TJ Inkspiration: Retro Holly Repeat Pattern Christmas Card

 

Fast and Retro - with a Touch of Sparkle! Pretty Little Holly... I am a little obsessed with holly. I love the smooth green leaves and the bold berries; sometimes I add a sprig to my wrapped holiday presents for that extra special touch. Today I created a quick little vieo for you on how to use minimal supplies to create this pretty little holly card. We don't have a kit for you this week, but we tried to make it easy for you to find all of the supplies - plus a few other glitter gel pens -- in this category: https://techniquejunkies.com/retro-holly-tutorial/ Here is the video: On a personal note... Meet Milo! We have a new addition to the Huntoon family. Adorable, and a great reminder that puppies are for the young! See you on the Road in 2022! I will be publishing the schedule soon.

The Old and the New

Happy Thursday to everyone in bogland! I hope this day finds everyone well and ready for the Thanksgiving holiday. It is my favorite holiday because it is all about the gratitude. I am grateful to Technique Junkies and their enormous variety of quality red rubber stamps! Also, I am grateful to be on their design team! Today I am showcasing an older stamp, Vintage Merry Christmas and a new sentiment, Retro Merry Christmas.

Using watercolor paper, I did an ink, spray smash background with grape, pink and turquoise. Next, I stamped the image and colored them in with Zig watercolor brush markers. The pale purple mat was embossed and matted in black...lastly, a white card base.

Starting with white card stock for the trees, I sponged on acrylic inks in vintage red, dark green and yellow....finishing with a touch of white. Next, I decided to die cut my image into T.H. trees. I am fairly new to using die cuts and discovered that I should've put the acrylic sponged paper onto double-sided sticky paper. It is very hard to glue these down without making a very sticky mess! My vintage sentiment was stamped and cut into a banner and put on dimensionals.

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Cheers,

Pam

 

Square Card featuring the Little Holly stamp and Karin Markers

 Hello, Tracy Shultz, the Hopeful Crafter, here today to share two cards. For my cards, I used the Little Holly stamp, as well as the Warmest Wishes Stamp and the Gifts of Christmas Stamp Set.

My first card was created using the Warmest Wishes sentiment stamps.

My second card was created using the Gifts of Christmas Sentiment Stamp. 

To create both of my cards I stamped the Little Holly image around a circle mask (top, bottom, left and right) using Catherine Pooler Midnight Ink.  I then colored the holly leaves and berries with Karin Markers. I removed the mask/circle and stamped the sentiment inside the open space. For the Warmest Wishes sentiment I stamped first, then cut out each word individual and placed them inside the circle.  I trimmed the four corners with a corner rounding punch. I had some holly and berries holiday paper in my stash. I rounded the corners and used this paper as a mat layer. For my card base I used a maroon 5.5" x 5.5" card base. 

 

Products used:

Little Holly: https://techniquejunkies.com/little-holly/

Warmest Wishes: https://techniquejunkies.com/warmest-wishes/

Gifts of Christmas: https://techniquejunkies.com/gifts-of-christmas-set-of-5/

You can find these and other stamps at www.techniquejunkies.com. If you would like to save 10% off your order, you can use my coupon code TJ10Tracy.  Thank you for visiting the blog today. 

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Moonlight in the Forest

 

Hello stampers! I’m mixing new with old today.  Technique Junkies new stamp is called Forest Buffalo, and the old stamp is Wolf by Moonlight.  I am so in love with these two stamps because they make excellent masculine cards.  My favourite way to use them is with a Color Burst background.  And if luck would have it, Technique Junkies produced Four Little Sentiments, three of which are in the photo above.  Each sentiment fits nicely into the forest floor and looks great with the gold embossing.

 

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Music Speaks

 Piano keys are so elegant looking. They pair so beautifully with the Music Speaks stamp, too. I briefly touched the Vintage Music stamp, inked in brown, to the paper before stamping the sentiment in black to give the background additional texture. Stamps by Technique Junkies; Catherine Pooler Ink. Pat Huntoon

Snowy Wishes

 

Good morning, Junkies!  It's Holly posting today.  I love this gorgeous Night Snow stamp from Technique Junkies.  It's so pretty with the snowflakes and the bare tree branches and the white picket fence.  I stamped this with a turquoise/teal ink and let it dry for about 10 minutes before I stamped the sentiment.  Then I stamped the Warmest Wishes with Versamark and covered it with silver embossing powder.  Blue and white and silver are just so classic for winter scenes.

You can use this code, TJ10Holly, to save 10% off your order when you shop at Technique Junkies.  Put this beautiful Night Snow stamp in your cart along with the Warmest Wishes sentiment when you are looking at all the wonderful stamps.  Check out the Shimmering Bliss sprays and the stencils and the Catherine Pooler ink pads while you're shopping.  Have a great week!

 

Blue Ephemera

 Sometimes I have a habit of creating collage stamps with dark or muted colors. The Ephemera Collage stamp used here seems to work perfect with these blues and turquoise inks, though! I love the way the vertical Write Your Own Story stamp works with the collage stamp, too.

Catherine Pooler Ink was used for this project. Pat Huntoon