Hand Stamped Cards with Josee Smuck-Stampin' Up! Canada Demonstrator

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Happy Tuesday! Do you have snow yet where you live? Brrrr! We've got the white stuff! Nothing like snow to make it feel more like Christmas is coming! 

Get ready for Christmas with some cards ready to give! Join me for my last Christmas card class: Tuesday, December 9th

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Good Morning!

Welcome to this month's Happy Holidays Blog Hop! It's hard to believe the holidays are coming so quickly! I love this time of year though! I hope you enjoy the card I am sharing today!

Isn't it just sparkly? 🙂 First thing I did was to emboss the background layer. It's a little hard to tell but the embossed layer is sparkly too! I dabbed the Versamark ink pad all over the inside top layer of the Beautifully Baroque embossing folder, put the paper in and then ran it through the Big Shot. Then I quickly added the Irisdescent Ice Embossing powder to the versamarked & embossed layer and set it with the Heat Tool. You can get two different looks from this technique depending on which side you add the versamark to!

Next, I stamped the Christmas Bauble with the Versamark and then heat embossed it with Silver Embossing powder. Then I coloured it in with the Blendabilities, adding silver colour details with the Silver Dazzle Marker and a few highlights with the Chalk marker. Then I used a Craft Sheet to pour some Crystal Effects onto and mixed some Dazzling Diamonds glitter into the Crystal Effects. Then with an Aqua Painter, I painted the Crystal Effects mixture onto the Christmas Bauble in a thin layer. Once that was good and dry I trimmed around the bauble and adhered it to the background layer with Stampin' Dimensionals. 

I used the Little Letters Thinlits and Silver Glimmer paper to create the word 'JOY' and adhered that to the background using the 2-Way Glue Pen. 

The Cherry Cobbler Sheer linen ribbon was tied, and before pulling the knot tight I added the snowflake embellishment tied with some twine. Once I tightened the knot on the sheer ribbon, you can't see the twine, but you get a lovely dangling snowflake! Then the ribbon layer was attached to the background layer and that was then adhered to the card base.

I could have used a Cherry Cobbler or even the Brushed Silver Cardstock as the card base, but I really like how the Cherry Cobbler & Silver accents are the main focus on with the Whisper White card base. 🙂

Well, I hope you enjoyed my card and didn't get blinded by all that shine!! 😉 Thanks so much for stopping by!   

 

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Hello and happy, happy Friday! 

I hope you had a great week and now have a wonderful weekend planned! 

I have another beautiful card made with the Ornamental Pine stamp set. I'm sure I mentioned that I love this stamp set for the simple reason that for such a simple looking stamp set you really can create the most spectacular looking cards with it! Love, love, love it!! 

I love this colour combination too, and the All Is Calm Designer Series Paper makes it so easy to coordinate colours! What do you think?

You can download the project sheet for this card here: Ornamental Pine2 Project Sheet

Measurements:  

·         Whisper White cardstock: 8-1/2 x 5-1/2

·         Pear Pizzaz cardstock: 3 3/8 x 4 5/8

·         Whisper White cardstock: 3 1/4 x 4 1/2

·         Designer Series Paper:  4 1/4 x 5 1/2

Instructions:

1.    Ink Pine branch with both Pear Pizzaz and Early Espresso–do so by holding pad in your hand and inking upside down–just tap pad where you want each color (could also do with markers, but pads works just fine) Stamp as shown

2.    Stamp ornament on scrap paper and cut out, punch hole in top and tie Bakers Twine through it.  Adhere over pine brand using dimensional

3.    Stamp "sentiment" on bottom

4.    Adhere Whisper White layer to Pear Pizzaz layer and tie ribbon around

5.    Adhere DSP to front of card

6.    Adhere stamped layer to card using dimensionals

Here are the Stampin' Up products used on today's card:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!!

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