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 |
Love this design! Thanks for the video. I’d like to try to a card like this!
What totally amazing cards!! Thank you for all the inspiration!!
Yana, you never, ever disappoint!!! Your designs and colors are beautiful and extend over so many different styles. Thank you, and thanks for the video, too!!
if you have lots of sets that combine well this is a great idea to get a uniform, yet special look, i love the colors you’ve chosen and the layout as usual are fab u lous
Lovely cards!
These cards are adorable! I always love your cards.
I love all your cards and watching you gives me such inspiration!!!!
Beautiful cards! Love the ideas.
Love the way you created this pattern . So fun!
wow! loved your video tutorial on mass production of cards. The card design is lovely and I love the geometrical trees! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Cheers
Preety
Wow love the clean and simple cards! Great color choices!
OMG! I learned something yet again. That swirl just pulled the whole card together, great addition.
This is my 3rd year and it gives me great joy to participate. Thank you . Your cards are adorable.
What a great and creative way to use all those different sizes, shapes and coloured trees on one card. Fantastic!
I really like how these turned out, too! Great color combinations. I want to look through my stamps and see what I can do this way. Thank you.
Love these cards!!! So pretty and festive! Thanks for sharing your talents!
Beautiful cards. So pretty.
This is such a brilliant way to make multiple cards at once! I love the different variations of the tree designs and how you’ve put this together too! Great cards for the drive! Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoyed this video and your tips and the beautiful card you created!
Love these pretty cards, Yana! Thanks for the video.
I recently made some falling leaves cards where I hear embossed stitched swirls to simulate their motion, so I LOVE that you used that technique here! Beautiful colours and design!
Aaarrrrrggghhhh…
*heat*
Awesome cards love the color combo.
I love these!
So cute!! I love the graphic design you used and the dashed swirls are a touch of whimsy! Love them!
I love your creations!!!
These cards are fantastic! So retro! Those stamps worked perfectly together! You have such a great eye for putting everything together like this. I too am working on my cards for the Kind Heart Card drive! Such a worthy cause! Really makes my heart warm to be participating! Great blog hop and such a generous prize. Thanks for sharing!
Love the trees!!
Great video and loved the tip about the negative die to add colour to the trees. Love the swirl and the pop of red. Very festive and fresh look.
Love how you made all these stamps look as if they were destined to be together.
Great video tutorial. What a great idea.
such beautiful way to use stamps to create the background.
Cute cards.
Thanks for another fun and informative video. Thanks for sharing with us and with the card drive.
Love your modern looking Christmas cards…so cute & easy to reproduce!! I do love my Misti for that reason!! Love the colors you used also!
Very nice!
Pretty card 🙂
These are so cute, the embossed dashes remind me of a frosty breeze.
I love the graphic pattern!
I love the graphic pattern
Happy World Kindness Day! Pretty cards! Love these colours
Love the cards.
Such fun cards!
Beautiful cards. Love the idea of making your own paper! I am going to have to take the time to try this.
Such lovely cards. I love the layout and the beautiful colors. I am so fortunate to be able to participate again in this years Caring Heats card Drive. It’s something special to me. A big thank you to Simon Says Stamps for their support.
Really nice Christmas Cards! Thanks, Denise
Hi Yana,I can honestly say I’ve never thought of doing this.This is a very beautiful creative idea,and they are wonderful.Thank you for showing the process.
super cute cards! love the traditional colors!
I love these! I can’t wait to hit my stash of Christmas stamps to see what trees I can find.
Love your cards and the colors you chose, thanks for sharing
Hi Yana
I certainly have made a number of cards for the drive. I have already posted them off to the lady who is collecting them in Canada. I work with seniors and know only too well what a lonely time Christmas can be for them. I am always so amazed by your cards and the way you set up your photos shoots are stunning. Hugs, Cheryl