Winter Woods Pop & Twist Card

Winter Woods is such a versatile stamp set and today I used the stamp set with its coordinating framelits in a pop and twist card.

I had previously made all the components of this interactive card just waiting for an inspiration to finish it.  Today I finished it.

The Pop &Twist card is made using Garden Green card stock  All the DSP used is the Warmth & Cheer DSP, now retired.

The card front depicts a 2 layer dimensional tree against a plaid DSP.  The sentiment "Merry" is from the Merry Christmas Framelits  and is die cut using the Sparkle glimmer paper.

The card is kept closed using  a 1" Garden Green band, which is wrapped around the card and kept closed with tiny magnets.  This embellishment on the  front consists  of a 1 3/4" scallop circle layered with  a 1 1/2" glimmer paper circle and a 1 1/4" circle with the sentiment "Peace" stamped on it.  Some green rhinestones adds a bit of bling.

Opening the card reveals 4  pop up panels.

At the top is another Whisper White tree with a branch next to it. This image as do other images stand on snow in the form of Sparkle glimmer paper; at the bottom a large oval for the sentiment .

Some Frost White shimmer paint was lightly daubed over the trees and  directly onto the DSP.

On the two end panels I add a leafless tree die cut in Whisper White; the middle two I stamp the image of the birch trees multiple times with Crumb Cake on Whisper White.  For the left one I white emboss a sentiment on Garden Green and die cut it with the frame framelits found in the Merry Christmas framelit set.

On the other panel I adhere a wreath made with the single pine branch and a template using the Stamparatus.  After it was finished I die cut it using a circle framelit, added some real red berries with a marker, and added "Joy" in the middle with a strip notched at both ends.

The magic of this card is in the opening and closing.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods, Holly Jolly Greetings (retired)

Inks:  Garden Green, Versa Mark, Real Red SU Marker, Crumb Cake

Papers:  Garden Green, Whisper White, Sparkle shimmer paper, Warmth & Cheer DSP (retired)

Accessories:  Merry Christmas Framelits, In the Woods Framelits, Frost White Shimmer paint, White embossing powder, Stamparatus, Circle framelits, Layering Oval Framelits, Dimensionals, punches (1 3/4" scallop circle, 1 1/2 and 1 1/4" circle)

Winter Woods Tree Tags

As I was making the card in the last post, I was already visualizing how gorgeous those Very Vanilla trees would look on a tag.
Here they are all 4 of them.

Each tag is 2 by 4" and the top punched with the Scallop tag topper punch.
On the body of the tag I adhere some "All is Bright" DSP and a 1/8" strip of gold foil at the top.

For each tag, I die cut 2 trees in Very Vanilla card stock using the "In the Woods" framelits - a large one and a smaller one with 3D branches.

Using a stylus I curled the 3D branches up a bit and applied Clear Wink of Stella along the edges as well as the edges of both trees.
The two trees were adhered together using the mini dimensionals, and then adhered to the tag front.

The sentiment, from "Holly Jolly Greetings" was gold embossed on a strip of Very Vanilla card stock, and after a banner was made at one end it  was adhered to the tag top just under the tree.

Linen thread tied around the 1/8" Real Red satin ribbon inserted through the tag top helped to keep it in place.  To carry the red color through to the rest of the tag, I added small red rhinestones randomly on the front of each tree.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Holly Jolly Greetings
Inks:  Versa Mark
Papers:  Very Vanilla, All is Bright DSP, Gold Foil
Accessories:  In the Woods Framelits, 1/8" Real Red Ribbon, Linen Thread, Scallop Tag Topper Punch, Clear Wink of Stella, mini Dimensionals.

Wine Tags

I was commissioned to make 6 wine tags to go with 6 wine bags.  I will post the wine bags later, but I plan 3 green and 3 red.

White shimmer paper was used for the base, which measures 2 3/4 by 8 1/2" and scored at 2 3/4" for the top.

Supplies Used:
Stamp: Holly Jolly Greeting
Ink: Black Memento
Papers: White Shimmer, Whisper White, Red Foil, Green Foil, This Christmas Specialty DSP, Metallic Foil Doillies, Silver Glimmer, Gold Glimmer, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer, retired red striped vellum, retired green Christmas tree vellum.
Accessories: Large Pearl, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/4" scallop circle punch, Triple Layer punch, Christmas Greeting Thinlets, Bow Builder punch, dimensionals,

Jar of Love Christmas Card - Pal Paper Arts # 310

I'm rather tired today because I spent the night in the sleep lab.  You're supposed to sleep there, but I don't think I slept well and was awake for good at 4 a.m.  So the technician unwired me and I was home by 6 a.m.

Now I wanted to stay up to watch a video on the SU website related to the unveiling of the new Christmas catalogue, but I didn't realize that 8 am. Mountain Time was 10 a.m. Toronto time, so I gave up and went to bed.  I watched the video when I got up.

Feeling a little more awake, I came down to the craft room and made another Christmas card, this time for the sketch challenge with Pal PaperArts 
I've been itching to use the Jar of Love stamp set and coordinating framelits, so I used this as my opportunity to do so.

