Bearful of Holiday Happiness

Hello crafters, I am back today with another Christmas card for you. I'm definitely making a dent in the stack of cards I need to send this year so I hope you're not too sick just yet of my festive sharings!

My card today features two stamps that seem to be a favourite of my muse this year: Neat & Tangled Beary Merry and MFT's Bold Diagonal Stripes Background. The background stamp is so versatile - stamp it in black for a backer for almost any card panel, or stamp it in red to replicate a candy cane! It was the latter that inspired me today.

I started out with an A6 top-folding white card base on which I stamped the striped background in some Lawn Fawn Lobster ink. I also cut a snowy hill out of some white cardstock with one of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders dies, adhering this to the bottom of the card base.

I stamped out the bear and the cute little Santa mug from the Neat & Tangled Beary Merry set with some MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink, colouring them in with my alcohol markers in some traditionally festive colours. One of my favourite things about this set is that the coordinating dies cut out the bear's hands so you can adhere items like the mug to make it look like he's holding on to it. After adhering the bear with some foam tape over the snowy hill, I added some trees I had leftover from a previous project using the Mama Elephant Me and My Yeti set.

The sentiments from this set are fabulous so I felt I had to make it just that little more special. I gold heat embossed the 'wishing you Holiday Happiness' sentiment from the set on some green card stock before poking a hole on either side and threading through some Lawn Fawn Lime Twine. I adhered this with some foam tape centered on the striped panel and tied off the twine on the inside.

A little Wink of Stella to give it some shine and I think this makes a bright and cheery Christmas card!

Thanks for reading. I'll catch you next week with something a little less festive!

Tallie

   

Scandinavian Prints Christmas

Hello and happy Wednesday! It's been a little frosty here for the past couple of days so today I'm returning to the Christmas theme with this card that would be an easy one to replicate for multiples.

I started out with a top-folding A6 cardbase, inking up the MFT Bold Diagonal Stripes Background stamp with some Lawn Fawn Lobster ink so that one side was completely covered. I hit it with a heat gun to ensure the ink was completely dry before using my Versamark Ink Pad to roughly coat the edges. I then heat embossed this with some gold embossing powder.

For the main panel, I stamped the largest solid simple tree from the Neat & Tangled Scandinavian Prints Christmas set using two shades of Lawn Fawn Ink: Noble Fir and Freshly Cut Grass. I hit it with a heat gun again to insure the ink was dry and gold heat embossed the coordinating horizontal lines stamp over the top. I also gold heat embossed a sentiment from the set under the tree and repeated the golden edges so the panel would match the background.

I love the bright colours on this card and it's definitely a design that you could mix and match with the other great sentiments from the set!

Thanks for reading!

Tallie