Embossed Ornaments and Red and Green Postal

Shopping Our Stash challenge is "My Sweet Embossable You".  I've heat embossed some ornaments.  It's also being linked up with The Twelve Months of Christmas "Anything Christmas Goes" and Christmas Kickstart "If It's Christmassy, Link It Up"

I stamped the image with Versamark and then very carefully with a very tiny spoon, I sprinkled gold embossing powder over the left hand ornament, tapped the excess off, then sprinkled copper ep on the next ornament, etc. and then repeated with silver and bronze. Trimmed the panel, added it to a copper shimmer cardstock base, and added a sentiment.

In real life, the image is more metallic and shiny than it looks in the photo.

Simply Clean and Simple and We Love Stamping both want "Red and Green".  Colorful Options wants "Red, Green, and White".  I went with a vintage postcard-style image.

 

 

I love vintage style and don't do it nearly often enough.  I had the Tim Holtz Festive Collage stamps on my desk from a card I made a few days ago, and thought they have quite a vintage look to them. I chose the smallest of the four images in the set as it would be easiest to keep it CAS.

I created a bit of a smooshed background with Distress Old Paper and Pumice Stone to give my focal image piece an aged vintage look. Then put it and the stamp in my MISTI and stamped with a light grey ink (Archival Hickory Smoke). I then coloured the branch and berries with watercolour pencils. I lost too much detail with my colouring so overstamped with black ink.

Then bordered with red, added it to an off-white card base, and put Glossy Accents on the berries. 

  

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Indigo Blu ornaments, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, copper shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold, silver, bronze, and copper embossing powders, stitched sentiment banner

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Festive Collage
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Archival Hickory Smoke, Distress Old Paper and Pumice Stone
Paper - watercolour paper, red and off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tim Holtz watercolour pencils, Glossy Accents

Poinsettia Postcard and Watercoloured Teddy

I love the Tim Holtz collage stamps but struggle with using them.  Here's one of my attempts, done for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Poinsettia".

I smooshed a bit of background with light colours of Distress Oxide ink (Pumice Stone and Old Paper), then put it in my MISTI and inked up the image with three Archival inks (Sepia for the script, Vermillion for the poinsettia, Library Green for the leaves), inking and stamping till I was happy with the results.  Being stamped over an Oxide background made some of it look a bit chalky.  Then bordered with a brown cs layer that went well with the Sepia ink.

A second quick CAS card for the Paper Players who want a CAS Watercolour card.

Very simple and CAS - stamped, watercoloured, trimmed, bordered with deckle edged green cs.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz
Ink - Distress Oxide Pumice Stone and Old Paper, Archival Sepia, Vermillion, and Library Green
Paper - white and brown cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders rectangle dies

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black teddy, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - green and off white cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Spellbinders rectangle and deckle rectangle dies

Collage Stamps - One Stamp Only

I really like single stamps that have more than just one thing in them - they are what I call "collage stamps".  I've got two cards using them today.

The Paper Players want a CAS card using just a single stamped image.  By using one of my "collage stamps", I can get a lot of interest in a CAS card.  And since I've never used the stamp before, I'm also entering it over at NBUS.

I created a bit of a smooshed background with Distress Old Paper and Pumice Stone to give my focal image piece an aged vintage look. Then put it and the stamp in my MISTI and stamped with a light grey ink (Archival Hickory Smoke). I then coloured the branch and berries with watercolour pencils. I lost too much detail with my colouring so overstamped with black ink.  Then bordered with red, added it to an off-white card base, and put Glossy Accents on the berries.

With another "collage stamp", I made this card for 52 Christmas Card Countdown "Reindeer" and Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Christmas Critters". 

 

 

I made the background panel using various blue Distress inks and an embossing folder for the embossing folder stamping technique (see this tutorial for instructions).  

 

For the focal panel, I created a background by experimenting with using some photo paper with Oxide inks and a baby wipe. I smooshed with various shades of blue and mauve Oxide inks, drying between layers. When I was finished and the piece was completely dry, I wiped off the chalkiness of the Oxide inks and was left with a lovely glossy background.  I put it in my Misti and stamped the reindeer collage stamp with black StazOn.

 

 

 

 

Supplies for card:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Festive Collage
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Archival Hickory Smoke, Distress Old Paper and Pumice Stone
Paper - watercolour paper, red and off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tim Holtz watercolour pencils, Glossy Accents

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Studio Light
Ink - various blue and mauve Distress and Distress Oxide inks, black StazOn
Paper - cream shimmer cs, watercolour paper, photo paper
Size - A2
Accessories - baby wipe, snowflake embossing folder