Holiday Park - 30 December 2013 Post to Poppystamps Design Team Blog

12/30/2013

Holiday Park

I am not quite ready to say good-bye to snow and the holidays.  The card I prepared for you today is more of a winter card with a skosh of holiday with a small poinsettia.  

Supplies you will need:

902 Small Blooming Poinsettia

893 Village Lamp Post

859 Walking Cat - small

872 Curious Cat

891 Madison Park Bench

961 Trailing Vine

901 Viva Tree

909 Birthday Candles

945 Woodland Fawn (scarf only)

Adhesives

Snow (glitter, flocking, etc.)

Chalk ink

Q-tips

Cardstock

I created this as a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" card.  The white cardstock is slightly pearlized so it shines like snow.  I hand cut a couple of snow drifts to create depth in the scene.  

Despite having a large number of die cuts to make it was quite simple to put together.  I cut the snow drifts first and gently placed them on the card so that I could slide the tree behind them and be sure I was happy with positioning. Then I built the rest of the scene.

I put the scarf from the deer die on the cat and folded it behind the cat to shorten it a bit.  

The candles die provided the candles that I used in the street lamp.

Once the scene was completely put together I used the q-tip in the white chalk ink to create snow in the sky.  Then I used a glue pen and added the flocking to the lamppost and the bench.  I trimmed a few branches to make it look a bit more sparse for winter then applied the flocking to it.

To finish a windswept snow look, I took a sponge and sponged the chalk white ink to the top corners of the sky area.

Here is a shot of the card prior to adding the snow and flocking if you prefer a simplier design.  I used the LET IT SNOW greeting inside the card but it could easily be used as a banner greeting and affixed to the front of the card. 

Look for fun new dies and stamps from Poppystamps in 2014! 

Until then, I wish you and your family a Happy New Year (einen guten Rutsch).

[CS309B] Let it Snow	[945] DIES- Woodland Fawn	[902] DIES- Small Blooming Poinsettia	[893] DIES- Village Lamp Post
[859] DIES- Walking Cat	[872] DIES- Curious Cat	[881] DIES- Madison Park Bench	[961] DIES- Trailing Vine
[901] DIES- Viva Tree	[909] DIES- Birthday Candles

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Church Window for Poppystamps

Church Window

Happy Holidays to all!  My December posts for Poppystamps are after Christmas has come and gone but I hope you will still enjoy my church window card.  

I created a double window for this card so that it has a window inside and outside of the card.

The first image shows the outside of the card.  I created a stained glass effect by applying adhesive to vellum and then using a fine glitter.  Then I affixed the Grand Gothic Iron Works window that I cut out of a pearlized white paper.  Once it dried, I colored the reverse side (non-glitter) with markers.

  

Next, I cut the Grand Gothic Iron Work Window a second time from the base of the cardstock.

And then I cut the Grand Gothic Window (frame) twice out of pearlized white cardstock.

Then, I took a second piece of cut vellum and applied Adhesive, Glitter, and the Iron Work Window cut from the blue base.  After allowing to dry I glued the two sections together. 

While that dried I glued the window frame to the front of the card and then placed the "sandwich" of vellum inside before adhering the second window frame inside.

After this I cut another white piece of cardstock and stamped the greeting, cut several pine sprigs and poinsettia leaves before building the flowers and adhering to the front of the card.

As you can see from the shot below (of the inside) it is much darker looking than the image above which is because there is no light source behind it.  The image above I took with the card open and a lamp behind it.

This card can be adapted for a first communion, baptism, Easter or even a sympathy card.

Hope you liked it.

 

Supplies you will need:

CS305B - Merry Little Christmas Cling Stamp

936 - Pine Sprigs Die

902 - Small Blooming Poinsettia Die

845 - Gothic Grand Window Die

850 - Grand Gothic Iron Work Window

Glitter, Markers and Adhesive, Vellum Paper

 Here is hoping that your holidays are full of happiness and love.  

Thank you for visiting Poppystamps blog and my blog as well.

