It's Friday ..... it's the first one of the month ...... it's The Craft Stamper Challenge!!

Happy Friday ....

The weekend is almost here.  I hope you've had a good week.

It's time to get the final Craft Stamper Take It Make It Challenge of 2019 underway.
Why not take a break from all the festive preparation, and play along.  Go on .... spend some time with your craft stash!
If you're like me, you're still making your Christmas cards ..... oh yes, I'm not done yet!

This design was inspired by the lovely Jennifer McGuire, using the Distress Oxide Spray Resist technique, and then finishing with an iron!

I love the Oxide Sprays ....... I'm hoping Santa brings me the final set of 12 (hint! hint!)
I really like how they work on coloured cardstock, and this technique is so much fun to do.

I used the gorgeous large snowflake from the Colorado Craft Company and heat embossed it with a clear powder onto a piece of teal coloured cardstock.
I then used the Oxide Sprays, spritzing gently down the card and over the top of the embossing.
I used a couple of different colours, allowing each layer to dry before adding a different colour.

Once it was all dry, I place a piece of copier paper over the clear embossed snowflake and used a hot iron over the top, to remove the embossing powder.  I love the effect that this gives.
The heat from the iron melts the embossing powder and it's soaked up into the copier paper, along with any of the Oxide Spray that may be sat on top of the embossing,  leaving this beautifully smooth image behind.

I added some fine crystal glitter onto the snowflake ........ well it is Christmas! and then heat embossed my sentiment on the top with a white embossing powder .....

I finished off with a few splatters of gold and silver ink onto the background, and added a few sparkly gems.

The theme for the challenge is Anything Goes ...... cards, journal pages, 3D projects, scrapbook layouts, whatever you like.  Just make sure there's actual rubber stamping on your project somewhere.  No Digi images please, new original work only, and ..... please keep to the one project per blog post, a set of something such as cards or ATCs count as more than one.

You can enter the challenge up to three times, just make sure that each entry has it's own blog post, and don't forget to include a link back to the Craft Stamper challenge.

As always there's two prizes up for grabs ....... 

• the Design Winner, chosen by the DT.  They will get their winning project published in the Craft Stamper Magazine, a winners profile, and an invitation to be a Guest Designer on a future challenge.
• the Challenge Winner, randomly chosen.  They will receive this months fabulous prize .... a set of Jane Davenport Brights Watercolour Paints.

Happy stamping folks!

The Christmas spirit has finally found its way here ..... Ho! Ho! Ho!  and the house is looking more like Santa's grotto each day.
The trees are finally up ....... both of them!  It took me a while but, we got there in the end!

Most of the Christmas shopping is done, and the party season starts this weekend!
We even watched our first Christmas movie last night .....

Thanks for popping by ...... enjoy the rest of your day, and have a great weekend.

Cheerio until next time ......

Products used:
Stamps: Winter Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Craft Company);  Merry Christmas (Simon Says Stamp)
Inks: Versamark ink; Distress Oxide Sprays - Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon; Delicata - Golden Glitz, Silver Shimmer (for the splatters)
Others: Clear Embossing Powder,  White embossing powder (WOW!); Quickie Glue Pen, Fine Crystal Glitter; Clear crystal Gems