Month: November 2017

Happy Monday!  Welcome back to my blog for another Christmas card for 2017.  I’m revisiting one of my favorite stamp sets.  It’s called Peony Bouquet from Altenew.  Peonies are spring time flowers, but I’m altering them into some beautiful Christmas flowers for this card.

This card consists of a lot of stamping and absolutely no coloring–very unusual for me!  I started with stamping the outline stamps.  They are gorgeous!  You could even just stop there, and color them in yourself–I have created a card like this where I colored it in with Prismacolor pencils.  However, for this card I’m going to stamp out all the layers.

Below are the next three layers.  First the base color of red, next the darker purple-red color for the shadows, and last the darkest color of brown for the very darkest shadows.  Aren’t these flowers gorgeous!  The layers are easy to line up, and if you use a stamping tool like the Mini Misti, you can very easily mass produce these cards.  I stamped them at the bottom of the paper, and then I turned the paper and stamped them again without moving my images.  It’s a great time saver.

 

After I finished stamping my flowers, I stamped out all the leaves and berries from this set.

I have the coordinating dies for this stamp set which made cutting them out easier, but it still took time die cutting all the images.

I knew I wanted some of the white of my card base peeking through–this helped make the images really pop.  I used a new tool to help me figure out and position the placement of my flowers and leaves.  It’s called a jewel picker, and I bought mine from Amazon–it’s a very affordable tool.  I have the link below if you are interested.  On one end it has a small sticky head and on the other a larger one.  You can also use it to pick up and apply your sequins or jewels to your cards.

After I adhered everything to my card base, I added some Glossy Accents on the berries and some Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen on the peony bud by the sentiment.

Here’s the video!  You can watch it here or on my YouTube Channel.

Thanks for visiting!  Go look through your stash of flowers and see if you can alter any of them into Christmas flowers.  Have a wonderful week!!

Supplies Used:

Altenew’s Peony Bouquet

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Hello and welcome to my craft table.  Two things that really go well together besides peanut butter and jelly are Prismacolor pencils and Kraft cardstock.  The way that Prismacolor pencils coat the paper and make images pop off this charmingly drab kraft paper is amazing.  I highly recommend giving it a try, and your pencils don’t have to be Prismacolor color pencils either.

I started off with building my little scene.  I stamped the bigger bear first because I wanted him in front, I covered him with a mask, and then I stamped the smaller bear.  When I peeled off the mask, the smaller bear was peeking out from behind the larger one.

I dived right into the coloring after that.  I colored on a few layers with each of the pencils.  The Prismacolor pencils do have a tendency of dimming the stamped lines, but that problem can be easily fixed if you keep your stamps on the door of your stamp positions.  Then all you have to do is pop your card panel back in and re-stamp it.  Or outline it with a marker when you’re finished coloring.

I added some glitter over the bears’ scarves and the pail of fish with my Spetrum Noir clear glitter pen.  This just added a little more interest.  I used a gel pen to dot on snowflakes, making sure to put some on the bears so it looked like it was snowing all around them.

I adhered this card panel onto a white card base and called it done, but as I kept glancing at it sitting on my craft table as I’d walk by while cooking or leaving the house on some errand–my craft table is actually my dining room table, so I pass it a lot–I felt something else was needed.  And I remembered that adding a bow to almost anything helps.  I opted to use red and white baker’s twine.  This was the missing element!

I love how this card turned out, and I hope you like it too!  You can watch it here on my blog or on my YouTube Channel.

 

Thank you for visiting!!