Merry Christmas

Hi All, it's Vicki here today with a last minute Christmas card - for my mailman.  [I seem to always need a last minute card for this season 😀]

 

While this card looks pretty simple, it's step induced.  I started by using the Tin Roof Stencil to create a textured background panel.  [My sandwich combo; base, plate, embossing pad, stencil, card stock, plate]  I like the texture it adds without being too distracting.  I used the negative part of the Merry Christmas Die, being sure to add the small pieces to distinguish the letters better.  I also sponged 2 small panels to put behind the negative cut.

 

Lastly, I cut 3 layers each of a snowflake from Funky Flakes Dies.  The top layer is red mirror paper for pretty added shine. I am happy with this card.  I think my mailman will like it too.

The products I used are on sale, and yep, my code works on sale items too!

Have a wonderful Season and I will see you next year~

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The Most Wonderful Time!

Welcome back!  I've got a quick and easy Christmas card for you today!

I started with a panel cut from a gel print I previously made.  I love spending a whole crafty session with my gel plate and some acrylic paints, stencils, and other household items and just making bunches of prints to use as background!  I'm getting low on these so I think my next session I'll share some of the fun with you!

I used bubble wrap and burlap to texturize this one...

Then I cut some Funky Flakes from pink glitter paper and glued them onto the background panel in a random pattern.  I also used some of the extra circles that were cut... because why wouldn't I?

Finally, I stamped a sentiment from the Snow Sayings stamp set in pink and a few sequins!  Easy peasy to make bunches of these and fairly flat for mailing!  You could even leave off the sequins if you prefer!

That's me for today!  Thanks so much for stopping and hope you come again soon!

A Few Christmas Tags

It's time again for my CAS-ual Fridays day here on my blog [and over on the CFS Blog too].  I am starting to get ready for Christmas.  In a few of my to-be-sent Christmas cards, I include tags as a small gift.  Yeah, it costs more in postage, but like I said, a small gift.

I used the To Go Cup Die for the base of my tags.  Using the Snowflake Stencil, I sponged on red ink, and then sponged on green ink using one of the the snowflakes from the same stencil.

I used the sentiments from Snowy Sayings, and lastly, I used the smallest snowflake from Funky Flakes Dies, and die cut with red and green glitter paper.  Once everything was adhered, I punched a hole and put some twine for hanging.  These needed something, so I added some gems from my stash.

That's it for me today.  Do you use tags on your presents?  They are a small personalized addition that I believe recipients like. 😀

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It's the Most

Hi All, it's Vicki here today from All I Do Is Stamp.  Today I fully utilized the fun Pinked Slimline Dies.  This set has many layers, and miscellaneous shapes to add to your slimline cards.

It's getting close to that time of year where I send out lots of cards.  I need to get my stockpile built up!

So today, you get to see a Christmas card that was inspired from this photo from [my friend] Pinterest.

 

There are a lot of layers on this fun card, but it still is flat for easy [and normal cost] mailing.  I love that!

I used the Funky Flakes Dies for the snowflakes [2 layers each for dimensions], and used a sentiment from Snowy Sayings.

That's it for me today.  How are your holiday cards coming along?  Are you ahead of the game? ;)

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Merry Christmas with a Bang!

Lisa here and today I'm playing with some cool Wow Embossing products!

I started by cutting a sheet of two sided adhesive about 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and attached it to a panel of cardstock the same size and peeled the cover sheet off exposing the adhesive.  I cut a bunch of snowflakes from the Funky Flakes Fri-Dies and randomly placed them onto the adhesive.  I filled in the open spots with some of the circles from inside the flakes.

I sprinkled on the Wow Bang Embossing Powder and tapped it off and then heated it up.

Love that the die cuts stayed white and are almost embedded in the embossed background!  And it was easy to add a little extra embossing powder where I wanted it using the Wow Mixed Media Brush and a bit more powder.

I didn't want to cover up any of my background so I just added a Scalloped Tag cut out of vellum and then added the Merry Christmas die cut from silver foiled cardstock and a ribbon.

That's me for today!  In case you saw anything you needed here today I have this for you:

Thank you so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

Holiday Wishes Slimline

Lisa here!  I've got a quick, easy one for you today!  It's taxplanning season for me and I needed a design that was quick and easy for a few extra cards this holiday season!

