Emboss Resist Christmas Card

 I am finishing my Christmas Card series this year with an easy one, as long as you have some inks and any Christmas stamps you can do this card. I am using the Sunny Studio Classy Christmas stamp set to do my first card, but you can use anything you have.  I stamped random stamps off this stamp set all over a card panel with versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder. I left an area in the middle where I will put my sentiment. 

I then used some distress oxide inks, candied apple and pine needles inks and blended the ink heavier at the top and bottom, and fading into the middle where they meet.  I think I should have faded it out a little sooner, so the colours didn’t meet, as the colour it produced was a bit muddied, but you live and learn. 

I then rubbed the ink off the stamping with a paper towel, and see the white of the embossing pop!  I went back and stamped my sentiment with versafine onyx black ink and clear embossing powder. 

I trimmed down the card panel to be slightly smaller than the card base, so that I have a white edge around it, and stuck it to my card base, you could stamp straight onto the card base if you choose. I dotted a few clear sequins around it just to give it a bit of sparkle and that’s the card done.  Easy.

 

I show another example where I stamped snowflakes onto a card panel, did some blue ink blending, and then made a scalloped edge with a die, and then attached it to a card base.  You can do anything really to decorate your card panel.

 

I have a video of making the card.

 

 

If you would prefer to see it in full HD then hop over to my You Tube channel here.

 

----- SUPPLIES -----

 

These are the main supplies I have used in making this card. The affiliate links of some of these supplies or something similar, may be used at no cost to you.  Product disclosure below.

5 x 7 card base

5 x 7 front panel (I used strathmore bristol water colour paper)

---- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/strathmore-bristol-smooth-paper-pad-9x12-20-sheets/?ref=93 ----- {Krafters Cart NZ}

Distress Oxide

Candied Apple ---https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/tim-holtz-distress-oxides-ink-pad-candied-apple?ref=93 --- {krafters Cart}

Pine Needles --- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/tim-holtz-distress-oxides-ink-pad-pine-needles/?ref=93 --- {Krafters Cart}

Sunny Studio Classy Christmas stamp --- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/sunny-studios-classy-christmas-stamps?ref=93 --- {Krafters cart}

Double sided tape

Scissors 

Couture creations Heat tool --- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/couture-creations-multi-purpose-heat-tool?ref=93 ---{Krafters Cart}

Craft knife

Metal ruler

Gina K Connect Glue--- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/connect-glue/?ref=93 ----{Krafters Cart NZ}

Pretty Pink Posh 6mm clear droplets----- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/6mm-clear-droplets/?ref=93 ----- {Krafters Cart NZ}

Pretty Pink Posh 4mm clear droplets----- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/4mm-clear-droplets/?ref=93 ----- {Krafters Cart NZ}

Ranger white embossing powder

Ranger clear embossing powder

Ranger ink blending tools and sponges

Versamark watermark ink----- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/versamark-watermark-stamp-pad/?ref=93 ----- {Krafters Cart NZ}

 

Versafine Onyx black ink----- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/versafine-pigment-ink-pad-onyx-black/?ref=93 ----- {Krafters Cart NZ}

Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat---- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/glass-media-mat/?ref=93 ---- {Krafters Cart NZ}

Second Card

Distress oxides

Blueprint sketch --- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/tim-holtz-distress-oxides-ink-pad-blueprint-sketch?ref=93 --- {Krafters Cart}

Salty Ocean --- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/tim-holtz-distress-oxides-ink-pad-salty-ocean?ref=93 --- {Krafters Cart}

Snowflake stamp - aliexpress

Memory Box stiched country borders dies

Karen Burniston – Merry Christmas Die --- https://krafterscart.co.nz/product/merry-christmas?ref=93 --- {Krafters cart}

Nuvo Aqua shimmer pen

DISCLOSURE

All the products used in my videos are purchased on my own for my own use.  I however am affiliated with several companies and show the links to these for your own convenience at no cost to you.  I do make a small commission when you shop using those links.  I do not work for any companies for money, and am not paid to make my videos.  I try really hard to bring you quality videos based on my own personal experience. I choose to make these videos as I would like to pass on my knowledge of about 20 years of crafting and card making and feel we can all learn from each other.  

So that’s the Christmas card series for 2020. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a relaxed and happy New Year holiday break.  I will see you in the new year for some new cards.

Poinsettia Circle Frame Card

 This card could be done a lot simpler that I did it, my fussiness got in the way with this card, so I had to keep adding extra dies and panels to hide glue etc, but you definitely don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.

I cut out the frame on a card base where I want my frame to go, (this one I will use for another project), then cut another one out in a green card.  I put some acetate inside the card so that the intricate die was more stable when I glued it into place.  I then decided I wanted to cover this, so I cut out another frame on a piece of card to go on the inside of the card, matching up the circles and then cut it to size.  I then decided I didn’t like seeing the glue on the inside of the card, so I cut another frame in the green and stuck that inside the card to sandwich the acetate between the two.  Just remember you have to glue the inside one on the front of the die, and stick in down, so that the dies match perfectly.  I was satisfied with the finished look of this, and you could stop there, but I didn’t haha.

 

I decided the card was better cut down to a square card, as I was going to have the sentiment on the inside of the frame, so I didn’t need extra space at the bottom of the card.  I cut two of the sentiment peace die, that co-ordinates with the frame die, there are a few options you can choose from.  One I stuck into the centre of the frame die, on the front of the acetate, and the other I stuck on the inside of the card, on the back of the acetate. 

 

Finally I decided to do the poinsettia that came with the frame die set. So I cut out one outside and two of the centre dies for each flower, bent the ‘petals’ slightly, to give dimension, and then glued them on top of each other, alternating the petals.  I then stuck them down onto the frame where the poinsettia are on the green frame.  Finally I put some liquid pearls into the centre of each poinsettia.  Card done!

When it is opened, you can see right through the frame, and it looks really cool.

I have a video of making the card.

 

 

If you would prefer to see it in full HD then hop over to my You Tube channel here.

 

----- SUPPLIES -----

 

These are the main supplies I have used in making this card.  

 

Card base 5“ x 7”

Poinsettia Frame die from Memory Box

Peace circle die from Memory Box

Tim Holtz paper Guillotine

Pokey tool (any)

Gina K Connect Glue

Skewer

Liquid Pearls - Rouge

Scraps of red card

Scraps of pearlised green card

Big Shot Sizzix

Piece of Acetate