Hey everyone! So after I posted my Tonic Merry & Bright Release & Review video (HERE if you missed it) I wanted to make some cards with some of it of course!
I forgot to mention in the video (SORRY Laura! I meant to give her a shoutout in the video and was rushing to get it done and forgot) but these cards are totally inspired by Laura's cards HERE <-----click! She posted those cards a couple of months ago and I just loved them (I love all her cards - and her videos crack me up. If you haven't watched them do it - binge them alllllllll LOL!).
Like I mentioned in my last post with early (WAY early!!) Christmas cards - I normally just can't start creating them till well into the fall. However I need to make a LOT of them this year as I sent out the majority of the Christmas cards I had in my stash to my Patrons last year. That plus I was sick for over a month last year which meant my Christmas Card series was a bust, so I have almost no Christmas cards left! Starting them early like this will hopefully give me the time I need to get them all made this year.
So I had the basic supplies for my cards already out, and just needed to grab some stamps and dies and got to work:
I used the Tonic Merry & Bright 6x6 papers and the Candy Red and Spearmint Green card stocks for all of these cards. The sentiments were a combination of the CZ Design Ornamental Stamp Set and Wafer Dies and the CZ Design Merry wafer die.
I used Simon Says Stamp's Nested Circle wafer dies to create windows in all my card fronts that I backed with transparencies. All the shaker elements were a mix of various Tonic gemstones, sequins and confetti.
I used the CZ Design Merry wafer die on two of the cards and then used sentiments from the Ornamental stamp set for the other cards and for the "Christmas" word on the Merry cards. All the sentiments were white heat embossed and then either trimmed with my Tim Holtz guillotine trimmer or the coordinating Ornamental wafer dies.
I finished off the insides of all the cards with more sentiments from the Ornamental stamp set that I die cut with one of the Nested Circle wafer dies. I had little stops of patterned paper left over from trimming down the pieces for the front so I added those too and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!
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