Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! As a Canadian we had Thanksgiving last month (but thank you all for the well-wishes regardless lol!) but as most of my audience is based in the US I hope you all are staying safe and healthy and having a wonderful time.
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I heat embossed the snowflakes from the set onto the card base using white and silver embossing powders, then blended Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink over them.
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Hey everyone! After the last couple of posts with Christmas cards in much more traditional colors I really wanted to go NON-traditional again - and this is what I ended up with:
I layered a bunch of the die cuts from the Festive Noel dies and then popped up the letters with a bit of foam tape. I cut down some of Tonic's Peach Parfait Hand Crafted Cotton paper for my card front and matted that with some Concord & 9th Evergreen card stock. I also added several different Nuvo drops in all different finishes (links below to each specific one!).
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Hey everyone! I hope y'all had a decent weekend - I'm having a hard time believing we're nearing the end of November already.
I did a bit of experimenting for today's cards using some REALLY old (as in prolly 5+ years old which for pastes etc is a long time. I was honestly surprised it wasn't dried out when I opened it lol) translucent embossing paste. However my plan worked and in the video I give a couple of different options to create something similar without needing to deal with "as" much mess (honestly it wasn't that bad - I'm just clumsy and messy when I craft so it happens regardless).
I used CZ Design's Good Cheer stamp and die set combo for the sentiments on the cards. I white heat embossed the sentiments for all the card fronts and die cut the large ones with the coordinating wafer dies and trimmed down the smaller ones with my paper trimmer.
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I did more ink blending on smaller pieces for the star and the trunk. After die cutting everything I die cut more layers from cream card stock and stacked them to give it all some dimension. I adhered it all to Neenah Desert Storm card bases, and of course heavily splattered the cards with Picket Fence Distress paint. I added some Studio Katia Wine Berry pearls as "ornaments".
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Today's cards were supposed to go up earlier this week but technical difficulties took their time (I literally thought I'd lost HALF of the footage for the video - not fun. But it was all fixed in the end!!) but the video is all ready to go!
I started by playing around with Distress Inks and Distress Oxide inks along with Distress Mixed Media Heavystock paper. I usually do ink smooshing on Ranger Distress Watercolor paper but this time I thought I'd experiment with the Heavystock as it has a cream color to it which was perfect for this color challenge PLUS I was just curious to see what sort of results I'd get.
On this background I used both Distress Inks and Distress Oxide inks (all the colors are listed in the supplies below). I used Simon's Prismatic Snowflakes stamp set to white heat emboss the snowflakes all over the background and added a TON of white splatter with Picket Fence Distress Paint as I do for all the things lol!
I die cut the Sophie Snowflake wafer die from some mint card stock to back my Joy Script Dies. It's subtle but I also added some gold thread (I've linked to a couple of options in the supplies) behind the Joy script just to tie in the bits of gold I added to these cards.
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ALSO if you missed this announcement (b/c I talk about this in the video too):
Tim Holtz announced his newest Distress color: Rustic Wilderness 😍😍😍. You can check it all out HERE <------click! I have it all (of course) on it's way to me! You get an EXCLUSIVE mini Rustic Wilderness Distress ink pad in the December 2020 kit (we won't get mini's of the new colors till the 4th new color is released - my guess is in January?).
I used the Santa paper and the striped paper from the Vintage North Pole papers that come in the kit. I fussy cut around the Santa, and blended on some Schoolhouse Red ink with a blending brush on the striped paper before adhering them together.
I added several of the ephemera elements from the kit and then to complete the sentiment I white heat embossed the "merry" word from the Joyful Season stamp set. I also white heat embossed the candy canes twice and cut those out to add to the card. Of course white splatter had to be added along with some of the velvet trim from the kit.
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On the insides of the cards I stamped the backgrounds with Simon's clear embossing ink, and on the insides and outsides I used sentiments from the Reverse Holiday Sentiment Strips pack. I finished off the cards with a bunch of Studio Katia bling and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
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Hello friends! Normally I don't post Release & Review or haul videos back-to-back like this (I like to space them out if I can and have card videos and whatnot in between - it just feels better for whatever reason) however the last of this release JUST showed up. And it's also the MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER already. HOW. Seriously HOW. So I'm scrambling as per usual. I have a million ideas for more Christmas and Holiday and winter cards - stay tuned!
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Hello friends! OK as promised here's the Honey Bee Stamps Holiday Cheer Release & Review! It's a long one - this was a HUUUGGGEEE release and OMG it was so amazing so the video is over 30 mins long. I share all the random ideas that pop in my head as I'm showing the products and now I just need to find some time to get creating:
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