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 |
This might be my favorite design of this blog hop!. Thank you for sharing your cards.
Fun, modern cards. Always love ” how to” videos.
Liked the way you mixed stamps from different sets, very cute cards!
beautiful cards!!
Awesome! I thought this was patterned paper at first glance!
creative talents abound
Super cute. tfs…
What a great idea & design.
Very cool modern card.
Very cool…love the blues and greens and the gold swirls! This is such a cute and modern design!
Love the geometric shapes
So modern and graphic! Love the print you created here!
I love the trees and embossing!
So modern and easy to make! Thanks for the idea! will try to create one and spread the kindness!
Lovely card!
Love your design and color choices …. so pretty.
Such a clean and simple design with great color choices!
Love your design and colors!
I’m really liking the bright blue with green for xmas.
This is great, I hardly every use different sets together.
What a fun, graphical design!
This is a great card and I love the sentiment for this cause!
Thanks for sharing your great video on this fun blog hop! Love your ideas and may use some of them while making my cards. Thanks again for all of your inspiration!!
Great cards as always. thanks for sharing
I like the graphic card and the color combination. Well done!
Neat idea. Thanks Yana!
Really nice technique, will try it soon.
So cute and simple! Thanks for sharing.
Lovely cards, so
many wonderful
ways to make them!
Carla from Utah
Love these trees!
What a great way to use different stamp sets! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Green and blue hues for these contemporary trees – very cool!
Great card. Love the colors and brightness of them. Thanks for sharing!
like the trees card I see how the minc works but I use wood mounts so wont work but fun idea
Thank you so much for sharing your creativity. Wonderful wonderful card.
Those trees are so darn fun!
Oh, I love these Yana!
Lovely cards
Love this program (and the giveaway)!! What cute cards!
Very cool – love your colour scheme!
What a fantastic set of cards for such a great cause……love the different colurs used! I love how you explain your process of creating cards in the video. Have a most lovely day. Cheers Donna Z 🙂 Off to the next stop on the hop yippee!!!
Beautiful. I love this color combination!!
Love the clean graphic feel of the card! beautiful! thank you so much for amazing inspiration always!
Great colors on those trees! Pretty!
Great card set! Love the idea!
Yes I did like what I saw and I’ll be back later to take a closer look 🙂
These cards are so fresh and fun and I love the way you combined the different trees!
Fabulous – clean and vibrant cards ….
I love this cute and colorful card! You can never have too many Christmas trees!
Great cards love the colors a lot TY