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 these trees. Great colors. TFS
I think I need more inks!! I have this stamp set and this is a great idea!
What a bright, cheery card!
Great graphic cards!
Love how you combined the different trees!
What a wonderful idea to combine different stamps sets. These cards are truly amazing!
Lovely cards and yet they would be so easy to create for a card drive. Thanks for a great idea. I think the card drive is an excellent idea, but if for some reason you couldn’t participate, taking cards to a local facility is another option.. I have done this in the past.
Your cards are all beautiful. But have to tell you, I’m smitten with the phrase you used to add. Thinking of you, says it all for me!
Really love your color combinations on your cards of trees! You are very creative and talented and thanks for sharing with us that maybe need a little help from our friends.
Super cute cards! Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful stamped cards Yana – and, the touch of red is just perfect 🙂
Love the geometry and pure design in your cards!
Cute cards! Thanks for sharing!
Love your cards…ALWAYS!
Love the card and the technique! Super nice. I have a few christmas tree stamps that I will try to use in a similar way. Thank you for the idea!
Beautiful cards! Whomever receives your cards will be so excited & grateful!
Gorgeous cards and very nice video Yana! 🙂
Fantastic card, Yana! Thank you for your support. 🙂
Great ideas for mass producing cards.
Totally modern, fresh designs…love them!
Great idea using different tree sets! Love your results, the cards are really lovely. A bit more work but so effective! Thank you for sharing.
love this color combo!
You mixed and matched those trees to perfection. Great cards and thanks for sharing your ideas.
The cards are beautiful. I love the idea of having the different trees. I held my Caring Hearts workshop yesterday and have some cards to send for this worthy cause.
Hi Yana! The touches of gold accents makes your cards look so classy!! Love your beautiful cards. They always have pizazz!!
Wow awesome cards. Thanks for sharing your process.
Wonderful flurry variety of trees on these.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful cards for a beautiful cause. Thank you so much for your inspiration and gracious heart.
Renee
Thanks for the inspiration! The various colors and stamps go so well with each other & the sentiment–letting strangers know you are thinking of them–was fabulous.
I love these cards! Simple but elegant and fun for the holidays! Thanks for the inspiration!
Your cards are “tree”mendously fun!! Love the colors and the simplicity of them makes them that much more awesome!!! TFS!
I love the modern look to your cards, Yana, and how all the different stamps play well together.
I love your idea of tree shapes for Christmas cards! (In fact, my cards for family and friends this year features trees, too!)
Beautiful card. I love these stamp sets!
So fun intermingling stamps and dies. Thanks for the video
I love all this festive color and great design! So jolly!
Take care!
Michele
crimsonowl@charter.net
It is nice to use more stamps to make things. Great job and thanks for the video.
Love this modern look. Really gorgeous!
Love the color combo on these cards!
Love these, Yana. I think the swirl looks like wind blowing the sequin snow around. The colors are lovely and the masking idea worked out great.
Dear Yana, I absolutely adore this card…the style, the colors and, the perfect sentiment for this Card Drive – you nailed it! Thank you so so much for participating in this very special Card Drive!
This is a fun change from the traditional cards!
Your cards are perfect, and your video was very fun, informative and interesting to watch. Thanks!
Ooh la la!! I totally love these cards. So fun and happy! Thanks for the inspiration.
Very inspired by the card drive! Working on my contribution.
These tree cards are great! I love the modern lines and clean lines. As another commenter said, this is a great card design that can be massed produced,especially for co-workers. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your ideas. The cards are very pretty.
Very retro & lovely!
A wonderful cause. Your cards will be so well received. I love the colours, the layout, the gold swirl and the pop of red with the sentiment. That sentiment is great for the drive.
I tried to leave a comment, but I
don’t think it posted. I love these
fun and festive cards!