Sue Smyth Christmas post

A visit from Santa 

By Sue Smyth 

and 2 tags 

Now I know you have seen these before lol 

But I don't think you will mind seeing them again plus

all of the step by steps. 

I love working on small items for Christmas, you can

really pack in lots of details and there is 

so much out there to include.

Today I have used one of the small billboards

from Imanginarium to make a Santa Decoration

I have painted all of the kit with gesso, several coats

and covered windows etc with

Dimensional magic and sprinkled liberally

with fine white glitter

(my favourite way to alter chipboard)

Remember not to cover tabs!

For the top I have created a little enamel cabochon to put

the letters for SANTA, see how to below.

Then I have made a little scroll to stamp

on.

For the base I have made Faux snow. 

I shared the recipe last year about this time. 

I have set little trees and a snowman brad into

the snow .

Add a few snowflakes from an old christmas garland 

Here it is again for those who want it.

2 teaspoons of Diamond Dust or silver coarse glitter

1 teaspoon of white gesso

4 or 5 drops of dimensional magic

stir until thoroughly mixed 

and store in air tight container.

This makes a neat and very beautiful decoration

you could also put a photo of the children

on Santa''s knee to personalize it 

Paint the oval chipboard with 2 coats of white gesso

Spray with Postbox red dylusions and dry off.

Dab with versamark and sprinkle with 

clear Utee. 

Heat set for a glossy shine.

Spritz with white dylusions while hot and 

continue to heat for 3 seconds 

Top Tip

I did not have the right size holly leaves, but

I did have some small regular leaves.

So I attacked the edges with a large 

hole punch to give the neat 

notches of holly...

Imaginarium chipboard

Santa's Tag

I have made this detailed little tag

to place on a miniature easel.

First cover the chipboard 

tag with Christmas patterned paper  

Then add details in layers to make your tag.

Because this is small you can use little pearls,

and tiny snowflakes 

Add a double embossed Happy Christmas and 

you have the most festive of all tags.

Imaginarium Chipboard

Reindeer Mixed Media Tag 

Next is a Mixed media tag, this is different to 

the one above as I have not used any paper to decorate it.

You could use this on a present for the recipient to keep

or use as a mini canvas on an easel to decorate your

house 

The gorgeous reindeer is covered

with dimensional magic and then

drenched with brown glitter for 

a wonderful shine, add some small 3mm

pearls for the spots and 

a little red one for the nose.

Take a large tag, in this case a pre used one, and 

cover with gesso.

Add stars with a stencil and texture paste for the 

sky, arrange chip trees and corners, using

the wet texture paste to adhere.

For the base place the palette knife flat on the 

texture paste and sharply pull up to

give a wonderful lumpy snow look.

Spray with inks to create a sky and snow field 

as pictured. Dry off and rub over

with turquoise glitter paste and then

white gesso for a snowy look.

Decorate with Christmas greetings

and reindeer as above 

Imaginarium Chipboard 

Happy Crafting and 

A Merry Christmas to all