And he is all ready for your presents. This is another of my tags for my class last week. It is a pretty direct CASE of “Melbarkwith” over at Splitcoaststampers. Melissa’s blog is great and here is the card I used. I love that these are perfect for my kids’ presents. Even better, some of my class members are going to use them for teacher gifts. I added the Dazzling Diamonds with my Two-Way Glue Pen to give ol’ Santa a little sparkle. His face has a little Blush Blossom to make him rosier. I am just in love with stamp set and all of the possibilities. While the previous tags I posted were my favorites, my boys liked this one the best. I guess Santa just has that effect on children!
Thanks for stopping in today. I hope to see you again soon!
I’m back to work on my Christmas cards this week and there were some challenges to get me on track. The first is the SUO Challenge 7 for Clean & Simple Christmas Cards. Over at Splitcoaststampers there are two challenges today, the first is the CAS challenge to use bows and the other is the Technique Lovers Challenge for emboss resist. Finally, Shelli Gardner over at So Shelli asked for techniques as her challenge this month. I have to say that after all the classes I have been having that my creative level is a little low. I’m sure that will be fixed soon enough but I was happy to have a little help from the challenges.
I saw the technique called “emboss rewash” while I was at the Stampin’ Up Regionals in October. Shannon West did a demo of the technique and I loved it! It is a version of emboss resist using watercolor paper and an Aquapainter. You emboss your image and then, instead of sponging, you “wash” the color around the image with your wet Aquapainter and ink. I tried it on today’s card with the snowflake from Snow Swirled. I stamped it in Versamark ink, embossed it with Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder then washed over my Night of Navy ink. It looks incredibly cool! To add a touch of holiday feel, I then washed over some Frost White Shimmer Paint too. Finally I stamped the words from All Holidays (one of my favorite sentiments for Christmas cards!) in Night of Navy ink. I kept the layout simple and just added my Vanilla Satin bow and a Basic Pearl. I love how the shimmer paint and ribbon make this feel special but that it is really easy to duplicate for a lot of cards! The hardest part of this was getting a good picture since the shimmer kept reflecting back.
I know this picture is a bit dark but I had to take it in shadows so you could see the image. Here are a couple more pictures where you can really see the pearlized look of the Frost White Shimmer Paint.
You can see all the reflection bouncing back in these two pictures. I must say that this card is so much prettier in person!!
Now that I have this one done, I’m off to complete some more. My Advent countdown calendar says 19 days and I have lots more work to do. I will be back tomorrow with the rest of my tags from my class last week. Hope your day is full of Peace, Love and Joy!
Stamps: Snow Swirled, All Holidays; Paper: Watercolor, Very Vanilla, Night of Navy; Ink: Versamark, Night of Navy; Accessories: Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Heat Tool, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Aquapainter, Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Dimensionals, Basic Pearls
I have decided that I must use the word ‘hoopla’ more since it seems to perfectly describe the feeling I have during holiday preparation. More tags today! This may be my favorite for this year. I used the tree from the Holiday Hoopla set and colored with my Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler markers. The versatility of this set is just wonderful!! And guess what…the Free for All Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers uses songs from the Nutcracker Suite as inspiration. I chose Act 1: Number 1 The Christmas Tree. I love that music and will now be humming it all day!
The tag base is the Two Tags die for my Big Shot and the paper used is the Jolly Holiday DSP from the main catalog. I like that this is so cute but easy enough to make in quantity.
Now that my tags are pretty much done, you can expect to see some more cards in the upcoming days. It is crunch time and I still have some work to do to get my card list completed.
Have a great weekend and take time to enjoy the hoopla!!
Stamps: Holiday Hoopla, Short & Sweet; Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Jolly Holiday DSP; Ink: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories: Big Shot, Two Tags Die, Dimensionals, 1/8″ Vanilla Tafetta Ribbon
It may not show it from my lack of posting, but I have been busy, busy, busy! I have a Christmas Tags Class tomorrow (actually two) and have been putting the finishing touches on the designs and cutting paper. I’m so excited about the tags and will show the rest later this week but here is a sneak peek for those who are coming tomorrow. Conveniently enough, Our Creative Corner has a tags challenge this week and Diva Coffee Break Designs has a layout challenge, DCBD#205. I saw these trees from the fabulously talented Heidi Baks and I knew I had to try them. I used two versions with my Two Tags die. I can’t wait to make these with my stampers tomorrow!!
Aren’t these trees cool??!! And not nearly so hard as they look! I used my Deck the Halls paper along with Always Artichoke and Crumb Cake. I particularly like the darker Cherry Cobbler background paper because it has the words for ‘O Christmas Tree’.
Well, off to finish the last cutting. Hope you are enjoying your first day of December!!
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