! Bravo pour avoir été au bout de ce challenge aussi. J'espère que tu as passé de bonnes fêtes de Noël, bises

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  7. Fantastic take on the X and great pages.

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  8. Beautiful contemporary pages, hope you had a lovely Xmas

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  9. Really gorgeous, love the added texture of the glitter medium. Thank you for joining in with Imagination Crafts Challenge Blog & Happy Christmas
    Lindsay xx

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  10. A beautiful page - I also had a resort to Xmas - not many choices for X! I love that santa sleigh stamp - it is really beautiful against that wonderful purple night sky! Claire x

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  11. Great xmas page I also had little choice so xmas won!

    MaggieH

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  12. Wonderful Xmas page, love the snow drifts and those fabulous hexagons.

    Sylv xx

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  13. A really creative, pretty, and fun card too! Thanks for sharing and the details on how you did it!! I am in love with your hexagons!!! Happy New Year back at you and lots of health and prosperity to go with it so we can stamp, stamp, stamp too!

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  14. This is really beautiful !!
    Izzy

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  15. Beautiful project! Love the texture! Happy New Year!

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  16. Happy New Year!
    Beautiful..love how you created your snowdrifts!!
    Thank you for joining us over at Premium Craft Brand Challenge and good luck!
    Hugs
    Tracy
    xoxox

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  17. Fabulous pages and I love your explanations - 'No rhyme or reason for this, I just fancied doing that!' and that I think is what has made this challenge fun. See you at the new one.

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    1. Thank you so much for your comment. Would love to comment on your entries but I don't do Facebook! Maybe you should make public your email address on blogger (it can be a special one) so we can comment that way...

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