Hello there, I’ve got a fun Christmas card over on my YouTube channel today. This is a sponsored team tiny hop. You can find lots of Christmas inspiration over on YouTube from other great crafters if you search #teamtinychistmasinjuly. We have also been sponsored by Joy Clair Designs.
I’m using Joy Clair Designs digital stamps “Dog gone Christmas”. I printed out the images from my computer on my home printer.
But first I worked on my background panel. I used my cloud stencils I created with my silhouette cameo machine and stencil material. To blend the clouds I used a make up blending brush and some broken china distress oxide inks.
Then I used my big shot machine to cut out some grass from the “grassy edges” die from My Favourite Things.
At this point I was ready to color the images. To colour the images I used spectrum noir markers and the copic Colot E21.
When I was all done colouring I used the Ranger clear embossing it pen and used it over all the images and grabbed out some Ranger clear embossing powder to coated the images with the powder and then heat set that with my heat tool. This creates a fun shiny, glossy effect over the images. I also did this over the sentiment and that allows you to get the same look you would with physical stamps sets and similar results.
Then I adhered then grass cut out to the card panel and added some black soot distress oxide ink to the edges. Though I made a boo boo and didn’t allow it to dry long enough or at all. I didn’t think that through so I got black ink where I didn’t want it. I looked at it for a good long while thinking what can I do. I didn’t want to start over. So I decided to take some white acrylic paint and water in down and add some splatter. This was a good touch as it gave it the effect of snow, gave the card some texture and also hit most of the black ink that was out of place. I think it also gave it a more vintage photograph rustic look with the black ink hidden in the background.
When this was all done I fussy cut out the images and started working on my scene. I used the Advanced Tape Glider to adhere all the pieces down. Once all the images and sentiments were in place I added a little bit more of the white paint splatter over the images too so it looked like snow was falling on them too.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you were inspired by this fun
Christmas card in July. Definitely check out the other videos in this
hop too for more crafty and Christmas inspiration.
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