Stampin' for Christmas blog hop - Handmade Christmas Card Ideas

Welcome on World Card Making Day to my blog for the October Stampin' for Christmas hop.   I've chosen a CAS card to share today.  I used the very popular Tidings and Trimmings bundle with Tidings of Christmas DSP (pretty papers) along with Perfectly Plaid stamp set and Scalloped Contour dies. 

I've chosen a couple of CAS cards to share today.  I used the very popular Tidings and Trimmings bundle with Tidings of Christmas DSP (pretty papers) along with Perfectly Plaid stamp set and Scalloped Contour dies. I used the scallop border die to die cut away about a third of the top layer of my card leaving a gap to showcase a stripe of the pretty papers underneath as well as space for the all important Christmas message to loved ones and friends.  

I've die cut a star in Cherry Cobbler card to add a backdrop to the punched tree and create a small paper banner with an offcut.  Love using every little piece of paper don't you?

I've added a gold heat embossed sentiment which I trimmed with a pair of scissors which I often find is the perfect die when you don't have anything else specific to suit your purpose.  

I love CAS cards for the festive season so that it is easy to create a handful well and quickly.  

Here I've used the Festive Foliage background stamp with the same scalloped edge and stamps from Tidings and Trimmings.  You can see more about this card on my earlier Stampingscene post. 

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Hugs Zoe x

Tidings of Christmas Suite

Perfectly Plaid stamp set

Tree punch

Scalloped Contour dies

Festive Foliage background stamp

Layering Stencils for different inking technique

Hi there friends and happy weekend especially for those of you in the UK as it is a long weekend here. Tell me if you live elsewhere if you have Monday as a holiday too. 

At Totally Techniques this month we are sharing double stencilling. I used shades of green and created a circle stencil using a piece of vellum and a circle die and also used one of the Basic Patterns masks for my other layer of stencilling.  

I began with embossing the flower onto white card using clear embossing powder.  I then used a blending brush  ( shh they are back in stock if you want some add a gentle layer of Soft Succulent ink before moving on to add more  ink using the spotty stencil and a blending brush  and then over inked using the circle stencil I created.  

I left the circle stencil in place to add the text stamp in Evening Evergreen ink to make it appear to only be on the circle.  I added some splatter stamping and also some gilded leafing using versamark and heat and stick powder with a heat tool.  

The finishing touch was to add second and third generation stamping of the small flowers and love stamp before adding a stamped die cut tag and a fussy cust stamped flower.  The flower I stamped three times and cut along different petal edges to lift each one differently and add dimension.   

 All the stamps are part of the Quiet Meadow stamp set which is part of the bundle including the Meadow dies.  The shades of green are both from the new 2021 - 2023 in colours and you can see more the dies in use on my earlier stamping scene post.

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