Blue Friendly Snowman by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  I’m sharing another monochromatic blue Christmas card today.  It features the Aurora Snowflake cling stamp, Layered Friendly Snowman die and Brilliant Joy die from the current 2023 Christmas collection.  

Created the sky using the VersaMark Resist technique.  Stamped the snowflakes background onto white glossy paper with VersaMark ink then set aside to dry (could use your heat tool to speed up the process).  A ground mask was then fussy cut from masking paper and adhered to the bottom of the panel.  Ink blended Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon distress inks (DI) next, and wiped off excess ink with a paper towel to complete the technique.  The VersaMark ink stamped image resisted the blended inks.

The snowman pieces were die cut from white cardstock.  The two back body layers were colored with C0/C2 Copic Sketch markers.  The scarf and earmuffs were ink blended with Blueprint Sketch DI using a finger blending brush.  Shaded the nose with a black Polychromos pencil.  Didn’t colour it orange in keeping with the blue monochromatic color scheme.

The JOY sentiment layers were die cut from Bristol and white glitter papers.  The letters were ombré ink blended with all three blue DIs mentioned above to tie it all together.  Die cut JOY two more times from thick white paper and stacked for dimension.  Assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.

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

Supplies

 

94746 Layered Friendly Snowman

94759 Brilliant Joy

CS2083 Aurora Snowflake Cling Stamp

GP1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

Merry Christmas Card by Donna Sledzik

Good morning everyone!  I have a soft pastel color themed Christmas card for you today.

I began by applying Speckled Egg Distress Ink to a white cardstock panel and drying it completely before the next step.  

Next I used a blending brush to apply Gold metallic ink through the Starlight Snowflake stencil to the inked panel.  This gives it a very soft look.

I die cut the center of the panel using one of the Nested Globe dies. 

I used the Snow Flurries stencil and Speckled Egg Distress Ink to add color in the center of a white cardstock panel, which goes behind the die cut card front.  

The trees were die cut from green cardstock and glued to the center of the globe cut out.

I die cut the snowflakes from white glitter cardstock and glued them to the card front.  

Then I used foam tape to adhere the sentiment strip to the card.

The card front was glued to white card base using foam tape.

To finish the card, I added some Fairy Crystals and Clear Jewels for a little sparkle.

That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

94751 Layered Evergreen Trees

ST001 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings White Tabs

94680 Alpine Snowflakes

94532 Nested Globes

88625 Starlight Snow Stencil

88626 Snow Flurries Stencil

CRY102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

JWL001 Clear Jewels

Layered Hummingbird Fall Greetings by Jean Okimoto

It may feel like it's already winter, but it's only fall - time to send autumn cards.  A felt Layered Hummingbird and falling Gypsy Oak Leaves set the scene on a backdrop of woodgrain blocks.  Hi, Jean here, let's get started...

Cut orange-y ink-blended heavy white cardstock to fit the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder.  Spritz both sides with a light mist of water and emboss it.  Spritz it lightly with Imagine's Gold Sheer Shimmer Spritz and heat-set the ink.  Lightly ink the embossed pattern with Brilliance Cosmic Copper.  Dry the ink, then cut the cardstock with the tray die included in the set.  Attach 4 of the offcut blocks to a natural A6 card (4.5" x 6.25").

Attach adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet to cream felt and cut the main portion of Layered Hummingbird. Cut the beak/head section from black cardstock.  Cut the remaining sections  from the green Rainbow Reflections 6x6 and an orange sheet from the Sunny Orange Collection.  Here's a picture of this sweet bird - he'd be great in any color combination!  

Cut Gypsy Oak Leaves from two shades of orange from the Sunny Orange Collection.

Glue two layers of natural cardstock together and cut the background of Happy Fall Posh Script.  Pressure-emboss it using the rubber mat and plate(s) required for your machine.  Cut the top greeting layer from the orange Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6.  Assemble the greeting - embossing debosses the background to easily attach the top layer.

Attach the diecuts to the background - use foamtape for the hummingbird.  Add the bronze-y Treasure Chest Fairy Gemstones.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting...keep warm and have a great weekend!

 

 

Supplies

 

94755

94744

ef1040

94747

gem101

sp1002

fp1003

gp1007

Snowy Pine Trees by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  My monochromatic masculine Christmas card today was inspired by this card on IG made with an embossing folder.  I used the Pine Tree Grove die from the current 2023 Christmas release with the Layered Narrow Pines dies from last year’s Christmas collection for my card.

