BIG, BOLD & Beautiful

Hey!

When I saw that the Colorado Craft Company Big & Bold - Winter Wishes Snowflake was back in-stock over HERE on the website, I had to share a trio of colourful cards that I had whipped up. I was in need of three cards for my twin boys to write & give to their reception teacher and teaching assistants. This stamp set was perfect, quick to use and makes my snowflake loving heart happy! 

With the snowflake being so large, I do recommend using a stamping tool when stamping with it. This will ensure that you can repeat stamp to get a perfect stamped image.

I was running low on precious white card, so I decided to reach for my colourful Hero Hues card instead. I used Azalea, Paradise and Amethyst and the colours look stunning with Lawn Fawn Gold Embossing Powder.

I created a 12.5 cm square card base from each of the colours of card. I decided to keep the layout the same for quickness, but switched up where I placed the sentiment. The sentiment also from the stamp set is embossed onto a small strip of card and adhered to the card using foam adhesive.

I love how these turned out and how quick they came together too, so I'll be definitely making a few more as I am a few Christmas cards short and time is running out! 

I hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to sharing more crafty inspiration with you all in the New Year! 

Crafty Hugs

Bev

Other Products Used:

Hero Hues Card, Azalea, Paradise and Amethyst

Lawn Fawn Gold Embossing Powder

VersaMark Ink

Tidings Of Comfort & Joy

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Happy Thursday. I'm back today with a couple more Christmas cards to share with you. Serious panic mode has set in and I need to make as many as I can before the last posting dates. I do this every year and really should be more organised!

I decided to use the recently released WPlus9 Winter Greenery clear stamp set as I'd not got round to inking it up. 

The leaf stamps were what originally caught my eye with this set, along with the beautiful sentiments, so this is what I focused on for my two cards.

For this first card I decided to use traditional Christmas colours and added some sparkle embossing to add a little Christmas magic. 

As usual I used my 'go to' Altenew ink colours as they really do take the thinking out for layering stamps. The leaves in the set are really easy to layer too, with or without a stamping tool.

Lastly I saw a card by Jessica Frost-Ballas HERE and just had to use the non-traditional colour scheme she had used. AND I LOVE the result!

I am a total sucker and love of grey! I love the Winters night feel this card has and added some white gel pen snowflake dots for that little bit of Christmas magic! 

That's all from me today, I hope I have inspired you with your last minute Christmas card ideas!

Crafty Hugs 

Bev

Products Used:-

Altenew Tropical Forest

Altenew Gentlemans Grey

Altenew Red Cosmos 

Hero Arts Unicorn Ink

Hero Arts White Embossing Powder

VersaFine Onyx Black

Last Minute Christmas Cards!

Hey, it Bev Here!

How is everybody's Christmas preparations going? I seem to be getting slightly worried now that I have left making some of my Christmas cards far too late! So now it's time for some quick, last minute and mass produceable ideas ;)

Today I am sharing a duo using Avery Elle Peaceful Pines, a clear stamp set which ticks the quick and mass produceable boxes.

For both my cards I've mixed traditional and non-traditional cards to make a duo of cards using all the stamps contained in the stamp set.

These are super quick to stamp, especially with the use of a stamping platform. If you use a medium stamping platform it is possible to position both the pines and the coordinating sentiment in the same platform to stamp and repeat to mass produce a batch of cards!

For the 'Merry' card I have used Altenew Olive & Moss inks from the Tropical Forest collection for the pines, Ruby Red from the Red Cosmos collection and Aqualicious from the Sweet Dreams collection for the bauble.  I added some glitter dimensional to the bauble for a little sparkle, always a good addition to Christmas cards. 

For my second card using the 'Peace' sentiment I decided to mix up the colours a little and add in some Rubellite from the Cherry Blossom collection.

This time I decided to add two hanging baubles, but this time I added glitter dimensional to the berries within the pines. The bases for both cards is my favourite Hero Hues Paradise card. My apologies for using this colour, that is currently out of stock :( 

That's all from me today, I hope I have inspired you with your last minute Christmas card ideas!

Crafty Hugs 

Bev

Products Used:-

Let it Snow!

Hey!

It's Bev here today. I can't believe I have done two months of DT posts here and that we are less than a month away till the BIG day! Who else is on full on Christmas mode? Mild panic is starting to set in with all the cards I still need to make and all the other Christmas creativity ;)

So, I'm back today with some more Christmas cards to share with you. You've probably got to know me a little by now and some of my favourite things. 

Snowflakes! I love snow flakes and all things snow. They make me so happy and inspire me to create, especially when I feel under pressure or my mojo is lacking a little. Do you have a theme or something that inspires you?

