The floodgates are open!

Once again we have a last minute rush of entries! So get comfy - this will be a long one!

First we have this card that was sent in by Maureen from the UK:

Maureen says:

"I have used faded jeans distress ink throughout, the central pendant and the scrolls I cut on my cuttlebug and the centre stamped image is a larger village scene that I cut down in a nestie to fit. The background is stamped using a funky foam diamond shape and over stamped with holly and a music stamp, the flower is punched out".

Lovely work Maureen!

Next we have this card that was sent in by Julie Dudley:

Julie used a Russian stamp that she was given, and coloured her image using Copic Markers.

Great work Julie!

Next we have this card that was sent in by Laurence Colling-Schmitz from Belgium:

Laury says:

"I painted the page of an old book with acrylic paint (ivory) and glued it on my card. I added a scrap of paper at the bottom and used my sewing machine with a zigzag stich. The frame is cut out with the bigshot (nellies die cut) and I stamped the Xmas sock on a separate paper, cut it out and inked the edges".

"The next stamp (Infinimentscrap) I used is actually only one stamp, stamped on blue paper and on cream paper. I punched out a star with the snowman and glued the remaining text on top".  

Great work Laury!

The 4th entry for today is an ATC that was sent in by Ros Crichton:

Ros says:

"My ATC was mounted on pink card stock. The background was from Webster Pages with sponging around the edges. I stamped the christmas tree (from Stampin Up's Lovely as a Tree) in 'Pink Pirouette' tipped in 'Wild Wasabi' and added a little sparkle. Not sure where the word JOY came from. Added a little silver charm and some velvet ric rac and a distressed pink star on top".

Gorgeous work Ros!

Now we have a Christmas decoration that was created by Nina Patena of The Philippines:

Nina says:

"I recycled 3 old CDs and made this Christmas wall hanging for our front door".

"It was super easy to use gel medium to adhere my patterned paper to the front of 3 never-to-be-watched again VCDs. I positioned my elements, stamped on the tag, used foam tape to adhere my vintage image from an advertising catalogue, used double-sided tape for the other elements, and used Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents to adhere the green plastic star. I then swiped white acrylic paint all around the edge".

"I stamped my postage stamp images using Versafine brown and black ink and Memento brown ink. I adhered my Santa vintage image on white cardstock, then used double-sided tape to attach it on top of the cheesecloth. Then I attached the cheesecloth on the patterned paper with double-sided tape. I used Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents to attach the ribbon and embellishment. Swiped white acrylic paint on edge. Adhered ribbon with double-sided tape. Tied twine and metal charm to small tag, then stamped and adhered with double-sided tape at an angle. Used foam tape to adhere vintage image. Adhered Maya Road felt bird and bingo chip with double-sided tape. Swiped white acrylic paint on edge. I then glue-gunned two strips of glue at the backs to attach my "hanging" ribbon on each CD".

Terrific work Nina!

Next up we have a Christmas tag that was sent in by Lesley Dupont from Canada:

Lesley says:

"This is a manilla shipping tag on which I used Dusty Concord distress ink and distressed the background. Then while that was drying I painted some Tim Holtz grungeboard snowflakes with acylic paints, the top snowflake is a metallic and the darker is a flat dark purple. The background of the stamp I stamped again in Dusty Concord distress ink with a snowflake stamp from Inkadinkado Ornate Christmas stamp collection. I also inked the edges of the tag with the same ink".

"The image I used was from FlickR, a great source for art images, and I used Starform glitter border to give it a bit of bling. I added some lace and button embellishments and the Let is Snow stamp was from Studio G Holiday stamps also stamped in Dusty Concord and it was mounted on a paint chip strip".

Beautiful work Lesley!

Phew! Are you all still with me? You are? OK then! I still have 2 more entries to share, but I'm going to make you wait until tomorrow for those ones! Teehee! So be sure to pop back tomorrow to check them out - there are lots of pics! :)

Stay inky!

~Sarah~