Hello everyone.  I have a rustic masculine Christmas card to share today using more products from the 2024 Yuletide collection. 

 

Started with the background again and die cut the Narrow Woodgrain Planks from brown cardstock.  Darker brown cardstock was then trimmed to 4x5.25-inches.  Covered it with a sheet of double-sided adhesive and attached the planks to cover it.  For a spotlight effect, ink blended Gathered Twigs and Black Soot distress inks around the perimeter of the panel.

 

 

The candle base and top layers were die cut from white glitter and white mirror paper, respectively.  Shading was then added to them using cool grey Copic Sketch markers C00/0/1/2/3.  The flames were die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper and colored with Y11/15 yellow Copic Sketch markers.  The pine cones were die cut from dark brown and Kraft cardstock, while the pine needles were prepped as described in a previous post HERE.  The sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder on a strip of red Yuletide Plaid paper and a fish tail cut out for something different.  Assembled the card onto a white card base then added snow details with a white Posca pen to finish.

 

 

And that does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful day.

Supplies

 

94812 Merry and Bright Candles

94802 Pinecone Duo

94823 Narrow Woodgrain Planks

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

PP1031 Yuletide Plaid 6x6 pack

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

GP1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

I decided today to try to make a musical birthday card using the WAVY SHEET MUSIC 94809, THE HUDDLED SPARROW 94838 and the WATCHFUL BIRD 94804 as bluebirds, (all from the Yuletide Collection), and the HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBUT SCRIPT 94773. 

I began with a white side fold note card.  I die cut the WAVY SHEET MUSIC 94809 from BLACK GLOSSY PAPER SH44004 and added it to the front of the card.

I used the internet to find piano sheet music for "Over the Rainbow" and added the beginning notes and other marks to the top staff on the notecard.

I die cut the pieces for both the WATCHFUL BIRD 94804 and the HUDDLED SPARROW 94838 from white card stock.  I then looked at images of bluebirds on the internet to get their coloring somewhat close to normal.  I used colored pencils to color the parts before assembling them and added tiny black jewels for eyes.

I chose the HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBUT SCRIPT 94773 for the sentiment, using a scrap of the black glossy paper for the background and a scrap of blue card stock from my scrap basket for the detailed lettering.  I added a light blue jewel to dot the i.

To assemble the card, I used dimensional foam dots to add the birds near the center of the card and more foam dots under the Happy Birthday which I placed on the last staff line.

I think I'll have to send this to someone who could play the notes on a piano and sing at least the first few words!  

Happy Crafting!

Wavy Sheet Music 94809                   Glossy Black Paper SH44004

Watchful Bird 94804               Huddled Sparrow 94838       Happy Birthday Debut Script 94773

 

Greetings friends. I want to share a wax resist technique today using a white Crayola crayon and an embossing folder from Memory Box. I think it gives the finished background a batik look.

To make the background, I started with some 140lb watercolor paper and ran it through my die cut machine to emboss the paper. While the paper was still in the folder, I then rubbed a white crayon over all the raised edges:

I must apologize for the picture. I made a lot of backgrounds and took a picture of this step using the tree background rather than the swirls I ended up using on the card.

Next, I placed my paper in a box and sprayed it with various sprays I had on hand. I must admit, I used an assortment of water based sprays I owned. The brand really doesn't matter for this step. Choose colors you like. You could also wet the paper and use watercolor paints if you don't have sprays:

Once the paper was completely dry, I placed it under heavy books so that it would lay flat.

To finish the card, I added my sentiment and colored my gift with Copic markers that would match the colors of the background. I am always happy to have extra birthday cards on hand. here is a close up of the background:

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you will try using wax resist as a technique with your embossing folders.

Have a great weekend,

 

 

Supplies

 

EF1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

94761 Pretty Presents

cl5270 Elegant Succulent Sentiments clear stamp set

 

Woodgrain panel diecuts are great for piers, birdhouses, log cabins, rustic backgrounds - and Christmas trees.  The new Narrow Woodgrain Planks are perfectly-proportioned to create a wonky tree - without the labor of measuring and cutting wood planks to the right lengths.  Hi, Jean building a DIY holiday tree design..

Cut Narrow Woodgrain Planks from a green 6x6 in the Greenery Collection.  Save the longest piece for another project.  Cut a ¼" x 4-¼" strip of the Kraft Woodgrain Paper for the trunk.  Ink it lightly with Vintage Sepia VersaFine. 

Attach adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet to bright red wool-blend felt to stabilize it and prevent adhesives from saturating it.  Cut Layered Birds.  Cut the birds again from the bright red Festive Glitter Pad 6x6.  Assemble the birds in a combination of felt and glittered bases and overlays - save the extra birds for another project.  

Cut the new Snowflake Joy background from the prepped red felt too.  Cut the detailed top layer from heavy white cardstock.  Cut two center snowflakes from the bright red Festive Glitter Pad 6x6 - for the treetop and the greeting.

Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼").  Add clear Fairy Drops.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting our blog...have a great weekend!

