Hi everyone! Today is the release date of the Mama Elephant November release! It contains so many adorable stamps, but this time I wanted to do something a bit different. So instead of going for Mammoth Love or Up With Love, which I normally would do, I decided to create something with the Iconic Ornament stamp.
I know a lot of people seem to struggle with creating enough Christmas cards. So I decided so come up with a design which is easy to mass produce, and also a lot of fun to make as you can play around with different color combination.
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First I trimmed 4 pieces of Neenah Desert Storm cardstock to the size I wanted. On all of them, I stamped the Iconic Ornament with VersaMark ink. And this is where a MISTI comes in very handy, as you only need to pop in the next piece of cardstock and stamp again. Then I coated it in WOW! white embossing powder and heat set it with my heat gun. For the sentiment, I thought it would look nice to emboss it in gold for some variation. Plus I was also planning to stamp the string and the top piece in gold.
Now everything is ready for ink blending. I masked off the area around the ornament with masking tape, out of which I die cut a circle with the Stacked Circles creatieve cuts which coordinate with the ornament. The Distress Oxide color combinations I worked with are:
- Candied Apple, Vintage Photo, Black Soot
- Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough
- Speckled Egg, Peacock Feathers
- Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet
The fun thing about this is you can go to town with different Oxide combinations and end up with different cards. With matching colored pencils, I colored a shadow around the ornaments to make them stand out more from the background.
Once done, I stamped the string and iron piece at the top of the ornament and heat set the gold embossing powder. The iron piece is actually open, but I wanted the bottom part to be solid gold. So with the VersaMark pen, I colored it in and coated it in the gold embossing powder which I heat set.
So now all my ornaments were done, and it was time to adhere them to the card base. For this I popped them up with craft foam to give it dimension. And as you can see, I also left a white border around it which nicely frames the card.
I hope you also like this card and it gave you inspiration. Thank you for stopping, and see you next time!
