Christmas Card 2012

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Today I’d like to share a quick picture of the Christmas card I designed with the help of Serif Craft Artist digikits.

Christmas Card 2012

The digikit I used was called Season of Giving Bumper kit. It has the most wonderful classic images I associate with Christmas and you can alter the color ways of many of the elements to make it your own. I combined a number of images and altered them to create my own project design.

The best thing about digi crafting like this is that I was able to use the same layout and alter the size, so I used the same image on toppers for gift boxes and bags, you could even make the design really small for gift tags.

A great way to get a really coordinated, professional yet still personal look for your holiday gift wrapping.

Best wishes and see you soon

Billie

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Anna Griffin Christmas Card

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Today I’d like to share a picture of a Christmas card I made using Anna Griffin clear stamps. I bought the stamps from QVC last year and I love them, they are so classic and versatile.

Anna Griffin Christmas Card; 2011

• Inks Used; Versafine Onyx Black
• Stamps Used; Anna Griffin Clear stamps Christmas set
• Card Used: Watercolour card (holly piece). Paper Mill; Hammered card

Don’t forget the inside and the back of your card too;

Anna Griffin Christmas Card; 2011

Best wishes

Billie

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My First Brayered Christmas Card

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Today I’d like to share my first attempt with brayering glossy card stock. I’ll be turning this into a Christmas card, for very special people.

Brayered Christmas card with Anna Griffin stamps

Definitely need a bigger brayer, mine was a short Ranger one and the card is A6! This card was stamped with various Anna Griffin Clear stamp images. If you have a brayer in the back of your cupboard, break out the dye based ink and glossy card and give this a go. It really is down to practice and the right card/ink combination.

The techniques I used were shown on Create and Craft by Barbara Gray from Clarity stamps. There is a regular tutorial show on the first weekednd of every month. Watch the Classroom shows online on; In the Classroom

Have fun

Best wishes

Billie

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Anna Griffin Christmas Card; Holly 2011

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Today I’d like to share a picture of a Christmas card I made using Anna Griffin clear stamps. I bought the stamps from QVC last year and I love them, they are so classic and versatile.

Anna Griffin Christmas Card; 2011

Inks Used; Versafine Onyx Black

• Stamps Used; Anna Griffin Clear stamps Christmas set
• Card Used: Watercolour card (holly piece). Paper Mill; Hammered card
• Spellbinders Nestabilities die: Curved Rectangles

Don’t forget the inside and back of your card too. If you have one of those stamps or stickers with your address on it, it really helps if you put your details on the back of the card. Friends and family sometimes loose your details and even if they would like to send you a card, without the details on the back of the card or envelope they have no way of doing so.

Anna Griffin Christmas Card; 2011

Have also been playing with my brayer for the first time, after seeing Barbara Gray on C&C demonstrating step by step. Will share that picture with you very soon.

Best wishes

Billie

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Christmas Card 2010

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In today’s post I would like to share the first of this years Christmas card designs.

Anna Griffin style Christmas Card 2010

This card features

Stamp: Anna Griffin for main motif and holly from Flowersoft Lamp Post stamp sheet.

Base Card; Paper Mill

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Stickles in Red

Nestabilities: Labels 1

Here is the inside of the card;

Inside the Anna Griffin style Christmas Card 2010

This is a simple quick design for making bulk cards. I like simple and elegant designs. What do you think?

Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon

Billie

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Christmas Card

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Today I’d like to share a picture of the Christmas card I made. This year has got away from me, in a big way! So I gave in and bought most of my Christmas cards. Part of the reason, was that I was making hand bound books as gifts this year and I had decided to do that quite late in the season, which meant I simply ran out of time. So much for my preparation!  

Here is the card I made  

2009 Christmas Card Design. Featuring Twinkling H2Os

The inks used were; Ranger’s Adirondack dye based ink and Tsukeneko Versa Fine in Onyx Black  

The stamps were; Creative Expressions; Holly. Hero Arts; greeting stamp  

The paint used was; Twinkling H2Os  

The centre panel was plain white card, stamped then the background inked in. Next I painted the main motif in using the twinkling H2Os, which contain mica. This gives the card a lovely pearly sheen, when the light hits it.  

The stamp plate also contains smaller motifs, which I used in the inside of the card and on the back. The greeting on the left, was from the Holly plate and the one on the right, was a Hero Arts one.  

Inside detail of Christmas card for 2009

The base card is ivory hammered card from The Paper Mill shop.  

Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon  

Billie

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Christmas and Yule Card 2008

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I would like to share the card I made for the Stamping Mad Forum’s Christmas and Yule card swap.

I used the Village stamp from Creative Expressions, with Versafine ink in sepia. The lamp post is stamped in Onyx Black Versafine ink, they are coloured with Derwent Artists Pencils. The poinsettia are coloured with Twinkling H20s, sadly the Icicle colour that I used to show snow doesn’t photograph well

DH helped me create an insert in Word for the inside of the card, which gave it a nice professional finish.

Links

Village stamps; http://www.creative-expressions.uk.com/products/detail.php?pid=UMVILLAGE 

Stamping Mad Forum; http://www.stampingmadforum.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

Best wishes and thanks for reading

Billie

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