For my snowflake duo I used Flora & Fauna Mini Snowflakes, this cute set is a bargain at £3.95 and my favourite Altenew ink colour collection, Sweet Dreams. 

For this first card I wanted to replicate a snowflake flurry and used the three lightest shade of inks to stamp the snowflakes. The sentiment is from another of my current favourite sentiment stamp sets, Concord & 9th Mistletoe Messages.

You can just about see that I added a little detail to the snowflakes using a white gel pen. It wasn't particularly necessary, but I was inspired to do it! 

For my second card I was inspired by the current sketch over at CAS Colours & Sketches seen HERE and below.

This time I used all the stamps from the Flora & Fauna Mini Snowflakes clear stamp set, even the cute little 'let it snow' sentiment.

As I already had the colours out on my desk, it seemed practical to use them again on this second card. I used some foam adhesive to raise the sentiment panel up and create more of a focal point.

That's all I have to share with you today. I hope I have given you a little more inspiration with your Christmas card making. 

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends & those who celebrate.

Have a wonderful day & see you back here next week!

Crafty Hugs 

Bev

Colouring Christmas Cards: Avery Elle Christmas Kids

Hello, crafters. Tallie here and I'm back with a simple design for those last minute Christmas cards. Just in case anyone is panicking that we have less than a month till Santa! Stamps like the Avery Elle Christmas Kids set are perfect for these type of scene cards. I have two versions of this card with slightly different backgrounds for you, depending on how much effort you want to put into the colouring.

I started out by stamping the large stamp from the Avery Elle Christmas Kids set onto some blending card stock using some MFT Extreme Black ink. I stamped the corresponding sentiment underneath the scene at the same time, though depending on how much of a scene you want to do, you may want to stamp this towards the end as sometimes the ink can smudge if you're using markers with lots of colourless blender in them.

I then took out my alcohol markers and coloured the scene in. I stuck to bright, Christmassy colours as I knew the background would be lighter.

For the backgrounds, the first I simply created some ground and shadows using a couple of light blue markers. For the second, I added a sky as well as the ground, using a colourless blender marker to fade the marker into the white card panel. A little white gel pen adds the finishing touch of snow!

This type of design is perfect for stamping out a bunch and then sitting in front of the TV and just colouring away!

Thanks for reading, catch you next week!

Tallie

Ho, Ho, Ho - Merry Christmas!

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It's Bev here today. I am really getting into the Christmas spirit now and I have a trio of Christmas cards to share with you using the recently released Winter Stencil Strips from MFT.

I didn't think I would really get into using stencils, but they are really good fun and there are so many techniques you can use them with. Plus they are really good value too, especially this one at £5.50 and a choice of 4 designs in one!

For my first card today, I couldn't wait to try out the MFT Merry Christmas Blend stamp and give it a rainbow look! 

Choosing to stamp it in a rainbow of colours was quite time consuming and required some masking while inking up. But with the use of a stamping tool it was pretty easy and straight forward. I used Altenew inks in Ruby Red, Orange Cream, Fresh Lemon, Parrot, Ultramarine, Azurite & Ultraviolet.

After I had stamped the sentiment, I went and added the snowflake stencil in Altenew Silver Lake ink and added some sparkly liquid adhesive to the snowflake centres. With the stencil having four designs in one, you need to use a scrap piece of paper to mask the designs off that you don't want to ink!

Next I used the same snowflake design to create a lovely background using Altenew Dew Drop ink.

I added gloss white liquid adhesive to the snowflake centres and this time finished the design with a trio of snowflakes and the 'Let it Snow' banner sentiment from Concord & 9th Mistletoe Messages Stamp Set.

The sentiment and snowflakes are adhered to the card using foam adhesive so that they stand out from the background. I used Altenew Aqualicious and Teal Cave ink colours.

Lastly for today I have a super quick clean and simple card using the HO, HO, HO design on the stencil.

I used Altenew Ruby Red ink for the stencilling and I added the 'Believe' sentiment, also from Concord & 9th Mistletoe Messages stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black ink onto a scrap of white card & adhered using foam adhesive.

So much fun with one stencil and a couple of stamp sets. I hope I have inspired your Christmas card making a little. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Bev 

Altenew Ink colours used can be found HERE in the Seven Hills Crafts Store and all the colour families I have used are currently in stock :)

Lapis Lazuli 

Enchanted Garden

Gentlemans Gray

Sweet Dreams

Pocketful of Sunshine

Tropical Forest

Warm & Cozy

Red Cosmos