Winter Holidays

Snowflakes Shaker Card

November 25, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone.

Svitlana here and in this card I want to feature a very interesting shaker filler – snowflakes. They’re plastic, matte and have some thickness. And they look more realistic, then snowflake sequins.

The inner part of the shaker I made out of dark blue cardstock, I cut it using Creative Nested Squares die set. Several snowflakes and dots from Happy Snowflakes set were white embossed on it.

The card base and the shaker border are made out of Neenah Solar White cardstock, and the dimensional part I cut out from white foam.

I used regular foam, not sticky back one. To make it sticky I adhered Stick-It sheets on the both sides. It’s so thin, that I didn’t have any problems at all die-cutting foam with Stick-It on both sides.

Inside of the shaker I placed snowflakes mentioned as well as some Icy Clear Seed Beads. Lastly I stamped the sentiment.

Shakers are fun cards, especially they’re fun for recipients. But they’re a bit more time consuming to make. So I this time I decided to go with the simpler design. And like how it turned out.

I like how clean it is. With some deep blue in the shaker window. I imagine this card as a view on a snowy night through the window 😉

Have a wonderful day!

Happy Snowflakes Clear Stamp Set

Snowflakes

Icy Clear Seed Beads

Creative Nested Squares Dies

Happy Winter

November 24, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone,

Svetlana created Happy Winter Card using large snowflake stamp from Origami Winter stamp set and combined sentiment with Pink Winter stamp set.

Here is a close up.

Happy Thursday!

Katia

Origami Winter Clear Stamp Set

Pink Winter Clear Stamp Set

Stitched Nested Rectangle Die

Snowflakes

Honey Gold Fusion

Origami Tree in Soft Colors

November 23, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

Hello friends,
Valentyna here and today I want to share another Christmas card using Origami Winter stamp set. I haven’t done any card with this kind of colors. Not Christmas colors. I love how everything came together.
Firstly, I embossed tree and the piece of watercolor paper with SSS Lattice background stamp and Hero Arts white powder. I colored tree and background with Zigs: 032 – Persian Blue, 051 Lemon Yellow, 091 Light Gray, 045 Pale Green.

I finished my card off with PTI Holiday Market stamp on the curved banner.

Thank you for stopping by!
Valentyna

Origami Winter Clear Stamp Set

Stitched Nested Creative Squares

Radiant Pineapple

Winter Wonderland

Merry Christmas Watercolor Card

November 22, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Other, Winter Holidays

Hello everyone!! Laurie here back to share a Christmas card with one of my favorite stamp sets!! Its called Origami Winter and it’s just fabulous!!

I started by heat embossing the tree, the present and the star in white embossing powder on some watercolour cardstock. If you look closely, I stamped a couple of stockings as well but messed up and overlapped them. It’s ok, i ended up cutting that side off :).

My watercoloring medium of choice lately has been the Stabilo 68 markers. I have the set of 30 but really want them all!! I find these pens/markers so easy to work with and the colors are super vibrant!!!

I coloured my images in with traditional Christmas colours: red, green and a touch of gold and did a light wash of blue behind. I trimmed the panel down to approximately 3.5 X 5.5.

You can see here that I have everything adhered. I used some gold glitter tape directly on the card base and used some sequins from the Classic Christmas Sequins Fusion mix. What you don’t see here is the sentiment. I ALWAYS do this to myself!!! But I wasn’t going to give up!! I placed my card into my Mini Misti and chose a sentiment, which is also from the Origami Winter set.

Now because the background was watercolored AND heat embossed, I knew that the sentiment was likely not going to stamp perfectly, and I was right. I used Versafine Black Onyx ink and there is one tiny place that the sentiment overlapped some of the white embossing and didn’t stamp. I could have stamped it on a tiny strip and just adhered it over but I really didn’t want any distractions from the background. In the end, I LOVE IT!!!! And I hope you do too!! 🙂

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Laurie

Supplies Used: Origami Winter Clear Stamp Set, Classic Christmas Fusion, Mini Misti Stamping Tool

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Happy Holidays

November 21, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone, quickly popping in to share a fun holiday card.

