Christmas projects always feel so magical when there's metallics involved! I mixed silver and gold metallic pigment inks on my card along with some Impress-ion Letterpress Dies from LDRS Creative!
One of the great things about Impress-ion Letterpress Dies is that you can use any of the LDRS Creative Hybrid Inks with them ... but you can also use pigment inks! My metallic pigment inks haven't been getting a lot of love lately, so I decided to whip them out and see what they can do!
I inked the two largest snowflakes from the Snowflake Ornaments Impress-ion Letterpress Dies with silver ink and just LOOK at the impression! AH! I'm obsessed! I will mention - you want to be careful when you're using pigment inks because they have a foam pad. Do as I say and not as I do - just a light tap tap tap of the ink will do you! I decided to mix in some gold, so I inked the smaller snowflakes with gold pigment ink and pressed them into the card front around the larger snowflakes.
** Watch my video for a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Impress-ion Letterpress dies. Remember - you DO need to use the Impress-ion Letterpress Dies with a letterpress platform. Using them with your regular die-cutting platform and cutting plates will damage your cutting machine. **
I finished the card by matting it onto a dark gray card base and adding some silver baubles to accent the sentiments. That's it! Make sure you stop by the LDRS Creative Store tomorrow, September 11th, at 8am ET for the reveal of the whole Fall, Winter, and Holiday 2023 Collection!
Coloring stamps to create my own patterned paper is one of my favorite things to do! I used some Christmas stamps and dies from LDRS Creative to create this super cute Holiday scene!
I'm completely in love with this card! It looks like these reindeer and elves are in the middle of a wintery forest! I started by stamping the three pine trees from the Christmas Stable 4x6 Stamps all over an A2 card panel with Raven Hybrid Ink and coloring them with alcohol markers. Once my background was colored I spattered some gold shimmer watercolor to add some texture and shine.
I think you could leave the background without any focal images and use one of the AMAZING sentiment dies from LDRS Creative and it would be beautiful, but I wanted to add some additional imagery. I stamped a couple of reindeer and the elves from the Reindeer Games 4x6 Stamps and the stable from the Christmas Stable 4x6 Stamps and colored them with markers. I used their coordinating dies to cut them out. I love that the dies even cut out the background of the stable so I can see the forest peeking through!
I cut out the Christmas Wishes Word Dies from white and gold foil cardstock and added everything onto the front of my card with foam tape. That's it! Thanks so much for joining me!
I don't know about you, but it's cooolllddd where I live! I'm still walking in a winter wonderland over here! I made a quick process video for you, too!
I needed a few last minute Holiday cards before Christmas and the Create in Quads Snowflake Stencils came in handy!
I used a few colors of Distress Oxide Inks and blended four cards at once and finished them off with some purple gems, silver thread, and some Holiday sentiments from my stash.
I am in LOVE with the Create in Quads concept! It makes it so easy to create multiple cards at once!
Tis the season for sending thank you cards! I have an easy way to make four foiled snowflake thank you cards! I'll share my step by step process LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel on Wednesday the 5th at 11am CT/12pm ET!
I like to make clean and simple cards with a punch of something special and the Unity Transfer Foils are certainly something special! I LOVE that they glitter!!
The weeks after Christmas I am busy making and sending thank you cards, so any time I can make a two for one design I will! Cutting a panel in pieces is one of the quickest and easiest ways to make two cards from one panel. Plus it's one of my favorite designs!
I used a snowflake stencil along with some Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco and created both a white and black background. I thought the Deco Foil Unity Silver Glitter Foil would really POP on black and the Gold Glitter Foil would look best on white. I didn't even have to clean my stencil in between applications - I'll show you a little trick for that in the live tutorial!
I'll see you LIVE on the ThermOWeb YouTube Channel on Wednesday at 11am CT/12pm ET for all the glittery, foiled, snowflake, mass producing goodness!
What's my current obsession?! Black and white with a pop of color! I mixed and matched some of my favorite LDRS Creative products from my stash and made this fun winter card!