I started by cutting my layers using the Pinked Slimline Die Set.  The plaid panel was cut using the stitched slimline and don't you just love the pinked base??  I adhered them all together.  I cut an extra piece just 1/8th bigger than the stitched panel for a little extra interest.

I cut the snowflakes from the Funky Flakes die set... I don't even cut them apart!  It makes it very easy to keep track of them and I never cut just one!  I cut them once from glitter paper and twice more from white cardstock.  I stacked and adhered them and scattered them over the front of the plaid panel and attached with glue.  I like to stack my dies like this for a little extra dimension... it makes them pop a little!

I stamped a sentiment from the Snowy Sayings stamp set (psst!  It's on sale!)  I cut it into a banner shape and popped it up on the card and then scattered around a few sequins and acrylic embellishments.

Thanks so much for stopping today and hope you enjoyed your visit!  Come again soon for more CAS-ual Fridays Stamps inspiration!

An Inked Smooshed Christmas Card

Happy Tuesday everyone!! Nora here from A Creative Touch with a slimline Christmas card created with some snowflakes and Distress Ink.

Even though Thanksgiving is two days away, I have been concentrating on getting Christmas cards created to send out to some of my crafty friends. Ink smooshing is a GREAT technique that you can easily do in a streamline fashion.

Stamps: Bring On the Snowflakes

Fri-dies: Funky Flakes, Pinked Slimline Dies

To start off my card, I used the Pinked Slimline Dies to die cut a large panel out of watercolor cardstock. I then used a WOW! Clear Embossing Ink and WOW! White Embossing Powder to heat emboss snowflakes from Bringing on the Snowflakes onto the card front. 

Next I did the same technique and used the same stamp set on a slightly smaller panel.

For my first ink smooshing pass, I used Crackling Campfire Distress Ink and water. I made sure to coat both my panels by picking them up and then placing different areas over the wet ink.

I used a heat tool to dry the ink on the panels and ink smooshed the panels a second time in a combination of watered down gold acrylic paint and Candied Apple Distress Ink. Combining the gold with the red gave a yellowish tint to some of the background, which I loved.

While the two panels were air drying, I die cut some snowflakes using the Funky Flakes Fri-dies out of white cardstock. When the panels were completely dry, I adhered the snowflakes to the slimline card front as shown.

I then adhered the smaller inked panel over the larger panel.

My last step was use the Merry Christmas Fri-dies to die cut some gold cardstock. I adhered the sentiment across the front of the card. 

I adore how this card came out and I LOVE the colors.

I hope this card inspires YOU to create your own festive Christmas cards!!!

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I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by and please be sure to check in for some BEAUTIFUL projects by the other design team members!!!

Have a FABULOUS day!!

The Most Wonderful Time - Christmas in February!

Hello all!  Lisa here and today is the 25th of the month and a friend and I have committed to creating a Christmas card a week for the year so we're ready come December to just mail them!  This month I decided to use a few of my favorite CAS-ual Fridays holiday stamps and dies to create my cards!  I'm sharing this one with you here and I have three more on my blog if you are interested in checking those out too!

For this one I started with an ink blended background using some blues and purples.. you know the hard thing about making Christmas Cards all year is I'm not always in the mood for the traditional red and green... probably why so many of my cards lately have been done in non-traditional colors... and I love it!

I stamped some snowflakes and snow drops from the Snowy Sayings stamp set over the top of it with Versamark and then embossed using Snowy Glitter embossing powder.  I purposely did not use the antistatic powder on this before hand because I wanted the excess powder to be scattered on the background!  And these beautiful snowflakes do normally stamp quite detailed, however because of the nature of this particular powder you don't see it all on this background... which is exactly the look I was going for!

Finally one of the sentiments from Snowy Sayings embossed onto the purple cardstock and I cut the Funky Flakes from white glitter paper.  I don't bother cutting my Funky Flakes Fri-Dies apart, because why in the world wouldn't I just cut a bunch all at the same time?!  LOL... I like to have extras all ready to go and I rarely know ahead of time which ones I'm going to use, so I cut them all... several times!

I finished with a few clear sequins scattered around and I was finished!

Thanks so much for stopping here today!   You can find my post that includes all of the other designs I made for this month right here!  You know... if you want!

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Thanks so much for coming by and I hope you enjoyed your visit!