I stamped the trees and marked triangle with a pencil, I used 4 shades of green to color the triangles, I didn’t do any blending. It’s been a while since I used copics and so happy that they didn’t bleed on the project. After coloring I cut them out and traced the lines with gold pen.
With Brush Strokes I wanted to create a snowy wind effect, I use light blue and stamped in circular motion.

I used Mini Misti to stamp the sentiment. I placed the trees down with foam squares and added a few Gold Sequins.

The mini triangles were inspired by Maria.

I hope you like it, have a wonderful day!

Katia

Brush Stokes Stamp Set

Origami Winter Stamp Set

Mini Misti

Gold Foil Sequins Fusion

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Pink Christmas by Erica

November 18, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone!

Erica on the brand spanking new blog today, who else is excited about all this new-ness?

Today I have a very untraditional Christmas card for you. It’s all pink, pink, pink! Hot pink even. I’ve been in an ink blending mood recently and that’s how I made the background. I used Pickled Raspberry distress ink and just went to town with it. To frame the sentiment and the stamp I was going to use, I made it extra dark around the edges. Then I splattered water on the panel to create the dotted effect I so adore.

On copic friendly paper I stamped up the flamingo from the Pink Winter and to make it a little more festive, I also added a few little fun bits like reindeer antlers, a santa hat and christmas lights all wrapped around the body of the flamingo. Then I coloured him in using my Copics. Once I was happy with the colouring, I fussy cut the image out and set it aside.

Using the sentiment from the same stamp set, I stamped up ‘Pink Winter’ in VersaMark ink and sprinkled Puff Powder from WOW embossing powder before heating it up with my heat gun for that lovely snowy effect. I simply had to use the Snowflakes embellishments as well as some enamel accents in white to crate a snowfall around the sentiment and the flamingo. I also had to add some enamel accents under the flamingo because if it’s snowing, there should be some snow on the ground too, right? I popped another few snowflakes on top of a few random dots too just for extra pizzazz.

Once all the glue and enamel accents were dry, I adhered the finished panel to a card base and that was pretty much it! Ok, so it took a bit longer than it took you reading this post but you know, it’s not far off. By making several backgrounds in one go, you can save yourself a lot of time if you need to make more than one card.

Here is the full card and I hope I have inspired you to make some nontraditional Christmas cards this year!

That’s it from me for this time,

Happy crafting from Erica

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Merry Christmas Shaker Card

November 3, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello crafty friends,

I’m popping in to share this bright and cheerful Merry Christmas shaker card that was created by Svetlana.

The background was created with Happy Snowflakes Clear Stamp and silver heat embossing. She filled shaker with a mix of sequins, seed beads and used a few snowflakes.

I love these bright colors for holiday cards.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Snowflakes Clear Stamp Set

Pink Winter Clear Stamp Set

Snowflakes

Crystal Clear Sequins

Silver Foil Seed Beads

Clear Clear Seed Beads

Sequins Christmas Card

November 2, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello everyone, Valentyna here today. It’s November and that means the Christmas marathon officially has begun :). I absolutely love this time of the year and Christmas especially.

I have a very simple holiday card to share. Simple, but traditionally elegant!

I have a very simple holiday card to share. Simple, but traditionally elegant!
As a focal point on the card, I used a Christmas sentiment from the Origami Winter stamp set and Classic Holiday sequins. The sentiment is so elegant and classy, that I decided just to add some sequins to color the card and connect the sentiment panel to the card base. The sequins from this pack come in different colors and sizes, which allows creating colorful snowfall. For the card base, I cut SSS Woodgrain white cardstock and some red cardstock for the sentiment panel.

