I started by creating two colourful panels of watercolour cardstock, using Ken Oliver Colorburst powders. I used a mix for each one, to add variation and interest to them. I also spritzed shimmer sprays on them, to create some festive sparkle.
When they were dry, I cut the largest Stitched Poinsettia from the red panel and I cut the Winter Scenefrom the green panel. I used only the stitched circular frame on my card, but I kept the rest of the pieces for another card.
I arranged the ‘wreath’ on my card, and I created some fun contrast by tucking one of the flower petals underneath the green frame, and then popping up the rest of them with foam tape.
I used a tiny Merry Christmas sentiment from Holiday Signs, and I placed it where the slope of the sentiment would fit right underneath one of the petals. It’s just a tiny detail, but it definitely shows that thought was put into the placement of the sentiment.
To finish off the card, I used 3 of the smallest gold confetti from the new Celebration Confetti mix for some shine.
I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’ll show you 2 modern and easy to make Christmas cards ideas using the same stamp, the Winter Wreath stamp set. As a bonus, I’ll also show you how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images.
I like modern designs in my cards so I decided to go for a slightly more modern color palette and a modern design. The design, however, can be done in more traditional colors, red, green and white. I use a lot of dark blues, some gold and just hints of red to make my cards look festive.
For my first card, I started with a panel of dark blue cardstock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2”. I didn’t want the design to cover the entire front, I wanted there to be a small border, so I masked a ¼” border using low tack tape.
Next, I used a sentiment from the Joy stamp set, it reads “Wishing You a Blessed Holiday Season” and positioned it along the bottom edge of the card. I added single stamp images from the Winter Wreath stamp set and stamped them repeatedly to fill the entire background in. Don’t stamp your images all around the panel, stamp them one next to the other to make sure you build a nice solid background.
If you feel your embossing ink pad isn’t juicy enough you might want to pause and cover the already stamped images with embossing powder and then continue stamping additional images. You don’t have to stamp them all and then cover all. You can work in small sections.
Also, save the smallest images for last. There’s an image of berries and it’s rather small so you can use it to carefully fill any odd gaps you might have on your background.
To add some definition to the heat embossed images I used a darkest blue Copic marker I have in my stash, the B99 marker, and added subtle shading. This made a world of a difference and helped the images stand out from the background. I also added a bit of color to the berries. For this, I used Nuvo Drops in Red Berry.
My second card is very similar. I heat embossed the image of a wreath and a sentiment placed inside of it on the same dark blue cardstock. Next, I heat embossed and cut out additional, single images to adorn the wreath. I colored all, or rather added shading to all, using a dark blue marker.
I also heat embossed and colored a poinsettia. This time, however, I used white cardstock and colored not only the image of the flower, but also the white space around it to make it look like it was heat embossed on dark blue. I used R39, R27, R24 and R22 markers along with the B99.
Images were adhered using glue and foam adhesive at the top of the wreath. I also used the same Nuvo Drops. Finally, I love to use jewels by PPP so I added a good amount ofMidnight Black Jewels all around the wreath to spice the design up. It’s a simple card, but small finishing touches such as these jewels make it that much more special.
Finally, here’s the bonus idea I mentioned showing how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images. If you own a hot foil machine such as Glimmer by Spellbinders or another machine of the same kind you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled halo-like outlines to your stamped images.
To create this card I first foiled the image outlines (using coordinating dies) on the background. It took me 4 times to foil a full A2 card background. I used Winter Wreath coordinating dies (just the single image dies) and gold foil.
Having done that I placed the panel into my MISTI tool and positioned the coordinating stamps one by one placing them each into their own coordinating foiled spot. From there I heat embossed the images using Antique Gold embossing powder. This is very similar to what I did for the first project, but instead of just heat embossing the images, I also added foiled image outlines making this card design extra special. It wasn’t hard to do, but it surely added a nice foiled touch to the card.
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 setfor the little Christmas hats, just to make it more festive!
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.
I’ll be dry embossing and colour blocking for my technique with these stencils today.
I started off with two pieces of
watercolour cardstock, laid down my stencils over the top and masked off
sections to create my stripes and rectangles. I then used various Distress Ink
colours to ink blend inside each of them.
