Classic Christmas Design using "O Holy Night" by Concord & 9th.

 Hello, and Welcome.

Keeping with my Christmas theme, I just fell in Love with the beautiful scripty font on the Concord and 9th O Holy Night stamp set. My very first love of card making was embossing and I still love it today, it never gets old watching the powder turn to its stunning shiny finish.

PRODUCTS

O Holy Night Stamps (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/o-holy-night-4x6-c9?variant=39572246429778

O Holy Night Dies (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/o-holy-night-dies-c9

Cardstock in 

Kraft, Midnight, Cranberry, Evergreen and Clover. (Concord & 9th)

Inkpad Kraft (Concord & 9th)

 Embossing Pad (Versamark)

Gold Embossing Powder (Hero Arts)

Enamel Dots In

Cranberry and Stardust (Concord & 9th)

4 x6" Card Blank

METHOD

Firstly using your the little stamp images to stamp in Kraft ink on to Kraft cardstock. You cardstock will be the same size as your card blank.

Mat this on to your card blank.

 

Stamp on to Midnight cardstock using an embossing inkpad. Then add gold embossing powder and emboss.

Using the coordinating die. Die cut out the beautiful scripty font.

Next die cut all the little foliage and flower pieces out of coloured cardstock.

 Lastly attach the verse to your background using mounting foam. Arrange and attach flowers and foliage. Finish with coordinating enamel dots.

I will be mass producing this one as I found it the easier of my latest  designs.

I hope you enjoyed it to, 

Happy Paper Crafting 

Jo

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Home For The Holidays Stacks Dies from Concord & 9th

 Hello and Welcome 

I am very much into the "Christmas Vibe" at the moment. I like to get ahead, so that all the cards are made well in advance.

Today's card is great to mass produce as you can die cut many houses out of many different cardstocks and add on or more to your project.

Products

Home for the Holidays Stacks Die (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/home-for-the-holidays-stacks-dies-c9?variant=39572246331474 

Home For The Holidays Stacks Stamps (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/home-for-the-holidays-stacks-3x4-c9 

Mix and Match Holiday Sentiments (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/mix-match-holiday-sentiments-4x6-c9?variant=39572246364242 

Mix and Match Holiday Sentiments Dies (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/mix-match-holiday-sentiments-dies-c9?variant=39572246397010 

(These were left over in my stash from another design so I added them on.)

Cardstock in

 Midnight, Evergreen, Cranberry, and Stardust  (Concord & 9th)

Ink Pads in 

Midnight, Oceanside, Cranberry, Aqua Sky  (Concord & 9th)

Sparkle Pen (Spectrum Noir)

5 x 7" Card Blank

Method

Firstly take your card blank and set it down ready to work on. Then rip a piece of copy paper to create snow drifts (tiny hill's)

 I started with the aqua ink for the snow drifts and moved up the card. Once at the top I add the Oceanside ink to the card edge. Bring in the darker tone I used the Midnight ink colour for the night sky.

Using the lighter ink the aqua i stamp the dotty pattern with first and second generation ink to create snow.

The last stage of the background was a sparkle pen which I flicked over the snow drives focussing on the top of the card more.

This was then left to dry why I die cut the houses, Tree's etc...

Then I stuck all the pieces together to form each house.

I then added everything to the card to make up the scene.

I also made the sentiment border I stamped it in the same midnight ink to tie everything together.

I hope you enjoyed todays blog post.

Happy Paper Crafting

Jo

xxx

Stretching Your Stash Using Old and New, Mix and Match Products All From The Same Company. To Create Matching Card and Tag For Christmas

 Well Hello, I'm back fortunately the water company in my area fixed the burst water main.  But Unfortunately only to break all the roads phone lines and internet cables. So after three weeks and  a lot of discussion and a change of provider I'm here again. Anyway enough about that drama. 

So while ive been away the Christmas to do list has started, as card makers we have to be way ahead to give ourselves the time to get them all ready to send. So out come the releases with the amazing seasonal products. Of Corse we enjoy purchasing some new ones every year, but what about the previous years, stamps, dies and stencils.

This is were I made a discovery, not rocket science but didn't give this much thought. Each Company no matter who,  has there own look to their products. So mix and matching with that in mind means you can have a lot more options to use .

So Here's my theory in practice.

NEW THIS YEAR

Weathered Wood Background (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/weathered-wood-background-stamp-c9

Eclectic Garden Stamps (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/eclectic-garden-4x8-stamp-set-concord

Mix and Match Holiday Sentiments Stamp (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/mix-match-holiday-sentiments-4x6-c9?variant=39572246364242

Mix and Match Holiday Sentiments Die (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/mix-match-holiday-sentiments-dies-c9?variant=39572246397010

Enamel Dots in Cranberry, Stardust and Evergreen  (Concord & 9th) 

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/concord-9th/products/cranberry-enamel-dots-c9

Inkpads in Cranberry, Stardust and Evergreen (Concord & 9th) 

OLDER

Merry Shapes Stamps (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/merry-shapes?_pos=1&_sid=b2acbf146&_ss=r

Merry Shapes Dies (Concord & 9th)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/sew-merry-dies?_pos=2&_sid=b2acbf146&_ss=r

Basic's

Infinity Circle dies (Hero Arts)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/nesting-circle-infinity-dies?_pos=1&_sid=78c0a16bf&_ss=r

White Card Stock (Neenah)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/collections/neenah

Hemp Twine (any)

6 x 6 " Card Blanks

Connect Glue (Gina K)

https://www.bumbleberrys.co.uk/products/connect-glue?_pos=1&_sid=4413ee076&_ss=r

Method

Firstly comes the back ground design.

I notice that Weathered Wood and Electric have very similar wood effects in different scales. So I stamped these in Midnight and Stardust then die cut out the smaller design with Infinity dies.

Next I stamped out the Mix and Match Sentiments in Cranberry and Evergreen and Die cut them out using the coordinating die.

Before adding all the embellishments I stamps  out the tree image from the older set, and used the same inks to bring my card together.

I punch a hole in my tag and treaded some twine.

I loved mixing and matching between the colours for the sentiments. 

Sticking to a simple colour palette made everything work together old or new.

I hope you enjoyed todays blog from me.

Happy Stamping

Jo

xxx