Stickled Pine Branch Geo Ornament Christmas Cards

I'm getting closer to being ready...a few more things to go, but time is not on my side. Hope you all are ready. Today, another set of cards...glitzy with a ton of Ranger Stickles to highlight Tim Holtz's Sizzix Thinlits Pine Branch and Geo Ornament, you know how much I love to fill those open shapes with Stickles!!! I think one is more masculine and the other feminine because of the colors...I like that! Enjoy...and REALLY thank you so much for finding the time to stop by...I promise I will stop by your sites soon.

I die cut the pinecones with Kraft Paper and then mounted on dark brown cardstock. The ornaments were die cut with Champagne Metallic and mounted on dark brown as well.

Then I die cut a slew of the needles with various green cardstock. The two background papers are from Tim's Christmas Stash from this year.

Using Mixed Media Heavystock, I inked over it with Antique Linen and Brushed Corduroy and misted with water for a great vintage look, and then stamped the Christmas Words from Tim's Stripes and Holiday Type from Stamper's Anonymous in Pumice Stone. Then I tore the patterned papers so that you would see half of each on the front of the card.

I heat embossed the sentiment from Christmastime 2 onto the bottom of the patterned paper in Liquid Platinum from Ranger...it matches the Champagne Metallic wonderfully, and even though it's subtle, it's perfect to balance out all the glitz about to go on.

Then came all the Stickles that I filled into the pinecone and ornaments. I love doing this. Then it was just a matter of adhering and layering all the die cut pieces.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies:  

(Craft Sheet, Paper Trimmer, Die Cut Machine, Pencil, Stamp Platform, Heat Tool, Two-Sided Tape, Foam Tape)

-Ranger Surfaces: Kraft Cardstock, Mixed Media Heavystock

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Metallic 3 Kraft Stock, Christmas Paper Stash (2019)

-Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits: Geo Christmas, Pine Branch

-Core-dinations Tim Holtz Kraft Core: Nostalgic

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Brush

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs, Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Pumice Stone

-Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer

-Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Stripes and Holiday Type, Christmastime 2

-Ranger Embossing Ink: Liquid Platinum

-Ranger Stickles: Cinnamon, Sandstone, Mystic Green, Lime Green, Cranberry, Cotton Candy, Glisten, Platinum, Champagne, Gold Dust

I've been overwhelmed by all the comments and cheers on these Christmas projects this week...thank you so very much! I'll be back tomorrow! I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Stamped Toile Christmas Cards

Happy Wednesday everyone, and one week to go...I'm still not ready! Today, another set of cards that I was so excited to make, but didn't quite fulfill my expectations. I have to learn to embrace imperfection...hard to do. Anyway, my cards are filled with Tim Holtz stamps from Stamper's Anonymous in a toile type pattern in red and blue. My house it filled with Christmas toile items during the season, and I absolutely love it.

Using images (outside per the toile look) from seven stamp sets, I planned out my pattern, and thought I would just repeat it until this 12x12 piece of Ranger's Specialty Stamping Paper was all covered.

I stamped the images in Wendy's Red Geranium Archival, and dried the paper thoroughly with a heat tool and left it out all night to dry. I loved the red so much that I decided to do a blue as well, and used a combination of Cobalt and Cornflower Blue Archival. My pattern did not repeat like I wanted it to, because I couldn't get the images to fit correctly, so I just filled in with the images that worked...oh well, I still liked it.

I trimmed down the paper to size for my cards and found out that the red smeared a little. So I dried again and again, but still had some smudge. I think I must have used too much ink, and I did reink the pad before I started. I will keep that in mind for next time. The blue did not smear, and I didn't reink those pads, so that is why I think I had the problem on the red. So to alleviate the smearing and so the embossing powder wouldn't stick to the red, I pounced on an antistatic embossing bag of powder, and that worked well. I stamped and embossed the 'Merry Christmas' with Jet Black and Black Sparkle Embossing Powder.

Tim has such a great selection of papers from his last too Christmas Stash pads, so I selected various plaids for the backgrounds. I also added a strip and bow of black velvet.

  

 

 

 

 

Supplies: 

(Craft Sheet, Stamping Block, Heat Tool, Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Two Sided Tape, Scissors)

-Ranger Surfaces: 12x12 Specialty Stamping Paper, Black Cardstock

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Scenic Holiday, Scribble Woodland, Festive Overlay, Holiday Greetings, Christmas Magic, Mini Holidays 3, Just Believe, Christmastime

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink: Red Geranium, Cornflower Blue

-Ranger Archival Ink: Cobalt, Jet Black

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Black Sparkle

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs

-Ranger Ink Blending Tool

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Christmas Paper Stash (2018), Christmas Paper Stash (2019)

-Ranger Multi Medium: Matte

-Black Velvet Ribbon, Cream Card Bases

Thanks again for all the comments this week...I so appreciate it, and I'll be back tomorrow with more.
I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!