Hope you like this card as I enjoyed creating it!
See you soon!
Valentyna

Origami Winter Clear Stamp Set

Classic Holiday Sequins Fusion

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Noel Navy & Gold

November 1, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone, Katia here popping in to share a quick a card. I can’t believe it’s November already time to start getting ready for the holidays.

I really wanted to create large snowflakes with Origami Winter. I used the tree and stamped it in versamark ink in a circle pattern. I used Nuvo – Gold Enchantment Powder. I just can’t get enough of these embossing powders. I love the dimension that they give.

I cut out strips from confetti pattern vellum and stamped sentiment Noel from the Origami Winter set. (the reason why I decided to go with vellum in the first place is because i got lazy and didn’t use MISTI. I had to hide a couple of imperfections. 🙂 )

I heat embossed one in Nuvo – Gold Enchantment Powder and the other in Nuvo – Glacier White Powder. Later I thought it would be a good idea to add more golden glitter powder to the edges of the vellum. I’ve added a couple Gold Foil Sequins and the card is complete.

A little gold star for the top!

Thank you for stopping by!

Katia

Origami Winter Clear Stamp Set

Gold Foil Sequins

Gold Foil Stars Sequins

Frozen Shaker Card

October 21, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello!

Erica on the blog today with a wintery shaker card. I’m trying to get ahead with all my Christmas cards, which can be a challenge when you have lots to make. What we need is a card that is easy to mass produce but still looks like we have spent hours on it. Lots of people think shaker cards take loads of time but that doesn’t have to be the case at all.

My 8 year old niece loves Frozen and I can’t lie, so do I! We always watch a Disney movie together when we see each other and Frozen is one of our faves. She’s my little mini-me and loves crafting too so her card has to be extra special of course. The beautifully blue Winter Wonderland Fusion sequin mix just screams Frozen to me so I had to use it for her card.

I started by diecutting an A2 piece of watercolour paper and dusting it generously with my anti-static powder tool as I wanted to heat emboss one of the snowflake stamps from the Happy Snowflakes set. I stamped one of the snowflakes in three rows with VersaMark ink on the panel and sprinkled a sparkly white embossing powder all over it before using my heat gun to melt the powder.

Using the Gansai Tambi water colours I mixed a little bit of black with white to make a pale grey which I used to colours all around the snowflakes to make them stand out a little. Using the silvery white colour I filled in all the snowflakes and added a blue dot in the middle of each one, then I finished off by splattering a light blue all over it before setting aside to let it dry. If you are in a hurry, you can use your heat gun to speed up the drying process but if you are making several panels in one go, just move on to the next one.

Once the panel was dry, I die cut all the three bits of the Stitched Nested Creative Squares in the middle of the panel. On a card base, I glued down the central bit as well as the outer bit of the actual die pieces. To form the window of the shaker, I cut out an A2 piece in acetate. The ‘frame’ of the coloured panel as well as the middle part, I glued to this acetate piece. On the back, I used 4mm thick foam to raise the front panel enough to make space for the sequins to rattle around when shaken. Using the anti-static powder tool again, use all over the acetate that isn’t covered by the panel and then go around all the sides that are going to get into contact with sequins as they will stick to anything slightly sticky.

Place the panel upside down and add the sequins into the pockets created by the foam tape and once you think you have enough, glue the case base to it and make sure it really sticks to the front panel before you move it. Give it a shake once finished because it really is rather satisfying!

I didn’t add a sentiment to the front of the card as I didn’t want to cover up anything but there is plenty of space to write whatever you want inside. It would be easy enough to stamp and cut out a Merry Christmas sentiment if you feel it is too naked without one.

Well, that’s it from me today but please do stop by our blog for more inspirational cards and projects. These stamp sets really are so versatile and our design team are full of fabulous ideas for them all, there is something for everyone!

Happy crafting from Erica

Stitched Nested Creative Squares Creative Dies

Happy Snowflakes Clear Stamp Set

Winter Wonderland Sequins Fusion

Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 Color Set