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

Feliz Navidad Card with Tammy

Hello friends! Tammy here with a holiday card featuring the Feliz Navidad Mini Stamp. I decided to create a classic Christmas card with die cut poinsettias and a candy cane stripe border with a beautiful gold embossed sentiment.

To begin, I cut the red striped paper from the Joyful Holiday Paper Pack to a 5 1/2" square and attached it to a white card stock card base. I then cut bristol smooth cardstock to a 5 1/4" square and ink blended it with Festive Berries and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide inks. I splattered the background with some Festive Berries ink, thinned with water, then some white and gold acrylic paints to create some interest.

Next, I die cut poinsettias and leaves using the Pristine Poinsettia Dies and Winter Greenery Dies. I assembled the poinsettias and greenery, then splattered them with white acrylic paint for a snowy effect. I added some Metallic Gold Drops to the center of the poinsettias, then attached them to my card.

Lastly, I stamped the Feliz Navidad Stamp onto white cardstock with embossing ink, then embossed it with gold embossing powder. I die cut the sentiment with the Feliz Navidad Die and attached it to my card with foam tape to complete my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Pristine Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feliz Navidad Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feliz Navidad Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Feliz Navidad Card with Bobbi

Hello friends. It’s Bobbi here, sharing a card featuring the new Feliz Navidad stamps and coordinating dies. This sentiment is bold and a generous size. It can be combined with other Christmas sets to make your holiday cards.

I’m using the following Sunny Studio Stamps products:

Feliz Navidad stamps and coordinating dies

Reindeer Games stamps and coordinating dies

Winter Greenery dies

Pristine Poinsettia dies

Joyful Holiday Paper Pad

Stitched Arch dies

To create this 5″ X 7″ card, I used festive paper from the Joyful Holiday paper pad and the largest arch die to create the background. I also stamped the sentiment in a bright red and cut it using the dies. I stacked four of the die cuts to make the sentiment stand out. I stamped the two deer, colored them using Copic Sketch Markers and cut them out using the dies. I used the following Copics:

• Browns: E57, E55, E44, E43 and E42
• Reds: R00, R22
• Greens: YG67, YG17, YG03

I cut the foliage stems using the Winter Greenery Dies along with white and green cardstock. I also cut the Pristine Poinsettia – three layered sets of white cuts – and glued the layers together to make the large white poinsettia. I applied Copic C1 to the top layer of the petals. I also glued in some Ruby Red Jewels in the center of the poinsettia for a little sparkle.

I assembled the card and used foam dots behind the deer to make them stand out. The poinsettia was glued in place in the center of the arch window. Greenery, the sentiment, deer and foliage were all added to the card front. I felt like the card needed a little more contrast so I also added 1/8″ strips of a dark brown cardstock above and below the checkered, gray paper.  More Ruby Read jewels were added to this card front to complete it.

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Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pristine Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feliz Navidad Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feliz Navidad Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Pristine Poinsettia Die Focused Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, back again today with more poinsettias and those three bright and cheerful mini cards using the Pristine Poinsettia die set. Love this set so much! Last year I used that same set to make a cold and frosty holiday card, and this time I went for more traditional colors.

I started off by creating and assembling three almost identical card bases following the same process:

1. Cut three Stitched Rectangles out of white cardstock

2. Cut three All Is Bright panels using Mini Mat & Tag 1 + Mini Mat & Tag 2 + Mini Mat & Tag 4 dies

3. Cut two Dotted Diamond Landscape panels, and cut three small Stitched Rectangles out of those two panels. Color those three textured panels using spun sugar and worn lipstick distress inks. Add splatters using festive berries mixed water, and white ink mixed with water

4. Layer and attach the panels on top of each other, and then on card bases

Next I cut all the flower, greenery and berry pieces using dies from Pristine Poinsettia, Winter Greenery and Spring Greenery. I cut the flower elements out of three different shades of red cardstock, and cut the greenery elements out of brown, aqua, green, white, vellum and gold cardstock.

I first started by layering and attaching the Pristine Poinsettia pieces together using liquid glue. Next I stuck a flower on each card base, and then added greenery around each one of them. I added berries here and there, and glued a clear droplet on each to bring more shine and dimension.

The last step was to create three greetings, and I used the "Merry Christmas" sentiment from Bells & Baubles that I white heat embossed on black cardstock, cut using the matching dies, and attached on the opposite corner of each poinsettia using 2mm foam squares. And finally I added highlights and details at some places using a white gel pen.

And that's it! As always I had a lot of fun making those mini cards, I love how bright and beautiful they turned out, and I hope that you like them. Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you next time.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pristine Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Greenery Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bells & Baubles Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio