This adorable penguin mug was created with new dies and colorful cardstocks. There’s a tiny, shiny geometric de-bossed letter pressed background and a letter pressed sentiment too! This card style would be easy to make several in one sitting! Learn more at the Spellbinder blog.
If you love getting a jump on making cards for the Holidays you’ll want to participate in Christmas in July! You can check out all the brand new products and inspiration from paper crafting companies that’s coming out right now with lots of stamps, dies, papers and more. Today we’ll take a look at some amazing card examples to help you get into the Holiday spirit early!
Below each photo you’ll find a link, click it for more details like products used, techniques and tutorials.
Lucie used a sketch as the jumping off point of her fun Christmas sparklers card. She adding inking to her die cut shapes for color, tucking them behind a die cut circle with a stamped sentiment. Small pearls add some shimmer and finish it off perfectly. Take a closer look at the Lucie G Cards blog.
Irene die cut her letters to spell “Peace” twice, layering a polka dot pattern over a brown for a dimensional feel. Hanging around the word are pretty stamped and paper pieced ornaments, a lacey border and serene winter church scene. Find more details at the Art Impressions blog.
I love this pink, yellow and orange color combo that Cathy used on this adorable design! The pops of gold on the heat embossed sentiment and tiny pearls adds a nice little shimmer too. Watcher her video tutorial at the Cathy Z Designs blog.
Amy’s card features an adorable girl dressed as a Christmas tree with a big pile of presents, her coloring of the stamps is phenomenal! It also looks as if she’s popping out of a decorated gift wrapped box the way she used the pattern paper, scalloped trim and holly leaves. Take a closer peek at the Stampingbella blog.
If you have lots of cards to create and not a lot of time using pre-printed products can help make designs go much faster. Here Helen used printed pattern paper, sentiments and dies to create quick and easy cards. See all the different ones she made at her Crafty Mama Diaries Instagram page.
Check out this fantastic Winter sweater card from Julie! She used red cardstock for the sweater, adding heat embossed white rows of star patterns and then included a zipper die down the center, so clever! Check out this card, some tags and another style of sweater card at the Uniko Studio blog.
Rachel used a masking stamp technique to layer and put together this darling snowman building scene. She colored her stamped images with Copic markers and created the sky background with ink blending and white paint splatter. Find all the details at the Rachel Alvarado Designs blog.
Sam used stamps and stencils for die cut holes and edges to create a trendy postage stamp style Holiday card. The brown and green inks give warm tones along with pops of red and heat embossed gold stars. Learn more at the LDRS Creative blog.
Lisa used foiling, coordinating stamps and dies to create her wonderful, sparkly card design. The ornaments, botanicals and sentiment are layered around a pink sentiment over top of a foiled blue snowflake background. Find directions at the Therm O Web blog.
Amy used hot foil plates and gold foils from Altenew on different sizes of die cut triangles to create lots of different modern graphic Christmas tree cards. These are easy to mix and match pattern, sizes and colors of cardstocks to design slightly different variations. Add a foiled sentiment and a few gems and you’re done. Watch her video tutorial at the Prairie Paper and Ink blog.
These fluffy yeti’s are here to wish someone a very Merry Christmas. Myrthe used stamps from Whimsy Stamps, adding ink blended stenciled circles behind each one with clear bubble embellishments. I spotted her idea at the Creative Myrthe Instagram page.
I hope you’ve been inspired to grab your supplies and get a start on your Holiday cards early this year!
-Heather
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