Hello crafty friends, Marine here! I’m so happy to be back on the blog with this duo of matching cards showcasing several die sets from the brand new release: Winter Hat Shaker, Snowflake Shaker and Stitched Snowflakes which is featured on both cards.

New release will be available October 16th

For the Winter Hat Shaker card, I started off by cutting a large Eyelet Rectangle panel out of kraft cardstock to create my background using the Layered Winter Hats stencils. I’ve mentioned it already in previous posts, but when I stencil on kraft cardstock, I like to create a white base first in order to make the colors I add after pop even more, so I created this white base using the Layered Winter Hats stencil A and stencil B along with white pigment ink. Next I used those two stencils again, one after the other, but shifted them a little bit to the right, and applied broken china, uncharted mariner and pumice stone oxide inks to create my blue winter hats background. I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water and used a small brush to add splatters all over my panel, and I did the same with uncharted mariner distress spritz and then with brushed pewter distress mica spray.

I set my panel aside to dry, and worked on the Stitched Snowflakes. I cut all the bits and pieces out of two different shades of blue cardstock, vellum and white cardstock. The smallest snowflakes and the tiny center pieces are from Big Christmas Cupcake, I layered and assembled my snowflakes using liquid glue, and added decorations to each of them: a polymer clay snowflake from Candy Cane Lane on the center of each Stitched Snowflake, as well as Blue Sky pearls and Pacific Blue pearls on the branches. I set my snowflakes aside, and started to work on the Winter Hat Shaker.

I cut a Winter Hat Shaker panel out of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock using the main die, and cut the inside of the pompom using another die from the set. I colored the middle part of the hat using tumbled glass, broken china and uncharted mariner oxide inks, and used the Deco Leaves stencil along with uncharted mariner oxide ink again to add a knitted pattern to my hat. I cut the pompom part out of acetate, and attached it at the back of my hat using liquid glue. I added foam strips directly on the acetate, all along the curved edges of the pompom, and on the rest of the hat as well, I poured some Snow Days Beads inside the pompom, and cut a whole white Winter Hat Shaker panel that I stuck to the foam strips to totally close my shaker.

Next I flipped my Winter Hat Shaker over to add more details to the front. I cut another whole panel out of bristol cardstock, fussy cut the pompom, die cut the inside off, and colored it using pumice stone oxide ink. I also trimmed the bottom part of the hat, colored it using uncharted mariner, broken china, tumbled glass and pumice stone oxide inks in a fun stripe design, and attached those two elements to my hat using 1mm foam squares.

I stuck my Layered Winter Hats panel to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches light gray gingham panel, and then to a card base, using liquid glue, and I finally attached all the pieces, Winter Hat Shaker and Stitched Snowflakes, to my panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares.

For my greeting, I started off by cutting a Winter Script out of silver glitter cardstock. I also white heat embossed “warmest” and “wishes” from Sentiment Strips: Christmas on dark gray cardstock, trimmed both words into slim banners using a Sentiment Strips die, and then attached those three elements on the lower part of my card.

For the Snowflake Shaker, I repeated the same process as before, and started off by cutting a large kraft Eyelet Rectangle that I inked up using the Cascading Snowflakes stencil. I first created a white base using white pigment ink, next I shifted the stencil a little bit to the right, applied broken china oxide ink all over the stencil, and then added some touches of uncharted mariner here and there to darken the snowflakes. I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water and used my small brush to add splatters to my panel, and then I did the same with uncharted mariner distress spritz and with brushed pewter distress mica spray.

Next I cut multiple Stitched Snowflakes out of the same blue cardstock, white cardstock and vellum as before, and assembled them using liquid glue. The smallest snowflake and the center pieces are from Big Christmas Cupcake. I decorated them all using Candy Cane Lane snowflakes, Blue Sky pearls and Pacific Blue pearls, and moved on to the Snowflake Shaker.

