Day 7: Christmas Theme Week + Daily Giveaways
Hello, friends! Justin here, and I am so excited to be finishing off this super fun Christmas Theme Week with a duo of cards that are incredibly easy to create using a 2-for-1 method! I have been itching to use the Ornament Cover Plate Die, and this was the perfect opportunity to use it with some simple sentiments!
Ornament Cover Plate Die
Winter Greetings Stamp Set
Winter Greetings Coordinating Dies
Now, let me show you how easy it was to put this card together!
I decided that I just wanted to play with 2 distinct colors, and settled on bubblegum pink and mint green. I thought these were cards that play really well with themselves for the holiday season (that, and I was REALLY excited that the new Wicked: For Good movie would be out soon). I took the Ornament Cover Plate Die, and die cut the plate once from pink cardstock and again from green cardstock.
Because the Ornament Cover Plate Die is designed to create ornament designs with the negative shapes, I ended up with (6) pink and (6) green ornaments. I wanted to give these ornaments a little bit of extra detail, so I decided to blend the edges of the pink ornaments with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, and the edges of the green ornaments with Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink. I felt this ink blending really helped the ornaments have more dimension than had I left them just plain cardstock.
I adhered my cover plate die cuts onto a white A2-sized card base, and then fit ornaments of the opposite color into each of the negative circle spots.
I was originally planning on adhering embellishments onto each card, by the simple symmetrical design of the card was sort of throwing me through a loop for embellishment placement. I decided to instead splatter each panel with white acrylic paint. I thought this was a great way to add some detail to the card, without overthinking placement. Also, I die cut the ornament topper dies from metallic gold paper, which also helped give the ornaments some great flair.
To finish my card, I heat embossed the sentiments “Tis The Season” and “Merry & Bright” on colored cardstock in white embossing powder. To give the sentiments a little bit of lift, I adhered them to the lower right ornament on each card using foam tape.
And there you have it! An easy way to create a duo of cards with minimal die cutting! I think that there are so many fun ways you could use this cover plate die for batch card making this holiday season!
GIVEAWAY
For today’s giveaway, we are giving away a $50 Pretty Pink Posh gift card. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing what holiday product(s) you hope we release in the future.
All giveaways for Christmas Theme Week will end on December 10th. We’ll share a post with all the winners on the PPP blog later that week.
Thank you for stopping by today, and happy crafting!
– Justin
I’d like to see some polar bears.
I would LOVE to see holiday puppies!!! With Santa Hats and reindeer antlers on…. and a stencil with pawprints and snowflakes….. shaker bits of paw prints and snowflakes, Santa Hats bits…..
The cards are so pretty! I love stamps that have stencils and dies.
I always love fun Christmas Tree die cuts.
I love the details on the ornaments and the simple, but striking look of the cards. Well done!
I would like to see a larger single Christmas icons (like a Santa face die set), very similar to the shaker sets, but not shakers, if that makes any sense.
I’d love to see more everyday masculine products. I love your construction dies and stamps!
Easter and Spring theme
I would love some Mrs. Claus and more elf holiday products
Ooohhhh there are lots of things I’d love to see. One would be a beautiful holiday candle(s) with greenery and poinsettias around the base. A sweet little reindeer, maybe with a sleigh?? A snowman family would be super cute!
Cute and festive ornaments. I would like to see a line of Nativity scene products.
I’m always terrible at making suggestions for new products. I love so many of your stamps and dies, as they really match my style, so I’d say just keep on creating sweet Christmas sets in your own adorable way!
I would like to see some die sets which include some basic shapes for A2 card fronts. Also more masculine themed stamps.
I hope that you sell Christmas items that are about the real reason for Christmas. Jesus’ birth, and what that means. Nativity, dove, the star, scene of Bethlehem and the trek there, etc.
Omg the NEON FOR THE WIN!! Absolutely love this!!
Would love to see a Holiday Ghost friends set – Maybe some cute ghosts playing dreidle, lighting a menorah, decorating a tree!! Or a pumpkin stencil with cute little santa hats!
I always love your stand-alone dies! I’m excited to see what you have coming up for Valentine’s Day.
My coloring skills suck. Stamps with coordinating layering stencils will be great.
I love all your large shaker dies. They are so fun to use, so more of them would be great!
Winter animals. Fox, wolf, bears?
Love your fun cards! I’m in the market for the Magi products. I’d love a stamp and die set with coloring stencils.
Love the pretty pink & green, inspired by the movie “Wicked.” I would enjoy seeing more embossing folders or dies with stencils for coloring.
I’d love some gnomes.
Something dachshund and more gingerbread please!
I would like to see dimensional (3d) ornaments.