Well hello everyone! I haven't been posting much this month - December has turned into a bit of a chaotic mess for all sorts of reasons. However things are evening out and I am DETERMINED to continue with my Christmas card series (links at the end of the post to all the other videos thus far if you've missed any!) as I still need more to mail out. And yeah....still need to mail them out to. How does this month just fly by so quickly?
So I made a BUNCH of cards and some tags too! I had Studio Katia's holiday release sitting here (I did a Release & Review video on all the new products HERE) and used quite a bit of it along with Distress Oxide inks and sparkle and bling.
For all my cards and tags I used Distress Oxide inks (specific colors listed and linked with the supplies), and on top of that I sprayed Sheer Shimmer Sparkle Craft Spray. I LOVE this spray - it's the prettiest sparkle (and you can get it in a combo pack mini bottle set HERE). I did a video here <----click! using the gold version which is fabulous as well. You can never have enough sparkle lol.
First off, 2 cards with matching envelopes using the Studio Katia Floral Snowflake stencil, and sentiment from the Poinsettia Border stamp set.
I used the same Floral Snowflake Stencil on the inside of the card, and the sentiment from Simon's Holiday Greetings Mix 1 stamp set.
For the next 2 cards and matching envelopes I used the Studio Katia Snowflake Stencil (and Pixie Spray) along with the same sentiment from the Poinsettia Border set.
On all these cards I added Icy Sparkle Crystals - they're clear with a pretty iridescent/silver sparkle in them - perfect for cards like this.
Next up I made 4 cards. I started by blending the Distress Oxides all over the card bases, then sprayed them with the Sparkle spray. Once I made sure everything was completely dry I white heat embossed the snowflakes from the Studio Katia Snowflakes stamp set onto all the cards.
I stamped all the insides of the cards as well as the envelopes with the Snowflakes using the same Oxide inks I used for all the blending.
For my final 2 cards I masked off a circle on my card fronts using Yupo paper and one of Simon's Nested Circle wafer dies, and blended on the Oxide inks. I then used Studio Katia's Snow-fetti stencil with Nuvo Moonstone Glimmer paste over the blended circles and let that dry completely.
I used Studio Katia's Happy Snowmen stamp set and coordinating wafer dies for all the images that I stamped and coloured with Copics. The tree in the set was stamped with Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink.
I used the Snow-fetti stencil on the envelopes as well just blending the same Distress Oxide inks onto them. I used SK's Blender brushes for that as it's a more detailed stencil and the blender brushes get into those tiny spaces.
To finish it all off I made tags!! Not just any tags though - slider tags!! I used Studio Katia's Slider Tag die set and die cut more Oxide Ink blended and Sparkle Spray backgrounds. The "slider" portion I die cut from black card stock that I white heat embossed a sentiment from the Gift Tag Greetings - Winter stamp set. I also used that set to stamp a sentiment on the inside of the tag.
I finished off all the tags with more Happy Snowmen, Icy Sparkle Crystals and some May Arts black and white bakers twine.
To see how all of these came together check out my video below:
or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!
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If you missed any of my other Christmas posts for this year you can find them all below:
