A Christmas Cracker

Over at the Arty Inklings blog there is a Crimble challenge.  Now I don't normally do crimbo challenges but seen as she was lacking in players, I thought I'd join in.  I took a piece of strong tissue type paper and used the punch at the shorter ends.

I then made a tube out of kraft card.

Using the above 3 paints, I coloured the tissue.

You can't really see it here, but this is the tissue coloured.

I used the above stamps and brushed pewter distress paint to decorate the tissue paper.

You can just about make out the random shapes on the ice blue background.

I wrapped the tissue around the kraft tube and screwed in the ends. I stamped scary Mary (Stampotique), coloured her with distress markers, cut her out, along with the Merry Christmas sentiment and stuck her on the top of the cracker.

Here's a close up of the stamping on the finished project.

I'm also entering into this weeks PanPastelUk challenge which is anything goes or something altered.