Classy Christmas Card with Tina

Hello crafters, it’s Tina and I love to add sparkle and shine to my Christmas cards! For this project, I pulled my golden pigment ink and a golden paint pen to provide lots of holiday cheer! And although I adore cute critters, I also enjoy coloring beautiful flowers like these poinsettias from the Classy Christmas stamp and die set.

I stamped and cut all the flowers, leaves and berries so I could arrange them in the two corners of my card. For this project, I selected pink, red, yellow and blue Copic markers. I added lots of sparkle to the flowers and berries with a fine gold paint pen.

After creating a coral card base, I cut a white panel using the scalloped die from the Frilly Frames Stripes set. I wanted to keep a white border, so I masked the edges with Post-it tape before inking my panel with a stripe stencil and the golden pigment ink. I set this panel aside since this ink takes a while to dry.

I love adding layers to my projects by dry embossing (Dapper Diamonds folder) a piece of white card stock cut with the largest of the Limitless Labels 1. I distressed the edges of this piece with the same gold ink before gluing it to the scalloped piece and the card base.

Bold sentiments are amazing focal points of cards, and that is why I love the Season’s Greetings Stamps and Word Dies so much! I stamped the Merry Christmas in gold, and while that was drying (yes, I needed a bit of patience for this card, but it was well worth the wait!) I played around with the floral arrangement. Finally, I glued all the elements in place and used foam tape to add the large sentiment. For some extra shine, I sprinkled a few Gold Jewels on each side of the card.

I hope you got inspired by this project, and I can’t wait to see your take on this layout. Thank you for joining me, and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Dapper Diamonds Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Limitless Labels 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

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Merry Mice Mouse Christmas Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some Christmas cards featuring our Merry Mice Stamps.

For my first card today, I paired the mouse with cheese and mouse in the stocking images from the Merry Mice Stamps with our Fireplace Shaped Dies. This die set comes with all the pieces for stockings, wood logs, and flames, which I often like to use with this set, but this time I chose to simplify my card design to make it easier for mass production. To decorate my fireplace, I used Lawn Fawn's Brick Stencil with Lost Shadow Distress ink. I thought it would be fun to add a festive flair with some Tim Holtz Pine Twine from my stash, so I popped the stockings up with foam tape to compensate for the thickness of the garland. I also stamped the words "Mom," "Dad," and "Sister" on the cuffs of the stockings using the Outback Critter Stamps.

My second card featuring the Merry Mice Stamps utilizes the cheese trees, a snowman mouse, two mice, and their winter gear. For the base of my card, I trimmed a colorful, diagonally striped print from the All is Bright Paper pack and then layered it with a lengthened Rounded Rectangle Mat Die cut from white cardstock. I elongated the rectangle by trimming off the bottom and adding a sentiment pennant strip to fill the gap using a die from the Slimline Pennant Dies set. I also added the colorful strand of hanging lights from the Scenic Route Stamps and a snowy hillside with the Slimline Nature Border Dies. This card utilized many scraps and leftover elements on my desk, so seeing it all fall together so easily was fun. I love it when that happens!

My last card today started with the red gingham background I created when playing around and experimenting with our Buffalo Plaid Embossing Folder one afternoon. I wanted to create a card that allowed as much of the background as possible to show through, so I framed my focal point images by stacking the Stitched Circle Small Dies, Scalloped Circle Mat 3 Dies, and Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies (listed from top to bottom). For the stars of the show, I grouped the mouse in the mug from the Merry Mice Stamps, the mug from the Merry Mocha Stamps, the peppermints from the Candy Shoppe Stamps, and the candy cane from the Roly Poly Penguins Stamps. Lastly, I heat-embossed my punny greeting from the Merry Mice set onto a green banner cut using the Brilliant Banner 2 Dies.

Here's a look at how I trimmed masking sheets to isolate each row of the Buffalo Plaid Embossing Folder and inked them row by row with Candied Apple distress ink using the PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes. I can't believe we've had these embossing folders for years, but it took me this long to discover this new way to use them. I will use this technique more in the future, as it didn't take too long, but I love the results!

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Don't forget to check out the Merry Mice Stamps, Fireplace Shaped Dies, Slimline Pennant Dies, and All is Bright Paper in our online shop, which are currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used: 

Merry Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Candy Shoppe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Candy Shoppe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Outback Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fireplace Shaped Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Buffalo Plaid Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spellbinders Masking Sheets Shop at: Sunny Studio
Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Merry Mocha Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mocha Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio

Moroccan Circle Embossing Folder Christmas Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some Christmas cards featuring our Moroccan Circle Embossing Folder.

For my cards today, I was having fun experimenting with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glazes. I started by inking up a 6x6 white cardstock panel with Peacock Feathers Distress Inks before running the panel through my die-cutting machine with the Moroccan Circle Embossing Folder. I then pressed my Versamark Ink Pad directly to the surface, trying to coat the entire panel, before sprinkling it with Evergreen Bough distress embossing glaze. When I created the panel, I wasn't sure how I was going to use it, and I wanted to be able to crop it around any mistakes I might make. I love how the speckled glossy embossed background invokes the feeling of real handmade Moroccan tiles!

I thought red would look so good against the teal green background, so I embellished my card with three layered Pristine Poinsettia Dies. Each flower is comprised of three stacked layers, twisted to show 9 petals in all. I used a paper piercer to poke a hole down the center and inserted a small red brad to hold the layers together tightly, before using a craft hammer to completely flatten the head of the brad. This gave me a smooth surface to adhere groupings of Red Zicron Jewels adhered with Multi Matte Medium, which dries clear. Our Winter Greenery Dies cut from a couple different shades of green cardstock were used as filler around the poinsettia flowers. I completed my card by heat embossing the "Enjoy the Beauty of the Season" sentiment from our Inside Greetings Christmas Stamps on a black pennant cut with the Notebook Photo Corners Dies.

For my second card, I started with the leftover embossed strip cut off the first card using the Moroccan Circle Embossing Folder. I decided to experiment some more by adding a second layer of Versamark Ink and another coat of Evergreen Bough Distress Embossing Glaze. This second pass filled in some low spots and made the surface even more glossy and smooth. The additional layer also deepened the rich green color of the glaze over the original peacock feathers inked cardstock. On my second pass there were a few low spots I couldn't see that I had missed with the Versamark Ink pad, so going back with the VersaMark Pen was the perfect way to touch things up and make those misses almost entirely invisible. I really struggled to get good crisp photos of this beauty of the glaze since my camera wanted to focus on the wreath, but it's stunning in person!

I used our Winter Wreaths Stamps for the focal point of my card, embellishing it with the bow, mini layered poinsettias, berries, and extra bough image. I chose to stamp my wreath and evergreen sprigs onto green cardstock to help the die-cut images fill out and blend with the stamped images for a tone-on-tone look. I heat-embossed a simple "noel" greeting in the center of my wreath from the Classy Christmas Stamps and added a scalloped lace border from the Ribbon & Lace Border Dies. Lastly, I added some more mini Red Zicron Jewels to the center of each poinsettia for an extra touch of holiday shine.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Don't forget to check out the Prestine Poinsettia Dies, Winter Wreath Stamps, and Moroccan Circles Embossing Folder in our online shop, which are all currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there organized by set.

Supplies Used: 

Pristine Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Wreaths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Wreaths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Christmas Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Moroccan Circles Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Red Zircon Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio	Multi Medium Matte Shop at: Sunny Studio