 

 

Supplies

 

94797 Snowflake Joy

94823

94684

drp101 Fairy Drops

gp1006 Festive Glitter Pad

sp1011

sh44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

Hello everyone!  Today's card features a new stamp from the Yuletide release.  I love to color in stamped images, and this is a perfect stamp to do just that.

I stamped the image twice on a white cardstock panel and used Prisma Color Pencils to color in the images.  Once the coloring was done, I lightly inked around the edge of the panel with Antique Linen Distress ink and spattered it with gold ink.  I mounted the panel to a black cardstock mat and used foam tape to adhere it to a white card base.

The word "joy" was die cut from red cardstock and glued to a white shadow die cut.  I used foam tape to adhere it to the card.  

I stamped the sentiment with Versa Fine Ink, white heat embossed it and glued it underneath the word joy.

That's it for today!  Have a great week!

 

 

Supplies

 

94763 Bello Joy

CS2084 Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp set

SP1012 Blush 6x6 pack

CL5273 Festive Christmas Greetings clear stamp set

Hi everyone!  I have a birthday card using the Beautiful Background stamp set.  This is in the Yuletide release but this stamp set is versatile and can be used for any occasion. 

Background:

Stamp the larger stamp from the Beautiful Background stamp set and white heat emboss on a A2 size card panel.  Spray the panel with Distress Spray Stains in Shaded Lilac, Speckled Egg, and Crushed Olive.  Heat dry.  Sprinkle with water and splatter the sprays using the end of the nozzle.  Dry half way and then lightly pat with a paper towel.  Repeat process until you get a background you like. Dry completely.  Fussy cut out the foliage from the top of the paper.  Use a Zig real brush in a green matching Crushed Olive to color in the leaves.  Use a white gel or paint pen to color in the berries.  Add foam adhesive to the back.

Bird:

Die cut the Huddled Sparrow from heavy white card stock.  Ink blend with the same distress ink colors but in Oxide.  Use a orange for the beak and a black gel pen for the eye.  Adhere together using the envelope as a guide. 

Assembly:

Paint a A2 white card panel with half Distress Dusty Concord and Villainous Potion all over.  Let dry.  Adhere the background stamped panel and then add a White gold Happy Birthday Foil Greeting White Tab and then the sparrow on the left top of the sentiment.

 

Supplies

 

94838 Huddled Sparrow

cs2084 Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp set

ST006 Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Tabs

Layer poinsettias, pinecones and pine branches on a holiday design from the 2024 Yuletide Collection.  Double-embossing adds shadowy texture to the new Pinecone Duo too.  Hi, Jean here with another design for your stash of holiday ideas.

Cut Pinecone Duo background and detailed overlay from dark brown cardstock.  Spritz both sides of the background diecuts with a light mist of water.  Pressure-emboss them using the rubber embossing mat and plates required for your machine.  

Sponge or brayer the detailed overlays with VersaMark.  Heat-emboss them with detail clear powder.  Assemble the pinecones.

Cut two sets of Petite Poinsettias from the bright pinkish-red Blush Collection 6x6.  Cut 3 sets of the centers from the orange Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6. Assemble 1 small and 2 large poinsettias.

Cut the evergreens from the Pinecone Duo and Pine Branches sets from a dark yellow-green Greenery Collection 6x6.

Cut a dark green Greenery 6x6 with the 2-½" wide Nested Globes die.  Cut a diagonal red and gold Yuletide Plaid 6x6 with the same die.  Trim the bottom corners with a corner rounding punch.

Stamp the greeting - from the new Holiday Wishes Clear Stamp and Die Set - on natural cardstock with Tulip Red VersaFine Clair.  Dry the iink, then cut the greeting with the smallest Nested Globes die.  Trim the straight end so the diecut is about 1-⅞" long.

Attach the diecuts to a natural A6 card - 4-½ x 6-¼" - use foam dots for the right edge of the greeting.

Thanks for visiting...see you on Friday!

 

Supplies

 

94802 Pinecone Duo

94822

94817

cl5286D Holiday Wishes clear stamp and die set

pp1031 Yuletide Plaid 6x6 pack

sp1011

sp1012 Blush 6x6 pack

gp1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

Hello everyone.  I have a Christmas {in September} card to share today. 😉  I played with the Wintertime Bear dies and Frosted Trees 3D embossing folder (EF) from the 2024 Yuletide collection to create a snowy winter scene.  Normally inspiration comes from the images, but this time the sentiment was the starting point.  Took some creative licence with the Wintertime Bear and created a bear couple who traded in their skates and skis for some warm winter walking boots. 😂

The bears were die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper and shaded and colored with cool grey Copic Sketch markers C00/0/1/2/3/7.  Their accessories were die cut from two patterns of the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 paper.  The pom-pom and brim of the hat were also die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper.  Dark grey dye ink was ink blended on the bottom layers of the hat and scarves to give dimension. 

The background is a twist on the Blackout EF technique.  The technique involves dragging a black ink pad direct-to-paper on the debossed side of the embossed panel.  That would work great for a night scene, but since I was going for daytime, Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac distress oxide inks were used instead.  To avoid contaminating them with the direct-to-paper method, the inks were pressed onto an acetate sheet first then the inks were picked up with a rubber brayer and applied to the panel.  This also gives a more blended effect, as seen in the photo below.

