Window Card ft. Iconic Christmas With Kara

Hey Guys! It's Kara and I'm back with a little more Christmas card inspiration for you. I love a window card. On my last project I created a window with the Simple Snowflake Die. This time I have used the large tree die from Iconic Christmas.

The tree die is the perfect size for the center of a panel cut with the 4 Bar Stitched Rectangle Die. It fills the space nicely while still leaving room for a sentiment stamped below.

I wanted to create a scene inside the window using the Iconic Christmas stamp set. For my scene, I needed a background and I went for the large stamp from Snowflake Backdrops. This stamp is the perfect size to completely fill the window. I stamped it in Lake House and Nautical Navy dye ink. I applied the darker ink at the top and the lighter ink at the bottom of the stamp. Using the lighter ink, I tapped the stamp to blend the two colors together where they met. I love this effect.

I added a few images inside the tree window to create a scene in the distance. I then added the girl on top, in the foreground, who appears to be adding ornaments to the tree.

A few gemstones on the snowflakes and some Copic colored light in the lantern are the finishing touches on this one. Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Featured Supplies

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Iconic Christmas Stamp Shop at: WP9	Iconic Christmas Die Shop at: WP9	Snowflake Backdrops Stamp Shop at: WP9	White Cardstock Shop at: WP9
Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	4 Bar Stitched Rectangles Die Shop at: WP9	PURE COLOR Black Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	PURE COLOR Lake House Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
PURE COLOR Nautical Navy Dye Ink Shop at: WP9

Traditional Holiday Cards with Yana

Hello everyone! This is Yana Smakula and today I thought I’d share a Holiday card using my first ever WPlus9 stamp set - Iconic Christmas. It is such a beautiful and classic set, ideal for traditional Holiday cards.

I bought this set a few years ago, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it on a card so I decided to show you another example of the Dry Embossing Technique I shared a few days ago and incorporate images from this stamp set along with its companion dies.

Because the dies that come with this set, since it's an older one, are solid and do not have the opening in the center they require a little different approach when doing dry embossing technique. I started by stamping two Christmas trees in Last Leaf ink onto a 4 ¼ by 5 ½ panel made out of Oatmeal card stock. I stamped images to the left and to the right of my panel leaving some space in the center for the main tree.

I used the companion die for the largest tree and dry embossed it in my die cutting machine in the center of my panel. Once I had my embossed outline I used mini MISTI and stamped the tree using Last Leaf ink. By the time the ink had some time to dry I realised that it was a bit too light, so I stamped images over the previously stamped ones using Appletini Ink. Some images ended up being slightly offset and I have to say I love this look.

I die cut two lamp posts, two wreaths and one carolers shape out of white cardstock and stamped coordinating images using Old Gold, Appletini and Cranberry Crush ink colors.

I also heat embossed a sentiment and little sparkles to imitate the light coming out from the lampposts in gold embossing powder, added red and white bakers twine and foam mounted my die cut images on top.

I hope this card has given you an additional idea how you can use dry embossing technique in your cardmaking.

Have fun stamping!

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Iconic Christmas Iconic Christmas Die Wplus9 Last Leaf PURE COLOR Dye Ink Wplus9 Appletini PURE COLOR Dye Ink Wplus9 Old Gold PURE COLOR Dye Ink Wplus9 PURE COLOR Cranberry Crush Dye Ink Wplus9 Premium Oatmeal Cardstock *Neenah Classic Crest **110 LB** SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets *Scrapbook Adhesives E-Z RUNNER RED Permanent Tape Sticky Thumb ADHESIVE FOAM TABS BLACK American Crafts 340055 *Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty BLACK Foam Tape Roll Adhesive Lawn Fawn SWEETHEART Single Cord Lawn Trimmings LF784 W-023 Spellbinders WIZARD TAN EMBOSSING MATS 5 x 7 twin pack Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425 Sakura QUICKIE GLUE ROLLER PEN 38480 Hero Arts EMBOSS GOLD EMBOSSING POWDER PW100 Pretty Pink Posh 6MM METALLIC GOLD CUPPED Sequins PPP6MMCG Pretty Pink Posh 4MM METALLIC GOLD Cupped Sequins Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001 Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200 Wagner Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag 05847 EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002 RESERVE MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool Kit mistimini

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CHALLENGE: Throwback Thursday #9

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We'd love to have you participate in our Throwback Thursday Challenge. It's fun and easy. Just pick an older Wplus9 set and show it some love. We know they're dying to see some ink, so let's pull em out!

If you need some inspiration to get you started, I've pre-selected an "oldie but goodie" to demonstrate below. But you can use any older set that you have on hand.

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Iconic Christmas is timeless and classic. There is such a wide variety of images included in this set.  Each image can be used alone or the images can be paired to build the perfect Winter scene.  If I had to pick just one holiday set for my collection, it would be Iconic Christmas because of its versatility!

Each of my projects today use Iconic Christmas with the same color scheme and the same basic layout, but the images have been paired with newer WPlus9 product.

Wplus9 Supplies:

Stamps: Iconic Christmas  // Ink: Black // Cardstock: White // Dies: Holiday Apertures

 

The images in Iconic Christmas work perfectly with the Holiday Apertures die that released last year.  Here I die cut Holiday Apertures from white, red and green card stock and then placed each tree into the white piece.  It was a bit time consuming but so worth it in the end.

Wplus9 Supplies:

Stamps: Iconic Christmas  // Ink: Black, Last Leaf // Cardstock: White // Dies: Love Mom Layers Die

Snowflake Trio Die

My next card uses the same basic layout and elements with the large stamped tree in the background this time and the silhouette image to the left.  Some glittery snowflakes and sequins finish off this CAS card perfectly.

Wplus9 Supplies:

Stamps: Iconic Christmas Winter Woodland // Ink: Black, Last Leaf// Cardstock: White // Dies: Holiday Apertures, Landscapes Borders Die

For this last card, I paired Iconic Christmas with Winter Woodland.   I built a Winter theme inside a frame that was die cut from the Holiday Apertures die.  Iconic Christmas easily flows with the rest of the WPlus9 line. 

I can't wait to see what you come up with, good luck!