Once all the stripes were ink blended as
well as the rectangles, I cleaned off the stencils and dry embossed with them.
I used some rubber mats to make this happen. Now on the white areas you have
this raised look and it gives so much more detail to the simple design.
I then white heat embossed the ‘Wishing You A Blessed Holiday Season’ onto some thin black strips of cardstock from the Joy Stamp Set and adhered it onto my card. I added some hemp cord to add a bow to the right hand side of the strips. Lastly I scattered some Celebration Confetti Mix onto the background and adhered them down with glossy accents.
Thanks so much for stopping by today and
I’ll see you all next time.
Hi friends, Eloise here and today I’ll be making some gift tag cards for you all using the new Holiday Signs Stamp Set. I love creating tags around the holiday season, and these little critters holding cute signs I thought would be the perfect size for them.
I started off with stamping out four of the images fromHoliday Signs onto white cardstock. I coloured them in with Copic Markers, added white gel pen details to them and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I also cut out additional die cuts for the backs of my tags.
I then stamped four different sentiments
onto each of the images, since we have so many to choose from. I then scored
the tops of each of the blank die cuts, added 1/8” adhesive to the tops and
adhered the coloured images on the top. This created an area to write a message
on the inside.
I punched small holes into the tops of each of the tags, threaded through some coloured twine and then tied a small bow at the tops of them, with hemp cord.
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That finished up these super simple gift
tag cards for today, I really hope you enjoyed and were inspired. This could
work with any type of image that’s on the larger side to create some cute
shaped tags.
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Hi friends, Eloise here and today I’m using the Fall Signs Stamp Set to create my fall themed card today. I also pulled in Trick or Treat Friends for some additional images since I thought they matched in well.
I started off with stamping out images on two pieces of cardstock. I stamped the crow and pumpkins from Trick or Treat Friendsand then the scarecrow from Fall Signs onto some white cardstock for Copic colouring. I then took a piece of watercolour cardstock and stamped two scarecrows side by side. I stamped these exactly how I want them to sit, since I won’t be cutting them out. I then coloured them all in with Copic Markers and cut out the ones from the plain white cardstock. I also cut out two masks from masking paper for the background piece.
I set all my die cut images to the side and worked on the background. I applied the masks over the scarecrows and ink blended some grey Distress Inks over the background. I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool. I removed the masks and then adhered on my other images to create my scene.
Lastly, I stamped on the ‘Happy Fall’
sentiment into the sign that the scarecrow is holding. I then added white gel
pen details to all my images and that finished off my card for today.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll see you next time.
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In fact, the starry background panel on my card started as part of another card. I created this background with the inky, sparkly ‘mess’ that was left on the stencil after I blended ink and spritzed sparkle spray onto it to make the card in the video on my personal channel for today’s hop.
It was so pretty, that I just couldn’t waste it, so I pressed it down onto a clean panel of white cardstock and the result was a shimmery, peachy background!
I created my shaker window with a tag die from Stitched Essentials 1 but I altered the shape and size a bit by covering the fish-tail bottom with my sentiment panel.
The sentiment was created with the Congrats Script die. This script font means that even after I stacked 3 of them together, the die cut was still flexible enough to be made to perfectly fit the curve of the banner. I filled the shaker with Pink Blush jewels – the perfect shade of pink, plus the iridescence picked up some of the yellow and peach tones from the background.
Finally, I added the baby bear and a butterfly to the front of the card. I did some mirror stamping to create a second butterfly facing the first.
From its humble beginnings as ‘leftovers’ from another card, I would say this starry background has become a main player in this adorable baby card. I hope you agree!
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Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a shaker card to share with you all using the Boo stamp set. I’m pairing it with the Spider Web Stencil for my background.
I started off with stamping out my images and colouring them in with Copic Markers. Once they were coloured, I cut them out with the Boo coordinating dies. I also added white detail lines to each of the images as well.
