Ice Skate Cards for Spellbinders New Release

Hey crafty friends, I'm back with another pair of Christmas cards to help Spellbinders celebrate Christmas in July and their new release. Today's cards feature more stitching with the Stitched Diamond Argyle etched background die and the Ice Skate etched die. 

Scroll down and I'll tell you about the leg that I fashioned as well! Haha!

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I had several ideas in mind for my ice skate. One, was to create a vintage looking skate. I achieved that by ink blending some Ranger Vintage Photo distress oxide with a blender brush on the heel, toe and inside the shoe flap, just above the bow.  What's that flap called? No idea. I used masking tape to cover the surrounding areas before ink blending.

To create my leg, it was very simple. I placed my skate die cut at the bottom edge of a 4x4 inch piece of white cardstock so that the top of my shoe could be a guide for the width that I needed to draw the leg. I drew upwards, maybe 3 inches, widening my lines near the top using a pencil. Then, I ink blended outside the lines so there wouldn't be dark edges and trimmed inside the pencil markings.

I trimmed off the edge at the top of the leg to be flush with the top of my card. Next, I applied a trimmed piece of red ribbed satin ribbon that I had in my stash, wrapping it around the bottom of the leg and stapling it to secure.  That's it! Just adhere it to the card and lay the skate on top!

To color the rest of the ice skate, I used Copic markers.  The leaves were from the new Winter Evergreen Foliage die set and were smooshed in a blend of water and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink on my craft mat.

To finish my skate I stitched by hand, no needle needed as the holes were large enough to just  push through, with red DMC embroidery floss. I kept red for my theme throughout including the red cardstock behind my diamond argyle background and Pops of Color in Rudolph Red to embellish my branches.

 

The sentiments are from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Small Talk stickers, backed with red cardstock and popped up on adhesive foam.

For my next card below, I created another vintage style ice skate, ink blending in the same areas and coloring my skate with Copic markers in darker brown colors. I used white embroidery floss for the laces.

My diamond argyle background, was stitched with green DMC embroidery floss and layered on top of a matching green cardstock.

I watercolored my branches, this time using my Kuretake Zig Real Clean Color Brushes. I simply swiped the color on my craft mat, spritzed a little water, then colored with my water brush. After drying, I splattered with white acrylic paint using a damp toothbrush dipped in paint and "spraying" the paint by running my thumb across the toothbrush..

I often share visual tips and the creative process on my social media. Be sure you're following me to view those! I'm on TikTok now too! Not really sure what I'm doing but hey, I'm there.

Did I mention I foiled my skate blade? I had some scrap foiled cardstock left from some foiling I had done with my Glimmer machine using silver foil, and simply ran that small section through my manual die cut machine with my blade centered on top. I trimmed the section I needed and adhered to my skate blade. The great thing about this die is, the etched marks showed up really nicely, so I knew exactly where to trim.

Lastly, my sentiment was created using a sentiment from the Holiday Florals glimmer hot foil plate. I foiled with my Glimmer machine using the Aura hot foil on white cardstock, then trimmed and created some distressing on the edges with scissors and formed a flag accent on the edge. Then I placed on yellow cardstock and trimmed around it. After adhering my foiled words onto the yellow cardstock, I popped them up on foam tape.

It should be noted that I mounted my ice skates from both cards on double stacked adhesive foam tape, so it stood out a bit more from the other elements.

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I hope I've inspired you to get creative! If you'd like to do some shopping for any of these products, I've provided convenient affiliate links below. There is no additional cost for you to use these. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri

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Spellbinders Stitchmas Christmas

Hello cardmaking friends! Spellbinders is celebrating Christmas in July with some fabulous new releases! I'm so happy to help them celebrate with several collections over the next couple weeks.

Today, I've created a pretty pair of cards from the Stitchmas Christmas collection that features the Stitched Joy Etched Dies and the Stitched Diamond Argyle Etched background die. I fell in love with stitching all over again, it's been years since I took up the needle and thread.  Scroll down for more photos, creative details and products linked at the end of this post.

