Stamper's Anonymous Christmas 2020 - Holiday Scenes Plaid Tag Cards

Hey everyone! I'm back again with the third sample set of cards for Stamper's Anonymous and Tim Holtz's Christmas 2020 release, these made with the Holiday Scenes stamp set. Plaid is all the rage so I incorporated papers and tissue tape with matching ink to showcase the gorgeous vintage scenes. Enjoy! 

(NOTE: Before beginning make sure to match your papers to your Design Tape as well as inks coordinating with them. You can see my ink swatch where I was looking to match to the papers. Also, I used Oxide Ink because it is opaque and I needed the best image especially since some of the inks are light in color.) Trim Specialty Stamping Paper to 2 1/8 x 5 1/8, three pieces if making all three cards. Using the stamping platform, position stamp and tape off sentiment so it won't get inked. Prime the stamp well and let sit for a few minutes with whatever ink you are using for a clearer image. Ink stamp heavily, remove scotch tape, and then stamp each scene on SSP using Fired Brick, Old Paper, and Speckled Egg Oxide, heat embossing each with clear powder, making sure you are NOT STAMPING SENTIMENT.  If you don't get a perfect image the first time, try again as since this is a stamp platform you can do this perfectly. Trim away any white paper you don't want on the edges, round the corners, and mount these on black cardstock cut 2 1/4 x 5 1/4 with two sided tape. Set aside. Remember you can always practice first on a few pieces of scratch paper.

 

 

Add Design Tape to bottom edge of tag just above the notch in the tag (tag will be horizontal with hole on the right side). Press the tape firmly to the tag running your finger across to remove any air, because if you don't the tape will buckle during embossing. Wrap the tape around the back of the tag, and trim any overhang and the notch part as well. Position the stamp on the platform so that the sentiment will be centered on the tape. Use scotch tape again right above sentiment to mask the scene image so that it does not get stamped. Rub the tag liberally with the anti static bag so that the white powder does not stick (very important). Ink the sentiment only with Jet Black Archival (or whatever kind you want), remove the tape, and stamp sentiment. Heat emboss with white embossing powder. Do this for each tag with each sentiment. Ink the edges of the tag with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

 

Using a clean Blending Brush and Picket Fence Distress, stencil in some Snowflakes from the Mini Layering Set 50 over the tag, taking care not to get any on the tape portion. Dry thoroughly with a heat tool.  Mount scene on tag with two sided tape.  Ink edges of tag with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Fold ribbon in half and push through tag hole front to back and pulling tails through loop. Fish tail ends of ribbon. Mount tag on black cardstock cut 3 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches with foam tape.

 

Cut plaid paper (The three designs I choose were matched to the Oxide Ink, so if you chose another plaid make sure to match the ink.) to 3 3/4 x 8 inches. Ink the edges in Black Soot Distress and stitch around border using white thread. Mount the plaid to a kraft card base cut 4 x 8 1/4 inches. Ink edges of kraft in Gathered Twigs. Mount tag onto card front using two sided tape.

Supplies:  

(Paper Trimmer, Stamp Platform, Heat Tool, Scotch Tape, Anti Static Bag, Tweezers, Corner Rounder, Ink Blending Tools, Scissors, Two Sided Tape, Foam Tape) 

-Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Holiday Scenes 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink: Fired Brick, Old Paper, Speckled Egg 

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Clear, White 

-Ranger Surfaces: #8 Kraft Tags, Black Cardstock, Kraft Cardstock 

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Tidings Paper Stash, Tidings Design Tape, Christmas Paper Stash 2018, Christmas Design Tape 2018, Christmas Paper Stash 2019, Christmas Design Tape 2019 

-Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs, Picket Fence, Black Soot 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Retractable Blending Brush

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Mini Set 50 

-Black Velvet Ribbon

 

Again, a huge THANK YOU for all the comments and likes. I am so thankful for all of you! I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Stamper's Anonymous Christmas 2020 - Christmas Words Tree Card

Hi everyone! A big thanks for all the comments here, on FB, and on Instagram for my last post...my cup runneth over. Today, I have another card for the Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Christmas 2020 release, this one using lots of sentiments from two stamp sets, Christmastime 3 and Tiny Text Christmas. It was fun to design, but hard to stop...I could have made this tree so much longer with all the words to chose from.

