Christmas is getting closer…. It is 49 days away from today! I am still catching up with Christmas cards this month 🙂

Today, I am sharing 2 cards using 1 die set, 1 stamp set and paper pack. I like to make multiple cards from the same stamp, die sets and papers while I have them out. They can be different style and design. Totally up to you too.

On these 2 cards today I am using the new November paper collection, stamp set and die set from Our Daily Bread Designs: Jingle Bell Time rubber stamp set, Snow Crystals Dies, Snowflake Season Collection Paper Pad.

On the first card above, I went with clean and simple design. diecuts the snow crystals from American Craft silver glitter cardstock with my WRMK Evolution Advanced. After I diecut them, I run it through again with embossing mat to give extra embossed detail on them. On a A2 white card base, I added a strip of the Snowflake Season papers. I picked the stripes one for this card. Then I added the snow crystals on the card. I stamped the sentiment from Jingle Bell Time stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black with my MISTI so I could do double stamping to get crisp and bold result.

On the second card today, I created the galaxy background with Mini Distress ink pads and some water. I love making watercolored and galaxy background lately 🙂 For this technique with water, I used Canson Watercolor paper as the card base. This is a one layer card. I die-cut the snow crystals from Darice 110 lbs white cardstock. I did the same step: die-cut and emboss to get the details on them. Once the background dried well, I added the snow crystals all on the card and then I heat-embossed the same stamp set on the card directly with Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder. Then I wrapped some of the natural twine from May Arts Ribbon.

With the same supplies, I can created couple cards instead of only one 🙂 What about you? Do you have tips to share about cardmaking and mass-produce cards?

I am playing along at:

Christmas Card Challenge November 2016 – Anything Goes

Challenge Weeks #254-255 – Anything Goes

Virginia’s View Challenge 25

HLS Christmas Challenge – Watercolor

Little Tangles Challenge 74: CAS

Good morning… It is Thursday! We are already in the middle of the week… I hope your week has been great so far. This week we have another warmer Fall days which is very unusual for us in Ohio in November. But I am thankful for sunshine and pretty colorful leaves to enjoy around us 🙂

You notice that coloring book for adults is a big hit lately. We see that at almost every stores, even when you go to grocery stores, you will find them! Today, I wanna share with you an adorable Coffee Time – Art Play Paintables from ADORNit.

There are lots of ADORNit Art Play Paintables available at store for you to choose. And this 12×12 – ADORNit Art Play Paintable page is covered with those cute adorable coffee theme pictures that you can paint and color with any mediums. Couple of weeks ago, I colored three of these pictures with watercolor paints (blog post here).

Today, I turned them into these cards. I grabbed some of the ADORNit – Blender Basic Papers to create these monochromatic cards:

On the patterned papers I added some Vintage Photo Distress ink with sponger to give some extra shadow to them.

I also embellished them with some natural twine, gems and mini staplers. Not to much so the focal point is still the colored images and sentiment on the cards.

I hope these cards give you some inspirations to create cards out of your coloring pages instead of just leave them sitting around. Let’s share some joy and love with handmade cards with others!

If you would like to check out ADORNit products, you can visit their website or they are can be found on Amazon.

Today, I am sharing this blog post with Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Thursday Coffee Break.

THANK YOU for taking a break with me today and have a fabulous day!!

I play along at:

Monday Challenge, Simon Says: Thinking Of You

Simon Says: Thinking of You

Challenge Weeks #254-255 – Anything Goes

Virginia View Challenge #25

Welcome to Joy Clair November New Release! Today we are so excited to share with you inspirations using the new November products for the blog hop!

We have 4 new stamps released this month:

• A Child Is Born – Bible Journaling Clear Stamps
• Three Wise Men Clear Stamps
• Christmas Clear Border Clear Stamps
• Holly Jolly Santa Clear Stamps

They all are available at the Joy Clair store for purchase this month. Here’s the sneak peeks of the stamp sets:

For this New Blog Hop, I created cards using the Three Wise Men Clear Stamps:

When I see the image of the Three Wise Men, I was imagining stained glass that I saw at church windows. So, I started with stamping the image with Versamark ink pad using my MISTI on a piece of Canson watercolor paper. Then I added the Ranger Gold Princess embossing powder. I did not remove the stamp of the MISTI yet, then I thought I wanted to double-heat embossed the image for more bold line for the watercoloring later. I re-stamped the image and heat-embossed it again. But if you have high-raise embossing powder, you can do the embossing just once 🙂

After embossing process, I started to color them with Spectrum Noir Aqua markers. Then with a small round painting brush, I wet the colors and turned them into watercolor look 🙂 They look fabulous, don’t you think?

And I decided to do the same double-heat embossing for the sentiment for bolder and shiner effect on a one-layer card:

Then I added some splatters on the card using Shimmerz – Inklingz Good As Gold watercolor paint with small round brush. This gold paint gives the extra shiny and metallic texture on the panel. After that I die-cut the panel with Double Stitched Rectangles Dies from Our Daily Bread Designs.

I added the panel on a black card base with lots of adhesive runner on the backside to make sure the watercolor paper stays well and flat on the card base.

This is the card I created for the Joy Clair November Challenge that I shared here:

GIVEAWAY ALERT

Joy Clair is giving away two (2) gift cards of $25 each from Joy Clair Store. To enter, please comments on each Design Team blog post from until Sunday November 6. The winners will be announced on Joy Clair Bog on November 30.

Let’s get hopping and be inspired!

• Joy Clair Stamps Blog
• Helen Gullett –> You’re Here
• Martha Lucia Gomez Hernandez –> Next Hop
• Jessica Pascarella
• Cornelia Wenokor
• Lori Kobular
• Steph Ackerman
• Donna Green Idlet
• LeeAnn McKinney

THANK YOU so much for stopping by on my blog today! Have a fabulous blessed day!