The sentiment was white heat embossed on black cardstock next.  Trimmed down the background panel and adhered to the top of a white card base.  Fussy cut the ground area from white glitter paper and adhered at the bottom.  To complete the scene and make it cohesive, added falling snow over/on top of the bears and ground with a white Posca pen.  Why you ask?  Because snow falls everywhere.  Oops… looks like I made the snow so round that the accessories look polka dotted. 😂

Happy Labor Day to those who are enjoying this holiday.  That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful week.

Supplies

 

94819 Wintertime Bear

PP1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

EF1045 Frosted Trees 3D Embossing Folder

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

GP1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

Somehow September has arrived, and with it, a new card challenge has begun. Thank you to everyone who participated in the "holiday" challenge. We are always love to see what you create and to gain new inspiration.

The winner of the blog badge was Pat J from Splitcoast Stampers. We loved her elegant design.

The random winner of the August challenge was Vicki from the He"artful" Validation of Vicki blog.

Please contact me at [email protected] with your full name and US address to claim your prize.

Want to play along in this month's challenge?  The rules are simple - just create a project following the theme, use at least one Memory Box stamp or die on your project and link your entry to this blog post.  You can make a card, a scrapbook page, a home decor item, etc..  To encourage participants with various levels of stamping experience, one entry will be selected at random to win a prize. Enter as many times as you want, but your name will only be entered once into the random prize drawing.   In addition, the design team will select their favorite entry to  be highlighted on the Outside the Box blog and that designer will receive our winner badge to proudly display on their blog. 

You don't have to have a blog in order to participate.   You can upload your project to any online gallery and link it to this post.   In fairness to other players, we reserve the right to remove entries that do not use at least one Memory Box product.  You are also welcome to link your design to other challenges.  Feel free to grab our badge to post on your blog post or side bar.

Please note, because of issues with shipping internationally, only domestic entries will be eligible to be shipped prizes. We are so very sorry that we had to add this stipulation.

Leaves and trees are such a big part of the upcoming months. Do you like to use oranges, reds and yellows to create autumnal designs or are you already thinking of pines covered in trees? Perhaps you ignore all of that and only like the budding leaves of spring. We would really love to see your interpretation of foliage for this month's theme.  All we ask is that you use at least one Memory Box product in your project. The rest is up to you.

Here are some samples to help inspire you:

There are several ways for you to enter the contest:

1.)  Link your finished work below

2.)  Enter on Instagram by tagging your sketch project with the #mbchallenge111 hashtag

You have until the end of the day (EST) on Sunday, September 29th.   Don't forget, you have to use at least one Memory Box item on your entry and only domestic entries are eligible to be shipped prizes. 

Here is what you could win:

 

 

Supplies

 

94796 Slender Pine Trees

94797 Snowflake Joy

pp1031 Yuletide Plaid 6x6 pack

Send joyful greetings and add clear, glassy highlights to the new Frosted Lantern.  It's diecut twice, then reassembled for the realistic look of a garden ornament on a winter night.  Hi, Jean here sharing holiday slimline design from our 2024 Yuletide Collection.

We're using all 4 of the 6x6 solid-core color collections here.  From the top - Sunrise, Greenery, Blush and Lagoon - perfect for diecutting, backgrounds and custom-colored card fronts and frames.

Cut the candle - from the new Frosted Lantern set - from a bright red Blush 6x6 sheet and white cardstock.  Remove the red wick and flame.  Color the white flame with a yellow marker, then trim the sides and bottom of the candle to fit behind the red (flameless) candle.  Place it on a piece of the pale yellow 6x6 in the Sunrise Collection.  Cover the candle and yellow cardstock with packing tape - press the center first, then press out to the edges, eliminating any air bubbles and laminating the candle onto the yellow background.  Cut it with the large bottom section of the Frosted Lantern.

Cut the entire lantern from a dark teal 6x6 from the Lagoon Collection.  Assemble the lantern and insert the laminated pieces to add a warm glowing background.  Cut the snowy layers from a white Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad 6x6.

Cut the solid Bello Joy background from the dark teal Lagoon 6x6.  Add an extra layer of dimension to the greeting by pressure-embossing the teal background with the detailed overlay die. Spritz both sides of the teal background with a light mist of water then emboss it using the rubber embossing mat and plates required for your machine.

We're using the 1-⅜", ⅞" and ⅝" wide Slim Basic Rectangle Layers dies to cut the accent strips.  Cut the strips from a dark green 6x6 in the Greenery Collection, the red Blush Collection 6x6 and the floral print from the new Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack.  

Attach the diecuts to a white slimline card ((3-⅝" x 8-½").  Add clear Christmas Fairy Crystals.  Cut a slimline-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting our blog - sorry it took so long for the pictures to be loaded, and not distorted.  Have a great holiday weekend!

 

Supplies

 

pp1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

94800

94763

94556 Slim Basic Rectangle Layers

cry102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

sp1010

sp1012 Blush 6x6 pack

sp1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

gp1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad