A Beautiful Christmas Handmade Card using Stampin Up Tidings All Around Bundle and Two New Techniques

Welcome to the best time of year - Christmas! All during the months of November and December I will be sharing with you beautiful Christmas Cards. 

This farmhouse style Christmas Card is beautiful. In this tutorial I show you 2 new techniques. One will show you how to create the wood grain texture in the background and the second shows you how to use sponge daubers to give the white embossed wreath some color. I hope you enjoy this video and give these technqiues a try.

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Here are the measurements for the cardstock needed to make this card:
Thick Whisper White Cardstock card bases 5.5" x 8.5" scored at 4.25"
Whisper White Carstock 4" x 4" wreath / 1.5" x 4"
Real Red 0.5" x 4"
Crumb Cake Cardstock 3" x 5.25"
Vellum Cardstock 4"x 5.25"

Here is a list of the supplies I used to make the cards:
Tidings All Around Bundle 152371 $45.75 (save 10%)
     includes: Tidings All Around Photopolymer Stamp Set and the All-Around Wreath Dies
Birch Stamp Set 149256 $16.00
Buffalo Check Stamp Set 151372 $16.00
White Craft Ink Pad
Early Espresso Ink Pad 147114 $7.50
Garden Green Ink Pad 147089 $7.50
Real Red Ink Pad 147084 $7.50
Sponge Daubers 133773 $5.00
Embossing Buddy 103083 $6.00
White Heat Emboss Powder 109132 $6.00
Heat Tool 129053 $30.00
Thick Whisper White Cardstock 140272 $8.25
Whisper White Carstock 100730 $9.75
Real Red Cardstock 102482 $8.75
Crumb Cake Cardstock 120953 $8.75
Vellum Cardstock 101856 $10.00
Simply Shammy 147042 $8.00
Stampin' Pierce Mat 126199 $5.00
Snail Adhesive 104332 $7.00
Dimensionals 104430 $4.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue 110755 $4.00
Clear Block D 118485 $8.50
Clear Block G 118489 $4.50
Paper Snips 103579 $10.00

1- Use an embossing buddy to remove the static from the 4" x 4" cardstock before stamping your image.

2- With white craft ink stamp the wreath image in the center of your cardstock.

3- Add white embossing powder over the whole image. Tap off the excess.

4- Heat with a heat tool, until the embossing powder melts and is shinny.

5- Use a sponge dauber and Real Red ink and randomly add color around the wreath. You can make them darker by adding more color or keep them light. Your choice.

6- Use a second sponge dauber with Garden Green ink and add color to the rest of the wreath. Make sure to get in between and around all the red. You wan to make sure the whole wreath is showing and has color.

7- Use a tissue or paper towel and remove any extra ink that is sitting on top of the embossed image.

Here is a close up.

8- Use the wreath die cut and a big shot to cut out the wreath

So beautiful!

9- Stamp on the Crumb Cake cardstock the birch stamp in Early Espresso ink.

10- Rotate the stamp 180 and ink and stamp again to give your paper more wood grain texture

11- Use a sponge or sponge dauber and distress the cardstock. Add color in between the wood grain. Add some light and some dark areas.

Close up :)

12- On the card base stamp the Buffalo Check stamp in Garden Green.

13- Flag the ends of the whisper white carstock strip and stamp your greeting in Garden Green ink.

14- Add the wood grain paper to the center of your card base.

15- Add the vellum cardstock on top. Use minimal adhesive in the corners and in the middle. Try to hid it behind the wreath or greeting so you don't see it.

16- Add the wreath to the center of the card with dimensionals.

17- Place the strip of Real Red behind the greeting. Add some wrapped silver metallic thread and dimensionals.

18- Place it in along the bottom of the wreath.

All done!









I have created this video if you would like to watch me do each step.

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Have a creative day!
Chelsey