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As I said, it's been years since I played with stitching. I used to cross-stitch a good bit but then life got in the way and last year, my sister took all my remaining threads off my hands. 

I'm kind of kicking myself now! Luckily, embroidery thread is pretty inexpensive so I'm having fun choosing new colors again

I'm a big fan of keeping colors simple most of the time. I will often choose 3 colors only for a card and I've stuck with that for the most part on this pair of cards. I do not count white as a color.

In my card above, I used two different colors of pink thread, green and a tan color which I like to call "kraft", haha! I used the kraft colored thread for my diamond argyle stitched cover plate.  I LOVE this die!

The Stitched Joy set comes with some additional tiny dies and one of those dies is a little round die which can be used for the center of a flower. I chose to cut a bunch of those with pink paper and make paper "confetti" that I adhered to the center of each of my diamond argyle sections on the background.  Micro adhesive dots from Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L are my fave for things like this.

Here's a tip, if you want to make multiple cards like these. Since the Stitched Joy Etched Dies also come with the individual letter dies, cut multiples of each letter with different cardstock and mix and match them for each card.

For the card above, I cut my background with the Stitched Diamond Argyle die again and stitched with the same "kraft" colored thread for a tone on tone look. I repeated my paper confetti centers with green this time. Under my stitched panel is a layered A2 size pink cardstock that peeks through.

In my first card, my Joy stitched panel was with white cardstock. For my "kraft" colored card, the panel was a light pink instead of white. I used what I had in my stash but Spellbinders has an amazing selection of cardstock. You should check out their colors!

I also created a word sentiment from the Glimmer Holiday Florals Hot Foil set that came out last Christmas season. I foiled just two words from the set with my Spellbinders Aura foil and my Glimmer machine.

Here's a close up of some of my stitching. I placed a center knot inside each of my floral blooms. Don't ask me how I did it, it was totally trial and error, haha!

So, that's it for today. I'll be back tomorrow with another set of lovely cards featuring other newly released products! Thanks so much for stopping by. If you would like to shop, I've provided convenient affiliate links below. There's no hidden cost for you to use those links. I appreciate your support!

Terri

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Paper Pieced Coffee Christmas Card

Hello crafty friends. I'm back with another card for the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. I'm still laser focused on buffalo plaid and once I get in the zone, there's no turning back, haha! I hope you'll link up, June 25th is the last day. The theme is masculine, coffee or tea and Christmas. Scroll down for creative details, prize info and my supply list.

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My finished project is an A2 sized card, but to begin, I stamped my coffee images on a trimmed card panel that would be sized down a bit when finished.

I stamped my coffee stamps from the Wendy Vecchi stamp set "Let's Shop", using my Misti stamp positioner and black hybrid ink.

Next, I stamped onto patterned paper from Echo Park Paper. It's a retired paper pad but there's a similar pad link in my supply list below. The woodgrain and buffalo plaid scream masculine, wouldn't you agree?

I trimmed the front of the cups only and began paper piecing them with glue, onto my stamped card panel. I know some folks find paper piecing to be tedious, but I actually love it. It's calming and soothing for me! I also used a dark brown Copic marker to color in the coffee.

Lastly, I used my Scrapbookcom A2 nested rectangle dies for my black mat and card panel. If you make a lot of A2 sized cards, I highly recommend this die set. I use it a lot tot create different mat sizes and as of this writing, it's currently half price.  

My mat and card panel are adhered flat, however the stamped sentiment is popped up on foam adhesive. The sentiment is a combination of stamps: Waffle Flower Craft (Merry Christmas) and Wendy Vecchi (friend) which is a word from the "Award Winning' Ranger ink stamp set.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure and link up your newly created card here to be in the running for a sponsored $25 gc prize from Jaded Blossom. Good luck and see you next time!

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