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 all of the different patterned trees. They look great together.
Fun card concept!
Beautiful CAS cards for a wonderful cause. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Love the simplicity and the color combination. Thank you.
Great card.. thanks for sharing!
I think the Caring Hearts Card Drive is a great way to show kindness to others. I will be mailing out my cards next week!
Cool trees.
Love your fabulous cards Yana! A great design for multiple card making. What a wonderful cause, our world can use more caring and kindness. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win that generous prize from Simon Says Stamps!
I love the design. So modern. This is a great initiative. I’m now getting started with card making but I can’t wait to get involved in the caring hearts card drive!
such a lovely card
SQUEAL!! SQUEAL!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this Sweet card!! Thanks for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!!
I was just looking at all the trees in my sets and thinking about combining them.
such fun cards!
Beautiful cards! Love that they are not your traditional Christmas card! I will be participating in the card drive for the first time!
Gorgeous cards! Thank you for sharing your tips & tricks! 🙂
Great cards!
Cute card! I love the simplicity. Tganks for the inspiration!
Beautiful cards, Thanks so much for sharing!!!!!
AMAZING and FABULOUS Christmas cards. LOVE those trees!
Really love these cards, Yana! Thanks for a great video.
I love the idea of using all the different tree’s. It’s very retro but awesome… and for such a good cause.
It was so much fun to watch and listen to your process.
Very pretty cards!!
Your cards are so cheery! I am sure they will be more than welcomed into someones hands!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do videos of your techniques as I’m a visual learner and I do learn so much from you!
Blessings,
Melitta
Completely dazzled by the array of cards you’ve shared here (and your video is, as always, a delight!), made all the more special and heart-warming because of their ‘essence’ in bringing joy to those who live in seniors’ residences and nursing homes. Your willingness to share your gifts – the cards AND your creativity – is extraordinary! Angels do walk the earth; you are one…
~carol
I love the sentiment and your colors.. Thank you for sharing
wonderful colors and design Yana!!
Cute card, thanks for sharing
I love the patterned trees. So cute!
Thanks for sharing your card and great ideas.
Such a nice easy do-able card design.
Great cards, loved all the different trees.
Beautiful cards! I love how you used a stencil for colouring the trees. Thanks for a great idea!
Love the design of this card! Great idea to add the golden swirls, which contrast beautifully with the modern lines of the trees. And I love the pop of red also 🙂
LOVE this card! Thanks for the chance to win.
Great layout and use of the trees, thanks!
Beautiful card!
Hi Yana! I think this is now the third place where I mentioned how much I like your tree card. Thank you also for your video. <3
What a gorgeous background you created!
Wow!! Fabulous cards!! Looks great for mass production!!
Love these cute trees!
Beautiful cards, love the color combo, gold swirl and white embossed on red sentiment really pops and looks so festive!
I love all the Christmas trees! They are all so pretty and the colors you chose are great!
What cute trees on your card! Very festive.
Fabulous card and for a wonderful cause! Thanks for you tip on using cheap printer paper to work up your design.
Love how the sentiment pops off this card.
This has been a terrific blog hop (for such a worthy cause), thank-you to the coordinators for making this card drive possible!
Love how this turned out. You definitely have a way of creating amazing cards from multiple stamp sets.
Fabulous technique for the trees, love the colors.