Sending Joy

Hello

I hope you are all doing well.

I'm getting there with finishing up some more Christmas cards.  

But, I must admit....once I start making them, I find it hard to stop!!  

Anyways, here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by pulling out my Lace Doily stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  I just love the look of this beautiful design.  I positioned it onto a piece of heavy white cardstock, then using a palette knife, I spread a thin layer of Gesso over the stencil.  I wasn't too worried about getting full coverage with the Gesso but just added enough to make the design appear.
• I removed the stencil and set the cardstock panel aside to dry.  Be sure and wash your stencil asap to remove the Gesso.  If for some reason it sticks on and won't wash off well, I soak mine in some Oxiclean and warm water.
• When the piece was dry, I got out some Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and I rubbed over the whole thing with an inking brush.
• I let that dry for a bit, then carefully, I mean very carefully, I wiped over the top of the piece with a baby wipe to remove some of the colour that sat on top of the Gesso.  If you wipe it too hard or with something that is too wet, the Gesso will move and you will lose your pattern and design.
• I die cut the 'joy' from Simon Says with a previously inked cardstock. ( I keep all my 'failed' pieces just for this reason.)  It is a 2-part die so I cut the backing in white and glued them together.
• I cut one snowflake (SSS) from white cardstock, then another from white cardstock (Spellbinders) but I left it in the die and added some ink over to give a bit more detail.
• I glued the snowflakes into the corner, then added the Joy die with the blue gems.
• I glued it all onto a matching piece of cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

 Here is the stencil I used:

Lace Doily

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

My Time to Craft Christmas- VINTAGE

(doilies are vintage I think)

Creative Artiste- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look, so very appreciated.

Supplies

Stamps- Taylored Expressions-Simple Strips Christmas

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Gesso, Lace Doily stencil (ACLD), palette knife, Blender Brushes (TE), JOY die (SSS),large snowflake (SSS), small snowflake (Spellbinders), gems

Christmas Medallion

Welcome

I can't believe how quickly time is flying by as the big day gets closer.

I have all my cards mailed out, now I just need to finish a few to hand deliver.  

I have to let you in on a little secret of mine!  Once I start making Christmas cards, I find it hard to stop.  I don't know if it's creating while listening to Christmas music or just all the images that inspire me.

Anyways, here is what I did to create today's card.

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and positioned the Lace Doily stencil from A Colorful Life Designs over to the side of my panel.
• Using some Gesso and a palette knife, I spread the paste over the stencil, then set it aside to dry completely.
• When the Gesso was dry, I rubbed on some Broken China, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky and Blueprint Sketch Distress inks using an inking tool.

• Using a baby wipe, I lifted some of the colour from the Gesso and splattered heavily with water to lift more of the ink.  
• I wanted to give more interest to the background, so using a script from the Faded Text stamp set by Tim Holtz (love!), I randomly stamped in the background with Blueprint Sketch. 
• I die-cut the sentiment from Creative Expressions with some silver paper and then glued that over the panel.
• The panel was dry so I splattered using my white Posca pen.  I just take a ruler and tap the pen over my panel to add droplets of paint.
• To help accentuate the silver, I rubbed some Versamark along the edges of the panel and silver heat embossed it.
• I glued it all together onto a heavy white card base and finally I added some white pearl dots.

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Faded Text (Tim Holtz)

Inks- Distress (listed above); Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); silver cs

Accessories and Tools- Gesso, Lace Doily stencil (A Colorful Life Designs);

palette knife; baby wipe; pearl dots; silver eb powder; heat tool; Merry Christmas (Creative Expressions)

Life's Path

Welcome

A simple card today using this beautiful Lace Doily stencil and a few simple stamps.

I wanted to have a simple, distressed looking background for my card so I inked up the back of the stencil with some Carved Pumpkin DOX ink, sprayed with water and pressed onto my sheet of heavy white cardstock, creating a monoprint.  When I inked up the stencil, I concentrated most of the ink to the center and left the edges a bit untouched to give the distressed feel.

When the inking was dry, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the flowers from MFT and then the sentiment over my stencilling.  I mounted the piece onto a complimentary colour of cardstock, then onto a white card base.

That's it...simple and very fresh looking with the orange.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

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Supplies

Stamps- Life's Journey (High Hopes); Flower Silhouettes

Inks- Tuxedo Black; Carved Pumpkin DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Lace Doily (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Mister (TH)