Little Outbursts of Creativity: christmas card

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25 November, 2014

Improvised Christmas ornaments

I made some Christmas ornaments using some of my Hero Arts sets. I only own one HA Christmas set and I wanted to try to improvise to stretch my stamps. I used a brush stroke circle for the ornaments, stamped it twice to make the colors pop more on the kraft background. Then I embossed a cicle and some leaves on top of it. Lastly I used another brushstroke stamp to make a reflection in the ornaments. I also used the Stepping Stone alpha to spell out the word joy. Lots of stamps on this cards. And a small alpha of unknown brand. Pretty happy with the card concidering nothing is really ment for Christmas. Gotta love the stretch your stamps classes from onlinecardclasses.com. I guess something stuck ;)

I hope you got some ideas how to make something out of something else. There is probably better ways to make ornaments but this is what I came up with. Thanks for stopping by!

Colouring Circus Trixie

24 November, 2014

Christmas fun at A blog named Hero

I hope you haven't missed out on all the inspiration over at A blog named Hero this month. There is new inspiration each day, sometimes even two posts a day and we are all sharing what we like most about Christmas.

Today is my turn to inspire and I made a card using one of my own cut files and one of my favourite Hero Arts background stamps.

I embossed the black background using silver pearl embossing powder from WOW and colored my die cut with Distress ink. Lots of shimmer using mist on top of the triangles that now looks like trees. I did stretch out the file first to make the triangles longer. I think it looks great.

There is two prizes from Simon Says Stamp to win by commenting on one of the post at A blog named Hero (you are very welcome to comment my post here too but you won't win anything, you'll just make my day).

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22 November, 2014

Crosstitch star card

I used one of my Pretty Crafty Stuff cut files to make a stencil, this crosstitch star is really pretty to use embossing paste with. I colored the paste really light blue, it doesn't show in the pictures but up close you can see it. I only wish I would have poured some glitter embossing powder on top. I didn't think about that until I was done with the card. The stamp I got from Ebay and I have no idea what brand it is but it comes with a few others that are just as cute. I silver embossed it on vellum and cut it out by hand. I really like white on white for winter themed cards.

Thank you for visiting today, there is a lot of posts this week. I've been busy as a bee :)

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21 November, 2014

Merry Christmas in Swedish

For the WOW and Ruby Rock-it bloghop, klick here.

I actually have some Swedish stamps too, even though I mostly use the english ones. They tend to be more to my taste for some reason. But I got these Holly leaves (at least I think it's Holly?) a while back because I thought they were so pretty and the text stamp I had for a few years but never used I think. The text says Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. It's a really pretty font and honestly I found a bunch of Christmas stamps that I totally forgot I had while looking for something else. Well, actually, I rediscovered a whole drawer full with stamps. That is not normal, right? I might need to re-organise the craft room. Again...

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20 November, 2014

Seasons greetings

For the WOW and Ruby rock-it bloghop, klick here.

I was in the zone the other night, making Christmas cards and listening to a good audio book. I was going to make one card for a DT post later this week but I ended up making three. For this I used a couple of Hero Arts stamps and the deer head cut file I created for Pretty Crafty Stuff. When I made it I saw it in my head all gold embossed and 3d mounted with threads behind. I love the deer head trend. I also made a raindeer, a fox and a bunny to keep him company.

Anyways, I wanted to frame him så I stamped a background from Hero Arts and just masked the middle of the card using a PostIt. It's very pretty this card, don't you think? I never get my gold thread as perfectly nested as other people do, mine looks all messy and uneven. But I keep trying. One day I'll learn.

Thanks for stopping by! There will be more Christmas in the blog soon. Promise! And I don't even send out Christmas cards, more than to the closest family. But I'm in a Cristmas-y mood lately.

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09 November, 2014

Christmas ornaments

I made a card for the Winnie & Walter Playdate #4. I really wanted to make a christmas card because of the color theme and inspirational pictures but I don't have any W&W christmas themed stamps. So I used some ornament die cuts and added the great starburst shapes from W&W for the background. I think it turned out great. I love the stamps from the sequins stamp set, they are such a good accent to add on any background. I embossed them with white pearl embossing powder and used distress ink for the background. I cut the ornaments from vellum, glitter paper and the red ones I colored with distress ink and added glossy accent on top.

I've made a couple of more cards for the challenge that I'll blog when i have time to take pictures.

Am I the only one who is looking forward to putting up some christmas decorations? I think I'll start decorating next weekend. It's been a few years since we were spending christmas at home and I haven't really felt like putting much effort in the decorations when we weren't going to be at home to enjoy it. This year I'll go all in. At least that is the plan ;)