Christmas Time Printers Tray for Tres Jolie

 Hi everyone,

I created a Christmas printers tray using the 2025 December Mixed Media Kit along with the 2025 December Scrapbooking Kit along with using red and green paints from the 2025 August Mixed Media Kit (available). This makes such a fun and festive home decor for Christmas. I hope you enjoy the step by step tutorial as well as the video tutorial. I have all the links down below for your convenience.

2025 December Mixed Media Kit 2025 December Scrapbooking Kit

                  

2025 August Mixed Media Kit (available)

First I painted the holly & bells chipboard pieces using the 2025 August Mixed Media Kit paint. Set aside to dry, then cam back in to paint the little markings in gold using a toothpick.

The chipboard clock I used the Distress Oxide Spray Walnut Stain and painted the numerals with gold paint using a toothpick. 

 

I did add stickels on top of the painted red berries for a bit of sparkle. I just love how the chipboard pieces turned out. 

Here I added a trimmed ephemera piece to the center of the clock once dried. And I added a holly & berry along side the clock. 

In the center of the frame you see the frame I painted gold, this frame is from the 2025 November Scrapbook Kit. Also painted the bells gold and holly and berries. 

To get started adhere the a pattern paper from the Scrapbook Kit to the base platform from the printers tray. 

Next spray frame with the Distress Oxide Stain Walnut Stain.

Then add water to the Mica bottle halfway, shake. Then get a paper towel and place some mica on it and rub along the top of the frame.

Adhere the frame to the top of the platform. 

Once you have your frame on there you can start decorating. I added the 3 of the little Santa cards together and a tree I added thick cardboard on the back of the tree. I also added faux snow to a few of the framed areas. 

On the right hand side I added the some velvet ribbon I had in my stash, and I adhered the silver medal snowflake pieces to the framed area. I flatted out the back of the tree and adhered down with hot glue and added thick cardboard to the back of the snowman and adhere down on the faux snow.

Here is the finished frame.

I just love how this Printers Tray turned out, it makes a wonderful festive and beautiful Christmas Home Decor. You can definitely hang this up or place on a shelf or mantel. I hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial and Please check out the video tutorial for more details. I hope you found some inspiration to use the 2025 December Mixed Media Kit along with the 2025 December Scrapbooking Kit and the paints from the 2025 August Mixed Media Kit. 

I hope you have fun creating this wonderful printers tray.

Merry Christmas & Thanks for joining me. 

I invite you to please stop by our Facebook page to see what new items our design team has created using our monthly kits.

You can always post your projects on Tres Jolie FB page - Tres Jolie Club Cafe.  

Don't forget to post your project on our Facebook Group Page, link is down below. 

We would love to see what you create. 

 For more details you can always view the video tutorial process, which is at the top of the page. 

Thanks again for joining me, I have all the links listed for you throughout the post so just click on the words and you will be taken directly to the store. 

Enjoy and Happy Crafting. 

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Merry & Bright Christmas Cards for Tres Jolie Kit Club

 Welcome Back everyone,

Are you getting ready for Christmas and creating those Christmas Cards? Well today we are going to create some unique and fun Christmas cards, you can give out for Christmas. These cards are so fun and easy to create using the 2025 November Card Making Kit along with the Mixed Media Kit. I hope you enjoy todays step by step tutorial and as always I have the video tutorial for you as well. I have links below for your convenience.

2025 November Card, Tag and More Kit 2025 November Mixed Media Kit

                         

*******For Cards #1 and Card #2 cut your card to a A2 size card and mats for layering. ********

Card #1

To start card #1 take the lip balm holder (from my stash) place down on the backside of your top card mat, trace around the sticker, then cut around the traced area. *****View video for more details*****

Next place the mat over the lip balm holder, to make sure it fits.

To adhere this top card mat only add adhesive to the top portion of the mat.                                  *****View video for more details*****

Lay down the top portion on your mat and slip the lip balm holder underneath to make sure it lines up well with the cut out. Next adhere down the lip balm holder and adhere down the remaining portion of the top mat. 

Burnish down really well. 

Next decorate the card with the 2025 November Card Kit embellishments. 

Card #2

Again this card is a standard A2 size card and I cut out all mats about an 1/8th inch down for layering on top of one another. I adhered all layers on top and then adhered the lip balm holder to the top layer. 

Here is what the top of the card should look like after placing the lip balm holder down on top.

Next I used my hot glue to adhere trim around the lip balm holder.

Then I decorated with the Card Kit embellishments and used a stamp from my stash. 

Card #3

For card #3 I used a distress crayon to color in the filagree images on the collage paper. I did use my fingers to blend out the red in some areas. 

After coloring I chose a pattern paper and added some collage medium on top to glue down the collage paper we just colored. 

Once you adhere down the collage paper onto the pattern paper cut excess pattern paper off. 

Then get a small paint brush and use the collage medium to go around the white areas of the collage paper to adhere down and to bring the background out a bit from the pattern paper. 

Next I added some of this Diamond Shimmer Dust received from a Tres Jolie Kit last year. You can use glitter or stickels. I added this shimmer dust to some of the filagree areas for extra sparkle. 

I let the glitter dry for a bit and then decorated the card with the embellishments from the Card Kit. 

Card #4

With this last card, Card #4, cut a piece of cardstock at 11x6inches; Score at 3 and 6, then cut a 1 inch off the bottom of the card. 

Next grab some of your scraps and lay them and adhere them down to the front and middle panel of the card. Cover the back with scraps or you can cut out a pattern paper from the the Simple Stories paper pad. 

Next brush on some the collage medium and adhere a piece of the collage paper to the end of the back panel of the card. ****View video tutorial for more details**********

Next brush the collage medium over the collage paper to adhere on. Cut excess paper off. 

Next take the white strip that you cut, which is the 1 inch from the bottom of the card. Cover the strip with collage medium first place on you collage papers, seal with the collage medium and use Distress Mica Stain Sprays to color the strip. If needed blot the excess spray, spray again, blot and continue to do this process until you reach your desired color. ******View video tutorial for more details***

Next take the longer end the adhere to the bottom of the front panel.

Adhere the smaller end to the bottom of the back penal. (as shown below)

Here is what the card should look like once you are done, and its decorated. 

To decorate my card I fussy cut out the door from a cut apart card and used foam tape for lifting and adhered the glitter wreath. I then used on the decorative bells for the middle panel and the large ephemera piece for the back panel. On the strip I placed little items that are from the ephemera pack and that I fussy cut out from tags and cards. 

I hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial and Please check out the video tutorial for more details. I hope you found some inspiration to use the 2025 November Card, Tag and More Kit along with the Mixed Media Kit. I love sharing the fun techniques you can do to create unique one of kind cards for Christmas while learning how to use your mixed media kits. 

Thanks for joining me. 

I invite you to please stop by our Facebook page to see what new items our design team has created using our monthly kits.

You can always post your projects on Tres Jolie FB page - Tres Jolie Club Cafe.  

Don't forget to post your project on our Facebook Group Page, link is down below. 

We would love to see what you create. 

 For more details you can always view the video tutorial process, which is at the top of the page. 

Thanks again for joining me, I have all the links listed for you throughout the post so just click on the words and you will be taken directly to the store. 

Enjoy and Happy Crafting. 

Don’t forget to follow us on all our social media:

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Hummingbird Bliss

Hi all,

Hope y'all are having a great weekend. It's been kind of busy one here. But still happy it's the weekend. :D

Over at One Stitch At A Time is a New Challenge #266 - anything goes with Elements of Nature.
I used Flutterby by StitchyStamps from the StitchyBear Digi Outlet Store. To see more images to go with our challenge theme head on over to the StitchyBear Digi Outlet Store there are lots to choose from. Plus we want to see all your project.

I colored this beautiful image with my colored pencils, spectrum noir pencils. 

For the background I used TH paints and spritzed with water so they mixed together. I then added some Stampendous Frantage embossing powder. The flowers are from Prima Marketing that I had in my stash since last year. lol   once I completed the background I knew theses flowers were the ones for this project. :D 

 Here is a close up of the hummingbird, of course I added some stickles - Star Dust. 

Here on both of the close ups you can see I added the Stampendous Frantage - Shabby Blue 

Opaque to the background. 

Prize

Supplies:
Stamp - StitchyBear Digital Stamps -  Flutterby by StitchyStamps
Paper - Ranger Tags
Ink - Spectrum Noir colored pencils; TH Distress Paint - mowed lawn, mustard seed, seedless preserves, evergreen bough
Accessories - Prima Marketing - flowers (don't know the names from my stash); Stampdendous Frantage embossing powerder - Shabby Blue; Stickles - Star Dust; Reasonable Ribbons - Diamond Satin Maize

Challenges Entering:
Craft for the Craic - July Challenge Summer Breeze
Creative Artiste Challenge Blog: Challenge 16
CreativeCornerChallenges: Team Mel - Anything Goes 
Craft for the Craic: July Challenge - Summer Breeze
Southern Ridge Trading Company: Memories of Summer Mixed Media
Paper Ala Mode - Getting Back to Nature 7/9/16 - 7/16/16 - Outlawz Challenge

I invite you to join us for the One Stitch At A Time is a New Challenge #266 - anything goes with Elements of Nature. Check it out and leave some love for my teamies they created some wonderful inspirational projects for you all.

Have a good day

Hugs, 

Deborah xxx

My Romantic Garden

Hi all,

Here is the second post for today. I know it doesn't happen very often. lol

I had entered into a swap at Scraps of Darkness and Scraps of Elegance and we were to make canvases, But I couldn't post until I knew my partner had received it. For this I used many items the canvas is 8x10 and I painted it with black colored gesso.

Of course I couldn't help but use the TH technique again. I just love this technique it is so addicting and you can use it on just about anything. So I am entering this this into the TH 12 Tags of 2016 - February.

Here is my canvas, you know it's only the third one I've made.
Supplies:
Canvas - from JoAnn's Craft store
Ranger - Texture Paste; Liquid Platinum embossing powder;
Tim Holtz - Stampers Anonymous - Urban Grunge & Flights of Fancy; Idea-ology - brads, Adornments - nature;
Prima - cradle robin (nests); "lovely" sentiment is from a Prima wooden set (can't find the name)
Reneabouquets - Garden Gate Metal Key (you can also find a few of the other items used at Reneabouquets)
BoBunny Juliet Collection -  NoteWorthy - bird and flower paper, the sentiment "My Romantic Garden", flower brad, and clock. (Scrap of Darkness & Scrap of Elegance July Kit 2015)
From Stash - Hampton Art pigment ink - silver; Encore pigment ink - copper; Viva - Rusty Paper; Doilies - heart and circle; metal corner piece (I think momento); Roses from stash (bought at a destash); Chipboard - BlueFern (chipboard from ScrapOfDarkness&ScrapOfElegance Store); Gold lock from stash. I used E6000 adhesive, Art Glitter adhesive.

Started with a white canvas painted with 2 coats of black gesso.

Used the silver ink stamped TH script stamp various areas around the canvas.

Then used my stencil and paste covered it, sprinkled Liquid Platinum over

the top of the paste let dry for about 15 -20 minutes. After dry used heat gun to 

obtain the raised effect. 

I then glued down the lrg paper, the nest and metal

under the nest so it looked cradled. 

For the Chipboard I painted Rusty Paper on it and then wiped off and inked

some copper ink with a touch of black ink around them. 

Adhered my words to Film Strips and popped up with pop dots. 

After I adhered everything down securely I went back over the canvas 

using the embossing technique again along the sides of the canvas and 

along the frame. 

Entering in the following Challenges: TH 12 Tags of 2016 - February; 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: SoSS #53 - M is for Mixed Media

Love to Create Challenge Blog: Challenge #5 - Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

Mixed Media World:MMW#11: Love is in the air

Pile it on: Pile It On #102 - Paint

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: Challenge #103

A Vintage Journey: A Vintage Journey - February Challenge - Industrial

Creative Artiste Challenge Blog: Challenge #11

Well I hope you like it. I thought it turned out pretty close to what I envisioned and my partner said she liked it. 

I think it's great that Tim creates these tutorials every month of every year showing how to use all of wonderful inks, pastes, stencils and items. It allows us to use our own talent or ideas to create something different and unique. I am looking forward to learning more techniques this year with TH 12 Tags of 2016. 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you are inspired in to try this fun technique. 

Hugs, 

Deborah xxx