The advent of Xenon

A strange title indeed, is it not? But, honestly, what do you do with a twinchie for ADVENT & XENON as an inchie???

Xenon: atomic number 54. Chemical element Xe. Electron coef Kr4d105s2 5p6.  Melting point -11.8C. 

Atomic mass 131.293+/- 0.006u

Well, let me tell you that all I could think of was xenon headlights....so a partial print of a car, some blue in it's headlight+ some glossy accent !

Advent.....well I took the soft option it started on Sunday 30th November this year so my twinchie resembles a calendar page

I'm working on my journal52 make a snowman 

and DLP add a hand so I'll be back soon and hopefully I'll have done my funkie junkie share too :-)

Magic

Another little page in my blue book....made after I'd cleared my desk, well 90% of it LOL

The snowman looks as though he's got a bit of a wry grin!

Snowflake

It's week 9 over at the Funkie Junkie & I cannot believe how the tailend of the year is vanishing, it's scary....

Anyhow, here is Linda's tag for http://thefunkiejunkie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-12-tags-of-christmas-funkie_24.html

Now I do like to see a black card with some gold so I could not resist doing something along the same line. I've also use some velum that's been lurking for....2 years I think, and my favourite snowflake.

I've gone with a white 4x6 card, a piece of black card that has had it's corners punched (Martha Stewart) I've stamped & embossed with gold onto the black card and also on the velum - used an assortment of images.

The diecut snowflake has been stamped in gold using Tim Holtz crackle stamp, topped with the snowflake die from the set that's been embossed with gold EP & a clear plastic one on top of that.

 Final add was the stamped circle at bottom right.....not sure who will be receiving this one!

Time for me to hop over and link this to the sponsors at  http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/ 

Rudolph day

I can't believe that it's the last one of the year before Christmas Day! Anyway, I have some cards to share so without further ado....here are my final shares of made/recycled/stamped cards for 2014.....

See you all on Rudolph Day next year :-)

Thoughts

One of those cards that none of us, I'm sure, like having to make or send....

Chocolate Baroque stamp with shaded lilac DI, extra  shaded Lilac for the foliage and a lilttle peeled paint/picket fence DS.

Inch by inch

Inchie... X, axis

An X with a screw throughout the middle so that it can spin on it's axis!

Twinchie ...wreath

Moo....trees from Paper Artsy

And to finish off my play weekend...

Some more words in a little journal

Layer of gesso (the paper is blue!!!) then distress paints in picked raspberry,peeled paint, salty ocean.

A little evergreen bough stencilled over TCW Balzer Bits: burlap bits

Some pearlescent white acrylic through sequin waste + fluo orange gel pen & sharpie black dots.

A little stamping with some Craft Stamper free stamps.

I'm not skipping now as I had some sad news shortly after finishing this....

Ditto

Still in the mood for colour although, in fairness, the weather was slightly better today!

A very odd thing happened yesterday, after creating my little double spread (8"x6") I saw the Journal 52  subject at bedtime....wise words! 

I decided that I'd have to create another spread that was a little larger, out came some of the papers I'd coloured the other day, my pile of words & set to.

I've used some of the stamps from Tims merchantile & artful tools plates and his cargo stencil along with alphabet stamps to spell out the saying.

DLP  calls for Gratitude expressed in a creative way

So for this one I've use an under paper drawn in a frame, orange line/ red dash/ green stitches/pink circles with white & black centres.

Written out the words in black  with added white highlights.

Used 2 of my "doodle" flowers in opposite corners.

All in all it's been a creative afternoon & I'm grateful for Bill going of to the pub to watch the rugby allowing me time to play.