This month Anything Goes as long as it says Christmas and is in one of our
preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial,
timeworn or steampunk.
For my Holly Jolly Christmas project I decided to alter one of Tim Holtz's Oh Deer clear acrylic clipboards (I bought it years ago and had totally forgotten I had it!).
It was so much fun to alter and I have a quick tutorial to share with you on how I created it. I don't know how readily available Tim's Oh Deer clipboards are these days but you could always use a regular clear acrylic clipboard instead, there were lots of styles available online when I searched for them.
I started out by inking the deer clip with Alcohol Inks in Latte, Mushroom and Rust and then randomly added some of the same colours onto the acrylic clipboard.
The back of the clipboard was then covered with Tim Holtz's Forest Collage Paper and Distress Matte Collage Medium. The front of the clipboard was randomly stenciled through Tim's Starry Layering stencil with white acrylic paint.
The 'merry winter wishes' sentiment was then added with a combination of Letterpress blocks, an Elementary Flash Card held on with a Hinge Clip and a Christmas Word Key. I also started to add some of Tim's Christmas Ephemera.
More Christmas Ephemera was layered onto the clipboard with that wonderful horse drawn sleigh image taking pride of place on top of the merry Wordpress blocks. Grit-paste was added to the deer clip's antlers and ears (this is actually Tim's Grout paste since I don't have any Grit-paste!).
More Grit (Grout!) paste was added along the top of the merry Wordpress blocks and here and there on the letters themselves. Baubles were coloured with alcohol inks (Silver and Gold Mixatives and Lettuce) and embedded into the wet paste.
And finally a Small Woodland tree was inked with Shabby Shutters Distress Spray Stain and inserted into a Thimble. More Grit (or Grout) paste was added around the bottom of the Thimble with a couple more alcohol ink coloured Baubles and bit of Grit paste brushed onto the tree to look like snow. Some sayings from Tim's Christmas Clipping Stickers were inked and added here and there on the clipboard and it was done.
Here are a few closeups of the finished clipboard.
I hope that you've enjoyed seeing how it all came together and that you have been inspired to enter our Holly Jolly Christmas challenge over at A Vintage Journey this month. Make sure to pop by to see what the other Creative Guides made to inspire you as well, so many wonderful holiday creations to fill the season with joy! Thanks as always for stopping by today and happy holiday creating,
Deb xo