Wintery Poinsettia Christmas Card

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! 

Snow Is Glistening!

 

This slim line card was created with a set of slim line dies for snowy hills, trees, and houses.  The star also in that set.  The poinsettias were also die cut.  I stamped Sleigh Bells Ring on vellum  and adhered it to the card with my Xyron machine.  I spritzed Dazzle Shimmering Bliss Topper.  It looks like stars in the sky.  

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Retro Aqua Ornaments

 

Hi Junkies, it's Holly posting today.  Doesn't this card just scream 1970?  I love these nostalgic ornaments on this Retro Ornaments stamp from Technique Junkies.  I stamped this background with some aqua ink onto aqua paper and then used a silver gel pen to color in some areas of the ornaments.  For the sentiment, I found this smaller holiday sentiment on the Christmas Ornaments Trio set.  I didn't want to cover up these awesome ornaments in the background, so that's why I chose a smaller sentiment.  I embossed this with white powder onto a strip of vellum and wrapped it around the aqua ornament background.

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Have a Groovy Christmas and Blog Candy

 

What a fun card for you today!  I combined the newly released Mid-Century Sparkle Background with the sentiment from Groovy Christmas.  Instructions for making this card are below.  I recently made a YouTube video on creating a background (as seen with the sentiment above).  To view my video please visit my Color Burst video.

We're only two months away from Christmas Eve, and my envelopes for all of my 50+ Christmas cards are decorated and addressed.  I get too stressed with this part of Christmas cards, that this year I decided to do it sooner, at a leisurely pace.  Usually I'm frantic, keeping my envelopes undecorated and the address just gets slapped on.  What camp are you in?  Let me know.  I will pick out a random winner to win this card and five pre-made Color Burst backgrounds as seen behind the Have a Groovy Christmas. Comments to my blog candy will be added to the list of names on my blog.

Directions for making my Groovy Christmas card

• Cut cardstock to 4 x 5 1/4" and mat as desired
• Place your Mid-Century Sparkle Background into your Misti
• Using retro-feeling colours of watercolour markers, colour your background--one image at a time.  Once you colour an image stamp it out onto your cardstock.  Repeat if you want a darker image
• Continue the above step until your background is completely covered
• Using a Color Burst background (or other groovy background paper) rub embossing buddy over the background where you will heat emboss
• Stamp out your sentiment with VersaMark
• Sprinkle with white embossing powder and heat set
• Mat sentiment
• Using pop dots, adhere to your sentiment and centre it onto your Mid-Centruy Sparkle Background

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TJ Inkspirations: Treeline Edger Card

 

Landscape Stencils Made Easy Easy Ink Blending! The Landscape Edgers from A Colorful Life Designs are just amazing for creating scenes with just a little ink. Today I am showing you how to make an easy Christmas card that uses two of the Treeline Edgers with Catherine Pooler Ink. I also show you how to create custom paper using the ink for perfectly matched layering. I have two kits with this video, too, one with the ink and one without them. The individual stencils and stamps may be found with that link, too. You may find the kits -- along with all of the individual pieces and parts HERE. I hope you like this technique as much as I do! Here is the video: Here is the kit with ink: ‌ Here is the kit without ink: On the Road Again! Meet us on the Road at our next show: Hampton VA: October 23 - 24 Allentown PA: October 30 - 31

Christmas Tag Card Idea

 

Mass-produce holiday cards easily by creating large "gift tags" to use as card panels! 

I used the "Retro Ornaments" background stamp for this project. This background stamp is part of the October 2021 NEW STAMP RELEASE, but any background stamp would work great!

Create tags easily by trimming out the background-stamped area to about 4" x 3" (or whatever size you like). Then, LIGHTLY FOLD the rectangle in half (but be careful not to crease). While holding the folded paper, cut the corners off of one edge and unfold. Magic! Keep the cut corners and use on other projects!

Ink the edges of the tags, and add embellishments and sentiments of your choice. For this project, I used the "Snowflakes Set of 9" and a little ribbon and patterned paper from my craft stash.

I also used some snips of green scrap glitter paper instead of ribbon at the top of the tag. And I used one sequin instead of a brad... just because. 😊

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Here's a look at the finished card:

Thank you for looking! 

Sleigh Bells Ring Snow is Glistening

 Hello. Tracy Shultz, the Hopeful Crafter, here with today's card. I used the new Sleigh Bells Ring stamp from the October New Release and the previously released Star Power stamp. Check out the Technique Junkies store to see these and so many other amazing stamps: www.techniquejunkies.com and, if you use my coupon code, TJ10Tracy you can save 10% off your order. 

To create this card I first heat embossed with silver sparkle embossing powder the Sleigh Bells Ring Stamp. I love this stamp and it's flowy font. Then I used regular silver embossing powder to heat emboss the Star Power stamp. This stamp is a must have staple for all your holiday cards: Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, and for Birthday's and other Celebrations. I matted the Sleigh Bells Stamp with silver shimmery cardstock. I matted the Star Power stamp with silver glitter cardstock.   

Here's a list of the stamps I used today:

Sleigh Bells Ring: https://techniquejunkies.com/sleigh-bells-ring/

Star Power: https://techniquejunkies.com/star-power/