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

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	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
Tombow MONO Adhesive PERMANENT Tape Dispenser Shop at: SSS	Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS Shop at: SSS | EH	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad CANDIED APPLE Shop at: SSS | EH
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad PEELED PAINT Shop at: SSS | EH	Gala Red Pure Color Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	MISTI Precision Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | EH	Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Cracked Pistachio Shop at: SSS | EH
Holly Jolly Christmas Shop at: WP9	Holly Jolly Die Shop at: WP9	Holiday Presents Die Shop at: WP9	PURE COLOR White Pigment Ink Shop at: WP9

Messy Heat Embossing w/Dawn ft. MERRIEST SNOWFLAKE

Hello crafty friends! Today's projects are of the "easier to show than tell" variety. This went up on YouTube last week, but I wanted to make sure to share here as well along with some still shots.

As I mention in the video below, these were "experimental" cards. More often than not, you start off with a vision and then likely have to make a few adjustment and/or corrections along the way before arriving at your final project. The original card plan was to simply add foil spatters to an ink-blended background. But along the way, I ran into issues with the execution and ended up with a glorious glittered border.

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

I started the card with a spotlight ink blended background, and then added foil splatters using Tombow Mono Multi Glue. After realizing that I had a sticky residue left behind, I decided to add a frame of messy glittered heat embossing.

I stamped the edges with our Merriest Snowflake stamp set and heat embossed it using WOW! Platinum Sparkle glitter embossing powder. I loved the way it turned out and decided to a simple triple stacked sentiment, also from Merriest Snowflake, heat embossed in Ranger's Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

A few small embellishments of silver DMC Metallic Thread and Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins finished it off.

This got me curious about the other glitter embossing powders in my stash and I decided to try a couple more. I didn't get very far though, as I was thoroughly distracted by the WOW! Midas Touch glitter embossing powder.

This is one of those tricky ones that is next to impossible to photograph though. It has a silver and gold powder and glitter with a sprinkling of holo flakes thrown in just for good measure. It acts like a duo chrome, shifting between silver and gold. I've got two cards below, both use the Midas Touch, but one appears silver and the other more golden.

I started with the same backgrounds for both. For the above card, I used the Sending Cheer Die to create my main sentiment. I cut one from Oatmeal card stock and then distressed it using Warm Wool ink. And then I cut the word Cheer from some DIY glitter paper I created using the WOW! Midas Touch glitter embossing powder.

For the card below, I again used a triple stacked sentiment. But this time I used the Holly Jolly Christmas stamp set.

I was definitely nice to play around and finally use up some of those gorgeous glitter embossing powders I've been hoarding. Hopefully this inspires you to do the same!

Thanks for stopping in. I hope you are having a great week!

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.

Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Shop at: SSS | EH	Ranger Embossing Powder LIQUID PLATINUM Shop at: SSS	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts Shop at: SSS	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Shop at: SSS
Wplus9 Oatmeal Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Ranger Multi-Medium Matte Shop at: SSS	Pretty Pink Posh SPARKLING CLEAR MIX Cupped Sequins Shop at: SSS	EK Success CRAFT TWEEZERS Precision Tip Shop at: SSS
Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS Shop at: SSS	Warm Wool PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Nautical Navy Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag Shop at: SSS
Bazzill 40 LB VELLUM 8.5 x 11 White 25 Sheets Shop at: SSS	Holly Jolly Christmas Shop at: WP9	Sending Cheer Die Shop at: WP9	Merriest Snowflake Shop at: WP9
Fiskars Paper Crimper Shop at: EH	Tombow Mono Multi Glue Shop at: SSS | EH	DMC Metallic Silver Embroidery Thread Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Faded Jeans Shop at: SSS
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Broken China Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Black Soot Shop at: SSS	Therm O Web Silver Deco Foil Shop at: SSS	WOW Embossing Glitter Midas Touch Shop at: SSS | EH
WOW Embossing Glitter Platinum Sparkle Shop at: SSS