I’m delighted to share my second project for the Tim Holtz holiday inspiration series using the new seasonal products. Check Tim’s blog to see all the other designers fabulous festive projects.
I LOVE Christmas, to me it really is the most wonderful time of the year and one of my favourite holiday traditions is “tree day!” We go and get our Christmas tree and my DH straps it to the car roof and we drive back up the mountain and decorate it while listening to Christmas music.
I wanted to make a home decor piece to celebrate this Christmas tradition. It’s a really simple project to decorate your home or make as a gift. Here’s the step-by-step…
Take a burlap panel, turn it over and trim any burlap that overlaps the edges of the frame. Paint the inside edges of the frame with picket fence distress paint and set aside to dry. Paint a thin layer of glossy accents to the inside edges of the frame and cover with clear rock candy distress glitter. Tap off excess over paper and return to the pot.
Select a sheet of paper from the new yuletide paper stash and cut to fit inside the burlap panel. Distress the edges with a paper distressing tool and adhere to the frame with multi medium. Cut 4 pieces of ribbon from the new metallic trimmings to cover the staples. Using double sided adhesive tape stick down.
Snip small and large icicles from the AMAZING new frozen alpha parts… (when I pulled these from my box of goodies I went a bit crazy). Cover with a modest layer of glossy accents and sprinkle over clear rock candy distress glitter! Tap off excess and set aside to dry. To attach the icicles, run a layer of glossy accents along the trimming where you want to place the icicle and allow to dry without sticking down. This strip of DRIED glossy accents will act as “tooth” for the alpha part.
Apply a layer of glossy accents to the back of the icicle and stick in place. Press down for a few moments and then set aside until the glossy accents have dried.
Cover letterpress blocks in distress paint and allow to dry completely. Using a sanding grip, sand the letter to give a distressed look. Mount onto the burlap panel with glossy accents. Die cut “Christmas” from the new Sizzix thinlits handwritten holidays set from metallic kraft core and adhere.
My lovely Mum gave me these vintage light bulbs which were perfect for this project. I used a distress paint cap and filled it with glossy accents. Dip the end of the bulb into glossy accents and then sprinkle clear rock candy distress glitter over the top and tap off the excess. Attach to the inside top of the burlap panel with a dab of hot glue.
Decorate a new adornment wreath with gold alcohol ink using a pin. Dip the pin in the alcohol ink and then lightly touch the pin to the berries on the wreath. I dipped a bulb in gold alcohol ink to use as an extra embellishment.
Attach the bulb and wreath to the letterpress with a dab of hot glue.
Create an embellishment using the new Sizzix evergreen bigz die and the holiday word block 2 thinlit dies. Die cut a tree from metallic kraft core and sand with the sanding grip. Die cut “Tinsel” into the tree and then mount a different colour metallic kraft core sheet underneath. To reinforce, mount onto a second tree die cut from chipboard.
I also made a card with the same products that I used for the burlap panel, as well as the new GOLD gilded holidays remnant rubs! YES GOLD! OH MY!
Attach the tree at a slight angle to the inside base of the panel with glossy accents and cover the base with a little clear rock candy distress glitter. Attach the trophy antlers inside the adornment wreath with a dab of hot glue.
For a final flourish cut a strip of the new boxwood twine. Cover with glossy accents using your fingers and then sprinkle over clear rock candy distress glitter. Attach to the top of the burlap panel with a dab of hot glue at each end of the twine.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope this has given you a little holiday inspiration. I have had so much fun playing with all the new products and really appreciate all the kind and encouraging comments you have left here and on social media. A big thank you to Tim, Paula and Mario for inviting me to create samples, it’s been such a great pleasure.
I’ll be back next week with more Halloween projects, but for now, I hope you have a great weekend.
