A Floral Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone & Happy November!

I'm excited about the new November release! As always, it is loaded with a wonderful variety of stamps.  Let's start with the new gorgeous scripted Merry Christmas stamp.  It can give a classy pop to the front, inside of your card, or even your envelope flap... then there's gift tags, bookmarks, small gift bags...

On this card it was paired with #S996 Summer Flowers Frame from a previous release. You may have it already.  If not, and you'd like to check it out to see other examples of how the TJ Design team used it,  you can see it here.

To create this card:

1)  Stamp the floral frame around the card. 

2) Die cut a rectangle piece (you can cut a rectangle piece for this and use a corner punch if you have one).

3) Next I stamp the floral frame on parts of the rectangle piece (as much or as little as appeals to you).

4) Then stamp Merry Christmas in red in the center of the rectangle piece.

5) Now the fun part - Get out your green and red shades of markers or colored pencils, grab some coffee, turn on some music, and enjoy coloring the flowers and leaves. I think coloring is calming. How about you?

6) Last - Add foam to the back of the rectangle piece to raise it off the card.  No foam? No problem. Layer a few pieces of scrap card stock together and raise the piece up that way. There's always a way :)

You can find the just released and automatically 15% off November stamps here. 

To save on everything else use discount code TJ10AJ at checkout. 

I wish you a wonderful November and holiday season.

Happy Stamping Crafty Friends,

AJ ~ Art Cards with AJ 

 

Summer Flowers Frame

I'm sure I'm not the only one who can be intimidated by large stamps. Emboss them, color them, skip them entirely ??  LOL  But I loved this Summer Flowers Frame stamp from the June Release and was determined to make a card for a friend with it . So I decided to make the stamp a little less intimidating for me and punched out 3 squares from the stamped image . And this is what I came up with !! I'm pretty pleased with the results .. What do you think ?

• I stamped the Summer Flowers Frame with Tuxedo Black Memento Dew Drop ink on a lined piece of cream paper.
• Using a 1 3/8" square paper punch, I punched out 3 squares  ( next to each other ) from the stamped image . 
• I then colored the images with my COPICS .
• Clear Glitter Wink of Stella was added to the centers of each flower .
• On a piece of pale blue lined patterned paper with the word HELLO in the right lower corner, I stamped a sentiment from the June Release - Flowers Are Like Friends - in Elderberry Memento Dew Drop ink .
• The completed panel with the sentiment was adhered to a green card base.
• The 3 completed squares were popped up on the front of the card with a small space in between each one.

Hope this card shows you that you can think outside the box when looking at a larger stamp .. There are so many ways you can interpret a design .. Thanks for stopping by.. You can see all of the new June Release stamps over at Technique Junkies .  And don't forget that today is the last day for 15% off each of the individual stamps in this month's  release. My code TJ10Deb will save you 10% off everything else  ( including the June release starting June 9 ) 

Until next time, Happy Stamping !!

Debra Davison