Retro Ornaments Christmas Cards with Mendi

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

For all of my cards today, I used ornaments I had previously stamped and shared HERE when this set first debuted. I took my images to the next level today by stamping over them a second time using clear VersaMark Watermark Ink or Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink before sprinkling them with Judikins Iridescent Sparkle Embossing Powder. I own about a dozen different sparkly embossing powders, and this one is truly my favorite due to it's all around versatility. It comes in a huge 2-ounce bottle (a lifetime supply), has a clear base, and one of the best sparkles that doesn't lean towards a particular color family, so it takes on whatever color you are pairing it with.

First, I made a card using traditional Christmas colors with the Retro Ornaments Stamps. I positioned my three vintage glass baubles in a window cut using the Stitched Arch Dies. I colored behind the opening using Salvaged Patina Distress Ink and heat embossed the beaded chains using Ranger's Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder. 

I created a garland over the archway using the flower from the Pretty Poinsettia Stamps with some Glossy Accents added to the center and the leafy vines from the Winter Greenery Dies. Lastly, I heat embossed a customized greeting from our new Build-a-Greeting Holidays Stamps, which I stamped onto a red banner using the Brilliant Banner 1 Dies.

For my second card, I started by inking my background with a light hand of Picked Raspberry Ink, blended with a light amount of Seedless Preserves near the top, which gradually became darker near the top. I then stamped small snowflakes with lilac ink in the background using the various snowflakes from the Deck the Halls Stamps. I then added a Tree Branch Die, topped with snow, which I created by slightly altering the snow border from the Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies. Once the tree branch was in place, I sprinkled in some larger white snowflake die-cuts using the Snowflake Circle Frame Dies. 

I then added three baby blue, silver, and white ornaments to hang from the branch. I used a paper piercer to poke holes to run silver thread with a needle through, taping them down on the back of my panel, before adhering the entire background piece to my card base. Lastly, I stamped my "Happy Holidays" sentiment on the bottom of my card using the Holiday Greetings Stamps and VersaFine Clair Hawthorn Ink.

For my last card using the Retro Ornaments Stamps, I tried to capture a 1950s vintage feel with glittery flocked glass baubles in shades of aqua and pink. Pluto's Christmas Tree is one of my holiday favorites, so I'm always trying to find ways to recreate the sparkle and glow from the scene where Chip and Dale are inside the Christmas tree. I added the garland frame around my card using the two fir tree branch images from the Classy Christmas Stamps. I then stamped my "Merry Christmas" greeting in the center using the sentiment that comes with the Retro Christmas Stamps.

I stamped my first few atomic stars from the Retro Ornaments set using only VersaMark Ink with the Judikins Iridescent Sparkle Embossing Powder, however, I quickly realized that the stars were almost invisible at certain angles without a colored ink beneith them so I did my best to trace those first attempts with a Copic Marker (since my card was pretty far along at that point), and then I switched to stamping them first with a dye ink and then immediately going over them a second time with the VersaMark before heat embossing. It made the stars so much crisper and gorgeous, so I hope my trial and error can help you avoid similar pitfalls in your cardmaking.

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 Retro Ornaments Stamps, Classy Christmas Stamps, Pretty Poinsettia Stamps, and Snowflake Circle Frame Dies 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 upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used: 

Classy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Retro Ornaments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Retro Ornaments Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Deck The Halls Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Build-a-Greeting Holiday Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pretty Poinsettia Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pretty Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tree Branch Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Verafine Clair Ink- Hawthorn Rose Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hero Arts Sparkle Embossing Powder Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	Judikins Iridescent Sparkle Powder Shop at: Sunny Studio	Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Fairy Dust Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Heartbeat Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Over The Hills Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Garden Stroll Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Island Oasis Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Morning Sky Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Pretty Poinsettia, Petite Poinsettias, & Christmas Trimmings Cards

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

For my first card today, I am showcasing the beautiful mini layering Pretty Poinsettia Stamps and coordinating Pretty Poinsettia Dies. This set is super easy to layer and creates gorgeous cards for such an affordable price point, given its 3x4-inch size! 

I started this card by piercing the pink cardstock background using the Dotted Diamond Landscape Dies and layering it with the scalloped oval from the Fancy Frames Oval Dies and the Stitched Oval 2 Dies cut from white cardstock. I don't know that I would have typically thought to pair these two particular dies together, given the small gap between them, however, I had these die-cuts leftover in a scrap bag on my desk from other cards they got discarded from and seeing them together made me think they could add an interesting design detail to my card.

I heat embossed the "Merry Christmas" sentiment from the Holiday Greetings Stamps using Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder (one of my favorites). I embellished around my pink poinsettia flowers with pinecones from our Christmas Trimmings Stamps and the small die-cut holly leaves from the Woolen Mitten Dies. I am smitten with how the colors came together for this card—it's so soft and pretty with the pink, brown, crisp white, a touch of green leaves, and the glitz of the gold embossing!

Poinsettia Ink Colors:

• Altenew Frosty Pink
• Hero Arts Cotton Candy
• Hero Arts Azalea

Green Leaves Ink Colors: Using various combinations of these three colors

• Gina K. Key Lime
• PinkFresh Studio Grassy Knoll
• PinkFresh Studio Key Lime

For my second card, I used our older retiring Petite Poinsettia Stamps, which we still have in stock for half price. I paired them with the holly from our Christmas Trimming Stamps. For my background, I inked up cardstock using Uncharted Mariner Distress Ink and added stitching around the edges using the outer die from the Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Dies. 

I masked off the top half of my card and used our Diagonal & Straight Stripes Stencils for the bottom portion. I pressed a VersaMark Ink pad directly into my cardstock over the stencil to give me sticky stripes to sprinkle and heat-emboss with a clear sparkle embossing powder. I made a boo-boo with my stencil accidentally shifting, so I went back over the heat-embossed stripes with another layer of the ink to hide my mistake. Lastly, I heat-embossed & die-cut the word "Christmas" from the Season's Greetings Stamps and added the word "Merry" directly onto my card background from the Build-a-greeting Holiday Stamps.

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 Pretty Poinsettia Stamps, Petite Poinsettia Stamps, and Dotted Diamond Landscape Die 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 upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used:

Pretty Poinsettia Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pretty Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Trimmings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Trimmings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fancy Frames- Ovals Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Oval 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Petite Poinsettias Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woolen Mitten Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Diagonal & Straight Stripes Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio
Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Word Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brass Embossing Powder Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio