The 12 Designers of Christmas - Designer #1 Jaine Drake

 Wow I'm so so happy to be back here and to be kicking off the 12 Designers event is a huge honor for me. Anyway I'm kicking things off with a few mixed media tags.

 I know lots of us trawl Pinterest endlessly looking for inspiration so I thought I'd show you a way to use some of those amazing colour combinations you can find pinned up.

I use an Inspiration Journal where I keep images and swatches of colours and try to match them up to the things I have in my stash.This particular spread was based around the two colour combinations which I just love for Christmas.

Pulling things out from my stash threw up some interesting finds. For example, I would never have thought to use the Teresa Collins Family Stories papers for a Christmas project but the colours just work perfectly here.

As I was making more than one tag I went for the masterboard technique for quickness and my first layer was to roll and swipe Dylusions paints across the surface.

 

I used the gorgeous Holiday Knit stencil by Tim Holtz and  Dylusions spray in Postbox Red

turning the stencil over after each spray to stamp the remaining in onto the background. I added a few stars with of  course Festive Berries Distress ink. 

Once they were all cut into tags they started to look better.

 I also added some stars to the background with Crackle texture paste by Finnabair then created a little cluster with a doily, lace, washi tape and cut star shapes from patterned paper.

I hope you enjoyed this first designer presentation, there are still another eleven to go so keep checking back.

By leaving a comment on all twelve of the designer blogs you could win yourself a fabulous prize of a mixed media kit so you don't want to miss out. 

Happy December

Jaine xxxx