Non-Holiday Stamps for Holiday Cards

Hello! Today I'm using a "technique" that I struggle with - using stamps that are not holiday themed for Christmas cards! The scientist mind of mine sometimes doesn't like to think outside the box. It's why I have trouble mixing companies and products sometimes! 

I started by blending on some colors of Distress Oxide inks so that my background would be light in the middle and dark on the edges. Then I took  my darkest color of Oxide ink and stamped the main image from the Mama Elephant Water Blooms stamp set. I made sure to rotate the image each time I stamped so that it wouldn't look like the same image over and over again. Then I added some dots of silver embossing. The sentiment is from WPlus9 Be Merry.

I did the same thing but with a red background and gold embossing!

More Stamping Techniques

Hello! I'm back with another Christmas card!! - Tis the Season! I make Christmas cards all year long, but I love making them even more when the weather starts to turn chilly! 

I used two stamp sets from Studio Calico to create this card. I love that I can make so many different trees from one triangle and a couple different decoration images! I decided to channel my inner Laura Bassen and create a rainbow of Christmas trees! I used a bunch of different inks and then used a light gray ink to stamp the decorations on the trees. I embossed my sentiment with black powder so that it would really stand out. That's all!

Merry Making Holiday Stamping Techniques

Hey there! I'm back with some more cards I made using techniques from the Merry Making card class! I'm always amazed by the techniques that are taught during these classes! 

For these cards I pulled out my score board and added some simple score lines to cardstock. I used snowflakes from the Simon Says Stamp Frozen Fractals stamp set and the sentiment is from Merry and Bright also by Simon. The ink doesn't stamp down into the de-bossed lines. I love the effect!

I loved this technique so much that I wanted to try it with embossing, so I used some gold and liquid platinum powders from Ranger!

So Many Mistakes On One Little Card!

Hello! I went back and forth over whether or not to share this card. I made so many mistakes it's embarrassing! But in the end I decided to share it because I like the idea of the card, just not the card itself! Haha! I'm also going to share another card that I absolutely love! I made both of these cards after day 1 of the Merry Making Online Card Class all about making backgrounds! 

Let's start with the "oopsy" card! I started by stamping a bunch of snowflakes all over some watercolor paper and heat embossing them with white powder. I wanted to create an emboss resist - but it seriously NEVER works for me! I watercolored over my embossing and it covered up the majority of the white embossing. I thought, no biggie! I'll stick the piece back in my MISTI and stamp and emboss the sentiment again. Ah! Something didn't line up quite right because I ended up with a terribly bad drop shadow look. It makes my eyes twitch! Also, when I heat embossed the second time I held my heat gun in one place a second too long and it burned my paper leaving a light blue mark right in the middle of my paper! Nooooo! I just couldn't cover it up. I decided to flick on some white puffy paint marker to add to the snow effect. That's about the only thing that went well! Haha!

After that disaster I decided to try another background technique. I used a bunch of Distress Oxide inks to blend some ink onto watercolor paper and then used water and a paintbrush to create the bokeh effect in the background. I love love love it! What a difference from my previous card! I wanted to add some snowflakes, but not too many, so I chose my favorites and heat embossed them in white along with a sentiment from Studio Calico.

I sprayed the whole piece with my shimmer spritz to add some sparkle. I love it! I will definitely be recreating this card!


Thanks for joining me!