I started off by cutting the front panel out of blue cardstock, and cut the center off to create a window inside my snowflake. Next I cut a whole snowflake out of acetate, trimmed the branches to keep the starry center piece only, and stuck that acetate center piece at the back of my front panel using liquid glue. I added foam strips on the acetate, all along the starry shape edges and on the branches as well, poured some Snow Days beads on the acetate, and cut another whole snowflake out of white cardstock that I attached to the foam strips to close my Snowflake Shaker.

I attached my Cascading Snowflakes panel on a light gray gingham panel, and then to a card base. I stuck the Snowflake Shaker to my card using liquid glue, and attached all the Stitched Snowflakes around it using 1mm and 2mm foam squares. I cut a Merry Script out of silver glitter cardstock, attached it in the center of the Snowflake Shaker using liquid glue, white heat embossed “Christmas” from Sentiment Strips: Christmas, trimmed it into a slim banner using a Sentiment Strips die, and stuck it below “Merry” using 1mm foam squares.

And that’s it! These were so fun to make, and I hope you like them. Thanks so much for stopping by, see you next time!

Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am so excited to be sharing a sneak peek at two of the new stencils that will be released! The first stencil I am sharing today is called Layered Winter Hats Stencils and I was inspired by the Berry Bright Shaker Beads colors. I started with a pink cardstock and used Distress Oxides in Festive Berries for the (A) stencil and a mix of Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the (B) stencil.

New release will be available October 16th

I also splattered white ink all over the background to give it a snow-like look and to bring in the white from the bead colors. Then I trimmed the background down to 4-⅛ x 5-⅜” (just slightly smaller than A2) and attached it to  a  cards base. I cut the Winter Hat Shaker Dies and Large Joy Shadow Dies from dark pink, green and white cardstock to decorate the card. I added the Berry Bright Shaker Beads with acetate to make the Winter Hat a shaker! For some final touches, I added a few Strawberry Shimmer Mix confetti to the card.

Moving on to a less bright and party looking card to a classic and elegant snowflake card, I used the Cascading Snowflakes Stencil with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide on kraft cardstock. After splattering it with some opaque white watercolor, I trimmed the panel to 4×5-¼” and used it as the back of my shaker panel. I diagonally cut some white cardstock of the same size and added acetate for the front of the shaker and filled it with Snow Days Shaker Beads.

To decorate the front, I cut Stitched Snowflakes Dies out of silver cardstock as well as stamping snowflakes and my sentiment from the Snowflakes Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to match with my stenciling. I also added a few Pacific Blue Pearls for some extra shine.

I hope you enjoyed these cards with two of the new Stencils – you’re going to love all of them along with everything else from this release!

Hi folks, Kavya from @handmadebykavya here with another fun sneak peek of this month’s holiday release. This release is filled with a bunch of holiday essentials that are perfect for creating quick holiday cards. I have two such cards for you today.

New release will be available October 16th

My first card uses the new Snowflakes stamp and coordinating die set. I stamped a bunch of snowflakes using blue dye ink and colored them with pastel shades of blue and purple.

I ink blended blue cardstock with shades of blue and purple as well. Die cut a large shadow Joy and adhered all the snowflakes around the sentiment. I then finished the card with a bunch of paint splatters and a smaller heat embossed sentiments from the snowflakes stamp set.

My next card is inspired by vintage baubles and uses the new Winter Greetings and Holiday Ornaments stamp sets. I started off by ink blending the edge of the pattern paper with maroon dye ink.

Then, I colored a bunch of baubles using black, green and yellow ochre shades. I adhered the baubles on the red pattern paper with foam tape and used tiny strips of paper for the strings.  Heat embossed a sentiment from Winter Greetings and I was done!

Happy Crafting,
Kavya

Hello, Gemma here today to share a look at two new stamp sets from the upcoming October release – Holiday Icons & Upright Greetings: Christmas.

New release will be available October 16th

For my first card, I stamped out images from the Holiday Icons stamp set and coloured them with copic markers. I die cut the images with the coordinating dies, then added a couple of die cut layers behind for dimension.

There are two different size circle dies in the set, which I used to create backgrounds for the icon images.

