Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
For my card, I was inspired by the color scheme of bright blue, red and white in the inspiration image, as well as the holiday theme.
I stamped Penny Black’s Crystal Pattern [40-162] background stamp with Bahama Blue ink for my background, onto which I added the die cuts. Yes, this card does look a lot like the tags I shared last week! (I actually had this card made several weeks ago for this challenge.) I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of those birch die cuts.
Today, I’m sharing a holiday card created with Penny Black die cuts and a Penny Black background stamp. I had in mind the “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” tree lighting while making this card. Tonight, the tree will be lit for the first time this holiday season!
I paired the Penny Black Xmas Tree [51-012] die cut, cut in silver and green cardstock and pieced together, with the “Joy” sentiment from the Love & Joy [51-021] die cut set. I cut the “Joy” sentiment twice, once in silver and once in the red cardstock. I adhered the two together in order to give the sentiment some depth so that it would lay on top of the tree die cut. I positioned it so that the swoop of the “J’ intersected with the curved line encircling the tree. I stamped the card base with the Circle & Lines [40-084] background stamp and heat embossed it with silver powder. As I explained in an earlier post, showing a card made with the Xmas Tree die cut, I really like adding metallic accents to my cards at this time of year!
While I usually create holiday cards in traditional colors, I wanted to be a bit more whimsical with a card using Penny Black’s Dancing Deers stamp set [40-258].
I stamped the deer in a repeating pattern with a turquoise dye ink. I finished the card off with a heat-embossed sentiment from Yuletide Greetings [30-132] on pink cardstock. I can envision this card design in other color schemes – traditional or otherwise!
Today I’m sharing a card in which one of the holiday die cuts from Penny Black takes center stage. I really like adding metallic accents to my holiday cards, and in this case, my starting point was the outline of the Xmas Tree die cut in silver.
I die cut the Xmas Tree [51-012] in both white and silver cardstock. I pieced the two together and adhered the completed tree with dimensional adhesive onto a circle cut from cardstock stamped with the Penny Black Crystal Pattern [40-162] background stamp. I adhered the circle to a dry-embossed card base, and then I added a banner on which I heat-embossed a sentiment from Penny Black’s Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. I finished the card off with some sparkly jewels.
Today, I’m sharing an easy-to-put-together holiday card using the Penny Black Holly Berries die [51-019].
I cut two holly sprigs out of a textured green cardstock and positioned them on the card base in a pleasing manner. I cut a few pieces off of the top sprig in order to give room for my heat-embossed sentiment from the Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. Before adhering the holly branches to the card base, I added Christmas Red Stickles for the berries.
While I kept with traditional Christmas colors, it would be fun to try other color combinations!