WLS Dec #2 - red & green

Good Morning everyone

Its the 1st sunday of the month so its time for a new challenge over at We Love Stamping where the theme is 

RED & GREEN

Very apt for the season but you don't have to make a Christmas card, just use these 2 colours but of course we still have the anything goes option as long as you use stamping

I came across a pack of small tags in my stash that are eons old, they came as a mix of kraft card and white so I decided to make an effort to use some of them.  At the same time had this stamp set arrive which I got in a sale from aall&create.  So a batch of CAS Christmas cards were made.  

4x6" card blank which I made for white double sided pearl card and embossed the front with a swirl EF, being 350gsm the card front holds its integrity well even when embossed with a 2d embossing folder, don't think it would work so well with a 3d folder.

I took the white tag and dipped into distress oxide inks id spritzed with water.  Once dry i stencilled on holly leaves with the same ink.  Then i stencilled on snowflakes with cosmic shimmer silver glitter paste which is very shimmery in the light.  I added this tag to the card front - after playing around I found off centre worked better for me.

I stamped the santa onto white, watercoloured with distress inks and cut out.  I added him to the front with glue gel for a little dimension, i also added a little curve to his body for a little shape.  Sentiment stamped onto a small die cut tag and tucked in behind santa to finish.

You can make out the shimmer of the glitter paste snowflakes better here.  I also added frosted lace stickles to the fur on his hat so with that, the glitter paste and pearl card this really shimmer and shines in the light.

Version 2, Made the same but I used the kraft tag as the starting point so used kraft card for my base card as well. Holly embossing folder here.  This one i also rounded the corners on to pick up on the rounded bottom of the tag - I couldn't decide if i preferred them rounded or not so of the 12 versions i made half have rounded corners and half dont!   

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And smaller set of cards using the smaller tags & stamps in the sets 

Dinky 3x5" kraft card.  Made the same way as the bigger ones, just using them landscape and the dinky little santa stamp.  I die cut merry christmas from white pearl card. 

Holly embossing folder - its been lovely digging out my very old embossing folders again.  Being 2d they don't warp the card front too much.

Pearl white version

You can see the shimmer of the glitter paste better here

Im very chuffed with myself to make such flat cards with just the santa added with glue gel for a little dimension.  Hopefully the different textures and finishes add enough interest.  I made 12 bigger ones and 12 smaller ones....personally I find batch making therapeutic as I concentrate on each element of the design once Ive made the 1st version.  This Christmas Im glad I got ahead and made Christmas cards earlier in the year when I was feeling better! 

Items Used:

aall&create stamp set #1216 'Santa's workshop wonders'

Funky Fossil snowflake & holly stencils

Cosmic shimmer glitter paste

Sizzix embossing folders - all very old

papermania kraft & white tags

CraftUK ltd kraft card

White pearl card

Distress Oxide ink - cracked pistachio, evergreen bough

Distress Inks - Fired brick, lucky clover, wild honey, salty ocean, black soot

Hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and be in with a chance of winning this lovely prize by Visible Image

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Last week was very wet, wild and windy here in Cornwall so hopefully the coming week is much calmer weatherwise for us all to venture out for that Christmas shopping😁   Whatever you get upto I hope its a good week for you all. Emmax

Id love to enter my first card into the following:

https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2025/12/anything-goes-with-twist-of-celebrate.html

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https://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/12/inkspirational-challenge-356-use.html - ive used snowflake stencil with glitter paste 

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https://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-christmas.html

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https://scscards.blogspot.com/2025/12/december-2025-reds-and-greens.html

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https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-all-about-santa.html

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WLS Dec #1 - Red & Green Christmas Fairy

Good Morning Everyone

Its December - how scary is that! So time for a new theme over at 

We Love Stamping

The theme this month is 

RED & GREEN

So ideal for some Christmas makes but also don't just think Christmas, anything red & green, but of course we always have the anything goes option too as long as you use some stamping.

Today Im sharing a batch of star shaped Christmas cards using this lovely Christmas fairy stamp from Jane Davanport.  These were made back in the summer heat wave...a distant memory now its so wintry

Approx size 6x6"  I used star dies to cut my base card from green card, I cut 2 stars, scored a line at the top of one which I then attached to the front one - thus giving an opening card.

I die cut a smaller card from Ivory card and embossed with a spots embossing folder which I thought picked up on the baubles in her dress.

I sprayed green and gold pearl inks onto watercolour paper and let dry.  Once dry I stamped the fairy twice, once onto the green and once onto Ivory - on the ivory one I coloured her skin, wings and shoes with alcohol markers.  Then the green one I cut out just the dress which I added over the base image.  I then attached her to the card front with glue gel for a little dimension.

Festive wishes die cut from red mirror card and adhered - I don't offer use red mirror card so good to use that from my old stash and all the green card too. 

To finish I added red stickles glitter glue to the baubles on her dress and diamond stickles to her wings and the star in her hair - afterall its Christmas so the more sparkle the better! lol

Just a close up.  I used a dark blue ink to stamp the fairy as a bit softer than black

Version 2 

Made the same way just used a darker green base card and a swirl embossing folder.  Sadly the photos don't pick up the mica pearl spray used on the dresses 

and version 3

Again made the same way but a light green base card and a star embossing folder - I had so much green card in my stash its good to use some of it up.  

