Merry Christmas

To all those wonderful people out there: May joy and happiness snow on you, may the bells jingle for you and may Santa be extra good to you!  Merry Christmas!

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Maybe some of you can remember, where I got the inspiration for my this year's Christmas cards. It came right form my 'Wreck This Journal': Find A Way To Wear The Journal.
Working with the rhinestones is a little delicate, but the outcome is just gorgeous. Have a look!

The outside:

Cut out a piece of paper, a little smaller than a regular card. Do the same with a piece of fabric. Glue in the fabric, use some glue stick only on the inner surface.For the decoration on the outside, use some patterns of bells, trees, stockings, snowflakes, etc. to glue the rhinestones on. This time use liquid glue.

The inside:

Let some ink drop on the paper, spray water onto the paper to create the marble effect. Let everything dry completely.
Cut the piece of paper in shape, that it fits into your card.

Print some computer made Christmas ornaments on the paper and decorate them with glitter glue. Write your personal Christmas message, BEFORE you glue this piece of paper (again with glue stick) into the fabric outside.

The envelope:

Unfolded envelope is used as pattern. Cut out one piece, using Christmas wrapping paper. Another piece, using normal paper. On the latter use some Airbrush pens to decorate the address fields.

Put everything together and Voila!: Very lovely and very individual Christmas cards!

HAVE FUN and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Quiz: Are you skilled?

I was doing a google research. The context was a about art, which made me stumble over this quiz here:

Of course, curious as I am, I had to participate. Not just because of the results, but more HOW they will find out what my chances are to see my talent burst out.

Don't you worry, I won't post the whole 5 pages of the result pdf-file (that's why they ask you for your email address!), just a few notes:

• Time: You took a little too long to do the test.
  Yeah, that's right! I had to look up several words, because I simply didn't know the meaning!
• Artistic culture: You probably know that you are short of knowledge in this domain.
  I don't deny that!
• Technical knowledge: You already know quite a lot but there are still gaps to be filled.
  Okay!
• Talents, gifts and predispositions: You have quite a lot of talent and you should try to make the most of it. (...)You are quite rigorous and precise. (...) You have demonstrated your organizational qualities.
  I can agree totally ... and I'm on my way!
• Are you made more for a "craft" or a "fine-arts" activity? Your nature seems to suit you for forms of pure artistic expression, although technique, know-how and expertise also play an important part. You could express yourself by practicing a technique provided that artistic objectives were involved.
  All right!
• Detailed personal evaluation: You do unquestionably possess a talent. But is it really a hidden talent? I don't think so.
  I wouldn't have expected anything else! *g*

I consider it very fascinating how close the results are to my personal sense and judgment. Anyway, it was fun and interesting!

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Golden Gate

Referring to my previous post "7 Links Challenge", where I had to answer the question of "Art I enjoyed creating", here it is:

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