Amy R. used new Alex Syberia products to create several amazing faux postage themes Holiday cards. This one features Santa and a present stenciled on die cut faux stamps with stamped sentiments. I love all the extra dies she used for a pink Poinsettia and glittery sentiment too! Watch her video tutorial at the Prairie Paper and Ink blog.
Faux postage has been very popular in card making and paper crafting recently with faux postage stamps, cancelation marks, faux postcard designs and mailboxes so naturally it’s going to extend into different Holiday cards too. Lately I’ve seen so many wonderful new postage themed stamps, dies and stencils for Christmas and Winter and loads of beautiful handmade cards using them. So, today we’ll take a closer look at this card making trend of Faux Postage Christmas Cards.
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Elaine used adorable stamps from Sweet November to create this Santa and his Reindeer card, notice how one has a red nose for Rudolf. Stamped stamped and colored the images onto a die cut sheet of faux postage stamps and used a silver pen to add metallic details to the edges. Visit the Marker Geek blog for a video tutorial.
Kelly’s stunning card has a stenciled and embossed red striped base with stenciled greenery layer, a vellum die cut layer and a die cut faux stamp with a peaceful winter scene. She’s also included die cut and inked holly, a stamped sentiment and tiny red gems. Learn more at the Papertrey Ink blog.
One of my favorite techniques is using colored pencils to color stamped images on Kraft cardstock, like Pam did here for her happy Snowman card. Her faux postcard also has some stamped white snowflakes and heat embossed white sentiments with a tiny faux snowflake stamp. Take a closer look at the Spellbinders blog.
Monica’s jolly card is filled with adorable stamped Holiday mugs, sitting inside of faux postage frames. On the frames she stamped blue cancelation stamps and there’s a stamped sentiment in the center as well. I spotted her design at the Whimsy Stamps Instagram page.
Julissa’s card has red striped base to mimic international postage, a large section of die cut faux stamp filled with green ink blending and cancelation stamps and an adorable Reindeer. Her large Rudolf has a large floppy hat and big red nose colored with Copic markers, cut out and placed over the postage. Find more details at the Unity Stamps blog.
These two fun cards use rubber stamps from Simon Hurley. One used different colored ink for an all over stamped background with cancelation marks and heat embossed sentiment. The other has stamps with simple coloring, fussy cut and placed on a plaid base. These stamps can be found at Ranger Ink.
Mindy’s amazing cards have die cut faux stamps with ink blended blue skies, snowy hills and silhouette stamped trees and deer with faux cancelations. This black, white and blue color combo is so striking! I spotted her ideas at the Gina K. Instagram page.
J. L’s sweet card uses dies from Karen Burniston and Lawn Fawn with stamps also from Lawn Fawn for a delicious baked goodies pop up card. The little stamped mice are busy baking with some die cut kitchen appliances and stamped food. The front postage are windows that peek into the inside scenes. Find all the details at the J. L. Webster Creations blog.
Natalia’s faux postage card is filled with pretty pink stenciled Poinsettias on a die cut sheet of faux stamps. Use words, number, prices and cancelation marks to really create the look of postage. These products are available at Waffler Flower.
This rustic faux postcard from Juliana would be easy to make a bunch of at once. She stamped her images in black and colored ink pads adding easy coloring with Copic Markers. There’s pretty wreaths and sentiments in the main section with darling little stamped faux stamps too, you can use the address section to write a personal message. Learn more at the 17 Turtles blog.
I love the soft colors on Leanne’s cute card. She stamped cute little Holiday icons onto each die cut postage stamp, separate them a bit and popped with up on a grey polka dot background. There’s more layers of cardstock and a postage frame around the card edge too. It’s finished with die cut greenery, bow and a tied button. She used products from Hello Bluebird for her design.
Isn’t this faux postage style so fun? It works with many different styles and can be created with different techniques and products. Are you going to give it a try this Holiday season?
-Heather
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