Another Wednesday, another Mo day. Today I’ve got a Christmas card to share with you. Is modern vintage a style? I think it looks kind of vintage, yet modern, but I’ll let you decide. I chose Winter Present, colored her up with Copics and turned her into a fairly clean and simple card.
I chose muted colors with lots of grays in them, diecut my colored panel with a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things and sprinkled on chunky white embossing enamel from Stampendous which I heat embossed. It gives the look of falling snow, which I really love for Christmas cards. No pattern, completely random, which really is how snow falls in real life.
I added my panel to my card base using dimensional adhesive without too much dimension. The card base is Classic Kraft cardstock from Papertrey Ink. I stamped a pinstripe stamp from Altenew across it in Scarlet Jewel ink, also from Papertrey Ink.
I tend to add little embellishment clusters on my simple cards, and this one is no different. Part of a mini doily from Doodlebug, some patterned paper diecut with a Docrafts die, a ticket with a white heat embossed sentiment from Papirdesign, and diecut pine branches from patterned paper. I added three Papirdesign crystals as a finishing touch.
Da jeg var ferdig med svertingen fant jeg frem et rent ark og strykejernet mitt, og fjernet embossingen ved å legge det rene arket over embossingen og så stryke. Varmen fra jernet gjør at embossingpulveret fester seg i arket, og motivet du ender opp med da er hvite trær med svertet bakgrunn, men uten embossingen. Alt blir en stor, glatt flate – det hele er litt magisk. Strykejern kan brukes til mer enn bare kjedelige saker!!
As usual, I colored my image with Copics. I grabbed some colors that were already out on my desk – no surprise that lots of blue markers were among them. The snowflake background is diecut with a Hero Arts die, and I added rock candy distress glitter in the holes left behind by the die. Unfortunately, glitter and photographs are a bad match, so it doesn’t really show up in the photos.
I stamped and heat embossed Juleklem (Christmas hug in Norwegian) on a piece of Blueberry Sky cardstock before diecutting it with a fishtail flag frame die from My Favorite Things. I stamped til deg (for you) on a white piece of cardstock using Blueberry Sky ink and diecut that, too. The stamps are from a new Huldra designstudio stamp set.
I added both my banners with foam tape and finished the card off with a few blue enamel dots from Papirdesign.
I’ve gone with a tried and true layout on my card. I didn’t have a whole lot of time to make this, so I needed to not reinvent the wheel. I colored up my image with Copics and used patterned papers from the Vintage Baby collection by Maja Design.
I embellished with blue and white flowers and rose buds, along with a few Kort & Godt diamonds scattered around my flower clusters. I diecut the letters in the little boy’s name twice and stacked them for a little bit of dimension. I added the letters to a fishtail banner in the perfect size.
I stamped a North Star Design sentiment on the back of the card using Papertrey Ink Blueberry Sky ink.
Jeg bygde heksegryten min av kartong som allerede er full av rynker. Det gir en litt morsom tekstur allerede før du begynner. Jeg prøvde meg frem litt og endte opp med å lage en mal for meg selv. Jeg lagde fem like biter som jeg limte sammen for å lage gryten min. Øverst krøllet jeg kartongen utover, så jeg fikk en litt pyntet kant. Jeg satte halvperler under gryten som føtter, og skrev teksten ut fra Photoshop på kartong og limte på siden av gryten. Jeg limte på et par spøkelser fra et mønsterark fra Papirdesign som pynt.
I used a die set from Lawn Fawn for the tags and the speech bubbles, and found some scraps of patterned paper from Maja Design that I put to good use on these.
I added distress glitter in the shaker area, giving the feel of snow. The sentiment reads “Don’t peek! To be opened on Christmas Eve!” The speech bubble was just big enough for it to fit. I added a few snowflakes diecut with a Marianne Design die before gluing a Kort & Godt pearl in the center of each.
I’ve always loved this little snowman. I’ve always thought he looks kind of shy, but with the distress glitter working as snow in the shaker, it looks like he’s blowing hot air on his hands to try to stay warm – probably not the best thing for a snowman to do 😉
Since they’re gift tags, they need To and From on the back. I’ve stamped a few different Norsk Stempelblad AS ones with different colored inks, each to sort of match the rest of the tag and the snowman on front.
I started by coloring the bunny with different blue Copics, before adding texture to it with a piece of cloth soaked with blending solution. When I was happy with that I colored in the rest of the image before diecutting it using a cute circle die from Cottage Cutz.
I decided to go with patterned papers from Maja Design. These are from the Vintage Baby and Sofiero collections. I added his name in tiny diecut letters and embellished simply with flowers, some Kort & Godt diamonds, and some Studio Calico veneer stars. I thought they went well with the stars in the patterned paper.
I printed a sentiment for one of the insides with blue ink and diecut it using that same circle die as I used on the front of the card.
I kept the back of the card pretty simple, a few more flowers and stars and another printed sentiment on a diecut circle.
I fussy cut my little snowman and stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment on a diecut banner. I’ve dry embossed the bacground using a cover plate die from Neat and Tangled.
I’ve added a few Papirdesign dots, mounted my dry embossed panel on foam tape and added a diagonally striped patterned paper from Papirdesign behind it. That’s it. Very clean and simple, and this time even fairly quick to make. My cards tend to be clean and time consuming, but this was clean and simple, it took me less than two hours from start to finish, including coloring.
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