I didn’t have two gradient blue color cardstock, so all pine tree layers were die cut from white Bristol paper, ink blended with either Stormy Sky or Faded Jeans distress inks using blending brushes, then glued together.  A clean tree sample can be seen to the left of the card in the photo above.

The torn paper mask technique was used again, this time to create the snowy hills on navy blue cardstock.  Printer paper was torn to look like slopes, then white pigment ink was applied over their edges.

Next, arranged and adhered the trees onto the panel before splatteringn with diluted white gouache paint for falling snow.  Painted white gouache paint at the tree bases and on the trees for accumulated snow.  White heat embossed the sentiment on a navy blue cardstock strip to finish. 

That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful week.

Supplies

 

94736 Pine Tree Grove

94706 Layered Narrow Pines

CL5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp Set

Birch Tree Forest Cardinal by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  Keeping the bird theme going, I have a vintage brown and red Christmas card to share today featuring the Layered Cardinal die and Birch Tree Forest embossing folder (EF) from the current 2023 Christmas release

The Layered Cardinal, Classic Pine Needle Sprigs and pine cones were all die cut from white paper then ink blended with distress inks (DI) using blending brushes:

reds - Abandoned Coral, Lumberjack Plaid

brown - Gathered Twigs

black - Black Soot

yellow - Fossilized Amber

The background was created by “stamping” with the EF.  Inked the flat side of the EF with Brushed Corduroy and Gathered Twigs DI, spritz with water then pressed onto watercolor paper.  Just like you would for the stencil monoprint technique, except with an EF… so EF monoprint! 🤗

Left the panel to air dry then trimmed down to A2 size before black heat embossing the sentiment from Shining Star with clear glitter embossing powder directly on the panel for a bit of sparkle.  Assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.

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

Supplies

 

94754 Layered Cardinal

EF1039 Birch Tree Forest 3D Embossing Folder

94757 Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

94595 Smooth Pine Cones

CL5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp Set

Pink Christmas Hummingbird House by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and in support, I created a monochromatic pink Christmas card using several new products from the current 2023 Christmas release.

 

The Woodgrain Bird House, Layered Hummingbird and Classic Pine Needle Sprigs were all die cut out from white paper.  Colored them with Picked Raspberry and Black Soot distress inks (DI) using various blending brushes.  The snowy layer on the roof was die cut a second time from pink Delicate Pastel glitter paper for some sparkle.

 

 

After seeing a post recently on a crafty friend’s blog, the Torn Paper Mask technique was used to create the cloud background.  This was done by ink blending Spun Sugar DI over the edges of torn printer paper… so no need for a cloud edge stencil! 🤗

 

The cloud background was then die cut down with the third largest A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Assembled the card onto an A2 size white woodgrain panel and added falling snow with a white gel pen (even on the die cut pieces because snow doesn’t avoid them). 😉  A Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Black Tab finished it off.  

A quick note…  I will be linking this card to the Pink Christmas challenge at Jingle Belles where $4 per card entered will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Fun creating a pink (or predominantly pink) Christmas card while helping fundraise for the Cure?… it’s a win-win!  That does it from me.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful weekend.

Supplies

 

94742 Woodgrain Bird House

94755 Layered Hummingbird

94757 Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

ST003 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Black Tabs

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

Merry Christmas with 3D Embossing by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a 3D embossed Christmas card in pinks and greens.

For my card I used the new "Poinsettia Plaid" paper pack, the "A2 Rectangle Frames Die" set, a new "Foil Greeting White Tab," plus the new "3D Perfect Poinsettias embossing folder with dies".
Here's a closer look:

This embossing folder also coordinates with the newly released "Poinsettia Rub-Ons" if you don't have time to color the images. Today I chose to use ink blending tools, mostly small pencils to color the larger embossed images, and watercoloring with Zigs on the smaller die cut flowers.

I cut and embossed 2 of the individual poinsettia with the coordinating dies from the embossing folder set and watercolored them first. Then after they dried, I put them back in the folder to re-emboss for a deep impression. I trimmed down the main panel which was embossed on watercolor card to 3.75" X 5". For the main panel I used my finger daubers and blending stick pencils with green, brown and pink inks.

Using the A2 Rectangle frame dies I cut 4 extra from the 2nd largest in the set to put behind my watercolored panel for dimension, then I used the largest to cut the plaid frame from the new Poinsettia Plaid paper pack. Once I had put them together, and adhered the plaid panel to my card base, I added the top 2 individual watercolored poinsettia die cuts to the top of the ones on the main panel for dimension. Lastly I added some gold jewels from the Christmas Jewels pack.

