Holiday Pages

I managed to get a couple of holiday pages done in the last week. Of course the pictures are from 2006 and 2007, but hey it looks like I am finally getting some of the old events scrapped. The first is Hanukkah from 20006. It was Daniels first Hannukah and or first as a family. A very special night. I brayered white cardstock with blue and white and then wet over it with mesh & white paint. Then I altered some Hambly tree paper and some star paper that I can't remember. I also cut out strips of one of the sheets. I altered some Thickers. I rubbed them with ranger distressed, sprayed with some home made mist (perfect pearls & reinker) and then put some clear embossing powder on it. Then I outlined it messily with a dark blue marker. I also stitched a white flourish that I got from a fancy pants set. To alter the paper I used gesso and oil pastels. I also did a little gesso stamping and used a grunge board star that is covered with home made mist.

This is from my the first Kosher Thanksgiving I hosted for our extended family, we had about 16 people come and just a ton of eating restrictions, some were kosher, one was allergic to fish, another to garlic, another was a vegetarian. We worked so hard and I was so proud of 'my table'.

I altered the patterned paper with gesso, water colors, reinkers and mists. I also used a Ranger mask with red glimmer mist. I distressed the pictures and the title (again with a sprinkle of embossing powder on some inks and paints). I used the Tim Holtz's tape technique on the book page and used distress inks and a fancy pants stamp on the tag. I stamped the flower with perfect pearly ink and dry painted it. then I used some tinkering ink and embossing powder on the flower.