On my mini slimline card base, I adhered some patterned paper strips, cut with the Stitched Strips die set. I then added a sentiment from the Upright Greetings: Christmas stamp set, before adhering the four Holiday Icons to finish.

On my second card, I used the Holiday Icons stamp set to emboss a gold background on navy card. I spritz the panel with some sparkle spray and, once dry, adhered it to the side of an A2 notecard.

For my Upright Greetings: Christmas sentiment, I heat embossed in white on pink card, then die cut with the Stitched Strips die set.

I adhered the pink sentiment strip to the card, with two thinner gold glitter strips either side to finish.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek.  Join us tomorrow for another day of sneak peeks!

Hello friends, Arsenia here!   I’m thrilled to be sharing this sneak peek with you using the Holiday Ornaments stamp set with coordinating dies.  The ornaments are whimsical, beautiful, and have amazing details. I’m excited to share a quick but beautiful technique with you to create mass production with these beauties. Let’s get started.

New release will be available October 16th

The first step to my mass production with these gorgeous ornaments is choosing five colors of cardstock and choosing coordinating alcohol markers.  I did lots of heat embossing on the cardstock with white embossing powder with the Holiday Ornaments stamps. I took the coordinating alcohol markers and did some shading, this process goes quickly. Once I was done with the alcohol marker coloring I did some die cutting with the Holiday Ornaments dies and I was left with oodles of beautiful ornaments. 

For my first card I used Stacked Edges 1 dies with coordination cardstock for my background, next I made a frame with the two largest Wonky Stitched Rectangles Dies. I adhered the frame onto the cardbase with foam tape.  I went to my stash of ornaments and chose three of them, I decided I wanted to add some bling!  Are you ready for another sneak peek, I used some of the dies from the new Build An Ornament Die Set to add some bling to the ornaments, this die set is amazing!  To adorn the ornaments I stamped some bows from the Holiday Ornament stamp set and did some quick alcohol coloring.  The bows are so cute!   

Next I needed a sentiment, I used a sentiment from the new Winter Greetings Stamps with coordinating dies.  Friends this is an absolute must have, the sentiments are so cute and whimsical.  I stamped the sentiment onto coordination cardstock and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I added some of the adorable Holly and berries from the Holiday Ornaments with coordinating dies.  To finish the card I added lots of Sparkling Clear Sequins. Ta-Da card done and I adore it!

For my next card I decided to make a mini slimline.  The card base is 6 x 3 1/2 and the panel is 5 1/4 x 2 3/4.  For the card base I used Stitched Strips Dies and Simple Strips Dies with coordinating cardstock.  Now to work on the card panel, I decided to add some faux splatter behind each of the ornaments in coordinating ink.  I adhered the ornaments and it was time to embellish!

For the ornament toppers I used the new Build an Ornament Die Set and for some greenery I used the new Holiday Wreath Builder Die Set, oh friends you’re going to love this die set!  I added texture paste and rock candy glitter mix to the greenery.  I added some Images from the Holiday Ornament stamp set with coordinating dies.  For my sentiment I used the Sentiment Strips: Christmas stamp set and Sentiment Strip Dies!  I took a 1/8 inch of red cardstock and embellished the sentiment, card done!  It’s super cute and beautiful, I love it!

I still had some ornaments left and decided to make some gift tags, I used the Eyelet Rectangles Dies and the Simple Strips Dies.  The cute sentiments are from Winter Greetings Stamps with coordinating dies!  The tags were quick and easy,  having a stash of ornaments makes the creating process a breeze.  

For my final card I stamped the images from the Holiday Ornaments Stamp set and my Olo markers to color the images.  For my card base I used Layered Christmas Lights Stencils. I only used the greenery stencil, to add some more interest to the background I used Stacked Edges 1 Dies. I kept the card panel simple, I added a Scallop Square Die.  I backed the ornaments and merry sentiment with some glitter cardstock.  I added lots of 38 gauge silver wire to the card panel before I added all my images. To finish the card I used a sentiment from the Sentiment Strips: Christmas set!  

The release is absolutely gorgeous and has lots to keep you busy for the holiday crafting.  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek.  Have a fabulous day, friends!