I set the images to the side and worked on the background. I adhered down a piece of watercolour paper with washi tape and laid the stencil over the top. I then mixed up my own texture paste using Distress Inks, Glitter and Translucent Embossing Paste. I mixed up three colours and spread it over the stencil. I then sprinkled more glitter, dried it a little with a heat tool, peeled off the stencil and then let the piece dry.
Once the piece was dry, I cut the ‘Boo’
Word from the centre. I adhered acetate on the back and added foam tape around
the letters. I added in my sequins and star confetti and then added a black
piece of cardstock on the back. I flipped it over and adhered the middle of the
letters back in, too.
I adhered the images around the shaker
using foam tape. I also white heat embossed the ‘Happy Halloween To You’
sentiment onto a think black strip and adhered it down over the shaker. To
finish up I added a hemp cord bow to the right-hand side of my project.
That finished up my card for today, I hope you all enjoyed, and I’ll see you next time.
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have three Halloween cards to share with you all using the Brush Strokes Stencil. I paired it with a few of the Halloween themed stamps in the most current release.
To start off my first card, I took a piece of watercolour cardstock and masked off individual “ghosts” from the Brush Strokes Stencil to ink blend onto the background. I used Pumice Stone Distress Ink and a little white pigment ink to blend them. Once they were all done, I made masks for them all using masking paper and adhered them over the top. I then used Washi Tape and the Wide Stripes Stencil to ink blend stripes over the background diagonally. I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool.
I decided that the ghosts blended into the background too much, so I re-applied the masks and laid over the stencil and used some Black Soot Distress Ink to create a drop shadow on the each of them. Lastly, I adhered Silly Eyes to each of them using some glossy accents and white heat embossed the sentiment ‘Happy Halloween To You’ from the Boo Stamp Set onto a thin strip of black cardstock and adhered it straight across the card.
For the second card, I decided to turn the Brush Strokes Stencil into stamped images. I first took a piece of white cardstock and cut it down with the rectangle inStitched Notes Dies. I then used a stamping tool to stamp the pumpkin border from Fall Borders Stamp Set. I traced around the heads of the “ghosts” and then used the hat stamp from the Boo Stamp Set to stamp on the top of each of them. I erased the pencil lines, took the stencil and traced around each of the ghosts with a black marker. I then coloured everything in with Copic Markers.
After they were coloured, I drew faces on each of the ghosts using the same black marker. I then created masks for everything, adhered them on top and ink blended some Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn onto the bottom and Blueprint Sketch for the top. I removed the masks and then white heat embossed the same ‘Happy Halloween’ sentiment from the Boo Stamp Set onto a thin strip of black cardstock. I adhered it to the card and then adhered the entire panel onto a piece of patterned paper.
For my final card I wanted to create a mini shaker card. I started off with die cutting the Decorative Tag 2 three times, once from watercolour paper and twice from normal white cardstock. I used the Brush Strokes Stencil to ink blend some Wilted Violet, Carved Pumpkin and Twisted Citron Distress Inks over the top onto the watercolour cardstock tag. I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool. I took a circle die and cut it from the centre and added acetate onto the back. I then took the one of the other white tags and adhered a piece of blue cardstock onto it. I added foam tape around the entire perimeter of the piece and added the star confetti’s inside. I then adhered my ink blended tag on top.
I then ink blended one of the “ghosts” from the Brush Strokes Stencil onto some more cardstock using Pumice Stone and white pigment ink, cut around it with scissors and adhered Silly Eyeson top. I then adhered it onto the front of my tag. I white heat embossed the same sentiment from the Boo Stamp Setonto a strip of black cardstock and adhered it into place. I then adhered the last tag I cut onto the back using a little bit of tape at the top and that finished off my third card.
I started by stamping my pumpkin patch, using the row of pumpkins from Fall Borders, and my original sized MISTI, and some masking.
To quickly colour the card, I used the same mask and ink blended the sky and pumpkins. Then I added some optional, extra colouring to add more depth and shadows, but you can stop anywhere along the way, depending on how much time you’ve got.
I finished the card with a sentiment and the bat image from the Boo stamp set and then put the panel onto a black card base. I made another card, with a white base – see how different the cards feel, with that one small change?
I hope you enjoyed watching how I made these two cards!