Items Used:

Jane Davenport stamp 'Christmas tree fairy'

Creative craft star dies

Sue Wilson festive wishes die

Sizzix embossing folders - various and very old

Cosmic shimmer airless misters

Ranger stickles 'diamond' & 'red'

We have this fabulous prize by Visable image this month so to be in with a chance of winning hop over to 

We Love Stamping

Thank you for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a great December. 

Id love to enter my first card into the following:

https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2025/12/challenge-627-christmas.html

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https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/11/challenge-272-tis-season.html

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https://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-christmas.html

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https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/11/neglected-stuff-1225-challenge.html - my embossing folders are old and were gathering dust 

 

Lots of angels

Good Morning everyone

Months ago I bought a die set in a sale from Tonic studios to build a shadow box, when it arrived it was dinky...after playing around I worked out I could glue it together in a different way and came up with this fancy fold.  The holey lacy die cut panel makes a lovely background with some patterned paper behind and I added a little die cut angel to finish.

Approx size 8x8cm (3.25x3.25")   Showing it stood up.  I used the same paper for the front and back panels.  Here I used copper mirri card for the angel and die cut sentiment and added copper stickles glitter glue dots to the front for some Christmas bling. 

This shows how i joined them together using one of the side panel dies...by having 2 panels it gave more room and a place to add a little sentiment and making it more interesting than a dinky card.

and it folds flat to go in an envelope

I used more patterned paper on the very back and stamped a greeting for a place to write our message

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Version 2 here i used copper satin card for the Angel and sentiment

Version 3 using green glitter card

and 2 more versions, one using green satin card and one pink mirri card.  A great way to use papers that are a bit too busy, by adding the white die cuts over the top its toned them down.  

Typing this up I realised I didn't know the collective name for a group of Angels -  after searching the web Im none the wiser - there is a choice of Choir, Host, Pinion, Flight or Legion..........anyway I made a dozen Angel cards - all different in colours and ideal for using up snippets of papers and luxury glitter/mirror card off cuts.

Items Used:

Tonic studios die set 'Designers Choice' 4278e (spring shadow box)

Echo Park Angel die

Sue wilson sentiment die

Spellbinders labels 4 die

Various patterned papers

Mirror, satin & glitter card scraps

CraftUk ltd white linen card

Ranger stickles glitter glues

Thank you all for stopping by once again, i hope you have a good first week of December.

Id love to enter the 1st card into

https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/ 2nd entry

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https://secretstamper.com/2025/11/creative-creases-109-november-7-till-december-4th/

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https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/11/cut-it-up-challenge-344-fun-fold.html

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https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2025/11/challenge-520.html - the angel & sentiment are luxury snippets - the rest normal snippets

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https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2025/12/december-challenge.html

 

WLS Nov #2 - Driving home for Christmas

Good Morning Everyone

Time for some mid month inspiration for We Love Stamping where the theme this month is 

CHRISTMAS

But we always have the anything goes option as long as you use stamps

I bought this quirky car stamp set earlier in the year and wanted to use on a fun Christmas card.  I decided to get both cars on the front and make a gatefold card, the cars are also added on wobblers for extra fun.  

This year Ive been determined to use up some very old Christmas papers... I decided to make these ones look better to emboss them with the letter press technique which completely changed the look of them.

6x6 Gatefold made from white card.  I first stamped the cars, watercoloured with distress oxide inks and cut out.  

I took a pale teal snowflake printed paper and using distress ink evergreen bough and a 3d tree embossing folder used the letter press technique.....you ink the 'flat' side of the folder so that when embossed the raised part is left un-inked and the background is inked with evergreen ink - great way to change a paper you aren't too keen on.

I cut to size, matted onto silver satin card and added to the front.  I used scraps of black glitter card at the bottom for the 'road' and added the cars with wobblers.

Computer printed sentiment matted onto black glitter card, adhered to one side and red candy dots added to finish.

and the inside, layered with paper, sentiment die cut from red matted onto a white oval and a larger silver satin oval.  White die cut snowflakes and touches of glitter glue added to finish.  You can see the wobblers the cars are on better here too.  

and on the back of the card, a place to write.  Computer printed sentiment onto white and an offcut of the paper used inside at the bottom to tie it all together....this also saves it going in the bin or scrap pile!! 

Just showing the dimension the wobblers give

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and version 2

The same but different!  The stamp set comes with different items you can add to the cars roof racks which is fun and I decided after making the first card that the 'road' would look better cut with a wavy edge

Version 3...this paper had a more grey tone so i used 'Iced Spruce' distress ink to letterpress emboss and a textured grey paper for the road.  This was all matted onto black glitter card.

and inside, I used scraps of paper to die cut red and green snowflakes from to pick up on the red and green on the front.

Items Used:

aall&create stamp set #1112 'Movin on up'

Distress Inks 'evergreen bough, iced spruce'

Distress Oxides 'candied apple, lucky clover, salty ocean, fossilized amber, ripe persimmon, black soot.

Sizzix 3d embossing folder by Kathrin Breen #665254

Memory box snowflake dies

Sue Wilson sentiment die 'festive wishes'

Spellbinders oval dies

MFT curved edge dies

Random old Christmas papers

Ranger Stickles 'diamond'

We have these fabulous stamps from stamp addicts as the prize this month so do hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and have a chance to win.

Thank you all for stopping by once again and all your recent comments.  Im still having to limit my screen use...Im still hoping to get my eye 'op' before Christmas but not holding my breath - it would be the best Christmas present for sure....sadly I think the nhs is in meltdown

I hope you are all keeping warm in this cold snap - nice to get some dry weather with it though so not all bad. Emmax