Unity - Everything Stronger Sympathy

Happy Saturday!

Today I have a sympathy card to share using a Unity stamp set - Everything Stronger.  The sentiment was stamped in PTI Enchanted Evening ink on PTI white cardstock.  I die cut the sentiment using a SU Stampin' cut and Emboss dies.  The rectangular mat cardstock is PTI Enchanted Evening.  I punched 2 holes on the tag and added threaded a white ribbon through, finishing with a bow.

The embossed panel was done with Spellbinders 3DEmbossing Folder - Beautiful Blooms.  Love this embossing folder.  The mat cardstock is PTI Enchanted Evening. 

Thanks for stopping by...

Blessing to you,

Deb

Spellbinders - Evergreens Christmas Card

Merry Christmas!

Today I have my last 2024 Christmas card to share.  It uses Spellbinders - Seasons Greetings Evergreen Press Plate and the Spellbinders BetterPress System.  This card has a lot of elements to create this scene.  The metal evergreen plate was inked with Memento black ink and image transferred to rag cotton cold press watercolor paper.  I used watercolors to paint the image.  After dry, I added a few sprays of tsukineko glimmer and splatters of watered down white paint, for snow and sparkle.  

I used 2 die cuts for the windows; the upper one is Little Miss Muffet and is actually a screen door die but the outer frame makes a wonderful large arched window.  The second window below is Poppy Small Madison Die.  I painted 10 images and cut them to make 27 cards total.  I was able to get 2 window scenes for the large arched window out of 1 image and 3 window scenes out of 1 painted image for the smaller window die.

I created the wainscoting and trim using a Darice stripe embossing folder.  The green patterned paper I found in my paper stash, perfect for a vintage wallpaper.   

Lastly, I added the Christmas Wishes die cut.

Hope you have a blessed Christmas!

Blessings to you,

Deb

Spellbinders - Poinsettia Corner Christmas Card

 Happy Sunday!

Today, I have my 5th Christmas card to share.  This card uses Spellbinders - Poinsettia Corner Press Plate and is colored with Copic Markers.  This image uses the Spellbinders BetterPress System and metal poinsettia press plate image.  This plate image has really fine details and was a fun image to color.  I used Memento black ink which is ideal for Copic markers and PaperTrey ink white cardstock 4.25 x 5.5".  

Copic Colors: R35, R37, R39, G40, G43, G46, E23, E25, E29

The image was printed in the corner of a 4.25 x 5.5" piece of cardstock. To create the box attached to the image, I cut 1" in from 2 sides and cut up to the image.  Then, I did some fussy cutting from the box around the outer edge of the image.  The sentiment is from a Spellbinders stamp set STP-023 "To You and Yours" which I bought several years ago.  The green mat (3.75 x 5") is Bazzill Ivy Cardstock and base card is PTI White cardstock. I added a Spellbinders Fashion Gold Embellishment to the center of the poinsettia to finish the card.

I will post my last 2024 card on Christmas Day.

Thanks for Stopping by...

Blessings to you,

Deb

Spellbinders - Gold Holly with Stencil coloring

Happy Saturday!

Today I have the third and last Christmas card to share using Spellbinders - Glimmer Holly Background.  I bought the bundle from Spellbinders, which had the hot foil plate and coordinating stencils for coloring the background.  For this card, I used gold foil on PaperTrey Ink white cardstock. 

I colored the holly and leaves using the 4 layer stencil, 3 stencils are different leaves and 1 for the berries.  I used inks from PaperTrey Ink, Green Parakeet, New Leaf; for the holly leaves I used 2 inks Prairie Grass and Olive Twist.  To color the berries, Autumn Rose and Scarlet Jewel.   

 The Merry Christmas die I found on Amazon and I liked that it was all one piece, even the dot of the i is part of the Merry swoosh.  I matted the gold Merry Christmas sentiment on a piece of vellum to help it from getting lost in the background.  I used glue to attach the sentiment to the vellum, then applied glue behind the die cut to attach the vellum to the base card.  I nice trick so no glue or tape shows thru the vellum.  The vellum is from PaperTrey ink.  

The base card is PTI Pure Poppy cardstock.  I also added a die cut poinsettia to this card, cut from pure poppy and gold cardstock.  The die has 5 pieces which I glued together to create the layered flower.  

I made some cards vertical and some horizontal.