Black and white is one of my favorite color combos - it's so classy! And I love adding just a pop of color to stand out! One of the best things about the products from LDRS Creative is that they all work together so well! I combined stamps and dies from a few different releases for this easy winter card. I started with the Snowball Fight Stamp Set and stamped two of the foxes and a snowman with Raven Hybrid Ink and colored them with alcohol markers then cut them out with the Snowball Fight Coordinating Dies.
The Log Cabin Pocket Pals Stamp Set is one of my favorites from the new release. It's so cozy! I stamped it with Raven Hybrid Ink and cut it out using just the outer die. I thought about adding my images onto a plain white card base, but I decided I wanted a bit of pattern in the background. I grabbed the MacKenzie Christmas 6x6 Paper Pack and used the second largest die from the A2 Diagonal Stitched Layered Card Toppers Die Set to cut it down to size. I cut a white piece of cardstock with the largest die and layered the two together onto an A2 card base.
I added the log cabin, critters, and sentiment to the card with foam tape to finish off the card! Thanks so much for joining me!
Ready for the cutest representation of our family?! ThermOWeb and Laura Kelly goodies make this wintery card too cute for words!
I love the whimsiness of the Laura Kelly line! I mixed some Transfer Foils, Toner Sheets, and the Me & My Peeps Stamp Set and created our little family on a Holiday card! I transferred Magic Wand Silver Foil onto a Baby Swiss Toner Sheet and Wagon Red Foil onto a Sweet Swirls Toner Sheet. Toner sheets are so versatile because you can do almost anything with them! I trimmed down the Baby Swiss background to the size of an A2 card front and blended on blue ink to create a snowy sky. I used a die from Trinity Stamps to die cut the Sweet Swirls background and create a line of trees. I blended green ink over the die-cut and magically created a row of trees with swirly foiled baubles!
I stamped out the characters that would make up our family from the Me & My Peeps Stamp Set and colored them with Copic Markers. I love this stamp set! It can be used to create just about any family for just about any occasion! Our family is just me, my husband, our son, and our (FIVE!) kitties!
I cut a white snow bank and adhered it to the line of trees and popped them up with iCraft 1/16" 3D Foam Tape onto the snowy background. I adhered our little family to the left side of the card with an iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen and added a heat embossed sentiment strip from my stash beneath the colored images. And that's it! This card was quick and easy to create and I hope it inspires you to put your family on a card this Holiday season!
I stamped the snowmen from the Warm Winter Wishes Stamp Set and colored them with Copic Markers. I wanted to create a simple night scene so I die cut some pine trees and adhered them onto an embossed navy background. I cut a piece of white cardstock for a snowy ground and then popped up my image and sentiment on top.
I stamped a bunch of snowflakes all over my card with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink and then used the coordinating die set to cut masks for each image from masking paper.
I placed the masks over the stamped images and then pulled out some Atelier Inks to blend over my background. I started with My Jam Purple at the bottom, Trinity Teal in the middle, and Sweet Petunia Pink at the top. I added some spatters of shimmer watercolor and removed the masks. I love the look! The masks leave a sort of 'halo' around the stamped images that's so fun!
I planned to make this a one layer card, but I forgot to stamp a sentiment when I was stamping the snowflakes, so I stamped one onto white cardstock, trimmed it out, and popped it up onto my card.
The Thanksgiving Holiday weekend is almost here and Miss Ink Stamps is celebrating with a winter release! I'm sneaking the Ice Day Stamp Set with this fun slider card!
There will be FOUR new stamp sets released on Small Business Saturday - November 27th! They are perfect for all of your wintery cards!
As soon as I saw the little penguin on his belly in the Ice Day Stamp Set (releasing on the 27th!) I knew that I wanted to make a slider card with him sliding down the iceburg! I stamped three of the penguins, some Santa hats, and the iceburg and colored them with Copics and cut them out with scissors.
Once I had my images and background ready to go I created a simple slider card. Check out my video above to see how the interactive portion of the card came together!
