You might as well not believe in fairies!

Sharing a countdown calendar I’ve made up for Christmas featuring some Tim Holtz dies and other bits and bobs from his Idea-ology range.

I have the honour of guesting over at Fussy and Fancy for their Christmas challenge, which starts today.  We’ve all still got Christmas crafting left on our to do lists so have a bit of fun creating and then go link up to join in the fun.

To make my countdown calendar I started with one of Tim’s Etcetera tags and added some burlap layered under a sheet of BoBunny Double Dot Vintage cardstock in Passion Fruit.  I went with pink and blue on this to play along with the Christmas in unusual colours challenge at Creative Friday.

I cut the houses, mountains and trees from Tim’s Snowglobe die and the Santa with his reindeer from the Village Christmastime set from Yupo paper and then used alcohol inks to colour them up.  I topped the trees with Mirrored Stars I coloured with a drop of the alcohol ink.  Before I added the die cuts to the tag I stencilled some snowflakes across the top in lovely blue glitter paste.

My countdown element was added using Tim’s Countdown Coins and a hook from the Vignette Hardware set.  I formed the words ‘days to’ from the Halloween Typography set (it’s the only one I had), with a bit of the glitter paste on top.  I also added glitter paste to the Make it Crafty chippie Christmas.

As this was made for a friend I wanted it to be a bit special so I also made my very first foam flower, which turned out pretty good.  And, as a nod to the base tag, I added in a little ribbon for a tie behind my flower.

Over at Let’s Craft and Create they’re looking for any Christmas creations so I am linking my countdown calendar there.  I’m also entering the ’Twas the Challenge Before Christmas at Moving Along With the Times where they wanted you to be inspired by the classic poem.  I’ve taken the scene of Santa flying away in his sleigh and recreated it on my tag.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Extra Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Rosy Owl Flower Making Dies ~ Type 2

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits ~ 661603 Snowglobe & 662424 Village Christmastime

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil ~ THS050 Snowflakes

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Layered Words ~ 2" Christmas

Pearl Stamens from stash

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Countdown Coins, Mirrored Stars, Typography Halloween & Vignette Hardware

Inks & Paints etc

BoBunny Glitter Paste ~ Frost

Nuvo Crystal Drops ~ Autumn Red & Bright Gold

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Honeycomb, Lettuce, Pitch Black, Raspberry, Stream & Valencia

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Picked Raspberry

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot

Papers

BoBunny Double Dot Vintage ~ Passion Fruit

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Etcetera Tag ~ Small

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Textured Surfaces Burlap

Wild Orchid Crafts Flower Making Foam ~ Green & Pink

Yupo Paper ~ 250gsm White

Ribbons & Trims etc

Pink & White Polka Dot Satin Ribbon from stash

Challenges

Creative Friday #194 ~ Christmas in unusual colours

Let’s Craft and Create #132 ~ Anything Christmas goes!

Moving Along With the Times #60 ~ ’Twas the Challenge Before Christmas

Thanks for stopping by!