O Holy Night

 

Hello, Sweet 'n Sassy friends!

I am finally able to share a couple of cards with  you . My internet has been wonky all weekend long and I am hoping that it is fixed.

The two cards I am sharing today are a part of my Christmas series on my blog, 12 Days of Christmas. 

To create these cards I used one of my favorite Christmas sets, O Holy Night. 

I ink blended a background with distress inks and then stamped the silhouettes in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and cut them out with a circle and rectangle die. I popped them up on the card front and added a greeting to complete a clean and simple yet meaningful card. 

Simple Christmas

Hi friends! It's Julee, popping in with a couple of cards featuring the new Best Gift Ever sentiment set and the previously released O Holy Night set.

I love layers and embellishments, but when it comes to Christmas cards, I'm looking for simple and striking. The sentiments in Best Gift Ever make this an easy task!

For my first card, I masked off the outer edges of a rectangular panel and then ink blended in blues and purples, flicking on some white glimmer metallic ink for a starry sky.  Next I embossed the Matthew 2:10 verse from Best Give Ever toward the bottom and the star from O Holy Night in the upper center.  A few distressed edges and some dimensional foam tape and this card was done.

For my next card I embossed the nativity circle from O Holy Night in silver in the center, then masked off the outer circle and blended in some blues.  I then took a baby wipe and moved some of the ink around in swirling motions to give the appearance of looking at the earth from the cosmos.  I splattered with blue ink and glimmer metallic ink and then embossed the sentiment from Best Gift Ever below.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you've been inspired!

***This post contains affiliated links at no cost to you ***

Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to our Christmas in July Blog Hop! 

We recently opened up an affiliate program through Share-a-Sale (a way for us to give back to those of you who spread the word about SNSS - affiliates get a small % of any sales generated from their affiliate links of our products) and we are SO EXCITED to be teaming up with some of our brand new affiliates for this hop! Hooray! There's lots of inspiration along the hop... and that's not all...

Since Christmas is a time of giving, we thought Christmas in July should be too! There's a drawing for a fabulous $50 gift code to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop from all of the comments at all of the stops along today's hop. So be sure to leave a little love as you hop about!

Comment Giveaway - $50 gift code to SNSS

Comment Deadline - 11:59 pm ET July 31, 2019
Winner will be randomly selected from all the comments on all the blog posts linked below.
Winner will be announced here on the blog on August 1, 2019

Sweet 'n Sassy Blog
Julee Tilman
Bev Gerard
Ceal Pritchett
Dina Kowal
Gayle Bond
Giovana Smith
Jane Bosi
Jeanne Streiff
Julie Cassell
Lee Ann Barrett
Lyn Tomlin
Monika Davis
Sheri Gilson
Stephanie Serrano

If any links misbehave along the way, you can always hop back over here for the full list!

But that's not all! We're also kicking off a Christmas in July sale today! Through July 31, all stamp sets in our Christmas and Winter categories are 25% off. No code needed! It's the perfect time to pick up some supplies to get a jumpstart on your holiday crafting!

Now for my card for today. Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps has so many timeless Christmas sets! I love a good Christmas card that puts the reason for the season right up front and center and these stamps make it so easy!

For this card I pulled out two of my favorite Christmas sets, O Holy Night and We Three Kings. I thought the star of wonder sentiment would pair so beautifully with the nativity image.

 I first sponged peacock feathers distress oxide on a piece of cardstock, then embossed the nativity silhouette in white over the top of it.  I cut this with a circle die and then matted with thin foam for some dimension.

I decided to follow the current Mojo Monday sketch for the layout, so stamped and embossed the star of wonder sentiment from We Three Kings in the upper corner of my card panel.  Next I masked off a section and blended with peacock feathers and broken china ink. I added some of the teeny star images from O Holy Night in white pigment ink for some texture.

Next I cut a horizontal strip of black cardstock and then a slightly smaller one of  white and embossed it with the silent night sentiment.  I finished off with a bit of washi tape at the bottom for accent and a star rhinestone embellishment from my stash.

That's all the creative details on this card! Next stop on the hop is my blog, Poetic Artistry where I'm treating you to another Christmas creation.

In other news, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is celebrating hitting 10,000 likes on their company page on Facebook. If you haven't already, be sure to head over there for a SERIOUSLY awesome giveaway!

In Stitches Alpha

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

I took a momentarily break from holiday cards, and made a Valentine's Day card... although you could use this all year around.

It's really hard to see, but the stitched words (In Stitches Alpha clear stamp set) and the llama (Llama Love clear stamp set) are painted with pink and brown Reese Brea shimmer paint. I've been enjoying this paint a lot lately... I used water color card stock. Stamped the images with Onyx Black VersaFine ink, then I just colored the images using an aqua painter brush.

My second card was made with the same Brea Reese shimmer paint, but using only blue. It was super easy to apply it onto the water color card stock, and made an amazing looking background.

 I stamped the nativity and the star images from O Holy Night clear stamp set and the greeting from Thoughtful Words clear stamp set on the panel with Onyx Black VersaFine ink. 

Those 'white' looking specs are the shimmer particles in the paint! Gorgeous in real life!

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

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

O Holy Night

Hello, Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers!

It's Ceal, here ( a little late) to share a card with you today using one of our newest releases 

"O Holy Night".

This is one gorgeous Christmas set just in time for you to get started on your Christmas card making. 

To create my card I started with a white card base and a white panel using a sunburst cover die.

I created a background using several alcohol ink colors in the blue and blueish green family and then let it dry completely. After it was dried I used the nativity circle and some alcohol lift ink to lift some of the alcohol ink and leave the silhouette. 

O, Holy Night.

Hello! It's Monika here today with a Christmas card.
Have you seen the September Release? I am loving the beautiful holiday images!
Today I am showcasing O, Holy Night clear stamp set.

I used an alcohol ink background I was saving for a special card... this one certainly deserved a cool background.
The circle nativity image and the greeting were stamped with Onyx Black VersaFine ink. The words on the side were stamped with Silver Encore ink.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika