Hello my crafty friends. I hope you're having a great day. I'm back with my Christmas on the 25th series and the first Christmas card of 2025.
I chose to use the Sending Christmas Joy stamp and die set that was designed by Kelly Taylor over at Kelly Taylor Cards.
You can buy then here:
I stamped the full floral image onto Neena classic crest solar white 80 lb cardstock in Simon Says Stamp Intense black ink. You can use any alcohol in friendly paper and ink. I stamped it more than one time because my ink pad is drying out.
I also stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment on black card stock with white pigment ink from Concord&9th and then coated it with Brutus Monroe detail white embossing powder.
I also heat set the stamped floral image to make sure the ink wouldn't smear when I colored the flowers.
I am going to make these flowers white using the T copic markers. I started by adding the deepest shadows into the image and then blended it out. The trick to coloring white images is to leave some of the white space uncolored. I am just adding the shadows. When it's all colored, I go back in with a darker T marker and deepened some of the shadows.
I colored the leaves and stems with the BG90's. The BG90's were a good match for the green in the pattern paper I used from the North Pole Pattern Paper pad.
You can buy it here:
After everything was colored, I used the coordinating dies to cut out the flowers. I also cut a panel in black cardstock with one of the dies and the green pattern paper with the stamp edge die, and the sentiment with it's coordinating die.
I wanted to add the 20cent mark to the front of the card but it was in too different colors of cardstock. So I added the black panel and the flowers to my MISTY stamp positioner, inked up the 20cent stamp in black ink and stamped it three times. you can only see it on the floral part.
Then I removed the flowers and inked up the stamp in white pigment ink and stamped the black panel in the same place.
When I was done stamping I realized that some where along the line, the images I had so carefully lined up had shifted and there was too much space on the left side of the flowers. Which meant I had to figure out how to solve that issue. I can't move the flowers or the 20cent stamp won't line up.
I add double sided adhesive onto the back of the pattern paper, and visually centered it onto the red card base. Then I added double sided foam tape to the back of the black panel and added it to the card front.
I used up some of that accidental empty space by putting the sentiment on the left hand side.
Then I decided a little bling on a Christmas card is obviously the best way to fix things. I used the Aurora Borealis gems, a lot of gems, lol.
And to bring in the red again I color the gems with a copic color. And that made everything all better.
Here is the finished card
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Thanks for stopping by.
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