Growing In Unity Day 2: More CAS Christmas Cards

Hello everyone… I am back again today as the Growing In Unity Girl. For the next 5 days, I will be sharing with you projects featuring stamps from the Unity Stamp Company. And if you have not yet seen my first project for the Growing in Unity Day 1, you can go here. For this Day 2, I have more CAS Christmas cards to share with you.

Today, I made 2 card sets with 1 design. They are easily mass-produced for Christmas cards. On this card I used this preview Kit Of The Month – October 2017:

Unity Stamp Company KOT October 2017

The first card set, I used the 3 snowflakes and one sentiment on my mixed media cards:

I created the background using heat-embossing resist technique with Color Burst Powder. If you do not have Color Burst Powder, you can also use watercolor paint for this technique. Since we are working with lots of water, I prefer using watercolor papers. Heavy weight 110 lbs cardstock can handle water, but not as good as watercolor papers.

First, I stamped all backgrounds with Versamark ink pad using Mini MISTI. Then, I added the mixture of White embossing powder and Hologram embossing powder on them and heat set them with craft heater. Snowflakes are white and sparkly!

Then I sprayed the panels with some water, sprinkled the Color Burst Turquoise Powder on each of them. And watched them spreading and covering the panel by tilting the paper in random directions… One very little sprinkle can do the magic! I used small round watercolor brush to help some of the color to spread.

I dried them with craft heater, and I added some sprinkle of white paint on each panel with fan brush. I love how each of them turn out different to each other. Just like snowflakes, none of them ever the same!

And then… I dried them again with craft heater and trimmed the paper into 4″ x 5.5″ for the background panels. I added them on the black cards with Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive runner.

For the sentiment, I cut out white cardstock into paper strips and stamped the sentiment on each of them with Memento Dew Drop Summer Sky. Then I cut them into banner shaped.

I found out that I run out of 3D foam tapes! But I have some white fun foam in stash so I used them as replacement for 3D foam tapes 🙂 I simply cut the fun foam into smaller sizes than the sentiment banners, added them on each back of the banner with strong liquid glue. Once they all dried, I added them on the cards.

My first card set is done.

And for the second card set, I simply stamped the image directly on the white cards with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I decided not to color them.

Then I stamped the sentiment on light purple cardstocks with the same ink pad, and trimmed them into banner shape.

With the same step on the first card set, I added the fun foam on the back of the sentiment banners and added them on each card with the same glue.

I finished these cards with some purple sequins for extra sparkle on them. Card set 2 is done.

I hope these cards today inspire you to create with Unity Stamp Company today! And I entered these cards for the UNITY {show & tell} Facebook Group – Holiday Card Challenge. This week theme is No Red No Green! How about that? Challenging right…creating Christmas cards with no red and no green on them 🙂

***GIVEAWAY***

Before you go… From today until December 8th, every time you leave a comment on each of my Unity Stamp blog post, you have a chance to win the the giveaway prize! You have until Saturday, December 9th, 12 PM (NOON) EST to leave comment to every blog post. There will be 2 (two) winners who will receive 25 random stamps from Unity Stamp Company. Winners will be randomly chosen and will be contacted for confirmation.

And…kindly follow me on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube. And… to sign up for blog newsletter, you and fill in the MailChimp form (or form on the side bar), also you can follow my blog on Bloglovin’ and NetworkedBlog. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I appreciate your supports!

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CUTplorations December Challenge: Mixed Media Happy Holidays Card

Hello everyone…First week of December… The holly jolly season has began! There will be more and more Christmas theme projects you will see on my blog 😀 And the project today, the first Monday of the month, I created a mixed media Happy Holidays card inspired by this CUTplorations December Challenge image.

CUTplorations December Challenge

I created the card background with Senecio 1 – ARTplorations Stencil, watercolor paper 140 lbs, Gelli Plate, and 2 shades of green arcylic paints. When I work with Gelli Plate, I always ended up with more than one prints that I can use for other projects.

After the gelli print dried well, I sprayed some light teal acrylic paint spray and dried it with craft heater. I run the panel through my diecutting machine with the largest die from Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies. I added it on the card base with Tombow Xtreme Adhesive.

CUTplorations December Challenge: Mixed Media Happy Holidays Card

I die cut the Happy Word Die and Holiday Word Die out of Gold Metallic Cardstock. I added them on the card with liquid glue.

I stamped the stocking image from Warm Hands Warm Hearts Stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad and colored it with color pencil. And then I cut it using the matching Warm Hands Warm Hearts Coordinating Dies. After that, I added some liquid glue on the top of the stocking and added some glitter on it. Set it aside to dry.

I added the stocking, snowflakes and silver sequins on the card. That’s all my card for you today 🙂 I hope it inspire you to create and share your project with us for this month’s challenge.

Need more inspirations? Come over to STAMPlorations Blog today to see projects from the design team. And it is your turn to create and link up you project here. Rememeber that you can link up as many projects as you want (1 project per blog post), and you must use at least 1 STAMPlorations product (stamp, stencil, die, or coloring page, or digi stamp). So… now it is your turn to create and I cannot wait to see your project.

Before you go… I have a discount code for you to use at STAMPlorations store. You can save 20% off on your order by using this code: STAMPGIRLHELEN at check out. You can use it for all new released, regular-priced, sale-priced, and retiring products. Enjoy and save!

Thank you for stopping by today… hope you all have a fabulous day!

 



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Growing In Unity Day 1: Silver Bells Clean-And-Simple Cards

Hello everyone… Welcome to my blog! Today I am one of the Growing In Unity Girls for this week. For the next 5 days, we will share with you projects featuring stamps from the Unity Stamp Company. And for the Growing in Unity Day 1, I have a set of clean-and-simple cards to share with you.

