Hello Friends! Katy here with a holiday video using Versafine Clair inks and Love Letter Memento Ink. With some simple touches and color combos you can create a stunning elegant holiday card in just a few steps. Video has all the details. Thanks for watching.
Other Products Used The Greetery Scripted Holiday Sentiments Stamp Set The Greetery Scripted Holiday Sentiments Die Set White Cardstock White Metallic Cardstock Stamp positioner tool Foam Tape
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:
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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.
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