Best wishes for a bright and healthy New Year,

[CS305B] Little Christmas	[936] DIES- Pine Sprigs	[902] DIES- Small Blooming Poinsettia	[845] DIES- Grand Gothic Window
[850] DIES- Grand Gothic Iron Work Window

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Christmas Luminary

Christmas Luminary

For my posting today, I chose to make a Christmas luminary.  I did not provide dimensions just some general guidelines as you can easily size this up or down to your liking.

Supplies you will need:

Poppystamps Winterflake Frame [905]

Poppystamps Small Blooming Poinsettia [902]

Cardstock

Adhesives

Flameless battery-powered tea light

Embellishments

This is relatively easy to reproduce and customize.  For my luminary I began with an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock.  There are a couple of key considerations here.  Do you want a bottom of the luminary or just one that will sit over a battery-powered flameless candle?

For the luminary, determine your desired dimensions.  You will want two wide sides and two narrow sides (to mimic a paper bag).  Score where you wish them to fold but on the last side make sure you have a little extra that you can score and use to adhere the sides together.

My luminary is about 7" tall and my front and back panels are about 3" wide with my side panels a little over 2" inches wide (plus a little extra to adhere on the last panel).  I cut two sheets of vellum the size of my wide panels.  Then I cut ovals into my wide panels. I used glue dots to adhere the vellum to the inside of the luminary before assembling.

Next, I cut out the Small Blooming Poinsettia [902]  and the Winterflake Frame [905] dies from Poppystamps.  I trimmed the Winterflake Frame [905] by cutting out the middle section of the frame and formed the ends around my ovals.  Next I assembled several layers of the Small Blooming Poinsettia [902] and adhered to the vellum with a couple of glue dots.  

You can choose to repeat design on the back panel of the luminary, forgo the back panel (and not cut it out so it is solid) or use a different design.  You can also simply cut shapes such as the Giovanni Snowflake and let the light shine through.

I used miniature tea battery-powered tealights (never use an open flame) to create the flickering light inside which are found at most craft stores.  You can get as fancy as you'd like with ribbon, glitter or other embellisments as well.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  

You can find all the great Poppystamps dies used to create this luminary (and many other projects) by following the links below:

[905] DIES- Winterflake Frame  [902] DIES- Small Blooming Poinsettia

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Merry - My latest Poppystamps Design team posted on 9/7

Merry

The new Poppystamps dies are amazing!  For this post, I wanted to showcase the versatility of the Merry Dots die new from Poppystamps.

These three cards, each use the Merry Dots die, in different positions.  

The cards are each 3" x 3" and were designed to be used as in lieu of a tag to accompany a holiday gift. Each card uses the Poppystamps cling stamp "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" stamped inside on a white piece of cardstock.

To create the cards measure a piece of cardstock to 6" long and 3" wide.  

Score lengthwise at the 3" mark.  

Next determine where you want the fold.  The deer and the candle cards each have the fold at the top.  The green sleigh card has the fold on the left.  With the card in an unfolded position the Poppystamps Merry Dots die and run it through your cutting machine.  

If you wish to have a color showing through (deer card) then cut a different color of cardstock and adhere to the inside of the card.  Then chose a color for the inside to stamp your greeting.  

Now comes the fun --decorate the outside of your card.  The hardest part is choosing from all the exciting new Poppystamps dies.  What will you create?

Supplies I used for these cards:

Merry Dots [#937] 

Birthday Candles [#909] 

Woodland Fawn [#945]

Santa's Magic Sleigh [#943]

Small Blooming Poinsettia [#902]

Little Christmas Cling Stamp [CS305B]

Cardstock

Miscellaneous Supplies:

Adhesive- I used a liquid glue and glue pen for these cards.

Red Glitter Glue - For the candle card, I cut two sets of candles and cut the tips off to make the yellow look like a flame.  Then I applied a red glitter glue to make it look more like a flickering candle.

Rhinestones - added a bit of bling to the center of the poinsettias on the sleigh and deer card.

Ink - for stamping the greeting inside of the card.