Crafty Festival of Christmas - Christmas Thank You Card Set

Hi! This is the last week for the Crafty Festival of Christmas hop! I hope that these last five weeks have given you some Holiday inspiration! This week is an anything goes theme! I decided to use the December 2019 card kit from Simon Says Stamp to make a quick set of thank you cards!

I used a light mint ink to stamp a bunch of the snowflakes from the Gnome for the Holidays stamp set from Simon Says Stamp all over my four card bases. I thought this formed a cute little background! I kept the larger snowflakes towards the top and the smaller ones towards the bottom so that it looks like the snowflakes are falling down. I love the little "stick" style trees in the stamp set! I used two different colors of green inks to stamp them in a line in the center of my card.

I wanted to have a bold "thank you" sentiment under my trees so I used the sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Thankful Flowers stamp set. I also added a smaller sentiment to the cards. I love mixing sizes and fonts of sentiments! It adds a lot of interest! To tie in the black sentiment I added a scattering of black sequins at the bottom of my cards.

I hope you've enjoyed this fun collaboration! There is more inspiration for you to see! Just click through the links! And have a Merry Christmas!

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Tania Cordie

Tanya Boser

Linda van Wely

Lynnea Hollendonner - YOU ARE HERE!

Crafty Festival of Christmas - Card and Detachable Magnetic Ornamnet

Hi, everyone! This week for the Crafty Festival of Christmas we are bringing you some inspiration for ornaments, gifts, and/or treat containers! I created a simple card with a detachable magnetic ornament! And it's really easy to do!

I love the Taylored Expressions Iconic Wishes - Christmas stamp and die combo! And I thought it would be perfect to add an ornament on to the front of a card - but I wanted the actual card to be fun and festive as well! I stamped the Taylored Expressions Boughs and Berries background stamp onto a piece of green cardstock with Simon Hurley Create. Later Gater ink. This gave me a fun tone on tone look!

I stamped and gold heat embossed the ornament from the Taylored Expressions Iconic Wishes - Christmas stamp set twice and then die cut them with the coordinating die. I wanted to be able to have an ornament that was identical on both sides. I added a magnet at the back of one of the die cuts and then added foam tape and adhered the two ornament pieces together back to back. I heat embossed a sentiment onto the card background from the Avery Elle Comfort and Joy stamp set where I would be adding my ornament. I added another magnet behind the sentiment on the back of the green cardstock and added foam tape before adding the background to my card base.

So there you have it! A fun gold heat embossed ornament that is held onto the front of the card with a magnet! You won't even notice the magnet in the ornament when you hang it on the tree! And you could even put it on the fridge if you want! Super fun, right?! Hop through the rest of the blogs for more fun Crafty Festival of Christmas inspiration!

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Tania Cordie

Tanya Boser

Linda Van Wesly

Marcia Caradinta

Lynnea Hollendonner - YOU ARE HERE!

Crafty Festival of Christmas - Perfect Pearls Snowflake Tags

Hey, there! It's time for another Crafty Festival of Christmas event! This week we'll be sharing tag or gift card holder projects for your Holiday inspiration! I decided to create some pearly tags!

I used my MISTI so that I could add a bunch of snowflake stamps from the Pink & Main Flurries stamp set and stamp them with Versamark Ink all at once. You could definitely add some pretty embossing powders to the tags, but I decided to cover the snowflakes with Perfect Pearls! I used to use them all the time and I recently saw Simon Hurley use them and it inspired me to use them again!

I used a Perfect Pearls Flat Brush to pounce some of the Perfect Pearls on top of the Versamark Ink. You want to be careful to pounce the powder up and down on top of the ink and not drag the brush through the ink or it will smear. Ask me how I know! Haha! Once the ink is covered in the powder I will rub a slightly stiffer brush back and forth across the powder to remove the excess. A little bit of water is all you need to set the powder. I used my Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer to spritz some water into the air and then waved the tags through the mist.

I used my MISTI again to stamp a sentiment from the Pink & Main Holly Jolly stamp set with Versamark Ink at the bottom of each of the tags. For a bit of sparkle I added some White Blizzard Nuvo Crystal Drops to the centers of each of the snowflakes. I hope these tags inspire you to pull out your Perfect Pearl Pigment Powders! Hop through the rest of the blogs for more Christmas inspiration!

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Tania Cordie

Tanya Boser

Linda Van Wely

Lynnea Hollendonner - YOU ARE HERE!

Crafty Festival of Christmas - Easy Mass Produced Cards

Hello! I'm so excited for the second week of the Crafty Festival of Christmas! This week you'll see inspiration for mass produced or fancy folded Christmas cards! Just what we need this time of year! I'm going to be showing you an easy mass produced design. So simple that I was able to make 50 of these cards quite easily! And I have lots of tips for you in my video below!

Probably my biggest tip for making mass produced cards is to pick a clean and simple design. I'm not good at coloring. It takes me HOURS to color! No joke! So for me I need to choose a design that involves stamping instead of coloring. And it really really makes things faster to use a stamp platform. My favorite is the MISTI! I used it in just about every step for these cards! Check out my video above for even more tips for mass produced cards!

I chose to use the Snow Flurry stamp set from Concord & 9th because of the large snowflake image. It takes up almost the whole card front! I stamped the snowflake in a mint ink on all 50 of my cards with my Mini MISTI before moving on to the next step. This helps make things go faster! I filled in the inner part of the snowflake with some ice blue ink. Again - I did this for all 50 of my cards. I added a sentiment from the Snow Flurry stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black Ink right on top of the stamped snowflake.

I wanted to add some fun embellishments to my cards, but since I was making 50 of them I needed something simple. Pink & Main has a whole bunch of Glossy Dots and I really love how the Rose Gold Glossy Dots pair with the mint and blue stamping in the background! I hope you got some helpful tips and tricks for creating mass produced Christmas cards! And now you can hop through the rest of the blogs for more mass production or fancy fold Christmas cards!

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Tania Cordie

Linda Van Wely

Tanya Boser

Lynnea Hollendonner - YOU ARE HERE!

Crafty Festival of Christmas - Snowy Snowy Snowman Card

Hey, everyone! Welcome to a brand new crafty event - the Crafty Festival of Christmas! A bunch of us crafters have come together and decided to bring you some crafty inspiration for the holidays every Friday from now through December 20th! How exciting! Each week we'll be crafting around a different theme and this week is all things snowy or snarky! I'm using the Gina K Designs Warm Winter Wishes card kit for my snowy card.

I wanted to add lots of snowy elements to my card so I started with the Snow Fall stencil from the Warm Winter Wishes card kit and some Hickory Smoke Distress Ink to give some small snowflakes all over my background. After that I used my MISTI and the Folk Art Snowflakes stamp set to add the pretty snowflakes all over my background with Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.

I stamped, colored, and die cut the snowman from the Winter Hugs stamp set and added him to my card with foam squares. I just love all of the wintery sentiments in this card kit! I mixed up a printed and script sentiment from the Christmas Silhouettes and Winter Hugs stamp sets and stamped it below the snowman with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

I hope you enjoy this snowy card! And I really hope you're excited about the Crafty Festival of Christmas! I am! And I can't wait to see you back here next Friday! Click through the amazing crafters below to see more snowy or snarky Christmas inspiration!

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Tania Cordie

Linda Van Wely

Tanya Boser

Marcia Caradinta

Lynnea Hollendonner - YOU ARE HERE!

Charlet Mallett

Maria Willis

Jenny Hall