I will have another Christmas card tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by...

Blessings to you,

Deb

Spellbinders - Gold Holly and Colored Pencil

 Happy Sunday!

Today I have another Christmas card to share using Spellbinders - Glimmer Holly Background.  This the second card I made with this glimmer plate.  This one I used gold foil on blue cardstock (PaperTrey Ink - Enchanted Evening). 

I colored some of the the holly and leaves with Prismacolor colored pencils.  This was a technique I saw in both online cardmaking courses I took this Fall.  The Stress Free Cardmaking Summit and Justine Hovey's online 12 Days of Christmas cardmaking tutorial.  Using the colored pencils on a dark cardstock is really striking and unexpected.  I was really drawn to trying it myself and this is the card I came up with.

 The background is matted on gold cardstock and the Merry Christmas is die cut from the center of the gold mat. The Merry Christmas die I found on Amazon and I liked that it was all one piece, even the dot of the i is part of the Merry swoosh.  I matted the Merry Christmas sentiment on a piece of vellum to help it from getting lost in the background.  This was something I learned from Justine Hovey's online 12 Days of Christmas cardmaking tutorial. 

I made some cards vertical and some horizontal.

Yesterday I posted a card created with this same glimmer plate in silver.

Saturday, I will have another card version using the stencil from the bundle.

Thanks for stopping by...

Blessings to you,

Deb 

Spellbinders - Silver Holly Christmas Card

 

Happy Saturday!

Today I have another Christmas card to share.  This card uses a Hot Foil plate from Spellbinders, which I bought in a bundle - Glimmer Holly Background.  I made 3 different cards with this glimmer plate.  This first one is a simple silver foil on blue cardstock (PaperTrey Ink - Enchanted Evening).  It is matted on silver cardstock and the Merry Christmas is die cut from the center of the silver mat.

The Merry Christmas die I found on Amazon and I liked that it was all one piece, even the dot of the i is part of the Merry swoosh.  I matted the Merry Christmas sentiment on a piece of vellum to help it from getting lost in the background.  This was something I learned from Justine Hovey's online 12 Days of Christmas cardmaking tutorial. 

I made some cards vertical and some horizontal.

The next 2 posts will show some other techniques using this same glimmer plate.

The Christmas card making class I took online in September - Stress Free Cardmaking Summit, was 3 days of cardmaking and technique tutorials.  It really kickstarted my Christmas card making in October and led to making lots of different cards using lots of different techniques.  I got out my watercolors, colored pencils, stencil and inks and one card is colored with Copics, so there is more to come in the next 4 posts.  More glimmer foil and BetterPress use too.

Thanks for stopping by...

Blessings to you,

Deb 

Spellbinders - Let Us Adore Him

Happy Sunday!

I am thrilled to have completed my 2024 Christmas cards.  I have many designs to share over the coming weeks.  Today's card uses Spellbinders BetterPress Letterpress system and a press plate called Let Us Adore Him.  

I took some Christmas cardmaking seminars online this Fall and it was a great place to find inspiration, learn new techniques and a refresh for old techniques too.  Inevitably, I saw new tools demonstrated in the videos and the Spellbinders BetterPress System was new to me.  It is a Letterpress system, like a printing press, you place a metal image plate on a magnetic base.  Then, ink the image plate and run it through the Spellbinders Platinum Machine to transfer the image to the cardstock with even and uniform pressure.   I have to say, for large images and backgrounds, it is amazing, especially when it can be a struggle to get the full image to stamp without a stamping tool.

For this card, I used Gold Brilliance Pigment ink to ink the Let Us Adore Him plate.  The impression transferred really well.  Spellbinders recommends their ink and papers to use the system, however I have been using my normal PaperTrey Ink cardstock and inks I have like Mementos and Brilliance. The BetterPress plates are also compatible with the Spellbinders Glimmer Foil System, so I could have created this card with a gold foil rather than ink.   It is nice to have options.  

I also used a new embossing folder for this card.  It is Spellbinders Holiday Floral Swag 3D embossing folder.  The impression is so amazing, really has a 3D effect.  I embossed a 4.25 x 5.5" piece of cardstock and cut 2 side panels from it. Added a few gold embellishments and gold mat and this card was complete.

Card #2 - different section on the embossed image

More Christmas cards next week.

Thanks for stopping by...
Blessings to you,
Deb