More Christmas Candlelight and Sparkling Trees.

Hello Again,

It's Lesley (E) here with my second Guest DT make to share with you, again using the beautiful stamps on the Christmas Candlelight and Sparkling Trees sets.  I am so enjoying using these stamps and the possibilities for a multitude of different Christmas makes are endless.  Once again, if you would like more of the finer details you can find them on my blog HERE.

Christmas card and Gift Bag

I love Kraft card and white embossing with a touch of red for Christmas makes and I've added a teensy bit of Diamond Stickles as well.  I love that Merry Xmas scroll greeting so I've separated it from the main candle image so that I can use it on multiple projects more easily.  I can still marry it up with the original stamp when I need to.

 

And here's the matching gift bag to accompany the card.  I think I might also stamp the same images onto some tissue to cover the gift in the bag.

I'll be back next Wednesday with my final Guest DT post with these beautiful stamps.  Hope to see you then.

Hugs

Lesley  Xx

 

Christmas Candlelight and Sparkling Trees - Cards by Florence

Morning everyone

Today I would like to share with you two cards made using the beautiful Christmas Candlelight and Sparkling Trees stamp sets.  The multi buy offer on these stamp sets can be seen here.

These are great sets of Christmas stamps.  They have been very cleverly designed so that you have very classic images but they are so versatile you can easily give them a modern twist depending on your style of card making.  Brilliant!

For this card I wanted an aged effect but also a contemporary feel about it.

Please click on the photo to enlarge.

 On thing I would like to share with you about the the candle image is that the image has the most beautiful fine lines and stamps perfectly every time.  A really, really lovely stamp to use.

To make this card

Stamp the candle image using a brown Distress Ink say, Frayed Burlap or Walnut Stain.
Color the image with either diluted Distress Inks or diluted felt pen ink and a small paint brush to create a soft watercolor effect.
Flick some lemon juice onto the card and heat it with a heat gun to create the scorched droplets and background.  This is a very old idea that some of you will remember from back in the day.
Take a mask/stencil and Distress Inks and create the circle pattern.
Stamp the sentiment using Archival Ink.

Make up the card as seen.

My next card is a very quick and easy CAS card.

 

 To make this card

Stamp the tree image onto coated card stock using Archival Ink and leave to dry.
Again, using Archival Ink, stamp the tree decorations and the sentiment
Make up the card as seen.

Thank you for looking
Happy Stamping

Florence x

 

Pine Cones Frame (by Debbie)

Good morning.

 

 

 

 

 Using the pine cones with branches I decided to make a frame for a die cut label

with sentiment to sit in.

I started by lining up the four corner stamps, then stamped the single pine cones to make a rectangle. The single cones are ideal as more can be stamped to make other sizes and shapes.

I stamped with Versafine Black ink and coloured with watercolour pencils. The edges were softened with Vintage Photo distress ink and the label was also coloured.

The sentiment is from Christmas Magic and embossed with gold powder. A little gold stickles was added to each pine cone but unfortunately it was difficult to see on the photograph. 

 

 

I have a large amount of small cards in my stash that will be used for neighbour cards this year and the pine cones make perfect corners for the stamped sentiment.

 

Many thanks for visiting

Debbie

Christmas At Home (by Julie)

Hello, today I have two more Christmas designs from this month's fabulous, festive stamp sets. My first is created with one of the new single cling mounted stamps called Welcome Home, the snowflakes in the background are from the new Sparkling Trees and the sentiment is from Christmas Magic

The main image has been stamped with Sepia Versafine and then coloured with pencils. I stamped the image again onto spare card so that the trees could be cut out and decoupaged. The snow has been added with a white marker pen with extra Crystal Stickles for good measure. The image has then been edged with Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink, before being mounted onto silver mirri card. I masked off the section behind the main image on the base card with masking tape and stamped the snowflakes with Versamark and heat embossed with Sparkling Snow Embossing powder, before adding Faded Jeans Distress ink with some cut n dry foam. The sentiment was stamped with Onyx Black Versafine.

My second card is in a very traditional style and has been stamped with the brand new Christmas Candlelight set.

The base card has been coloured with Tea Dye Distress ink, stamped with the small holly stamp using Watering Can Archival ink and then coloured with colouring pencils.

The candle image was stamped onto glossy stamping card with Watering Can Archival ink before being coloured with alcohol pens. The image was cut out with a die and the larger size die was used to cut the green card-stock matt. Both die cuts have been edged with a gold marker pen and Tea Dye distress ink.

To finish off the sentiment was stamped with Black Onyx Versafine and is from the Christmas Magic set.

Many thanks for stopping by and please pop back soon to see some more design team inspiration.

Vintage Lamplight (by Lesley)

If making Christmas cards is a chore because you have so many to do then I want to show you a quick card that just lends itself to batch production.

• Stamp the lantern from Christmas Candlelight onto cream cardstock (160gsm) using Versafine Vintage Sepia.
• Smudge some Vintage Photo Distress ink on to an acrylic block, water down with a water brush and then lightly add some colour to the ribbon and the candle flame.
• Stamp the sentiment onto the same cream cardstock and die cut into an oval.
• Attach the lantern and the sentiment to a folded kraft card.

This card took less than 15 minutes to make and could be easily varied by changing the colour of the inks used. And a quick tip for multiple card making is to do a batch of stamping and colouring at one sitting and then make them into finished cards at another. 

Thank you for popping by today, please call in again tomorrow to see more Christmas inspiration from the Design Team.

Christmas Greetings from France (by Dominike)

Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to the third new member of the Design Team. Her name is Dominke Turpin, she is from France and I know you are going to enjoy her interpretation of our stamps. Her designs today all use stamps from the Sparkling Trees set, and to show what a talented lady she is she has written her post in English and French. Thank you so much Dominike.

Hello

I like cards for each moment in life.

The first one is white. The idea is to see a forest. So I stamp a big tree on white paper and crop all round. I put color on the circles and add a drop of Glossy Accents. Then I stamp the same tree on a piece of white paper. But I don't re-ink. I put a drop of Glossy Accents on the white circles and glue the tress to a bblank card.

For the second card I threw acrylic paints on aquarelle paper. Then I stamped the trees to make shadows. I make a red shadow around the edge with Gelatos and then glue it on my white card.

J’aime les cartes pour toutes les occasions de la vie.

La première est principalement blanche. J’ai voulu rendre l’idée d’une forêt. Je tampon tout d’abord le grand sapin sur un papier blanc. Je mets en couleur les cercles et j’ajoute une goutte de Glossy Accents. Puis je tamponne le même arbre plusieurs fois sans ré-encrer. Je mets une goutte de Glossy Accents sur chaque cercle blanc et je colle le tout sur une carte blanche.

Pour la deuxième carte, je pulvérise de la peinture acrylique sur du papier Aquarelle. Puis je tamponne les arbres en ombres. Je mets du Gélato rouge sur le pourtour de la carte et je colle sur la carte blanche.

And for the fun I made a tag : the background is made with the Gelli Plate and the stamp is made like the first card.

I hope you’ll enjoy and I’m waiting for your comments.

J’espère que vous aimerez et j’attends vos commentaires avec impatience.

 

Dominike