Can
you believe we’re already in October!
I most certainly
cannot - didn’t we just have Christmas a few months back?
So now is
about the time I start stressing about all the Christmas cards I have NOT
yet made,
So in a bid
to be on top of my Christmas cards this year I thought I’d jump right on it
and hopefully not still be making cards right up until the morning of - yes I did
that last year.
So funny
story about the cards this week, these are not the cards I had planned to share
with you, in fact I had my other cards all prepped and ready to go, I was just
waiting on a stamp set to turn up in the snail mail to finish them off, my
stamps came…. but the one I wanted to use was very badly cracked and I had to
return it.
So there I was, lost - I mean one does not
simply come up with a new card design out of thin air,
So I’m sitting in my crafting chair gazing away trying to think of something new and fabulous to make that was “Christmas themed” and I’m going to be honest with you all, I didn’t have a bloody clue what to make, I mean all the stamps, dies and inks sitting in front of me and I was blank, nothing came to mind.
So I’m sitting in my crafting chair gazing away trying to think of something new and fabulous to make that was “Christmas themed” and I’m going to be honest with you all, I didn’t have a bloody clue what to make, I mean all the stamps, dies and inks sitting in front of me and I was blank, nothing came to mind.
So in my
state of the unknown and the nothingness I just grabbed a new stamp set from
Simon Says Stamp called Graphic Christmas that just happened to be sitting on
my desk and just started playing really - I had no clue what I was going to do or
any set design in mind I just grabbed the little tree stamp and a few different green ink
pads and started stamping.
So this is
what I ended up with….
Like I did a
little while back I used one card design with two slightly different finishes,
Again making
two of each of the different finished card designs, giving me four cards.
The cards are all A2 top folding cards made out
of Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM Paper.
My trees
from earlier all ended up been stamped in Old Olive ink, so I then used the
smaller tree stamp that pairs up with the Old Olive tree and heat embossed
inside them using Ranger Super Fine Gold Embossing Powder to make them
pop a bit.
I also added
the gold heat embossed tree to the bottom left hand side to the front of all
four Whisper White C6 Envelopes, I always like to try and give my cards a matching
envelope when I can.
While I was at it I also heat embossed the sentiment to all four card
bases, I used the same sentiment on all four cards using Ranger Super Fine
Black Embossing Powder, the sentiment came from the Graphic Christmas stamp set
just like all the trees.
I then fussy cut all the stamped / heat embossed trees out and went from there.
For the first
two cards I kept my card design minimal with a lot of white area showing,
I popped
three of the stamped / heat embossed trees up on Foam Dots and placed them in a
line slightly above the sentiment, To add some sparkle to the cards I used the
star punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack and punched out a star to add
to the top of the middle tree on both cards using some Stampin’ Up! Gold Glimmer
Paper.
For my second take on the card design I wanted a bit more of a playful touch with more interest on the card front, so I took the Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow Stencil and some Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 White Embossing Paste and used this to cover my card front. This gave it a soft white on white affect with more detail without been too distracting. I then assembled the trees the same way as the other two cards again adding a gold glimmer star to the middle tree and that was me done.
So in the
end I was quite happy with what I managed to come up with and love the snow
affect so much that I already have another card planed that I have in mind for my sisters Christmas card.
Thanks for reading and happy crafting to you all,
- SUPPLY
LIST -
Stampin’ up!
Heat Tool
Mini Glue Dots
Gold Glimmer
Paper
Itty Bitty
Accents Punch Pack
Whisper
White - C6 Envelopes
Old Olive
Classic Stampin' Pad
.
Simon Says Stamp
Versamark -
Ink Pad
Tsukineko - Palette
Knives Tools
EK Success -
Powder Tool Applicator
Simon Says
Stamp - Falling Snow Stencil
We R Memory Keepers -
Trim & Score Board
Ranger - Embossing
Powder Super Fine Gold
Ranger -
Embossing Powder Super Fine Black
Best
Creation - Big Circles 3D Foam Tape Dots
Simon Says
Stamp - Graphic Christmas Stamp Set
Wendy Vecchi
Studio 490 - White Embossing Paste
Simon Says
Stamp - Ultra Thick White Cardstock 120 LB
.
OTHER
Trophee Board - White Linen 240 GSM Paper
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