I played around with the sketch a little bit as the focal image is not the round circle but in the shape of a jar instead.

The jar is from the stamp set "Jar of Love", which I just love.  It was stamped with Black Memento and die cut using the coordinating "Everyday Jars Framelits".

Since this is a Christmas card, I wanted to put some Ivy in the jar.  So, I went to the stamp set "Embellished Ornaments" and stamped 2 Ivy images.  I coloured them with a blender pen and ink pads and then cut them out by hand - a bit fussy!!  I put them aside as I prepared the jar.  First I die cut a band that went around the jar from the Christmas DSP, stamped water (Pool Party) in the bottom of the jar, and 2 stems (Old Olive). 

The base card is Cherry Cobbler, layered with a piece of Whisper White embossed with the Boughs & Berrys embossing folder.

Before adhering the Ivy and jar some dots were stamped randomly in the center of the embossed piece with stamped off Cherry Cobbler.

The jar was adhered to the front of the card using dimensionals.  The stems of both Ivy sprigs were lined up with the stems in the jar and adhered directly to the card front.  Then a bow made with 1/8" gold taffeta ribbon was attached to the jar with a glue dot.  Some Cherry Cobbler dazzling details were applied to the Holly.

The sentiment is from the stamp set "Holly Jolly Greetings", and die cut using the Layering circle framelits, and matted with Cherry Cobbler.  It was adhered to the lower left jar with dimensionals.  Three gold metallic enamel stars were placed on the sentiment.

Below the sentiment I placed a retired wooden snowflake.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:   Love Jar, Embellished Ornaments, Holly Jolly Greetings

Inks:Black Memento, Pool Party, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Always Artichoke.

Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, This Christmas Specialty DSP

Accessories: Everyday Jar Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Boughs & Berry embossing folder, Cherry Cobbler dazzling details, 1/8" gold taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, glue dots, Gold metallic enamel shapes, wooden snowflakes (retired)

Peaceful Wreath - Joy - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #241

The challenge this week is not only a sketch one, but a theme one as well.  I was inspired to try the diagram, and to use the theme of "leaves".  Because our Thanksgiving is over, and most of the leaves have fallen off the trees, I thought I would focus on the leaves of Christmas.

 

• I started with a base cardstock of Always Artichoke cardstock, layered with Crumb Cake cardstock embossed with the Fancy Fan embossing folder.
• The image s from "Peaceful Wreath" and was embossed with gold embossing powder on Whisper White cardstock.  The berries were filled in the a Real Red marker, and then some Cherry Cobbler dazzling detail was applied to them.  A couple of pieces of string left over after fraying some Burlap ribbon were tied in a bow and added to the stem of the winter floral stem with a glue dot. This image piece of matted with Real Red cardstock.
• Next to the main leaf image are two smaller pieces of cardstock.  For the top one I cut a small piece of Holly DSP from Home for Christmas DSP and matted it with Real Red cardstock.  Dazzling details was added to the berries.
• Below it a piece of Real Red cardstock was stamped randomly with the tiny holly leaf from "Among the Branches".  Then I took the fine tipped glue pen, dabbed some glue randomly over this piece and added dazzling details.
• The sentiment "JOY"  from "Holly Jolly Greetings" is stamped with Mossy Meadow on Whisper White. I also sponged the edges with Mossy Meadow.  This piece was added to a piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock.  I cut out some holly pieces from the DSP and added them above and below the sentiment.  Cherry Cobbler dazzliing details was used to create the berries.  The sentiment panel was added to the card front using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Peaceful Wreath, Holly Jolly Greetings, Among the Branches
Inks: Mossy Meadow, Real Red markers, Cherry Cobbler
Papers: Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Home for Christmas DSP, Real Red cardstock, Mossy Meadow
Accessories: Versa Mark, Fancy Fan embossing folder, Burlap ribbon strings, Gold embossing powder, Dazzling diamonds,Fine Tipped glue pen, Cherry Cobbler dazzling details. dimensionals. glue dots.

Reindeer Joy

Last evening I spent some time cutting out little reindeer from one of the pages from the Home for Christmas DSP.  This page is just covered with little reindeer.  Some are sitting, some are standing, and some are running. Some have Rudolph noses, and some don't.  But they are dog gone cute! So, I used another one of my Cherry Cobbler card, the fronts of which have been embossed with the Northern Flurry embossing folder (retired) and spritzed with Vanilla spritz (retired).

• After cutting out the reindeer, I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink to get rid of the white lines.
• Then I made a backdrop for the deer.  The corners of a 2 1/4 by 2 1/2" of crimped Chocolate chip paper were punched with the new Curvy Corner Trio Punch.  Half of a burlap ribbon, frayed at the top end was adhered to the bottom of this piece.
• The two deer were adhered to this crimped piece, and they appear to be laying on some straw.
• The sentiment is from "Holly Jolly Greetings" and is stamped with Chocolate chip ink onto Whisper white cardstock and matted with a remnant piece of the crimped chocolate chip cardstock.
• Three gold sequins were added in a random fashion to bring some bling to the card.

Supplies Used:
 

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