Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #240. Our host for this challenge, Dawn, chose Stitching, Faux or Real for the theme. When you finish here, please visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the very talented design team members created. Then, don’t forget to upload your creations to our gallery. We look forward to seeing your creations there!
Here are three of my recent Christmas cards with faux stitching:
The first card was made using the Frozen Edges die, retired Balmy Blue and white ribbon, and the snowflake stamp from the Frozen Edges stamp set, which has become unavailable. However, there are other stamp sets with snowflakes, so all is well. Life is good.
The Balmy Blue base measures 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches
The white cardstock for the outside measures 4-1/8 by 5-3/8
The white cardstock for the inside measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches.
The snowflake edge is from Balmy Blue measuring 5-3/8 inches high
HINT: It’s much, much easier to trim the paper before you crop the edges because trying to trim the paper after it’s cropped tends to rip the ends ~ trust me
After rubbing down the outside cardstock with your embossing buddy, randomly stamp the snowflakes on the cardstock using VersaMark ink
Cover the snowflakes with clear embossing powder and heat set with your heat tool
My snowflakes have a light blue tint because I made a mess with Night of Navy ink, but I think it turned out to be a happy accident
After rubbing down a scrap piece of Balmy Blue with the embossing buddy, stamp the sentiment from the Greetings of the Season stamp set using VersaMark ink
Cover the sentiment with white embossing powder and set with a heat tool
Crop the sentiment using the largest square from the Stylish Shapes die set
Add dimensionals under the sentiment square to adhere to the front of the card
I stamped snowflakes on the envelope flap
All in all, a simple layout which creates an elegant Christmas card
The second and third cards come from Karen Titus of Stamping on the Back Porch. You can find that video tutorial here.
I’ve already posted two sets of cards using this layout, which you can find here, here, and here. I love that one 6 x 6 inch piece of DSP can be used on 4 cards.
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Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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Welcome to the April, 2022 Sparkles Christmas Buddies Challenge # 135. I am hosting this month, and chose fun folds for the theme. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge website. The other design team members really hit it out of the park (baseball reference) with their cards!
Once again, I chose to work with the Santa’s Suit stamp set and coordinating dies. I know I used the extra pieces I had leftover from some previous Christmas cards for March, and you can see that card here. However, since I created the March card, I was able to purchase the retired stamp set and coordinating dies and I couldn’t be happier!
Here’s my fun fold Christmas card:
I just posted another double easel card, with a link to the video from Mary Deatherage of Stamps-n-Lingers I used for directions. You can find that post here. The measurements for the bases of this card are the same as my previous double easel card and Mary’s card.
What I Did:
I used Cherry Cobbler for the major base and Sahara Sand for the easel base. Then, I used coordinating DSP for the layers.
To create the mounds of snow, I used the layering diorama dies. Who knew, right? But they worked perfectly, at least in my humble opinion.
To create the shadows on the layers of snow, I used a very dry blending brush and Smoky Slate ink.
I adhered the bottom snow mounds directly to the DSP layers. The top layers of snow mounds are popped up on dimensionals. Santa, the front sentiment, and the suit pieces also got popped up on dimensionals.
The suit pieces were all stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black ink and then again using the coordinating stamps in Cherry Cobbler.
I used two very thin strips of black cardstock for the laundry poles and black baker’s twine for the laundry line. Those cute little clothespins are from the Santa’s Suit stamp and die sets.
I hope you like this stamp and die set because I will, in all probability be using it again as I work my way through making Christmas cards.
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Welcome to Just Peachy Stamping by Sue Jackson: an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator.
Through Stampin' Up!, I happily share my love of papercrafting through sales, classes, small stamping group meet-ups and workshops. I think that being a teacher in my "real life", I have a unique approach to sharing my fantastic hobby. I look forward to connecting with you!