When it comes to making Christmas cards, I mass-produce one design and my to-go style is clean-and-simple 🙂 We always need lots of cards during this season… I have one design for my card but I have different background for variety. On these cards, I used the KOT Octoner 2016.

Growing In Unity Day 1: Silver Bells Clean-And-Simple Cards

I used A4 (4.25 in. X 5.5 in) white cards as my card base. First, I cut out a bunch white and black cardstock in 4.25” x 5.5”

Using my Mini MISTI, I stamped the ornament and sentiment at the same time with Versamark Ink Pad. Since this is a slow-drying ink pad, I stamped them 3 times, then I added the Silver Embossing Powder, and I heat set them with craft heater. After I heat-embossing all the panels, I added some silver watercolor paint splatters using watercolor fan brush on them and dried them with craft heater. And I decided to add more extra silver dots on the empty space with my Silver Uni Signo Ball Gel Pen.

I repeated the same steps. For one sitting, I could make 10-12 cards or more when I had extra time before my daughters coming home from school 🙂

After that, I trimmed some patterned paper strips. For this card, I cut out the papers into 5.5” x 1.25” and I added those patterned papers at the bottom of the card base.

I then trimmed the heat-embossed panels into 5.5” x 3.23”, and I added them on the card bases.

I have been a happy KOT subscriber for 2 years now… and I always love every set they sent every month. Not only that, there is a coupon code and there is always little suprise in the package, too! To learn more information about the Kit Of The Month, you can go here.

Need more inspiration? Visit Wynne’s blog, to see her project that she created for Growing in Unity this week. You’ll be inspired by her!

***GIVEAWAY***

Before you go… From today until December 8th, every time you leave a comment on each of my Unity Stamp blog post, you have a chance to win the the giveaway prize! You have until Saturday, December 9th, 12 PM (NOON) EST to leave comment to every blog post. There will be 2 (two) winners who will receive 25 random stamps from Unity Stamp Company. Winners will be randomly chosen and will be contacted for confirmation.

And…kindly follow me on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube. And… to sign up for blog newsletter, you and fill in the MailChimp form (or form on the side bar), also you can follow my blog on Bloglovin’ and NetworkedBlog. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I appreciate your supports!

I hope these cards today inspire you to create with Unity Stamp Company today! Come back again tomorrow and may you all have a fabulous day!


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A Merry Christmas Card With Stencil and Die

Hello everyone… I am back today with a Merry Christmas card using stencil and die only. I also had fun creating backgrounds with stencil in two ways.

STAMPlorations has a fun blog hop featuring the new ARTplorations stencil from Sanna Lippert Designs. To see my first project for the blog hop, you can go to HERE. It is where you can enter the giveaway.

On this card, I used the Evolution Stencil. I had fun with this stencil creating the backgrounds. First, I added the Distress Crayons (Peacock Feather, Evergreen Bough, Iced Spruced, Chipped Sapphire and Seedless Preserves) on the watercolor paper and wet my finger with baby wipes to blend the pigment.

And then I added the stencil on the paper and I added the Black Soot Distress Ink with foam stencil dauber. After that, I grabbed another paper and flip over the inked stencil on it and get the second monoprinted background.

I used one of the printed background to create my card. I run it through my diecutting machine with the largest die from the Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies and I added it on the card base with adhesive. And then I die cut the sentiment out of silver metallic paper using the Merry Christmas Word Art Die – CUTplorations. I added the sentiment on the card with pen liquid adhesive.

I finished my card with some natural twine ribbon and sequins.

Visit STAMPlorations blog today to see more inspirations from the team featuring the new ARTplorations Stencils from Sanna Lippert Designs. And…before you go… You can save 20% in your order (including new, sale, regular-priced products) when you use this code: STAMPGIRLHELEN 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. May you all have a fabulous day!



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3D Christmas Poinsettia Surprise Pop Up Card with Joy Clair

Hello everyone… I am back again today with my second post… It is a 3D Christmas Poinsettia Surprise Pop Up Card with Joy Clair December and January Challenge.

3D Christmas Poinsettia Surprise Pop Up Card

I created this card using the new Joy Clair – 3D Christmas Poinsettia Stamp Set. And I found this video tutorial how to create Surprise Pop-up Card. It is an easy tutorial to follow and I had fun making this card. And will make more 🙂

I used Rinea Ruby/Gold Foiled Paper and Ghost Ink to create the 3D Poinsettia flower on my card. After I stamped every petals, I fussy cut them and stacked together with 3D glue dots and fasten it with a yellow mini brad.

3D Christmas Poinsettia Surprise Pop Up Card

To create the flower mat, I used on of the Double Stitched Ovals Dies from Our Daily Bread Designs. For the pull up tag, I used the ATC Tag Builder – CUTplorations Dies from STAMPlorations.

This is how the card look like when it is flat and it fits inside the regular card size envelope.

3D Christmas Poinsettia Surprise Pop Up Card

I hope this card today will inspire you to create and play along with the Joy Clair December Challenge! This month theme is Anything Goes and Pop Up. You can use the inspiration photo and/or theme on you creation to participate with us.

Go to Joy Clair blog today to see more inspirations from the team. And this challenge runs for 2 MONTHS! Yes… you have until January 29, 2018 to play along and you can enter as many time as you want HERE. And… it is the good time use any of your old and new stamps from different companies! The more you enter, the more chances to win a $25 gift card to Joy Clair Store. This time it is not only one winner, but there will be TWO WINNERS randomly picked!!!

Cannot wait to see your projects! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today and have a fabulous day!!!



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