Welcome to the Royal Blog Tour - Featuring Bells and Boughs

Welcome to my Castle on the Royal Blog Tour. I am so happy to share and feature the Bells and Boughs stamp set with you.  It's a holiday set featured in the Holiday Mini and included in one of the Holiday Bundles. It's a beauty!!! And you'll see why I love it so much!

 

The Bells and Boughs Featured Projects Collection

Each tour I try and do something different.  So for this tour, I am showing three projects decked out with Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper and of course the Bells and Boughs stamp set: Chipboard Album, Candle, and a Card.

 

Believe Chipboard Album

Please be sure to bookmark this page or come back and visit my blog as each page of this album will later be detailed in another post, as this project is many pages and yes, it took forever (LOL) due to cutting out all those bells, poinsettias and holly leaves.

But for now, as part of this wonderful tour, I want to share briefly how it was created:

• Each page is covered with Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper
• All the Bells, Pointsettas, and Holly were stamped on Sahara Sand cardstock, watercolored using a Blender Pen, and then cut out.
• Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Always Artichoke are colors used.
• Each page and all cut out images were sprayed with the new Gold Glow Smooch Spritz (love this stuff).
• All berries are covered wtih Crystal Effects.
• All poinsettia have our new Clear Rhinestone Jewels for centers.
• Bells and Boughs is the only stamp set used in decorating this chipboard album.

The next featured projects is a candle.  This is such a quick and easy project you can do as a teacher's gift, a "thank you" gift or even as a hostess gift.  

Decorated Candle

Like the other projects, what takes time is the watercoloring and the use of Crystal Effects. But I just love how the Crystal Effects looks on the berries.

• I stamped the greeting in Early Espresso and then hand cut around the greeting. Then used the Distresser Tool to rough the edges. The Gold Glow Smooch Spritz was sprayed on the greeting.
• Then matted the greeting to Early Espresso textured cardstock and again manually trimmed around the greeting and then again roughed the edges.
• Adhered to a piece of a gold square, cardstock which you can't see.
• Then again used one of the bells I stamped, colored, and cut out and adhered to the gold square you can't see (used only for assembling).
• Tied the ribbon around the candle in a knot, then Punched a whole in that square/cardstock you don't see, and then adhered the greeting and bells with Stampin' Dimensionals.
• Then tied the bow and you're done.

Lastly, I created a coordinating holiday card keeping with the color scheme, techniques, and of course the beautiful Bells and Boughs stamp set. We will be making this card in my holiday card making workshop December 17th.

Joyful Holiday Card

The Brushed Gold cardstock is so thick that any of the embossing/textured impressions folders look great and provide so much detail. Here the Vintage Wallpaper folder was used.  Then a piece of the Deck The Halls Designer Series Paper.

• The J (on the designer series paper) was covered with Crystal Effects.
• The berries on the Holly leaf were covered also with Crystal Effects.
• The berries/holly and Bells were again watercolored with a Blender Pen.
• The tearing tool was used as well.
• Gold Glow Smooch Spritz covers the Designer Series Paper.
• I wrote "Joyful" in Gold Pen manually however a rub-on would have looked great as well.
• And let's not forget all the BLING!!!! Love our new rhinestone jewels!!!

I really hope you enjoyed these projects and they inspire you to make your own "Handmade Christmas" gifts, cards and decor. Enjoy the tour and all the featured artists!