Christmas Hummingbirds + Video

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a card that you can mass produce easily for after holiday thank you cards. I think these are a really sweet and fun idea to either thank someone for their gift, or for coming over on Christmas etc. It’s just a nice way to show your appreciation if you’re that person who loves to send any sort of card. I used the popular Hummingbird Thanks stamp set, just because I love it so much and the sentiment is perfect and then I also pulled in the Penguin Pals stamp set for the little Christmas hats, just to make it more festive!

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To start off my project today I stamped out a ton of the Hummingbirds onto some watercolour paper. I then clear heat embossed over them so it would be easier to contain my watercolour. I then used a mix of colours of Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers to colour these in. I went for an aqua, blue and purple colour combo to give that wintery feel. I then used red for the hats as well. Once they were coloured, I dried them off with a heat tool and cut them out using the coordinating dies.

Now that all my pieces were ready, I started on the backgrounds. I used my Mini MISTI to stamp my sentiment into the middle of the watercolour paper pieces and gold heat embossed them. I then ink blended in the centre of each of the panels with Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks. I flicked each of them with water and dried them again with a heat tool.

I then adhered my hummingbirds into place with foam tape onto each of my panels as well as their Santa hats on top. I did this to make them appear more festive since I plan to use these for holiday thank you cards, but you could leave them off if they’re for everyday use. Lastly, I took a piece of 12×12 patterned paper, cut it down into four panels and adhered all my panels together to complete my cards.

So that finished up my cards for today, I hope you all enjoyed. I love creating simple cards like this that are easy to mass produce and used for different seasons.

Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll see you next time.

Eloise