Seasonal Masking

I thought I would make something for my husband this time and make a start on my family Christmas cards/art.  I am enterering this piece for The Compendium Of Curiosities Challenge over at Linda's place, where the theme this week (Challenge 14) is MASKS BASICS (page 58 of the book).   I would also like to enter this for The Sunday Stamper Challenge with Hels and the challenge this week is BLUE, RED or BLUE and RED together.  My piece is obviously very RED!

I used a bare chipboard piece from an album which is from Papermania.

1. Paint the bare chipboard piece with Gesso.
2. Once dry paint with Distress Crackle Paint Tea Dye.
3. Using Tim Holtz Ransom Alphabet masks place Noel onto the chipboard piece.  Sponge over the entire piece with DI ink fired brick, working into all the crackles.  Remove mask.
4. Apply Adirondack Gold Paint Dabber to the edges of the chipboard and add a Christmas brad.
5. Die cut Heart Wings from Grungepaper.  Sponge the heart pieces with DI ink fired brick.  Apply a generous layer of Rock Candy Crackle Paint, I applied this in a random fashion so that some areas were patchy to add to that grungy feel.
6. Add eyelets to one of the hearts and sponge with a little StazOn timber brown to tone the colour down a little.  Add a swivel clasp and a Philosophy tag and adhere the pieces to the chipboard.  Add a memo pin with the addition of the Christmas ticket from the Odds and Ends stamp set from Tim.
7. To complete, add 3 rusty snowflakes and a key to each heart.

I am quite pleased with how this turned out and that is one less piece to make for Christmas LOL.  Have a great day all, see you soon, Tracy xx