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It’s always nice to put some extra time and effort into a few of your holiday card projects. I like to have special, detailed cards to give to those few people who appreciate cardmaking or who live far away. For me, this project was one of those special, detailed cards - where the card itself will be the Christmas gift.
I started with the Bird and Poinsettia Border Stamp by Technique Junkies. This stamp is so lovely and is really versatile for Christmas, holiday and also general winter cards. I also think this would be the perfect stamp to use for those “winter birthday” cards as well.
I stamped with brown Archival Ink and then used my Nuvo Waterbrush Pens and a combination of Distress Oxide inks and regular Distress Inks to color in the image.
Then, I used my craft knife to carefully cut out all the INSIDE spaces… look carefully in between the branches and the little pinecones. This was all hand-cut out with my craft knife and some time. :)
After I cut out the INSIDE spaces, then I could easily fussy-cut around the outside of the stamped image. I used Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to glue the stamped, fussy-cut image to a piece of patterned paper from the "Frosty Sparking" paper collection by Craft O’Clock.
I stamped the Dotted Merry Christmas stamp with black Archival Ink and used a rectangle stitched die from my stash to cut it out and add to my card.
The paper collection has lots of coordinating fussy-cut elements, so I simply found a bird, a candy-cane, two leaves, one anise seed, and a few flower elements to add on top of the stamped image. I used a combination of hot glue and my Nuvo liquid adhesive (the hot glue adds dimension).
I mounted the whole thing on top of a black card base. This card did take me quite a while, but I enjoy the detail work every now and then. When I showed my husband the finished card, he said, “Wow… you really put some time into that one!”
Hope this inspires you! Thank you for looking!
Good morning! Another beautiful fall morning, one of these mornings we will wake up to snow!!!
I am up on Techniques Junkies Blog to show you a couple more beautiful cards I made using stamps from the new October 2020 release. My first card: uses the new Dotted Merry Christmas, love the font as well as the dots between the letters I used Santa in the Monlight which stirs up memories of waiting for Santa as a child. I went through my stamps and saw Good Night which I thought added to the card. I always make my sons Christmas cards so this is the one he has chosen for me to make him this year. I started by sponging a yellow "moon" on my blank card - then using my Misti I place my Santa in the Moonlight so that the reindeer would be in the moon. I love to use silhouette stamps - no coloring and they stand alone. I have a friend who has a sizzix die which I really like, of a city sky line so I die cut several of those to have on hand.
For my next card
I used Candy Cane and Merry Christmas . I embossed he candy cane and sentiment using some red tinsel embossing powder - love the sparkle it added. I fussy cut the candy cane out and popped it up on a die cut doily as well as a red doily I had in my stash. I ran my white layer with a snow embossing folder through my cuttlebug, left the script just plain white with red tinsel embossing powder . I had some card stock in my never ending stash that was perfect for this candy cane image. Hope you have enjoyed.
Don't forget to use the 10% discount (seen below) by entering TJ10Shirley so you can add these to your Christmas collection.
