Holly, Jolly St. Nick Card by Maria Giselle

Hello! It is Christmas Eve for us here in the U.S. One Christmas tradition especially for children is to track Santa Claus, also known as St. Nick, as he travels the world delivering presents. This is a Santa Claus inspired card. I hope you like it.

I inked the Santa Claus stamp from the Blank Page Muse Country Vintage Christmas Rubber Art Stamps Sheet on a white cardstock using red ink.

I heat set the stamped image to speed dry it before I colored it.

I used red alcohol markers in coloring the image. 

It did not take a lot of time to color the image.

I need a placement guide for the Dear Santa stamp since I will be creating a word background. I stamped the sentiment on a see through plastic using a stamp positioner. 

A limitation of the rubber stamp is you can't see where you are actually stamping the image. A stamp positioner helped solve this problem. I placed the see through plastic with the stamped sentiment over the cardstock where I want to stamp the sentiment. I butt the stamp positioner tool to the corner of the see through plastic. 

Leaving the stamp positioner and the cardstock in place, I gently lifted the see through plastic. I butted the acrylic block with the rubber stamp to the stamp positioner and stamped the inked sentiment to the cardstock. I kept repeating this process until I filled the front of the card with this sentiment. 

If you notice, I masked a part of the panel with a paper cut with a scalloped circle die. This is where the focal point will be adhered. You don't need to mask this area since it will be covered anyway by the focal image. 

I die cut the colored Santa Claus image using a scalloped circle die.

I die cut a red cardstock with the same scalloped die.

To create this into a frame, I used a circle die larger than the scalloped window.

I created a mask of Santa Claus by stamping the image on a thin paper, then fussy cutting it. I am actually using one of the stamped impressions that I made a mistake on.

I covered the stamped Santa on the scalloped piece with this mask. 

I placed a stencil over the scalloped piece and blended a gray dye ink over the stencil to add some snow details on the back of Santa. I used the same gray ink I used for the sentiment background.

I continued to blend more ink around Santa to mute the white background.

I pieced this stamped scalloped piece on the frame securing the pieces together by taping the pieces on the back.

I adhered the focal point to the stamped background panel.

I added shimmer to Santa's hat using the pigment from a shimmer pen. You can paint straight to your project with the shimmer pen but my pen sometimes releases blobs of ink which ruins my project. So what I do is put the ink on a palette and pick it up with a paint brush to apply it to my project.

Let me greet you in behalf of the Blank Page Muse & I Brake For Stamps DT, a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Merry Christmas Cozy Snow Day by Steph

 Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps.

I Brake for Stamps:  Pretty Winter Friends

Blank Page Muse Stencil:  Bones Snowflakes

Blank Page Muse Stamps:  Penguins on Ice

Since I wanted a snowflake background, I placed the stencil on gray cardstock.

Using modeling paste, I moved the stencil until I had the background I wanted.

Color the image with Copic Markers then fussy cut her.

Mat the panel with red cardstock and add a torn strip across the card.

Add the image to a die cut oval with foam adhesives for dimension.

Adhere to a white card.

Using blue ink, stamp assorted snowflakes on a white panel

Mat with red cardstock and add to the card base.

Stamp the sentiment in the center.

Stamp and mat Merry Christmas, adding it above the image.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Believe in the Magic of Christmas

Christmas is a special time of year; more cards and letters are exchanged during the winter months. Some cards are a little more special than others. Today I have a 3D card. Using several Blank Page Muse stamps. 

Blank Page Muse stamps used.
Winter Reindeer Art Rubber Stamp Pam Bray Designs SC48-1
Distressed Music Background Rubber Stamp SC76-03
Winter Snowscape Wood Fence Border Rubber Art Stamp Pam BrayDesigns SC48-2
The sentiment is part of the Classic Christmas Art Rubber Stamp Set Collection by Pam Bray Designs

Other supplies:
Watercolors
Watercolor paper

Green foil paper
Water Brush
Versafine Black Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Gems
Faux Snow

Wide tip gold sharpie pen

Heat tool

Dimensional Foam
 

Stamp the deer #1 directly on the base watercolor paper, cut a mask from copy paper and then stamp the distressed music over the deer. Then stamp deer #2 on a separate piece of watercolor paper. Also, on a separate piece of watercolor paper stamp the fence and sentiment. Apply clear embossing powder to all images and set with a heat tool.

Fussy cut deer #2 and fence. 

Apply a light red watercolor wash over the music background.  Paint deer #1 deer #2, and the fence.   Let paints dry when changing colors to keep the paint from bleeding. 

Paint both deer #1 and deer #2 with the same colors.  When they are layered you want them to look like one. 

With dimensional foam layer deer #2 on top of deer #1.  Attach the fence with dimensional foam as pictured. Trim the sentiment and mat with the green foil paper.  Add the Faux Snow to the ground and fence with liquid glue.

Trim the watercolor image to size, Edge the watercolor paper with a wide tip gold sharpie pen. mount on green foil paper. With dimensional foam attach the sentiment to the card.

May you have a wonderful Holiday!

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Snow Globe Joy ~ Shaker Ornament

Hello! Christmas is almost here! With the hustle and bustle of the season, thank you for taking time to visit the blog.

Today's 3D project used a stamp from the Blank Page Muse Country Vintage Christmas Rubber Art Stamps Sheet. Just to warn you, today's post is photo-filled to show the steps in creating this ornament. So as early as now, I would like to thank you for your time.

The stamp set comes as a sheet of several rubber stamp images.

I cut off the snow globe stamp image that I used for this card. 

I used a glue stick to temporarily adhere the rubber stamp to my stamping tool.

I stamped the snow globe on a scrap piece of paper to create a template. A template guides me when I use different elements on my project. It also helps me with placement when it is time to put the elements of the project together.

The template was very useful in the sizing and placement of the gold cardstock. All I need to do is position the gold cardstock over the base of the snow globe, selectively ink the rubber stamp, then stamp the base on the gold cardstock. I used Versamark ink in stamping. 

I heat set the embossing powder until it is melted. 

I fussy cut the snow globe base after the embossing.

I stamped the snowman using a light dye ink since I will be doing a no line coloring. 

I colored the snow man with alcohol markers.

I added details to the coloring with color pencils. I die cut the snowman using a circle die.

I added black enamel accents to the eyes and the buttons.

I ink blended a light blue ink on the background.

Using a glue pen, I added glue to the snow on the backdrop of the snow man. I poured puffy embossing powder to the glue, then heat set it.

For the shaker portion of the snow globe, I die cut a circle frame on light blue cardstock. I used the same circle die I used to cut the snowman and the next size down circle die. I adhered an acetate to the back of this frame.

I used the template as a guide to put the snow globe together adhering the acetate frame to the snow globe base.

I adhered skinny strips of foam tape to the back of the snow globe. I created a well around the acetate.

I poured tiny sequins on the acetate, inside the well.

After I removed the release paper from the foam adhesive, I added liquid glue to the foam to secure the shaker.

I sealed the shaker with the colored snowman die cut.

I stamped the snowman snow globe on a piece of white cardstock. I partially die cut the circle portion of the snow globe with the same circle die I used earlier. I fussy cut the base. This will be the backing of the shaker ornament.

I die cut a tab on gold cardstock to have a place to thread a string to and make this snow globe into an ornament. 

I adhered the shaker ornament to the backing. I threaded a blue string through the hole. Now, this snow globe is ready to be hang on the Christmas tree.

I hope you like today's project.

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Maria Giselle B.

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