Hello everyone! Today I am participating in a Caring Hearts Card Drive Blog Hop (more about this great cause and hop below). I created several simple to mass produce and easy to replicate Holiday cards. I have also filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the creative process and explain everything in detail.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
I’ve created a video tutorial where I am sharing everything in detail. You can watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARDS DETAILS
I wanted to stamp a modern looking pattern featuring several Christmas trees. I started going through my stash looking for images I could use and I ended up picking trees from 3 different stamp sets from Simon Says Stamp.
I practiced my stamping on a piece of printer paper (when I do test stamping I always use cheap printer paper and never my good quality cardstock). Once I was happy with my idea, design and colors of ink I picked I moved onto stamping actual pattern onto card fronts.
I wanted to make multiple cards so I used my mini MISTI stamp positioner to make it easier to do my stamping. I also double stamped all images to have the most vibrant and smooth ink coverage. I used 2 Christmas Trees from the Gifts of Love stamp set (its a set from one of Simon’s Card Kits), one tree from a last year Christmas Graphic set and one last tree image from this year Color Me Trees stamp set (I’m linking to all supplies I used at the end of my post).
For my color combination I went with Green Apple, Willow and Evergreen. I also used my Simon’s Intense Black ink to stamp the outline trees and blended Fog as well as Lake Shores and Scuba.
To dress these trees up a bit I heat embossed several dashed swirls from the Cute Snowflakes stamp set (this is another card kit stamp set) in Antique Gold embossing powder.
The sentiment for these cards, Thinking of you at Christmas, came from yet another set, Christmas Essentials. I wanted these cards to say more than just Merry Christmas and I think the sentiment I picked it very suitable for this occasion.
My stamped panels were adhered onto A2 top folding white card bases, I also foam mounted my sentiments and adhered several clear droplets.
CARING HEARTS CARD DRIVE
Today we are celebrating the 7th annual Caring Hearts Card Drive with a fun blog hop! The purpose of this card drive is to collect handmade holiday cards for the elderly that live in nursing homes around the world. Since 2010 we have been bringing joy to many nursing homes throughout the US, Canada and Australia. And this year, we are branching out to the UK! What better way to share our love of card making than to bring joy to others, right?
We hope you’ll join us in supporting the card drive. Details for the card drive can be found at: Vera Yates Blog & Jennifer McGuire’s Blog.
CARING HEARTS BLOG HOP
Join us for an inspirational blog hop!
Vera Yates
Jennifer McGuire
Laura Bassen
Shari Carroll
Debby Hughes
Heather Ruwe
Julie Ebersole
May Sukyong Park
Yana Smakula – you are here!
Ruby Ianigro
Jessie Frost Ballas
Wendy Ramlakhan
Kathy Racoosin
Amy Lee
Simon Says Stamp
GIVEAWAY
No hop is complete without fun giveaway, right? Simon Says Stamp has generously offering $150 gift card for this hop. All you need to do is visit and leave comment on each blog. Winner will be randomly selected from one of the participant blog. You have till midnight Thursday, 11/17/2016 to leave comment. Winner will be announced on Vera’s blog on Friday, 11/18/2016.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Gifts of Love Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Cute Snowflakes Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas Essentials Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Color Me Trees Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Color Me Trees Wafer Die Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Color Me Trees Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas Graphic Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Evergreen Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Willow Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Lake Shores Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Scuba Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# Lipstick Red Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 80 Solar White Paper Pack 250 Sheets Shop at: SSS |
 Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS |
 Pretty Pink Posh 6MM Clear Droplets (medium) Shop at: SSS |
 Best Creation Big Squares 3D Foam Tape Adhesive Shop at: SSS |
 Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS |
 Sakura Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS |
I love, love, love these retro looking trees. The colors are gorgeous!
Love your design! Thanks for sharing and supporting a great cause!
I really like this card! Great job!
This is a great card. It is so much fun to mix and match diff trees, these were all rather contemporary and really fun”
Beautiful cards!
How fun is your card? I love the trees and the colors you used. They look so festive but not exactly evergreen color and hey, that’s okay. You did my favorite thing and used sequins and those raindrop things and I love both of them! I am someone who likes their cards to be colorful and shiny and yours are both! That’s an A+ in my book. Great card for a good cause. I hope mine turn out as nice as yours and I get to win something. Merry Christmas!
Great cards, Yana. Love your assembly of the design using many sets. That is talent!
Great idea to mix up tree styles from different sets. Fun colors.
I heart this card! Perfect!!
it is very pretty! congrats!
I love this card!! great job!!
Great tip for colouring while mass producing!
Great design. Makes me want to check the stamps I have to see if I can do something similar. I was also thinking you could have used the backside of the stamps to add colour to the outlined images…
Lovely card, thanks for sharing.
Very nice card
Beautiful Christmas trees. I love he card drive idea too.
What a lovely idea for a Hop and what a gorgeous card design! Fabulous colors and great technique. Thanks for the fab video. xxD
Lovely card.
Cool non-traditional card! Sending CHCD cards in today!
They are simply beautiful!
Love love love this card! So fun and colorful! 🙂
your video is great! thank you so much for sharing
Yana your card is just fantastic!! I love all the colors you used here!! And all the different treees are just adorable together
Love the great design. Thanks for the video, so much easier to follow each step!
Simple yet wonderful card!
I love tree cards for some reason & this is no exception! Beautiful! Thank you.
So gorgeously graphic, Yana … a delicious colour combo … and fabulous detailing! Anita 🙂
These are amazing!
Fabulous bold and beautiful card design! Love these!
Cool graphic card! You can do any style beautifully
Great card to mass produce.
Such a fun and festive tree design!!!!
Fun Trees!
Love the look of this card!
Cool and original take. Great card.
love, love, LOVE your cards ! have just recently discovered you !look forward to more from you!!!
I love your card! I love all the different types of trees. So fun!!
Love the look of these cards. Thank you for letting us see your design process and for the great hints.
Love your color choices…never would have put them together myself but they’re awesome!
I love this card design!
I always love the colors you use! Really eye catching.
lovely card !!
What a great cause!
Great job on the cards, Yana! Very unique. I love the stitch line running across them. Thanks so much for sharing with us and for participating in this great hop and giveaway.
So cute and I love how modern it looks!
The colors really pop on this card. Lovely design.
How fun! Excellent tutorial too!
Such a fun card!! I love the little swirls in gold that you did.
Such a fun Christmas card!! Very creative!
Beautiful pattern.