Christmas Greetings

Good Morning

Hope you are all getting well prepared for Christmas.  Sorry about my picture today, it seems to be very light.  It is a much deeper shade in real life! Once again I used the Gnomes Stamps from Colourific for this card.  I have also used a small Christmas tree from on of the other Christmas Stamp Sets.  You can find all the stamps I used and many more on the Colourific Website. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Trees

11.5 x 21cm Kraft Card Blank

10.75 x 19.25cm Gold Mirri Mat

9.5 x 19cm Kraft Card Mat

Various colours of distress inks

Glitter Glue

• Using a little piece of double sided tape I secured the smaller piece of kraft card centrally onto the card blank then secured these layers onto a Stamping Platform with magnets.
• Stamped the Gnome with Vintage Photo Distress ink onto 9.5x19.25cm Kraft Card.  Leaving the card on the stamping platform  I Sprayed with water and let the dye seep outwards.  Used a paintbrush to bring it out a little further. 
• Keeping the card still in place on the stamping platform, put some Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Green Dye ink onto glass mat. Using water and paint brush I painted the Gnome with muted colours of the inks.  When this was dry, I stamped over the image.
• Still keeping the work on the Stamping Platform, I put a mask over the Gnome and used the small Christmas Tree to stamp a border around the 2 layers of card.
• Remove from stamping platform and separate the 2 layers of card.  Mat the image onto the Gold mat, and using foam pads mount it onto the Kraft Card making sure the border of trees match up.
• To finish off I added a Christmas Greeting layered onto a piece of gold mirri card. 
• Used glitter glue for the pompom, beard and stars.

           Thank you for looking, and happy crafting.

There's No Place Like Gnome

Hi

Exciting times today, it's the 14TH OCTOBER, 2019 and that means the Launch of the new Colourific Stamps.  I was excited to get the new stamps and have been having a real good play with them.  I have chosen to use the new A5 Gnomes as my first DT sample.  Pop on over to Colourific to see the whole range of wonderful new Stamps. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Peace and Joy

Copic Markers Blue, Red and Green shades

8 x 8 Kraft Card Blank

7.75 x 7.75 Red Mat

7.5 x 7.5 Christmas Pattern paper

7 x 7 Red mat

6.75 x 6.75 White mat

Red Gems

Glitter Glue

Blue Distress Ink Pad

Tree Stamp from my stash

• Layer the 7.75x7.75 mat onto the Kraft Card, followed by the 7.5 x 7.5                          Patterned Christmas Paper.      
• Using Foam pads mat the 7 x 7 Red mat onto the Christmas Paper layer.
• Using a piece of torn copy paper and the distress ink, make a light snowy hill                 background and sky.
• Stamped the Gnome on Masking Paper and cut it out.  Stamped the centre Gnome first, then placed the mask over it and stamped the Gnomes either side.
• Coloured the first Gnome and used alternate colours on the other 2 Gnomes.
• Used the Branch from the Peace and Joy set and stamped it in various colours            along the top corner of the card.
• Masked off the Gnomes again and lightly stamped some trees behind so they looked in the distance.
• Added some glitter glue to the Gnomes Beards and the Pompoms on their hats.
• Stamped and embossed a Sentiment, matted it onto some scrap red card and attached it with foam pads     
• Finished off with some red gems on the branches.

Thank you to everyone for looking.  Remember to pop over to the Colourific Stamps website for a look at all the new stamps.

Christmas Cards using Build a Wreath Template

Good Morning

I have put this off for as long as I could, but feel now is the time to start with the "Christmas Cards".  I made these using a "Build A Wreath" template that I made with a star shaped die.

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Mini Stamps
A5 Peace and Joy Stamps Set
6x6 White Card
5.75 x 5.75 Red Mat
4.75 x 4.75 Red Card
5.5 x 5.5 Green Glitter Card Mat
5 x 5 White Card
2 sizes of Circle Dies
Oxide Inks
Alcohol Markers
Sparkle Pen
Silver Glitter Embossing Powder

• Matted Red and Green Glitter Card onto white card blank
• Cut larger circle die out of centre of 5 x 5 white card.  Cut smaller circle out of centre of 4.75 x 4.75 Red Card.
• Used red Oxide Ink and inked lightly around the White mat.  Using the Build a Wreath Template and the middle branch from the Peace and Joy Stamp set, I stamped it around the circle in 2 colours of green.  Used the Holly, Robin, Snowflake, and Bell stamps from the Christmas Mini Stamps and stamped them evenly around the branches.  
• Embossed the snowflake with Silver Embossing powder.
• Coloured in all the images.
• Using the Smaller Circle die, I cut out a circle of white card and stamped and embossed the Peace and Joy stamp onto the circle.  Stamped some Holly along the bottom and coloured the images.
• Matted the Red Mat behind the Stamped Mat.  
• Using foam pads matted the stamped layer onto the Green Glitter Card.  Added the Greeting to the centre.

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Mini Stamps
A5 Peace and Joy Stamps Set
A6 Flying Unicorn Stamp Set
6x6 White Card
5.75 x 5.75 Red Mat
5.5 x 5.5 White Mat
5 x 5 White Card
3 sizes of Circle Dies
Oxide Inks
Alcohol Markers
Sparkle Pen

• Cut the smallest circle die out Red Card Mat and layered onto white card blank.  Stamped and embossed "Peace and Joy" stamp into centre of circle.
• Cut larger circle die out of centre of 5.5 x 5.5 white card.  Cut middle circle out of centre of 4.75 x 4.75 White Card.
• Used Green Oxide Ink and inked lightly around the White 5.5 x 5.5 mat. 
• Puting the larger white mat on the top and the smaller one behind, temporarily join them with a little bit of double sided tape.
• Using the Build a Wreath Template and the middle branch from the Peace and Joy Stamp set, I stamped it around the circle in 3 colours.  Used the Holly, Robin and Bell stamps from the Christmas Mini Stamps and stamped them evenly around the branches.  Also used a small flower from the A6 Flying Unicorn Stamp Set.
• Coloured in all the images.
• Carefully separated the 2 white mats.  Matted the one with the middle size circle onto the red mat, ensuring the circles were even.  
• Using foam pads matted the inked stamped layer on top of the previous layers.
• Added some red gems to the holly berries and a silver gem to the centre of the flower.

Thank you for looking