Here's one last look:



I hope you like my card for today! I had a lot of fun creating it. Be sure to come back each day for more inspiration from the design team.

Supplies

 

PP1023 Poinsettia Plaid 6x6 pack

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

EF1037 Perfect Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder and Dies

ST001 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings White Tabs

JWL005 Christmas Fairy Jewels

Fall-ing Gypsy Oak Leaves by Jean Okimoto

Capture the colors of a autumn sunset on a background for the new Gypsy Oak Leaves.  Heat-embossed speckles and the new Happy Fall Posh Script greeting add golden highlights.  Hi, Jean here - with another way to use the great new die from the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder set.

Attach Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder die to smooth white cardstock and create ink-blended blocks of warm fall pastels.  Distress Oxides were used here - spiced marmalade, kitsch flamingo, wild honey and dried marigold.  Remove and clean the die and heat-set the inks.  

The new Snow Flurries Stencil is great for random scattered speckles  - perfect for those of us who are ink-splatter-challenged.  Stencil a few of the dots with VersaMark and heat-emboss them with detail gold powder.  Diecut the blocks - save the extras for another project.

Cut Gypsy Oak Leaves from light- and medium-coral cardstock.  Assemble the leaves - slightly offset.

Glue 2 layers of white cardstock together and diecut the Happy Fall Posh Script Background.  Pressure-emboss it with the detailed greeting using the rubber embossing mat and plate(s) required for your machine.  Cut the detailed greeting from the gold Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad 6x6.

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

Thanks for visiting...have a great weekend!

 

 

Supplies

 

94744 Gypsy Oak Leaves

94747 Happy Fall Posh Script

Ef1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

88626 Snow Flurries Stencil

cry101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

Christmas Chickadees by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  I’m so excited for the current 2023 Christmas release!  So many beautiful products and I can’t wait to work my way through it!  My simple Christmas card today features dies Nestled Chickadee Duo, Vintage Lantern, and Classic Pine Needle Sprigs along with the Shining Star stamp set for the sentiment.

 

All black pieces were die cut from grey cardstock and ink blended/shaded with Black Soot distress ink (DI) to give them dimension.  The pine needles were die cut from light green cardstock and shading added with Rustic Wilderness DI.  The rest of the pieces were die cut from white.  

For the glow of the light, traced the lantern with a pencil onto a white scrap, fussy cut it out then ink blended it with Antique Linen and Brushed Corduroy DI.  Antique Linen DI was also applied to the chickadees’ white bodies.   Having their eyes white didn’t look right, so filled in their eyes with a black Polychromos pencil.  The sentiment was heat embossed on white cardstock with gold embossing powder.  Assembled the card onto white woodgrain paper then mounted it onto a white card base  to finish.

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

 

Supplies

94741 Nestled Chickadee Duo

94743 Vintage Lantern

94757 Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

CL5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp Set

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

Fall Blessings by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  Pumpkins are not just for Halloween. 😉  I’m using the Autumn Pumpkin die from the 2023 Fall collection again, and this time using it to create a fall / thanksgiving card.

All images / pieces were die cut from various white paper and/or cardstock.  Ink blending with blending brushes and distress inks (DIs) were used to color them, except for the pumpkin and leaves.  Copic Sketch markers E41/43, W3 and BG99 were used to color the white pumpkin, while the orange leaves were done by ink smooshing diluted Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge DIs.  The large Layered Daisies were die cut three times and their centers were from Riverbank Large Layered Blooms.

DIs used include:
large daisies - Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Gathered Twigs
small daisies - Mustard Seed, Wilted Violet
Layered Greenery Stems - Iced Spruce 

The Mini Varsity Alphabet letters were die cut from gold Vintage Pastel Mirror paper and adhered onto a dark brown cardstock strip.  The background panel is cream woodgrain paper scored vertically at 1” intervals, then an Antique Linen DI cube was dragged direct-to-paper down its length to help bring out the woodgrain texture.  Assembled the card onto a cream color card base to finish.

That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful week,  

Supplies

 

94690 Autumn Pumpkin

94694 Layered Greenery Stems

94472 Layered Daisies

94649 Riverbank Large Layered Blooms

94342 Mini Vintage Varsity Alphabet

SH44002 Cream Woodgrain Paper Pack

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad