Winterfest in July Bingo

[spiralicious]

Creator Name: spiralicious
Bingo Community: allbingo
List of Prompts: Reindeer, Yule, Stars, Boughs of Greenery, Stockings, Aggressively Festive Holiday Sweater, Antlers, Tree, Lights, Yule Goat, Long Nights Moon, Candles, Winter Solstice, Wreaths, Yule Log, Krampus
Link to Card: My card (Sorry, it's flocked and I can't make it public)



Title: Reindeer Food Jar
Prompt: Reindeer
Medium: Decorative Craft
Notes: I decorated a vitamin bottle using gesso, spray inks in red and green, encaustic wax in gold and silver, a melt tool with a brush nib, and a black sharpie. Free handing a tiny reindeer was harder than I thought. It was good practice for making the Halloween decorations I have planned this year.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Reindeer_zpskjrhqslc.jpg

Title: Together at Yule
Prompt: Yule
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: I used a classic matting format for the card. Materials are printed paper, card stock, rubber stamp, black heat embossing powder, embossing medium, a heat gun, and colored pencils.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Yule_zpsmg57cvs5.jpg

Title: Stars
Prompt: Stars
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: Materials are card stock, spray inks in red and green, a star stencil, rubber stamp, gold heat embossing powder, embossing medium, and a heat gun.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Stars_zpsxa2uyuus.jpg

Title: Season's Greetings
Prompt: Boughs of Greenery
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: For this one, I free handed some greenery with a pen on Copic marker paper, then colored it in with Copic markers and Smooch (which doesn't show up in the picture). I mounted the Copic Marker paper on green card stock.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Greenery_zpsmcdyryvu.jpg

Title: Small Gifts
Prompt: Stockings
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: This one it pretty simple. I had some stocking paper along with some gift stickers and coordinating cardstock.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Stockings_zpsxeymcgit.jpg

Title: Sweater Weather
Prompt: Aggressively Festive Holiday Sweater
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: Admittedly, the sweater could have been more aggressively festive, but I was making it up from scratch with a deadline. The sweater is cut out free hand from printed paper and decorated with colored pencils. The rest of the card is green cardstock and border stickers.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Sweater_zpsmb6dwmlv.jpg

Title: From the Heart
Prompt: Antlers
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: Inspired by the chalkboard trend, I wanted to go really simple with this one. Originally, I had drawn reindeer antlers on the card. After spending about a half an hour getting them perfect, I realized that reindeer antlers look weird enough no one would recognize them as antlers. So, I erased the whole thing and started over. I inked it with a super thin pen and the saying is a rubber stamp.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Antlers_zpswfhioppi.jpg

Title: Tree
Prompt: Tree
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: This is one of the better trees drawn on Copic marker paper with Copic markers after a blending class. Its mounted on cardstock. Unfortunately, I couldn't fix the exposure problem in the photo.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Tree_zpswmlwq3qt.jpg

Title: Merry Christ-Moose
Prompt: Lights
Medium: Paper Craft/card
Notes: The images are stamped onto white cardstock and heat embossed. I colored it in with colored pencils.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Lights_zpszkeciu2g.jpg

Title: Yule Goat
Prompt: Yule Goat
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: I love yule goats. I drew the goat on white cardstock and then mounted it onto the last piece of what is probably my favorite holiday paper. My mother told me it was a very strange looking reindeer.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Yule%20Goat_zpssfjgx0nc.jpg

Title: December Moon
Prompt: Long Nights' Moon
Medium: Paper Craft/Decorative Tag
Notes: This is Sharpie and watercolor on cardstock. I will write something special on the back before I hang it later in the year.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Long%20night%20moon_zpsfmdewcho.jpg

Title: Sun Candle
Prompt: Candles
Medium: Decorative Craft
Notes: The candle is decorated with stars and sun discs using gold and silver encaustic wax and a heat tool with a pen nib.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Candles_zpsonjjgjzl.jpg

Title: Welcoming Back the Sun
Prompt: Winter Solstice
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: After a bizarre bit of inspiration, I drew this out on cardstock without a real reference and colored it in with watercolor paint and I am still shocked at how well it came out.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Winter%20Solstice_zps6i6en2k1.jpg

Title: Holiday Wreath
Prompt: Wreath
Medium: Paper Craft/Card
Notes: We just happened to be painting the house so, I just happened to have a whole bunch of paint sample card things laying around. I punched out as many hearts with my punch as I could and experimented. Luckily, the experiment worked and I decorated with with glitter liner. The color on the tube is either copper or bronze, but it looks really red in person.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Wreath_zps2hnve1ai.jpg

Title: Yule Log
Prompt: Yule Log
Medium: Craft
Notes: It's a candy holder. It will look better wrapped up for gifting. I decorated a Pringle's can with gesso, watercolor paint, and distress ink.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Yule%20Log_zpsxf7o1son.jpg

Title: Krampus
Prompt: Krampus
Medium: Paper Craft/Decorative Tag
Notes: I love Krampus almost as much as I love yule goats. I really want to do a tag series of creatures of the winter holidays. I drew him on card stock, then colored him in with watercolor paint and colored pencils. He came out more monotone than I had intended.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t650/KisukeGirl/Xmas%20in%20July%202015/Krampus_zps5pisgnvv.jpg

Comments

WOW!

[vexed_wench]

You did awesome! I love them all. I really love the moose, sweater and Stonehenge best. :D

Re: WOW!

[spiralicious]

Thanks. I figured you'd get a kick out of the moose. XD Now, If I could just make the Stonehenge one lay flat.

[kiramaru7]

These are awesoem, Kat! I LOVE the Krampus & the one that looks like Stonehenge! The Teddy Bears on the card are too cute! <3

[spiralicious]

Thanks, Kira. I wish Krampus' head turned out a little differently. xD I don't remember where that teddy bear stamp came from.

[kiramaru7]

You're welcoem, Kat! Yeah? It still looks really good to me. You must have a lot of stamps, ne?

[spiralicious]

Thanks, Kira. Well, yeah. Not as many as most of the regulars from the scrapbooking store do, but yeah I have a lot of stamps. Most of them are second hand and one of my aunts is always bringing me bags of them she finds at garage sales. I don't use them a lot though.

[kiramaru7]

You're welcoem, Kat! :D

Yeah? Well, from what I've seen your collection isn't too shabby! :D That's really awesoem of her! If I ever run across any, I'll grab them for you. I have a ton of crochet hooks, & I don't use half of them too, but you never know! ;p

[spiralicious]

Thanks. XD I don't really use them very often and a lot of stuff you have seen over the years have been other people's stamps I have borrowed, but yeah there are a lot. Thanks. XD

[kiramaru7]

You're welcome! Yeah? *nods* You're welcoem! :D

[meridian_rose]

Lovely! It's nice to see something a bit different and craft items are definitely more unusual fills despite most bingo fests allowing them.

LOL, Yule Goat-weird reindeer; I'd have said ram :)
I love the food jar and the stunning winter solstice. I'm very impressed with the Krampus tag!
Also the candle looks interesting, something I'd like to try (but probably won't!) - will you keep it or burn it?

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I couldn't get the photos to load :( but I enjoyed the descriptions. I love seeing folks use bingo prompts for more diverse fills!

Re: Yes...

[spiralicious]

Sorry for the late reply.

I'm sorry you couldn't get the photos to load. Do you think it would help if I linked you to the photobucket album itself or posted them in a reply here with html?

Thanks so much.

Re: Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Try giving me the photobucket links. I've seen people post photos directly to DW but I have no idea how they make it work, it won't for me. I can usually see them though.

Re: Yes...

[spiralicious]

Sorry it has taken so long to reply. This link should take you to the whole album on my photobucket. http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/KisukeGirl/library/Xmas%20in%20July%202015

Re: Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yay! I think I like the heart wreath, Stonehenge, and the holly bough the best.

[spiralicious]

Sorry for the late reply.

Thanks so much. I really wanted to do a blackout with crafts this year since my fills last year for the winter fest bingo were such a big hit.

Ram is a way more awesome answer than weird reindeer.

Thank you very much.

The candle was relatively easy. I was basically just drawing with hot wax onto cold wax. I intend to burn it as my center sun candle this Yule. (Unless, I find a big yellow one in the mean time.)