Winter Wonderland

Hello! It's Monika here today sharing couple of cards using Winter Wonderland clear stamp set. It is such a fun set with super cute images to build different scenes...

I used the same church image for both cards, but tried to convey a different feel...

My first one is a 'contemporary' Christmas card. It doesn't look traditional, but still works for the occasion. The images (on both cards) are colored with Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors. 

I used an alcohol ink clear window sheet for the background. I love the swirls and gold foiling that shows through the circle window. I wanted to add dimension, so I cut a circle window on the background panel to be the globe and popped up the whole panel... the base of the snow globe is also popped up. This allowed me to have 3 different dimensional levels. The greeting is heat embossed with gold embossing powder. 

My second card could be used for any occasion. I love how you could use this set all year round!

To add color to the background, I just used blue water color. Again, I wanted dimension, so I used dimensional tape to pop up the church and the small tree. The greeting came from Christmas Poinsettia clear stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

Vintage Christmas

Today I have a CAS card that feels kind of vintage to me. Not sure why, but that is my story and I am sticking to it... By the way,  is it just me or does it seem unreal that we are in the Christmas card making season?? 

For this one I stamped up the Christmas Poinsettia with Versamark then embossed it with copper powder. I masked it and stamped another one to fill out the bottom of the card panel. I used watercolors to color my flowers and once it was dry, I used some Dandelion Yellow Nuvo Drops to create the flower centers.

I added a little wash of color to the background then used one of the sentiments from the set (also embossed in copper).

What do you think - is it vintage?

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you are inspired!

Lyn

Christmas Wishes.

Hello! It's Monika here today with couple of simple Christmas cards. 

I used the same technique on both cards. Alcohol ink background and heat embossing.

I used green, red and pink Tim Holtz alcohol inks, blending solution, and gold foiling on the backgrounds. They were just the perfect backdrop to the vellum with the white heat embossed images. 

For my first card, I used the word tree image from O Holy Night clear stamp set. The embellishment images were stamped on water color paper from the Winter Birds clear stamp set. I colored those images with Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors before fussy cutting them.  

On my second card, I used the pretty poinsettia image and one of the many greetings from the September 2018 Stamp of the Month: Christmas Poinsettia clear stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

Home for the Holidays!

Today I have cards to share using this month's Sweet N Sassy stamp set called Home for the Holidays! It has some really great simple, vintage (ish) images. This set really makes me happy and inspires some great card ideas.

For the first card, I have a CAS front door scene. I masked the wreath so it looks like it is hanging on the front door (that is right - this can be a non-holiday card too :)) I had fun coloring the stone facing with my warm grays and a touch of blue violets. I combined the word choices available in the set to create my simple mixed-font sentiment.

For my next card, I went VERY simple and stamped my image and sentiment on a card front and then colored it up with my colored pencils for a soft look.

For my final card, I created a background with the separate scene building elements of the set. I colored them up with Copics and added a sentiment banner using a sentiment from the Christmas Poinsettia set (which is free this month with a $75 purchase.)

I LOVE this set and I hope you like what I created and are inspired to try different techniques with your sets too.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn