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Fabulous Friday: Red and Green Ornamental Envelopes Christmas Card

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends yesterday and stuffed yourself with turkey!!  With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas just 4 short weeks away, we're sharing Red and Green Christmas cards for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog to give you more ideas and inspiration to get those handstamped cards made and in the mail soon.  

 

Ornamental Envelopes Photopolymer Stamp Set, #153434  $17.00   www.debbienylor.stampinup.net

I decided to use the Ornamental Envelopes stamp set along with the Tag Buffet set that I used in last week's project.  I really like these stamp sets and think they work well together. I like that they're both sets that offer versatility and can be used to embellish your envelopes and make tags.  

 

 

 Here is another view of my card. I decided to use a piece of crumb cake card stock for my background stamped panel since I knew I would be using a whisper white card base. I used the foliage pieces to form a wreath using garden green ink with the larger leaves image and shaded spruce ink with the smaller leaves image. I figured out that a 2-3/4" diameter circle works best and thankfully found a jar with a lid that size that I used as a guide. I outlined it lightly with a pencil and you can't even see it under the ink.  After stamping the foliage (I inked full strength and without re-inking to get variation in color), I went back over it wih the berries image and real red ink.

 

 

  I used the corner image with soft suede ink to embellish the corners of the stamped panel and added a tiny pearl jewel in each. The Merry Christmas sentiment (from the Tag Buffet stamp set) was added to a 1" strip of whisper white card stock that I cut using the Lovely Labels Pick-a-Punch. And you must know by now how much I love the Plaid Tidings DSP pack - I had to add a strip to my card.  And check out that cute bow!  It's made from the Real Red Braided Linen Trim that is available in the Holiday catalog.

 

 

  For the inside, I stamped a sentiment from the Tag Buffet stamp set using shaded spruce ink and then embellished in the upper right corner using the leaf foliage image from the Ornamental Envelopes stamp set with garden green ink. Once that was done I added a hanging ornament stamped with real red ink.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous red & green Christmas card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend!

 

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Fabulous Friday: Quick & Easy Tag Buffet Christmas Card

 

  Hello and Happy Friday! This week we're sharing quick & easy Christmas cards for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog. I can't even believe that Thanksgiving is next week and Christmas is only 5 weeks away. 

 

Tag Buffet stamp set: Item #153612 $18.00

  I decided to use the Tag Buffet stamp set that I recently ordered. This stamp set coordinates with a tag kit, but I thought it would also be fantastic to make a quick & easy Christmas card when paired with the Plaid Tidings DSP pack.

 

  As you can see, I pulled the color palette for my card from the DSP: basic black, cherry cobbler, garden green and shaded spruce. Cutting the strip 4" x 1-1/2" wide means I get 4 pieces plus a 6" x 2" piece left over from a single sheet of 6" x 6" DSP. This also fits perfectly into the Triple Banner punch to notch the end nicely for the banner.

 

 

  I colored the stocking with my cherry cobbler dark and light Stampin' Blends markers and cut the stocking out and mounted it to my whisper white circle. I then stamped the holly leaves (garden green) and berries (real red) separately on a piece of scrap whisper white card stock and used a blender pen to spread the color lightly.  I cut these out and mounted them on the stocking.  I'm not sure if you can see it in this photo, but the white parts of the stocking were "colored" using the clear Wink of Stella glimmer brush. It adds just the right amount of glimmer and sparkle to the card, perfect for a Christmas card!

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous quick & easy Christmas card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend!

 

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Fabulous Friday Scraped Paint CAS Butterfly card

  Hello and Happy Monday (yikes, I thought I had published this post on Friday but once again I did not)! This week we're sharing cards featuring the Scrape Painting technique for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog. I kept my card very simple, so the beautiful background would stand out on the card.  You can read more about this Scrape Painting Technique HERE and I am including the steps below in how I used my reinkers and white acrylic paint to make it...

 

1. I used basic liquid white acrylic paint, 3 ink refills (bermuda bay, pacific point and pool party), a plastic spoon, a large straight edge (mine is a mini piercing mat), watercolor paper cut to 5" x 3-3/4" and a piece of scrap paper. 

2. I put down 3 quarter-sized amounts of white acrylic paint and added 5 drops from the ink refills in each on my scrap paper.

 

3. I used the back of a plastic spoon to mix all three pretty well. These dry much lighter, so if you are happy with the color of the paint as is you may want to add more ink to darken the color. 

 

4. Use the spoon to drop random drops of pain all over the watercolor paper as shown.

 

5. Take the large straight-edge and put it in the center of your watercolor paper and rotate it with one hand while holding the paper in place with the other. Warning - this is a MESSY technique, you might want to wear gloves!  I walked around all weekend with blue fingertips.

 

 

  As you can see, the pattern on the watercolor paper is much lighter once it fully dried.  I wanted to keep the card super clean and simple so this beautiful background paper would be the star. I included stamped images from the Butterfly Gala stamp set and the coordinating Butterfly Duet punch along with the Label Me Lovely punch.

 

 

  I colored the butterfly and sentiment images with my bermuda bay and pacific point stampin' write markers and the butterfly body is stamped in basic black ink.  I popped up the butterfly with a dimensional and did the same with the sentiment piece.  I matted the watercolor paper with a small basic black piece of cardstock cut to 5-1/8" x 3-7/8" and popped up that piece also with dimensionals.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous Scrape Painting technique ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous week!

 

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Fabulous Friday Banner Year Fall card

 

  Hello and Happy Sunday (yikes, I thought I had published this post on Friday but alas I did not)! This week we're sharing cards celebrating all things Fall for our Fabulous Friday projects over on the Sisters in Stamping blog. My card features the Banner Year stamp set and Plaid Tidings DSP from the Holiday catalog. 

 

 

  These are some of my favorite products in the Holiday catalog. The Banner Year stamp set works for so many different holidays/occasions and the Plaid Tidings DSP is so versatile because of the many different patterns/color combinations in this pack.  I have certainly used these papers for so many projects the last few months.

 

 

  My card design is a simple layout, focusing on the pretty Plaid Tidings DSP and texture from the Greenery texture folder. I pulled my colors from the DSP: crushed curry, pumpkin pie and basic black.

 

 

  Do you recognize the punches I used for my stamped panel? The bottom layer is cut from the basic black card stock mat using the Label Me Lovely punch.  The stamped panel was cut using the Timeless Label punch, but I was able to extend the size of it by feeding my 1-3/16" strip of whisper white card stock as shown in the photo above. I love how that gives you more versatility with our punches! 

 

 

  In this photo you can see the texture a little better on the pumpkin pie card stock panel. In addition, you can see how I used the Braided Linen Trim to add some additional texture. I did attach the trim and then tied the bow separately and glued it to the piece using Tombow glue (so much easier!).  And I kept the stamping super simple - I love solid images for that reason! And with photopolymer stamps it is so easy to line things up on a cut out panel.

 

 

  Here is one last view of my card.  For even more fabulous fall card ideas and insiration, please be sure to hop on over to the Sisters in Stamping blog.

 

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous week!

 

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  Be sure to use Host Code 24PWNVCG* with your online orders at checkout through November 30th to receive a Quick & Easy card as a thank you. In addition, any online orders of $50+ will qualify for my gift of a free product of the month.  To qualify you must use the current Host Code and place a $50+ order online via www.DebbieNaylor.StampinUp.net. (*Note - if your merchandise total is $150 or greater, please do NOT use the hostess code so you can get the Stampin' Rewards for yourself PLUS you'll earn the product of the month).  

 

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