Christmas Card Number Six

Hello

Sorry for the delay this week, I've just had one of those weeks where everything I touch seems to fall apart.
Today's card features the humble Christmas tree again and a really bold colourful background.

Materials needed:

• 3 pieces of green patterned paper, one striped pattern paper, and two light coloured patterned papers.
• Sliver embossing powder and embossing ink
• "holiday greetings' stamp
• A sliver and black gel pen

To make the card:

• Cut the striped paper to fit the front of the card and adhere.  Cut a small strip of one of the light coloured papers and adhere towards the bottom of the card.
• From each of the green papers, cut a Christmas tree in three different sizes.  If desired add some embossing or glitter to the trees.  Cut a heart from the other light patterned paper.  From a scrap piece of paper cut out three small rectangles to be the trunk of the trees.
• Stamp and emboss the sentiment on to the heart.
• Adhere two of the Christmas trees directly to the front of the card.  Using dimensional foam adhere the third Christmas tree in between the first two.  Also with dimensional foam, adhere the heart towards the right side of the card.
• Using the black gel pen create dash lines around the outside of the heart.  With the silver pen do the same around the background piece.

I hope today's card has provided you with some inspiration.

Till next time

Stacey

Christmas Card Number Five

Hello!

Today's card features a new stamp set I got last week that says exactly what I feel about Christmas, that it should be about family.

Materials needed:

• Green, red, and two different patterned papers
• Gold ribbon
• Gold embossing powder and embossing ink
• Sentiment stamp
• Gold gel pen

To make the card:

• Stamp and emboss the sentiment on to the red piece of paper.  Trim the two patterned pieces of paper down to create small sections to adhere on to the red piece.  Use the gel pen to create a few dash lines and cut a triangle from the bottom.
• Pinch the ribbon in the middle and tie it loosely with some string, adhere the middle down onto the green paper and the ends of the ribbon on to the back of the paper.  Secure the green paper to your card base.
• Using dimensional adhesive, adhere the red piece over the center of the ribbon.

There you have it.  I love what this sentiment says, it goes into the deeper meaning of Christmas not just the 'buy everything' kind of Christmas that we are subjected to every year.

Till next time

Stacey

Christmas Card Number Four

Hello!

Welcome back, today's Christmas card has a modern sleek look with purple and sliver colours.

Materials:

• White and purple card
• Sliver embossing powder and embossing ink
• A 'Merry Christmas' stamp
• A star shaped punch
• Gems

To make this card:

Punch out 15 stars from the purple card and three from the white.  Adhere 5 purple and 1 white star together with the white star on the top, do this two more times.  Adhere the stacked stars onto the card base and form a line of gems from the top of the card down to the top of each star (I only used silver coloured gems and coloured every second gem purple with a sharpie).  Stamp and emboss the 'Merry Christmas' on a small piece of white card and cut a slightly bigger piece of purple card to be adhered behind the sentiment.  Adhere the sentiment with dimensional foam to the bottom portion of the card.

There you have it!  The stars are a little fiddly and you do use quite a few gems, but if you want to replicate this look in large quantities using a couple of gel pens in place of the gems would make the card much faster and cheaper to produce.

Till next time

Stacey

Christmas card number three

Hello!

Sorry I didn't post yesterday, I had a job interview in the morning and ended up spending most of the day out of the house.
So this week is another Christmas card which features the classic image of Santa.

To make this card you will need:

• Green and white card
• Swirly embossing folder
• A Santa stamp and a Merry Christmas stamp
• Felt pens (I used a combination of sharpies and colouring pencils)
• Black and embossing ink
• Silver embossing powder
• Clear glitter
• PVA Glue
• Sliver gems

To begin, emboss the green card in the embossing folder and adhere to the card base.  Stamp the Santa in black on a piece of white card and colour him in.  Mix a small amount of glitter with the glue and gently paint it onto the Santa (I put the glitter along the fluffy edges of his coat and hat).  Set aside to dry.  Stamp and emboss the Merry Christmas on a strip of the white card and cut a triangle out of one end to make a banner.  When the Santa is all dry adhere the white strip with the sentiment behind him with dimensional foam.  Place dimensional foam behind the rest of the Santa and regular adhesive behind the sentiment and adhere to the front of the card.  Place a few gems on the background because its for Christmas and Christmas is supposed to sparkle.

And there you have it! It is quite an easy card as it doesn't contain many elements, but the colouring can take a long time and the drying of the glitter/glue mix just adds to the time taken.  I still think its cute though, what do you think?  Let me know by commenting, don't be shy!

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Till next week!

Stacey