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 your tree card. Thanks for sharing your thought process on how you designed the cards.
Absolutely in love with your beautiful cards!!!
Nice card!
Lana love your cards and inspiration. Im busy staring and colouring on the road to 110 cards for the nursing home mum and dad have just moved into. So many wonderful people living there who will benefit from this wonderful idea. Thank you for your inspiration.
Love the pretty trees! I love the colours you’ve used!
Just breathtaking! Love this stunning card with those trees!
Gorgeous cards Yana, thank you! I love that you’ve combined different stamp sets to create a new pattern, so so pretty 🙂
These cards are a tonne of fun Yana!
SImple but genious. Congratulation.
really modern designs love them!
Oh wow! Great cause for this hop!!!
Your card set is absolutely stunning!!!
Best way to stretch your stamps! Love the color combo. You never fail to deliver Yana.
such fun cards!
I love Christmas trees so I am in love with your cards!
Increasingly I admire this world of card makers for supporting and moving to great causes. I will be with you supporting this beautiful cause.
So cute, love the cause
Love your card, Yana!! Thanks for the video!! <3
Your cards are beautiful
Kathleen
Fun cards! I love the added touches. Thank you for the inspiration and the informative video!
Sammibug in ohio
Beautiful card, & I love the gold embossing- it just makes it so pretty. I don’t usually go for modern designs, but your card is just lovely, & now I want these stamps!!! Love this cause!
Your cards are gorgeous as alwaysl! Love all of them! Thank you for the inspiration!
Such beautiful cards and great ideas!
Such a cute and fun card!! I absolutely love the little silver embossed curlique!! Adds so much to the look of your card!!
Thank you, Yana. Your cards are always spectacular.
Beautiful cards and a great cause!
Love the cards!!! Great inspiration! Thanks for the chance to win! God bless!
Very clean and modern! Great cards!
Elegant, trendy & beautiful – thank you! I love your work, so lovely!
Love how you made the background of trees-stunning!
Love the addition of the gold embossed swirls – so festive!
I just love how the added touches really make the card come alive! The whole effect is modern, yet elegant! Thanks for sharing!
Very modern looking design and colors.
So pretty!
love the gold embossed dashed swirls on top of the trees background. it really adds interest to the card
Great cards! So cute and fun!
Cute card. Thanks for sharing!
Fun cards, loved the colors and the use of the gold embossing. Thank you for sharing!
Love the trees marching across the cards.
Fantastic idea.
thanks for sharing.
Thanks for encouraging cardmakers to combine supplies from different companies! Your cards are beautiful! 🙂
WOnderful card for such an amazing card drive.
lovely cards ! I enjoyed your video.
Such cute trees! Great use of multiple sets.
Love the colours and graphic design of your card!
Those embosses swirls add fab movement!
Yana- you’re seriously one of my favorite card makers. I love the ideas you have the fresh looks you give to your art! Anyone would be stunned to receive a card like yours in the mail. Here’s hoping I can tap into some of that talen!
That bright red pop of color really makes this card! Thank you for sharing
I love the pop of color. Thanks so much for sharing.
Love these cheerful cards, Yana! What a great idea to combine tree images from different sets. The result is fantastic!
I love these modern and contemporary cards Yana, the colours and details are fabulous and the pop of red for the sentiment is perfect.
You did a great job finding stamps that look like they go together and making them look cohesive with your color palette. Love it!