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Saturday 8 December 2012

Merry Kiss-mas




Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well, keeping warm
and getting ready for the festive season. 
Welcome to my new followers too. 



Today I would like to share a Christmas decoration I made.
I used quite a lot of digital stamps and digital images for this creation.
Exhausted myself with colouring in the digital stamps, glittered and also finally
had a chance to use pom-poms which make pretty good snowballs!








    Ingredients:


                                                  Digital Stamps by  Inky Impressions - New Release - Merry Kiss-mas
                                                                                                                               - Jingles The Elf
                                                                                                                               - Danny and Delilah's Sled Ride
                                            Digital Stamp - The Snowman - FREEBIE - is By - Anji's Antics
                                The rest of the Digital Images come from- Polka Doodles cd roms
                   The Sentiment was a freebie by lovely Marion  from here but I think it has been removed now
Snowflake Punches - Tonic snowflake mini and snowflake accents
Glitter -red and green colours and Diamond Sparkles (Angel Whispers) by Hunkydory
                         Embossing folder - Cuttlebug, Memory Box Die - Frostyville border, Pom-Poms
          Wire, Gemstones and Colouring medium - Promarkers




Bellow is a picture from a profile to show the dimension a bit more and 
the Pom-Poms which I used as snowballs.










Tips.... 1. If you digitally join up lots of images together as I did in my design and make a mistake with colouring in, especially when you were just about done or don't  like the colours together! Paper piece the part of the image you do not like.
My example of this is "Mrs Penguin's skirt above" where I made a mistake with my colour choice (coloured her skirt in yellow which I did not like but then with the power of paper piecing I was able to save it and did not have to start all over again. Also if you used digital stamps make sure you save your design on your PC otherwise it is going to be pretty hard to match the size again and you may as well start all over again!
2. My second tip is : If you make something with a lot of fragile detail, especially pointy bits like I did with my decoration above (my printer takes only up to 250 gsm) and sending it by mail short or long distance, making a box for it is a must, but instead of wrapping it in the box and squashing the edges I glue it to the box with Repositionable Photo Glue ( just a few little drops of glue on the back of the creation), that way it does not rattle in the box, the fine edges do not get ruined and the recipient can take it out (peel it off) with no problem.











Thank you very much for visiting.
All comments very much appreciated!
* Michaela *