Carrie Stamps

Mass Producing Christmas Cards - Stamping Edition

It's been a long time since I did a card that was ALL stamping! But I did and it is one of my favorite Christmas cards this year! This is the Stamping Edition of my Mass Produce Christmas Cards series!  If you missed the Hot Foil Edition you can find it HERE.

I just HAD to use this Jolly Santa image. I bought the stamp set last year and had yet to use it. I love this image so much and am so glad I pulled it out for these cards this year! I LOVE a vintage or retro Santa and this one makes me smile so much! 

See these cards come together in the video below. 

If you can not see the video up on your screen, you can also watch it right here. 

It may seem like a lot to do coloring for a card that you are mass producing. But this image is very simple to color for a couple of reasons. 

It's an easy image to color because you only need a few colors and it has the shading built in to the image. That makes for fast coloring no matter what medium you choose to color with. 

Another fun fact about this card, there is NO die cutting on it. JUST stamping. I love the stamped background on this card, made using the Solid Holly backgrounds stamp by Impression Obsession. The smaller stamped images really add to the card and give it more of the vintage Christmas feel. But all the white on this card keeps it modern too. 

Thank you for letting me share my cards with you. I hope you are inspired to stamp some cards too. 

Here are all the supplies I used to make these cards. 

 

MASS Produce Christmas Cards - Hot Foil Edition

It's not TOO late! You can still get your Christmas cards handmade in time to get them sent out in time and I am here to help you with that. I have a little series for you on MASS producing your Christmas Cards. In the first edition I am focusing on Hot Foiling.  Hot Foiling can seem to take a lot of time but when you have an image that becomes the central focus of your card, it makes the rest of the card fast and easy. 

Here is the card I mass produced using the Ornamental Trio Cut and Foil plate set from Trinity Stamps and Polished Brass Hot Foil. 

Another way I made these cards quickly is that I used an element I had already made, an ink smooshed background. You can see me make it in this video. I die cut this background to fill in the ornaments. You can do this too and even use gold paper, background paper, glitter paper, really whatever you have in your stash. 

See these cards come together and gather some tips and tricks in this video. If you can not see the video on your screen, you can watch it RIGHT HERE.

If you like this video be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for my upcoming videos in this series. 

Below you will find the supplies I used to make these cards. 

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Stamping!

SCENTED Felt Ornaments

Bringing out some DARLING dies from Trinity Stamps today to make some Christmas ornaments. If you have not die cut felt before it is amazing. I Love to make felt ornaments with dies. This year I got the idea to make those ornaments SCENTED! 

I made two different hand stitched ornaments and they have two different scents. 

See how they got their scent and came together in this video. 

If you can not see the video up on your screen, you can also view it right HERE.

First up is the festive mug. 

I used the Santa Mug Die set for this ornament.  I am in LOVE with this die set, you can see my gift card holder made with this same die set right here. 

The added candy cane is from the Sweet Holiday Wishes Die set. 

All the bling used is from the Trinity Stamps Shop: 

Bubble Mint Clay Elements

Ruby Radiance Rhinestones

And can you find the touch of Rock Candy Glitter on there? 

This mug of cheer has a coffee scent. And it is simple to do. Add drops of your choice of essential oils to a scrap of wool felt. Tuck this inside when you are stuffing the ornament! 

Next let's look at the Happy Snowman ornament. 

OH my WORD! I love this little guy. Actually he is not that little I made him using the Slimline Happy Snowman Die set. Top hat to snow bottom he is almost 7-1/2" long. 

How about those rosy cheeks?  I added a touch of Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide ink to create this look. 

I love having another way to use my stand alone dies to make something fun for the Christmas tree!  This one smells like Wintergreen. YUM! 

All the supplies I used are linked for you below. 

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The Sentiment is the STAR!

Hey there stamping friends. I decided to play along with the Lawn Fawnatics challenge... Make the Sentiment the Star! 

It's all about creating a project where the sentiment is the main focus. For my sentiment I chose the Giant Let It Snow Die cut. 

You can see the two projects I made in the video below.  If you can not see the video on your screen, you can watch it here. 

Now let's take a look at the card. 

I had so much fun making the snowy background for this card, using Distress Oxide Ink, Water, Distress Mica Spray and Acrylic Paint!  

To help my sentiment be the STAR of the show I die cut it from white glitter paper and topped it off with some glaze. 

I also dressed it up with some ear muff and mittens. These are from the Woodland Critter Huggers Winter Add On die set. The mittens look like they are just waiting for snow to fall to the ground. 

Next up is the Woven Star/Snowflake Ornament. I have been making this ornament for years. Every year I try to make a new version of it. Last year I made several and strung them into a banner. 

This year I went BIGGER! And added new elements too. 

Usually this ornament is made with 6" strips of patterned paper. This year I used 8" strips and I LOVE the larger size so much. 

The added elements are the mittens that I added to each point of this snowflake. These are very easy to make and I show you how in the video. You are going to be diving into your hoarded stash of patterned paper when you see how easy these are to make and creating a bunch of them! You can also watch the original tutorial on how to make these right HERE.

Here are the fun things I did to make this sentiment the star of my star ornament... 

First I die cut the sentiment from a piece of card stock that I used to pick up excess Mica Spray from the card above. Then I added a bit of glitter paper "snow" to the bottom.  The penguin as the O is my favorite part!  He's so cute! 

Just loving how these turned out and that a challenge like this gives me so much added mojo!

Below are all the supplies I used to make these projects. 

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my creations with you. I hope you leave feeling inspired to create and that I'll see you back here again soon for more creative inspiration.