A New Ink on Life

Fancy Friday - My Christmas Cards

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. We also have some more Fancy ladies joining us this month, so be prepared for some amazing inspiration! 

 

This month's challenge is for us to share our Christmas cards that we plan to send out this year. This was tough for me because I have a hard time mass producing any design I come up with. Also a tough challenge because I am terrible at actually sending cards! Awful, I know. However I came up with this design that is reasonably easy to recreate so I will most likely create 10 and then move on to another design:) I did though specifically purchase the Dashing Deer Bundle to make my Christmas cards this year.

The Dashing Deer Bundle in the Holiday Catalogue was a must have as soon as I saw it, I knew that was what I wanted to create my personal Christmas cards with. Of course it is now the end of November and I am just getting started! I absolutely love the mix of woodgrain and plaid together, so the Festive Farmhouse DSP was perfect to use on my card as well. 

I started with a Grey Granite Card stock base, I stamped the deer image on Shimmer White Card stock then cut it out with the coordinating die. The edges of the woodgrain DSP was sponge with Soft Suede Ink. One of my absolute favourite punches is the Starburst Punch. I love using it as a laying piece, here I punched it out of Vellum Card stock. Some tiny Metallic Gold Pearls and Vanilla Lace Trim were added for a little bling and texture.

And no Christmas card would be complete without the inside decorated as well. I used a Shimmer White piece and stamped the sentiment and images.

 

Be sure to click through to the unbelievably talented Rochelle Blok, so happy she is joining us! 

A Fancy Friday - Christmas

 

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way.

 

This month we have a theme challenge - create anything with a Christmas-y feel! Now that it is the beginning of November the pressure is on to start creating some Christmas cards. Stampin' Up! has created so many amazing stamps, papers and bundles that at times it is hard to choose what to start with first, lol. So, I made two cards both using the stunning Joyous Noel Designer Series Paper and then chose the coordinating Peaceful Noel stamp set. Also for the month of November there is a special release called Snowflake Showcase, I just had to use the beautiful snowflake dies on one of the cards.

 

This card is full of sparkle and shine. The DSP is simply stunning with it's copper foil accents and makes it easy to use a a focal point on any project.

One of my favourite products from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue has to be the Shimmer Paints. I love their versatility, as you can see here I have used them two ways on the stitched die cut. By mixing a few drops of the Vegas Gold paint with Rubbing Alcohol in a Stampin' Spritzer I created a gorgeous shimmer mist.  Then using an Aqua Painter and the Bright Copper paint I flicked little splatters of paint on and left to dry. I think this is the perfect time of year for project with a little extra shine.

 

After making my first card I naturally had to carry on with some more sparkle and glitter. The Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper comes in a pack of 3 colours that coordinate perfectly with the DSP and keep with my chosen colours I used the Copper one again. The new snowflake dies are so detailed, intricate and look fabulous cut from the glimmer paper.

In the close up here you can really see how beautiful the Glimmer paper look with the Copper Shimmer paint. I also sponged the paint very lightly on the tips of the white snowflake. Too make this card have even more of a wow factor I added in the Merry Merlot and Copper reversible ribbon, it is so pretty in person.

 

Now be sure to check out all the projects on the hop! Next up is the fabulous Marisa Gunn