Working on Christmas cards

Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I am working on my Tim Holtz Christmas cards.

I was in a way inspired by one of the live tutorials by Tim on Facebook.

If you have missed them, you can see all the tutorials on

Tim's Blog.

I started with making my own splatterbox for

the backgrounds of my cards.

I made my backgrounds with speckled egg and 

cracked pistachio.

Here you see the finished and dried  backgrounds.

On top I used several of Tim Holtz stencils

with distress ink. Here I used the new eustic wildernes

and here i used speckled egg distress oxide ink.

On top of the stenciled background I stamped a

sentiment for Christmas (Handwritten Holidays 1 and

mini handwritten Holidays)

and a tiny cardinal, that I colored with zig markers.

When all done I added  walnutstain distress oxide

all around the panel.

The panel is finished of with red and white baker's twine.

Or with yellow and white baker's twine.

Thank you Tim Holtz for all your inspiration.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe and'

keep crafting!