Christmas Card - Hearts Come Home with Bokeh Dots - Santa Scene

In my last post, I shared this Christmas card that I made using one of the Bokeh Dots background stamps as a starry night sky and promised to show you what I did with the white houses.  So this is it.

Another Christmas card with a Bokeh Dots background and Hometown Greetings dies

The processes were all very similar except that this time I added a little shading to the houses, trees and snowman with Gray Granite ink and painted the snowman's hat with black ink.

I used my much-loved Stamparatus to stamp the santa image to ensure that I got the intensity of black that I wanted by safely stamping repeatedly in the exact same spot.

I added some ribbons to the bottom of the card and a label cut with the Layering Ovals framelits.  The greeting (from Mistletoe Season) is stamped with Fresh Fig ink.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All supplies used available in my online store

Bokeh Dots Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$26.00

Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies

$56.00

Fresh Fig A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$17.00

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

$11.50

Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad

$15.75

Mistletoe Season Photopolymer Stamp Set

$30.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

$58.00

Gray Granite 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Textured Weave Ribbon

$13.00

Fresh Fig 1/8" Sheer Ribbon

$10.50

Hometown Greetings Slider Pop-up Money Holders

My thanks go to Phoebe Carr at Artsy Craftsy Phoebe for her tutorial, which I found easy to follow.  I simply changed some papers and colours.  I also chose to insert some folded cash instead of gift cards - mainly because I hadn't been sufficiently organised to have purchased the gift cards in time!

My first slider pop up money holder

Now that I think of it - I didn't watch to make sure the recipients found their cash!  Oh well.....

A gift card would probably look better but cash works for the less organised such as I!

The two Christmas Slider Pop-up money holders side by side

A slider pop up money holder for Christmas

I made envelopes decorated with coordinating paper

A couple of notes folded together fit quite well into the slider pop up Christmas card

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - To visit my online store, click on an image below (Australian Residents only)

Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies

$56.00

Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper

$22.75

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

$15.75

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$15.75

Card Stock A4 Soft Sky

$14.00

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

$14.00

Basic Black 3/8" Shimmer Ribbon

$12.25

Bermuda Bay 3/8" Mini Chevron Ribbon

$12.25

Stampin' Trimmer

$50.00

Hometown Greetings Christmas Easel Card

For this card I combined my love for easel cards with my affection for the Hometown Greetings dies!

When the easel card is closed, the card front appears to be a fairly normal snowy Christmas card scene

I also used the Card Front Builder dies for the starry sky and the trees and the Christmas Staircase dies for the pine branches and bows inside the card.

The colour scheme for this Christmas Easel Card is Night of Navy with white, Basic Gray and Smoky Slate

The greetings are from the Christmas Pines stamp set.

When the easel card is propped open, the Hometown Greetings houses stand proud.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All supplies available in my online store, click on a product image below (Australian Residents only)

Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies

$56.00

Christmas Staircase Thinlits Dies

$68.00

Card Front Builder Thinlits Dies

$52.00

Christmas Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set

$61.00

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

$14.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$15.75

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

$14.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

$14.00

Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

$14.00

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

$11.50

Hometown Pines Quartet

Here is a quartet of simple but festive Christmas cards using the Hometown Greetings dies.

Christmas cards made with the Hometown Greetings & Pretty Pines dies

The card below was the first I made and has slightly different dimensions to the other three.  All of the cards followed a few basic steps.

Pretty Pines and Hometown Greetings dies combine to make a simple but festive Christmas card

• I cut  circle of Whisper White cardstock.
• Using a Stitched Shapes circle of similar dimensions and a slightly smaller Layering Circle die, I created a narrow edge of Basic Grey.
• With Basic Gray cardstock, I cut just one of the houses with the Hometown Greetings die.
• I glued the house to the white circle and glued the Basic Gray edge on top.

The foliage in this Christmas card is from the Christmas Staircase die set

• I added a layer of Designer Series Paper to the card (some of the cards also have Basic Gray and Whisper White mats)
• Glued the decorative circle to the card front
• Added some foliage cut in either Gold Foil Sheet or Tranquil Tide and using either a die from the Christmas Staircase or Pretty Pines die sets.
• Added a bow cut with a die from the Pretty Pines die set and an Enamel Dot or Rhinestone

Traditional red and green is combined with grey and silver in this Christmas card

• The greeting is heat embossed either with gold or silver heat embossing powder on either Smoky Slate or Basic Gray cardstock
• I used one of the square Stitched Shapes framelits to cut the rectangular shape for the greeting.

The black and white Christmas card is made more festive with addition of Real Red trimmings

The banner on this card is a little different.  I cut the red layer at both ends with the Triple Banner Punch.  The Smoky Slate layer is cut with one of the Lots of Labels dies (see below) and then trimmed to slightly wider than the greeting.

This is how I used the Lots of Labels die to cut each end of the label

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - To visit my online store, click a product image below (Australian Residents only)

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies

[144671]

Christmas Staircase Thinlits Dies

[144679]

Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies

[141851]

Christmas Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set

[142049]

Star Of Light Photopolymer Stamp Set

[142110]

Year Of Cheer Specialty Designer Series Paper

[144640]

Be Merry Designer Series Paper

[144111]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

Real Red A4 Card Stock

[106578]

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]