Tricia's Stamping Creations: Tis The Season Blog Hop

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Tis The Season Blog Hop

Welcome to the Tis The Season Blog Hop as our Design Team showcases their holiday projects and ideas to help you get in the spirit of the season. With Christmas fast approaching, now is the perfect time to create your own handmade cards to send out to family and friends.

For my Christmas card, I wanted to showcase an elegant, clean and simple design that works well for a masculine card. I chose to use the black and white design from the Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper for my card front and added a tint of color using Blending Brushes and classic inks. I was inspired by the technique used to color black and white photos and I love the way it transformed this beautiful design.

Products Used:

Greetings of the Season stamp set (item #164325)

Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper (item #162133)

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Shaded Spruce Classic Ink Pad (item #147088)

Misty Moonlight Classic Ink Pad (item #153118)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Blending Brushes (item #153611)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

Card Base - 4 1/4" x 11" (Scored at 5 1/2")

Winter Meadows Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

This clean and simple Christmas card is simple to create and is perfect for mailing. I chose to use Shaded Spruce and Misty Moonlight Classic inks to add a touch of color to the trees and sky of the black and white design, to give it a pale, frosty feeling. The hint of color helps make the deer image in the foreground stand out while still giving the card a wonderful wintery look. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image directly onto the card front with Silver embossing powder to add a touch of elegance. I decided not to add any embellishments to the design, choosing to keep the design as simple as possible. The contrast between the pale colors of the card front and the Thick Basic White card base gives the card an almost photographic quality that I love.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my Christmas card will help put you in the mood to create your own beautiful holiday projects to share with family and friends. Using designer series paper to create clean and simple cards can open up so many possibilities to explore your creativity and a wonderful way to show the people in your life how much you love them.

Please take the time to visit with our amazing Design Team and see all their incredible holiday projects to help you get into the spirit of the season. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List below to visit their blogs. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.