I hope you've enjoyed this sneak peek of the Ice Day Stamp Set! This stamp set and the rest of the release will be available on Small Business Saturday - November 27th! Keep your eye on the Miss Ink social media channels for more sneaks and special sales announcements!
The Modern Trellis A2 Coverplate Die makes such a pretty background for a card, but if you really look at just the center design it looks like a star ... or a SNOWFLAKE! I cut small pieces of white cardstock and cut just the center portion of the Modern Trellis A2 Coverplate Die and used my scissors to cut away the unwanted design leaving me with a snowflake! I repeated the process with some red patterned paper from the Peace & Joy 6x6 Paper Pack and layered the "snowflakes" together offsetting them just a bit.
I wanted to keep the focus of my card on those "snowflakes" but still bring some more winter into the design. I used the largest die from the A2 Diagonal Stitched Layered Card Toppers Die Set to cut a piece of patterned paper from the Peace & Joy 6x6 Paper Pack and the smallest die to cut white cardstock. I wanted another layer of the patterned paper, but I have trick to share with you! I used the largest die from the Diagonal Stitched Layered Frames Die Set and cut out the center of my background piece and used that as the layer on top of the white cardstock! NO WASTE! No one is going to know that there's a HUGE hole in the bottom layer of patterned paper - it's covered by the white! Patterned paper is too pretty to not use every inch of it!
Welcome to the Holiday Lights Hop! Today, I’m sharing a fun, interactive card that really lights up! Don’t worry, it wasn’t hard to make. I’ll show you how. And then, when you hop along with us, you’ll see more beautiful light-up cards, all featuring lights from Pear Blossom Press. Get ready for lots of inspiration, and be sure to comment on my video as well as the rest as you hop, for your chance to win a $50 store credit! Your next stop is Alberto Gava!
I can't get over how easy it is to make a light up card with Pear Blossom Press EZ Lights! You'll see how quickly this interactive card came together in my video above.
This slimline scene is the cutest! All the winter and Christmas vibes are in one place! I pulled out a bunch of Lawn Fawn Stamp Sets and combined them on this card. They're all listed and linked in my video description as well as at the end of this blog post.
There are a lot of things I could have chosen to light up on this card - the windows, the car headlight, etc ... but my husband loves street lights, so I decided to add three streetlights to my winter scene and have them be my light up elements.
I added an ink blended background with Distress Oxide Inks and this merry and bright light up scene is everything you could ever wish for! This project is part of a hop, so be sure to hop along to the next stop - the amazing Alberto Gava!
Products Used
Pear Blossom Press EZ Lights - https://pearblossompress.com/ez-light/?wpam_id=6
Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders Dies - https://shrsl.com/1gk94
Lawn Fawn Winter Village Stamp Set - https://shrsl.com/38tyv
Lawn Fawn Winter Village Die Set - https://shrsl.com/38tyw
Lawn Fawn Tiny Winter Friends Stamp Set - https://shrsl.com/38tyy
Lawn Fawn Tiny Winter Friends Die Set - https://shrsl.com/38tyz
Lawn Fawn Tiny Christmas Stamp Set - https://shrsl.com/38tz1
Lawn Fawn Tiny Christmas Die Set - https://shrsl.com/38tz2
Lawn Fawn Home for the Holidays Stamp Set - https://shrsl.com/38tz5
Lawn Fawn Home for the Holidays Die Set - https://www.lawnfawn.com/products/home-for-the-holidays-lawn-cuts
Lawn Fawn Merry Mice Stamp Set - https://shrsl.com/38tz9
Pink & Main Stitched Slimline Die Set - https://shrsl.com/2lb60
Pink & Main Layered Circles Die Set - https://shrsl.com/2cy4u
Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide Ink Pad - https://shrsl.com/36hnn
Villainous Potion Distress Oxide Ink Pad - https://shrsl.com/38tyt
Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink Pad - https://shrsl.com/38tys
iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen - https://shrsl.com/2ze45
iCraft 1/8" White Jumbo Foam Tape Roll - https://shrsl.com/2ze4j
