Fun Background Stamping w/Dawn ft. HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS

Hello, and Happy Holidays! The Holiday season is in full swing around here, how about you? This time of year is always crazy for me. I 'not so successfully' try to juggle work and family. Christmas is BIG in my house and I'm trying to keep it special and full of traditions as long as possible. So hopefully you'll forgive my absence around this time. ;)

In the spirit of busy, I wanted to drop in to share several cards, that believe it or not, are actually quite quick to make even though they are all quite different. The key? They all start with the same background and utilize the ever so useful, MISTI.

All of today's cards were created using the Holly Jolly Christmas stamp set along with various different dies. I started by setting up my background pattern on my MISTI.

I arranged all of the different icon elements from Holly Jolly Christmas onto my MISTI door. I started with a 6 x 6" square jig. I drew a pencil line down the center vertically and horizontally and then placed an image in each of the for quadrants until all of the images where placed.

I closed the door to pick up the images and then started stamping. (You can test your pattern on scrap paper first to make sure the images don't overlap and adjust as needed) I inked them up with one color, stamped, turned the cardstock 1/4 turn, inked with another color, stamped, turned again, and so on.

For the sentiment on this one, I used the Holly Jolly Die. I die cut the label, stamped the greeting from Holly Jolly Christmas and then replaced the "holly jolly" with the die cut from the Holly Jolly Die.

While I had the images all set up on the MISTI, I stamped out quite a few more.

This next card, uses the same colors (Gala Red, Falling For Blue, Last Leaf, and Warm Wool) on white cardstock, but I changed up the greeting a little.

I die cut the "Holly Jolly" greeting twice and stacked it with a "Warm Winter Wishes" banner from Merriest Snowflake between them.

Next, I decided to stamp onto some Coal Mine cardstock. I love Christmas cards on dark backgrounds and Distress Oxides make stamping on dark colors a breeze.

Again, I inked, stamped, turned, inked, stamped and turned until the pattern was complete. This time I used the negative from the "Holly Jolly" letters and paired it with the "Christmas" die cut from the Christmas Tag Die.

For the last card, I decided to use our white pigment ink on colored cardstock. This is the simplest of all and makes creating those last minute cards a snap.

For the sentiment on this one, I die cut the "Happy Holidays" banner from our Holiday Presents Die twice. Once out of glitter cardstock and again from white cardstock. I replaced the letters from the glitter one with the white letters along with the border and popped it up with foam tape.

So there you have 4 different card designs all starting with the same basic stamping.

Featured Supplies

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Wplus9 White Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Shop at: SSS | EH	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts Shop at: SSS
3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Shop at: SSS	Sizzix BIG SHOT Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Christmas Tag Die Shop at: WP9	WOW Super Fine Bright White Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS
Wplus9 Dove Grey Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Last Leaf PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Falling For Blue PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Warm Wool PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
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VIDEO: Making the Most of Your Dies w/Dawn ft. WOODLAND BASICS DIE

Hello crafty friends! Did you get some crafting done yesterday for World Cardmaking Day? Are you stretching it out all weekend? No judgement here!

Just in case you are, I thought I'd pop in and share a couple of cards with you. I've shared these on YouTube and Instagram, but had yet to share them here.

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

These cards were a lot of fun to create. They look much more complicated than they are. There's a couple of steps to them, but each one is pretty simple and straight forward, and the process is the same for both.

I started by creating an ink blended background. For my autumn themed card, I ink blended Distress Oxide inks onto a Tim Holtz Watercolor Cardstock panel in Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade and Candied Apple. I used the Woodland Basics Die to cut several leaves from the resulting panel and set them aside.

For the stamping in the background, I created a quick stamp by die-cutting the same leaves from fun foam. I adhered the fun foam die cuts to an acrylic block and used them to stamp an all over pattern in Fairy Dust ink on a standard A2 cardstock panel. I then adhered some of the colored leaves directly over the stamping - some with liquid glue and others with foam tape to pop them up.

I filled in the gaps between the pattern with Nuvo Jewel Drops in Grey Mist. For the sentiment, I heat embossed "Grateful" from our So Very stamp set in white onto Black Cardstock and die cut it using the So Very Die. I used the same heat embossing for the rest of the sentiment from our Beautiful Butterflies stamp set.

The Christmas version followed all of the same steps. For this one, I used Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxides for the ink blending and die cut the holly leaves from it - also from the Woodland Basics Die.

For the sentiment, I die cut the word Merry - from the Christmas Tag Die - and used the resulting negative die cut. I heat embossed "Christmas", from the Be Merry Sentiments stamp set, in white underneath the die cut "Merry".

I finished it off with dots of Nuvo Jewel Drops in Strawberry Coulis.

If you want to see exactly how it was all created, be sure to check out the video above. Right, now is the perfect time to pick up some of these featured items in our FLASH SALE, but hurry, because it's the last day. Be sure to check it out for 20% OFF of select items!

I hope you enjoyed todays projects! Have a fantastic weekend!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

Wplus9 White Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Shop at: SSS | EH	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts Shop at: SSS
3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Shop at: SSS	Sizzix BIG SHOT Shop at: SSS	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Christmas Tag Die Shop at: WP9
WOW Super Fine Bright White Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	9 x 12 WHITE FUN FOAM 12 Pack Shop at: SSS	EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors Shop at: SSS	Sizzix Magnetic Platform Shop at: SSS
Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz 4.25 X 5.5 DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK Shop at: SSS	Fairy Dust PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad SPICED MARMALADE Shop at: SSS
Fiskars 4 Acrylic BLOCKS SET w Storage Shop at: SSS	Beautiful Butterflies Shop at: WP9	So Very Shop at: WP9	So Very Die Shop at: WP9
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Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT Shop at: SSS	Be Merry Sentiments Shop at: WP9	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad Mowed Lawn Shop at: SSS	Tonic Nuvo Jewel Drops Strawberry Coulis Shop at: SSS | EH
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Tim Holtz Distress Micro Glaze Shop at: SSS	Woodland Basics Die Shop at: WP9