Showing posts with label Holly Jolly Greetings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holly Jolly Greetings. Show all posts

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Countdown to Christmas - 9 months

 How did March 25 get here so fast?!  That means there are only 9 months until Christmas!  For the past few years I have tried to post a Christmas card on the 25th of each month - and suggested getting an early start on making your Christmas cards.  Well - this year has just flown by - so I am playing catch up and posting THREE Christmas cards for you today!

These are all quick and easy cards - I checked Pinterest and whipped these three up in about an hour using Stampin' Up! products.  The one above is a Crumb Card card with a strip of This Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper and a small strip of Cherry Cobbler card stock.  The stamp set I used is Tin of Tags from last year's holiday catalog.  I added a rhinestone to the center of each snow flake.

Here is another card that starts with a Crumb Cake card base.  It is a great card for using up all those patterned paper scraps from other projects.  I used the Softly Falling embossing folder with the Big Shot - to add the snow to the background and then sponged the embossed paper with white craft ink.  I drew some snow on the ground at the base of the tree trunk using a chalk marker - but I know I have a stamp set somewhere with a "swoosh" that would probably look better.  I used a retired punch to add a star to the top of the tree. The Merry Christmas stamped at the bottom of the card is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.
Here is the last card  -  but this time I used a Crumb Cake note card.  It is a little smaller than a standard card.  The photo below shows how I cut the word "merry" from the Real Red mat.  This is a way to save a little card stock.  I covered that hole with the images stamped on a piece of Whisper White card stock.  I used the stamp set Holly Jolly Greetings


These cards are quick and easy to recreate - and a great way to get started on making hand crafted Christmas cards this year.

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Kathy



Monday, December 5, 2016

Peace

This is one of the cards we made at my stamp club classes in October.    

Stampin' Up! supplies used to make this card:
Card stock: Soft Sky, Thick Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink: Versamark, Soft Sky
Stamp Set: Holly Jolly Greetings
Accessories:  Clear Embossing Powder, Christmas Greetings Thinlits, Aqua Painter, Metallic Sequins

We stamped the snowflake image onto Thick Whisper White card stock using Versamark.  We heat embosses using Clear Embossing Powder.  Then we used an Aqua Painter to brush Soft Sky ink over the snowflake image.  The ink will not stick to the white embossing!  (We took a tissue to wipe off any excess ink.)  Wait for the ink to dry, or use your heat gun to speed the process up a bit.  Then you just need to adhere all the pieces to the card front.  A very simple but pretty card when you see it in person.  Adding a littlle Wink of Stella would make it shimmer even more!

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Thanks for stopping by!
Kathy