Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Christmas Joy Card feat. Angie Blom Digital Designs

Hello friends, I have another card to share for the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Fall/Winter Blog Hop. This card features a combination of several different digital images from Angie Blom Digital Designs who is one of the Super Sponsors for this event. Scroll down for more, plus a coupon code! I'm also linking this card to the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge which is the sister site to CLP.



(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)





 
First, let me tell you about the digital images used for this card. I just purchased the Christmas Joy Mugs digital set and wanted to work around that super cut holiday drink. Let's call it a Peppermint Mocha, haha! There are 8 adorable mugs in this digital set and several sentiments.

I love Angie's designs and have quite a few loaded onto my computer. I paired the mug, as well as the sentiment from that same set with the gnome from "I'll be Gnome for Christmas" digital set and the tree from "Deer Holiday Wishes".

If you'd like to purchase anything from Angie's Coffee collections, you can get 45% off when you use coupon code JAVA45 at checkout, for a limited time.





Now, if you've never worked with digital images, check out my blog post here, where I go into more detail. I use Microsoft word to add my images and print from my computer. There's a slight learning curve but I think the tips I share on that post will be super helpful, particularly if you've ever wanted to try working with digital images but were too afraid to try. 

Once you get the hang of it, you will love it! I love being able to resize and move around my images. I generally work with the png files, they're easier to rearrange and have an empty background around the image, whereas, jpg files have a white background around the image, so if you want to combine several images, you need to use the png files.





I used OLO Markers to color my images and if you'd like to shop or find out more information on these artist markers, click here. I love OLO Markers so much, I became an affiliate! If you have any questions, ask away.






If you'd like to link up to the Coffee Loving Papercrafters hop, Friday Aug. 8th is the last day. Be sure and check out the rules, it must be a newly created card. There are numerous sponsors and lots of prizes being offered.

The Caffeinated Christmas challenge ends Nov. 25 and is sponsored by Pink & Main who are offering up a $50 gc to their shop. Again, check out the rules for linking up. You must have some red and green on your card for this challenge.






I also used a white gel pen to accent my trees with a little snow and to add some light effect to the bulbs on my cup.

One thing I should note, the gnome image comes with a small snowman beside it in the original digital image. I wanted to have my gnome appear as if he was holding his cup, so I simply enlarged my cup and imposed it over the digital image. It was a neat little trick and I love how it looks.





Lastly, the diagonal striped background paper for my A2 sized card is from my Scrapbook.com Holiday Cardstock paper pad. You can click my affiliate link here to view it or shop.


Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you'll join me for one or both of these challenges! Click the links at the top to hop over.

Have a great day!


Terri






















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Monday, November 4, 2024

O Holy Night Stenciled Card for Erin Lee Creative

Today's card features the O Holy Night stencil from the new Erin Lee Creative Christmas release. I love religious Christmas cards. They're my favorite style of Christmas cards to make because of my belief in the reason for the season! I've done a lot of ink blending and paint splatters. Scroll down for creative details and tips. My clickable supply list will be at the end, if you're interested in any of the products that I've used today.



(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)





I used small blending brushes and also tiny detailer brushes for this stencil. It's not perfect but I'm ok with that. I would call this more of a mixed media style. 

For my green color, I used Catherine Pooler Deck The Halls Ink. My gold color is actually gold paint.





I love using my Wendy Vecchi Make Art Staytion for stenciling because of the magnets that hold both my stencil and cardstock down. Even so, when stenciling with paint, it can definitely eeek out under the stencil.

I would recommend using Pixie Spray on the back of your stencil to help prevent this. Just let it dry for about a minute before laying down on your cardstock. If you're a reckless crafter, like me, haha, you can just take care to hold your stencil down as tight as possible while stenciling. Just be real careful when lifting up your stencil that you don't smear your paint.



 
My favorite tip for paint splatters is to drop a small amount of paint onto an acrylic block, spritz with a tiny bit of water and mix with a paintbrush. Flick the paint off the edge of your acrylic block with your wet paintbrush, randomly around your card. This is such a quick and easy technique and gives great results! Just be sure and rinse your paintbrush and acrylic block immediately.

Lastly, I backed my card with some pretty plaid paper from one of my Christmas paper pads in my stash. I tend to create and measure after I'm done. I would recommend starting out with a trimmed 6x6  inch piece of white cardstock for your stenciling.

My full card dimensions measure at just under 5 x 5 1/2". I trimmed my inked panel and another backing of white cardstock accordingly to fit my dimensions over the plaid paper and white card.

In essence, I worked backwards! Yes, you heard it right. I ink up my card panel first, trim it down by eyeballing how I think it will look on a card with other layers and go from there. 

If you'd like to shop, I have convenient affiliate links below. There is no added cost for you to use my links and I appreciate it so much when you do. See you next time!

Terri

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Saturday, November 2, 2024

Coffee Loving Papercrafts Fall/Winter Blog Hop

It's that time of year! The Coffee Loving Papercrafters Fall/Winter Blog Hop went live yesterday. These are my people and I couldn't wait to play along. You can too! I'll have details further down, along with my clickable supply list. My hot cocoa card features products from super sponsor Pretty Pink Posh. I've been eyeballing the Winter Mug die set for awhile and finally added it to my collection, along with the Christmas Sentiment Strips stamp set. Scroll down for more.



(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)





What I really love about the PPP Winter Mug die set is it comes with such a great variety of dies that you can also use for Fall cardmaking and Halloween. You can also purchase the add-on sets that were created to coordinate with the Winter Mug dies. There's one called Holidays, Halloween and Winter. 

To create my mug, I selected a pretty beige patterned paper with snow, from my Scrapbookcom Snow Days paper pad. For the marshmallows in my cocoa, I ink blended with some Catherine Pooler Do-Si-Do ink around the edges. I mean, who doesn't love Peppermint marshmallows? They're so yummy!

If you look closely, you can see that wavy pattern for my tabletop is the same paper that I used for my cocoa and ties things together nicely. That is also from my Snow Days paper pad.





My other elements, the candy cane and holly die cuts, incorporate papers from my stash. For my snowflake, I ran some adhesive over white cardstock, laid down my Spellbinders Prism foil, then die cut with my snowflake die.

My sentiment is also from Pretty Pink Posh and is from the Sentiment Strips stamp set, Christmas. This was heat embossed with Wow white embossing powder on red cardstock.





Lastly, my ornamental background paper is from another Scrapbookcom patterned paper pad called Holiday.







 
This card came together so quickly, I could make a ton of these! Most of my die cut elements are popped up on adhesive foam for dimension. If you'd like to shop for any of the products that I used today, I have affiliate links below. There is no added cost for you to use these links and I appreciate it so much!


Join the hop here with your newly created project. Be sure and take a look at the rules. You have until Nov. 8th to link up. Have fun!

I'm also linking up to the Caffeinated Christmas Card challenge. You can get details to link up to this challenge here, sponsored this month by Pink & Main!







Terri

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