Spellbinders Sprigs and Bow

 

Happy Sunday!

Today is day 4 of my 2025 Christmas card creations.  This card uses 

Spellbinders "Sprigs and Bows" stencil set, sadly it is no longer available.  There are 5 stencils and 1 mask in this set.  

I started with a 4.25 x 5.5" piece of PTI White cardstock.  First, I used the bow stencil with PTI Pure Poppy ink and applied the ink to the cardstock with a large blending brush.  Second step is to place the mask for the bow and ribbon over the inked area - very important to protect the bow just created. Third step is to use the leaf stencil and light green ink, I used PTI Prairie Grass to create the leaves.  Fourth step is to line up the stem stencil and use PTI Ripe Avocado ink to create the darker grean stems.  The Fifth step is to line up the stencil to add the red berries with PTI Pure Poppy ink.  Lastly, I removed the mask for the bow and above is the result.  I've never used a mask made from the same material as the stencil.  It worked really well, it allowed inking right up to the bow and ribbons. 

This card was labor intensive with all the stencils and the mask, but I was really happy with the result.  I cut the stenciled cardstock down to 4 x 5.2" and mounted it on a PTI Pure Poppy base card.  Then to finish the card I added a few red gems.

This card of the gift was the theme I went with this year for the inside verse for all my 2025 Christmas cards...

Wishing you joy and peace
as we celebrate the
beautiful gift of Jesus. 
A gift freely given to all people
to demonstrate God’s love,
grace and promise of eternal life,
through faith alone.

 Joyous Christmas Blessings

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3 more posts to go!

Blessings to you,

Deb

     

Christmas Joy with Sprigs

 Happy Saturday!

Today is Day 3 of my 2025 Christmas card creations.  Last Saturday I had a card that used the In Love Arts Joy Nativity die and todays card uses it too.  The multilayered stenciled springs of holly background is what I'm going to talk about today.  This stencil set was a Spellbinders Stencil of the Month "Sprigs and Bow" in July 2024.  

Spellbinders usually makes their monthly subscription items available to everyone after a few months.  This set, unfortunately was on clearance in June when I bought it, so it isn't available anymore.  It came with 5 layering stencils and 1 mask for the bow.  I used the 3 stencils to create the sprigs and holly for this card.  

I started with a 4.25 x 5.5" white cardstock panel.  The 1st stencil makes the lighter green leaves, the ink I used was PTI Prairie Grass.  The 2nd stencil adds the stems, I used a darker green, PTI Ripe Avocado.  The 3rd stencil adds the holly berries, I used PTI Pure Poppy.   The ink was applied with a large blending brush.  I only used 2 blending brushes, one for the greens and another for the red ink.

The base cardstock is PTI Ripe Avocado.  I cut the stenciled panel down to 4" wide and adhered it to the base card on the right side.  I added the Joy Nativity panel just like last weeks card, with pop dots.  Then added a few red gems to finish the card.  

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Tomorrow, I show a card made with the springs and bow.

Blessings,

Deb

Oh Christmas Tree

Happy Sunday!

Today is day 2 of my 2025 Christmas card creations.  I have a simple card with a line of Christmas trees die cut I found on Amazon.  I die cut some gold cardstock I found on Amazon in 2023. The theme this year is using cardstock I had on hand!

Originally, I was going to cut the trees again in green cardstock, cut the individual trees apart and glue them over the gold so just the star was gold. The die is really detailed with debossed and cut features, which I likes in metallic gold.  I decided to keep it simple sticking to just 3 colors for this card, white, blue and gold.  

The "Oh Christmas Tree" stamp is an old one from The Angel Company, stamped in PTI Enchanted Evening ink on PTI white cardstock.  I glued the gold trees to 3-9/16 x 5-13/16" PTI Enchanted Evening cardstock panel, matted with gold and added the gold matted sentiment panel.  Pretty quick card.

Next weekend, I will share a couple cards that used multi-layered stencils.

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Blessings,

Deb

 

InLoveArts Joy Nativity

Happy Saturday!

Today is the start of my Christmas card posts for this year!  I have 9 different designs, which I will share over 7 posts.  These are the first 2 cards I made, simple 2 colors with a die cut and some texture from the embossed panel.  

The Joy Nativity is a die from InLoveArts, which I cut from PTI White cardstock.  I embossed a white panel using Spellbinders 3D Embossing Folder "Holly & Foliage".  I stamped a sentiment on the PTI Pure Poppy cardstock and added the die cut Joy with clear drying glue.  The base card is PTI Pure Poppy and I added the 4x5.5" embossed panel on the right side of the base card. 

My second card is a variation in PTI Enchanted Evening. 

For this version I cut down the embossed panel 4x5.25" to mount to the PTI Enchanted Evening base card.  Then added the blue panel with sentiment and die cut joy like the red version.

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Tomorrow I will have another Christmas card to share.

Blessings,

Deb