 

Layout Christmas words from both sets of stamps to form a tree shape in a clean spot. Place a #12 Kraft Tag in stamp platform, rub anti-static pouch over the tag, and place starry snowflakes below tag hole, and close platform to stick stamp in place. Use the tag hole as center of the tree for all the stamping. Stamp snowflakes in Picket Fence (stamp twice for more brightness as well as all stamping after this) and heat emboss with clear powder. Next stamp 'christmas wishes' from Tiny Text in Twisted Citron Oxide, and heat emboss in clear. Use a fine paintbrush to brush away any powder not where it is supposed to be. Next stamp 'Best Wishes for the New Year' from Christmastime in Pine Needles Oxide and clear powder. Next stamp holly leaf and 'holiday wishes' in Twisted Citron and clear powder. Next is 'Season's Greetings' in Pine Needles and clear powder. Next is 'Peace on Earth' in Twisted Citron and clear powder. Next is 'Merry Christmas' from Christmastime as well as the tree stamp using Pine Needles, but this time heat emboss with Green Tinsel. Next is 'in the air there's a feeling of christmas' in Twisted Citron and clear powder. Next 'A Wonderful Christmas' in Pine Needles and clear powder. Then stamp 'December 25' vertically in the center underneath the last part, this time using Walnut Stain Oxide and clear powder. This is the trunk. Finally stamp 'Joy to the World' on the left side of the trunk, and 'Merry Christmas' on the right of the trunk in Twisted Citron and clear powder.

Trim tag to 4.25 x 7.75 inches. NOTE: You'll have to trim some from above the tag hole to make it correct. Trim the top sides of this to make it look like a tag again. Trim a green metallic kraft piece to 4.5 x 8 inches. Trim kraft card base to 4.75 x 8.25. Adhere green paper to card base with two sided tape. Set aside.

Ink edges of tag and card base with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and Mini Ink Blending Tool. Stitch around tag using white thread. Use a brown permanent marker to add lines to thicken trunk. Use a white pen to color in letters of 'Season's Greetings'. Mist a foot of white Crinkle Ribbon with water and wad up. Dry with a heat tool while keeping balled up. Trim 2.5 inches off and add to tag hole in a line. Roll the rest of the ribbon around three fingers, remove, and place in the center of the ribbon in the hole. Tie in knot and pull apart ribbon folds and fluff up. Add two sided tape to the back of the tag and adhere to green metallic paper. Add Pine Needles Distress Crayon to silicon sheet and use a waterbrush to pick the color up and color in leaves of holly. Do the same with Picket Fence, coloring in the open spaces on the mini tree. Use the end of the paintbrush to dip into the Candied Apple paint and add the drops to each berry on the holly. Let dry.

Using the Elf Shoes Stickles, draw lines above and below the darker green sentiments (the Pine Needles colored script from Christmastime)making them graduated in size following the width of the tree shape. Apply Xmas Red Stickles the berries and make some dots on the mini tree. Use the white pen to add tiny dots all over tree for lights, and then apply Stardust Stickles over the dots, as well as to the middle of the snowflakes at the top. Let this all dry completely.

Supplies: 

(Stamping Platform, Anti Static Pouch, Heat Tool, Paintbrush, Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Two Sided Tape) 

-Ranger Surfaces: #12 Kraft Tag, Kraft Cardstock 

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Tiny Text Christmas, Christmastime 3 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Picket Fence, Gathered Twigs 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink: Twisted Citron, Pine Needles, Walnut Stain 

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Clear, Green Embossing Tinsel 

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Metallic Jewels Kraft Stock, Crinkle Ribbon 

-Ranger Water Brush: Detail 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons: Pine Needles, Picket Fence 

-Sakura Gelly Roll Pen: White 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Candied Apple 

-Ranger Stickles: Xmas Red, Elf Shoes, Star Dust 

-Brown Permanent Marker

I'll be again next week. I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!