Hello crafty friends! It’s Ceal here. Today I am sharing a postage collage Christmas card with you.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 45 minutes
Directions:
Gather your supplies. To make this card you will need a Postage Collage Layering Stencil, a snowflake cover plate die, a snowflake cluster background die and some inks. The inks I used are listed at the bottom of the tutorial.
Step 1: Cut out a postcard using a postage die. Ink blend VersaFine Clair Nocturne and VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves for the eyes, mouth and arms on the first stencil.
Step 2: Ink blend VersaFine Clair Lilac Bloom over the bottom portion of the first stencil.
Step 3: Ink blend VersaFine Clair Bal Blue over the middle portion of the first stencil.
Step 4: Ink blend VersaFine Clair Warm Breeze over the top portion of the first stencil.
Step 5: Ink blend VersaFine Clair summertime over the noses and VersaFine Clair Nocturne over the buttons on the second stencil.
Step 6: Cut apart the postage die to get individual stamps. Choose which ones you want to use on your project and save the rest.
Step 7: Cut out a background panel using the snowflake cover die.
Step 8: Cut the snowflake cluster out of glitter paper.
Step 9: Stamp and emboss the sentiment, then put all the pieces together to create the card.
Craft Supplies:
Imagine Products:
VersaFine Clair – Nocturne – Fallen Leaves – Summertime – Warm Breeze – Bali Blue – Lilac Bloom
Other Products: Postage die – Waffle Flower Layering Postage Stencil – Waffle Flower Snowflake Cover Plate – Waffle Flower Snowflake Cluster die – Waffle Flower Sentiment – Waffle Flower
When I saw these fun chipboard snowflake ornaments in my local craft store, I knew I wanted use some Fireworks! spray to make them shine.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 2 hours (active time) + dry time
Directions:
Step 1: Cover the chipboard ornaments with a layer of Gesso. Allow to dry.
Step 2: Spray each of the ornaments with a different color of Fireworks! Craft Spray: Angel Pink, Lilac Posies, Lulu Lavender, and Tangelo. Allow the spray to dry, and then spray a second time to enhance the color. (I chose to dry the spray to speed up the process but you could allow it to air dry.)
Step 3: Use one of two small stamps to add some texture and color to each of the ornaments: Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair ink (on the Lilac Posies Fireworks! Craft Spray), Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink (on the Tangelo Fireworks! Craft Spray), Strawberry VersaFine Clair ink (on the Angel Pink Fireworks! Craft Spray), and Night Sky VersaMagic Chalk ink (on Lulu Lavender Fireworks! Craft Spray). Heat emboss each of the snowflakes with clear embossing powder.
Step 4: Cut out and distress the edges of 4 pre-printed winter sentiments. Then press the edges into the Golden Glitz Delicata ink pad. Heat emboss each of the sentiments with clear embossing powder.
Then press the Golden Glitz Delicata ink pad onto a piece of acetate packaging and spray with water. Then press the acetate packaging onto each of the ornaments to add gold shimmer.
Allow to dry or dry with a heat tool. Then press the edges of the ornament into the ink pad. Allow to dry.
Step 5: Glue the sentiment strips onto the ornaments. Glue sequins onto the ornament and strips. Add a loop of golden embroidery thread through the hole in each ornament to finish the project.
Other products: Argyle Layering Stencil – Simon Says Stamp Jingle Bell Die – Simon Says Stamp Gold Paste – Hero Arts Gold Foil – Spellbinders Sentiment – Waffle Flower
Hello Friends! Happy Holidays! There’s nothing I love more than a vintage Christmas card and that’s just what you will learn to create in the video! Follow along with me while we create this super easy Christmas Card!
• Acrylic stamping block or stamp platform • Snowflake Stencil • Stencil Brush • 100lb white paper • A2 Card Base • Clear embossing powder • Ribbon scrap • Embellishments • Water and a brush • Stamps of your choice • Antistatic Powder Tool • Embossing heat tool • Tim Holtz and Sizzix Dies Darling Deer, Arctic, and Festive Words • Glitter paper from my stash • White Gel Pen • Dr. PH Martin’s Bleedproof White Vellum from my stash
ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS THAT CAN BE USED TO RECREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR Any Inks any combination of background stamps, dies, and feature stamps and stencil
I was inspired to make a minimalist holiday card to allow the main botanical image to shine as the focal point. But I also knew that I wanted it to be shiny, so pulled out my current favorite Delicata color-Champagne- to add some subtitle shine.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1 hour
Directions:
Step 1: Stamp the large botanical image on a piece of watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink. Then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
Step 2: Use markers to color in the berries and leaves. Use the Rhubarb Stalk Memento Dual Marker to color over the shaded areas of the berries. Then color a piece of acetate packaging with Lady Bug Memento Dual Marker and spray with water, use this to watercolor in the berries. While watercoloring, make sure to watercolor over all of the berries to blend in the watercolor with the darker red marker already colored in the berries. Then color another area of the acetate packaging with both the Emerald Fabrico Dual Marker and the Northern Pine Memento Dual Marker and spray with more water. Mix the two colors together to create a blend of the two colors and then watercolor the leaves. Allow to dry.
After all of the image dried, die cut the image with the corresponding die.
Step 3: Trim a second panel of watercolor paper in the papertrimmer the same size as the die cut frame created in step 2. Then press the Campagne Delicata Ink pad onto acetate packaging and spray with water to watercolor smoosh both the panel and the botanical image/frame to add sparkle to both.
Off camera, I got a small smudge on the frame with my finger. To fix this, I used some of the leftover green watercolor I made for step 2 to splatter green over the frame.
Step 4: Glue the frame onto the watercolor panel. Then stamp a sentiment on the lower right corner of the panel with more Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Glue the panel onto an A2-sized white cardbase. Glue white rhinestones on the lower left and upper right parts of the card panel to finish the card.
Before making this card, I had no idea all of the different winter wedding color palates there are! I needed to make a winter wedding card, and decided to use some products in a new way (at least for me). Before I share how I made this card, I wanted to share a winter wedding color palate that inspired me:
Skill: Intermediate Time: 2 hours
Directions:
Step 1: I stamped a large wedding scene stamp on a die cut piece of watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.
Step 2: Press a Champagne Delicata ink pad onto a piece of acetate packaging and then mix with water. Press the acetate onto the stamped wedding image. (This is very hard to see in the image, but there is a faint sheen on the wedding dress and in other parts of the panel.) Allow to dry.
Step 3: Watercolor smoosh the panel with a second layer of the Champagne Delicata ink. Then scribble Potter’s Clay Memento Dual Marker onto the acetate and spray with water. Then press the acetate onto the panel. Allow these layers of color to dry on the panel.
Step 4: Press the Toffee Crunch Memento ink pad onto the same acetate, spray with more water and then watercolor smoosh the panel again.
Step 5: Color in parts of the panel with Potter’s Clay Memento Dual Marker.
Step 6: Add a small amount of Celestial Copper Delicata Inker onto the same acetate packaging and use a small paintbrush to mix with water to thin out the reinker. Then use the paintbrush to paint the trim of the bride’s dress, some of the presents, and some other images with the coppery mix.
Step 7: Spray Walnut colored Walnut Ink Antiquing Solution onto die cut glitter cardstock to make it darker. (Please note that the panel took a long time to dry. The next time I do this, I plan on adding embossing powder to help it dry more quickly.
Step 8: Color the tree leaves, the pennant ribbon and a couple of the hats with Rich Cocoa Memento Dual Marker.
Step 9: Stamp the sentiment from the same stamp set with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Trim the sentiment into a thin strip with the edges at an angle.
Step 10: Press the edges of the sentiment strip into a Toffee Crunch Memento ink pad to color the borders.
Step 11: Press a Champagne Delicata ink pad onto the acetate packaging and then spray with water. Watercolor smoosh the sentiment strip and allow to dry.
Step 12: Assemble the card. Glue 2 strips of scrap cardstock behind the sentiment and glue the sentiment on the lower right corner of the stamped panel. Then glued the stamped panel onto the sprayed glitter cardstock panel. Glue the whole thing onto an A2-sized white card base.
Glue gems on the bottom left and upper right corners of the card.
Other • Colorado Craft Company – stamp set – Happily Ever After by Anita Jeram • Pink and Main – die set – Notched Corners • Trinity Stamp Company – embellishments – Champagne Twinkle Stardust Rhinestone mix • A2-sized white card base • Clear Embossing Powder • Watercolor paper • Glitter cardstock • Die cutting machine • Paper trimmer Scissors • Glue
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