It's July 25th and the countdown to Christmas has begun. Just kidding, I hate being reminded how many days until Christmas! Christmas should not be stressful. And that is why I love making a Christmas card on the 25th of each month, it is fun and not stressful.
Welcome to the July 2020 Crafty Christmas Club Hop!
If you are hopping along then you may have arrived from the fabulous Justin Averill's blog.
I'm going to let a little secret out of the bag, I am shooting to make all slimline cards to send out this Christmas. If you have seen any of the Christmas cards I have mad this far, then you may have already caught on to that. This card, as with most of my slimline cards are 9" x 8" scored at 4", unless I need to change them for a slimline die set or an envelope.
For todays card I pulled out some cute things from Dare 2B Artzy. I am in love with their bear stamp sets, they have one that is honey themed and this one that is skiing/winter/christmas themed. I just think they are so cute.
This is the Skisons Greetings set that I am using today. And now let's take a look at the card I made with this set.
I had a little fun with stamp resist for the background using Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink and heat embossed snowflakes from this stamp set. After applying ink over my embossed images I spritzed the panel with water for that oxidized splatter look. And to further the splatter I used Turbo Teal Silk over the background as well. And I LOVE how the background turned out. Add the water and silk for splatter really gives it some depth.
I decided to make the bears polar bears, but you could do black or brown bears as well. I colored my images in with Copic Markers using the Totally Black stamp pad from Dare 2B Artzy for the first time. And I have to say it works great for Copic coloring! Very black, fast drying and no bleeding.
The puffy vest makes me so happy! You can see how I colored it in the video below.
And how about that plaid background paper! It's the third thing from Dare 2B Artzy that I used. I can not get enough of this pattern. It is what inspired my card. This paper pack (Snow Much Fun) coordinates with this stamp set and the Christmoose stamp set, so of course I had to have it.
You can watch the making of this card in the video below:
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Now it is time to hop along and see what the other Crafty Christmas Club members have made this month. Next up is Neha, she is a fabulous paper artist, so make sure to check out what she has created.
All of the supplies I used to make this card are listed and linked for you below.
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Love your card and shimmer your cards always are so adorable tyfs
Posted by: Maylynn Cupp | July 25, 2020 at 11:16 PM