Category: cardmaking

Holiday Card Camp Day 4

The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson is “stretching your stamps,” as in using them in less obvious or unusual ways. It’s a drizzly, cold November Monday here in the Pacific Northwest, so I’m a bit on auto-pilot. 🙂 I followed one of the cards shown by Shari Carroll almost to a “T.”

Holiday Card Camp Day 4

I loved the colors Shari chose for the tree line – and they make me happy! I heat set the stamped trees before I heat embossed the sentiment in silver across them. I tried stamping the sentiment without heat setting the trees, and the trees picked up quite a bit of the embossing powder, even though I used an “embossing buddy.” I used papers from October Afternoon’s “Midway” collection.

There were more terrific cards shown using the Lawn Fawn “Peace, Love, Joy” stamp set in today’s lesson that I plan to craft in the upcoming weeks.

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Neat & Tangled November Release – Everyday Labels

It’s time for the November Neat & Tangled Release! There will be four stamp sets introduced this week, as well as a digital stamp and a new set of sequins. Today’s featured stamp set “Everyday Labels” is perfect for a variety of occasion cards, including “Hello,” “Happy Birthday,” “Congratulations” or “I Love You.”

Neat & Tangled November Release - Everyday Labels

I stamped various labels from the set which I cut and placed in a die-cut envelope. I stamped the “I Love You” sentiment on a white strip that I adhered to the dry-embossed card base.

Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The November release stamp sets go on sale Friday, November 22.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson was Clean and Simple Holiday Cards. For my first card, I followed one shown by Shari Carroll.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

Shari used a repeating sentiment from Lawn Fawn, which was adorable. I looked through my stash and found a sentiment from a Technique Tuesday set that would work, although it wasn’t repeating. Because of the sentiment’s length, I ended up making the card 4 1/2″ wide, to provide white space on the side and bottom. I added some “snowflakes” with embossing paste in the sky.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

For the second card, I made some modifications to an idea shown by Cristina Kowalczyk. I masked off a triangular area and colored in select parts of the Tim Holtz Dot Fade stencil with Copics to form a Christmas Tree. I wasn’t thrilled with the way the tree sides looked, they were raggedy, so I cut it out with the larger tree die cut from the Sizzix “Holiday Cheer” set. I silver heat embossed a sentiment from the Hero Arts “Naughty or Nice” set – really like the fonts in this set!

Olive, the Other Reindeer

I enjoy picture books, especially holiday ones! For whatever reason, when Olive, the Other Reindeer was published, it escaped my attention. But the title came up repeatedly on a recent search of “best holiday children’s books,” so I checked it out of the library to read it!

The book’s premise is that Olive hears “All of the other reindeer” and thinks they’re saying her name. I immediately thought of making a card when I saw the image of Olive hanging by a cord from Santa’s sleigh.

Olive, the Other Reindeer

I decided that one of the dogs in the Lawn Fawn set would be Olive (taking some artistic license!). Naturally I turned to the Impression Obsession Santa die for Santa and the reindeer. I heat embossed the Lawn Fawn sentiment on the card base, masked it, and then stamped the Hero Arts background stamp in white pigment ink.

Supplies: ColorBox white pigment ink; Doodlebug twine

Holiday Card Camp Day 2

Today I’m sharing a card based on the one shown by Debby Hughes in the Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop. The focus of today’s lesson is die cuts.

Holiday Card Camp Day 2

I made a few substitutions using what I had. For the snowy background, I used a Heidi Swapp stencil to apply the embossing paste. I didn’t like the look of my hand-cut snow slopes, and don’t have the die that Debby used, so I used the MFT dies. (These dies are used time and again for my winter projects!) I heat embossed the Hero Arts sentiment with silver embossing powder.

Light is scarce here at this time of year, so I better get started on another card!

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