Clean and Simple Rainbow Ornaments

Hello! I can't believe it's Christmas Eve all ready! I always find myself needing one last Christmas card, and if you're like me, you are always looking for quick and simple cards to make in a hot second! Well here's an idea for you!

I adore the WPlus9 Holiday Trimmings stamp set and I'm so excited it was brought back this year! The images are awesome...but I especially love the scripty sentiments! I stamped the ornament images with their extra doodads along with the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink in the center of the card. I wanted to create a rainbow of ornaments, so I used a variety of inks from Simon Says Stamp - Teeny Bikini, Duckling, Jellybean, High Dive, and Wisteria. It's really that simple!

Colorful Christmas Trees

Hello! I'm jumping back into Christmas cards today! You have no idea how excited I was when I saw that WPlus9 re-released the Holiday Trimmings stamps! I saw them last year for Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember and I missed out! But it's backkkkk!!!

I just wanted to make some quick and simple cards using both traditional and non-traditional colors. I used my MISTI to make things even easier!

I started with using High Dive ink from Simon Says Stamp. This is one of my favorite blue inks! I topped off the middle tree with a Hollyhock colored bow.

For my pink trees I used Cotton Candy ink from Simon Says Stamp, but I stamped it three times to intensify the color. This was super easy to do with my MISTI. I used the High Dive ink for the bow.

I used Thistle ink for the purple trees, but again, I stamped it three times to make the color slightly darker. The bow on top is Sunshine ink. I thought maybe I would do one card with traditional colors, so I did Key Lime trees with a Watermelon bow. 

I stamped the tree trunk with brown ink and the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I think this set is so cute and I can't wait to create some more cards with these stamps! 

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!

So Many Pandas!!

Hello, all! I have a set of 4 cards up on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink blog today! Head over there for all the details! And be sure to hit up the Butterfly Reflections, Ink Shop for a bunch of new goodies! The new Neat & Tangled release just landed!!

See you soon!

Silver Bellllls...

Hello! I'm up on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink blog today with one of my favorite Christmas cards I've made this year! I used the Bells and Bows stamp set from Altenew and the Be Merry stamp set from WPlus9. Remember to pick up these items...and more!...at the Butterfly Reflections, Ink Shop! See you soon!

And May All Your Christmases Be Whiiiiitteee!

Hello! I'm just so in love with the Be Merry stamp set from WPlus9! I'm a teacher and I need to make some Christmas cards to give to my fellow teachers and I had an idea for a chalkboard card as soon as I saw this set! Here it is!

What do you think? These were so simple to whip up! I white heat embossed various images from the WPlus9 Be Merry stamp set onto black cardstock and added some shimmer to the flowers with a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen. Stick those babies on a card base and that's it! So easy to mass produce!

See you soon!