star on red & green

spray painted thumbtack in the center

- I trimmed the pin actually -

all 3 snowflakes found online (some from holiday fonts)

xmas '17

red wreath

glass ornaments & buttons: spray painted (gold champagne/motip trendy specials)

red squares: painted strawberry basket wood

golden xmas tree

recycled:

golden tree illustration from paper jewellery catalogue

the tag says "have a superb xmas"

circled star

recycled:

brown envelope + button (gold spray)

it roughly says "may snowflakes fail to bury your trail..."

white snowflake card

recycled:

white thumbtack - yeah, that's not a brad :) - and corrugated cardboard

also, my poor photography skills sadly fail to prove it, 

but the forwardmost piece of paper is actually gold :)

3D snowflake

recycled:

brown envelope + button (gold spray)

one more recycled religious picture card

in case it can't be seen clearly, the embossed paper is pretty gold :)

recycled:

this picture comes from a magazine years old

raphael's nativity painting

recycled:

this picture comes from a magazine years old

simple lina cavalieri bookmark

paper on which stripes were printed: recycled envelope

paper on which lina was printed: regular copy paper colored with wood stain (after printing)

ribbon: recycled part of a jewelry store bag

coated metal eye (bra type)

edwardian script

golden birdie

just the embellishment by me (I wish I could go into ceramics in 2014 again...)

to take a shortcut I just 'flocked' this clothespin with an already flocked piece of plastic

(some tools come with flocked package, I just recycled one)

I carry your heart with me

a line plus from I carry your heart with me by E.E.Cummings

the frame I have from a Goodwill store ($0.99!) was initially meant for repainting (white),

but for now the pale gold looks too good with this recycled IKEA brown paper bag that I printed on :)