Last Minute Christmas Cards. Video

Today, since it’s so close to Christmas, we are making Last Minute Christmas cards. Now don’t panic if you don’t yet have your Holiday cards ready – these are easy and very quick to make. If you decide to mass produce these each card will take you about 5 to 10 minutes to make, maybe even less.

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Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering with Yana video series! In each one of my monthly videos I explore different ink pad and embossing powder color options for Hero Arts Color Layering sets and will hopefully inspire you to stamp! These videos are published on Hero’s blog and Youtube channel on Mondays following the My Monthly Hero Blog Hops and I’m sharing them on my blog as well. 

VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARDS DETAILS

I’ve started working on my cards by creating backgrounds first. I used one of my favorites stamps – the Newspaper Bold Prints to make all of the backgrounds for all of my cards. Even though this is not a Christmas or Holiday stamp specifically, it’s still a great one to use to create some quick and easy backgrounds.

I went with tone on tone stamping for the most part here. I used Navy ink & blue cardstock; Gold embossing powder & white cardstock; Forever Green ink & green cardstock and Royal Red ink & red cardstock.

To stamp the main image for my cards, the Christmas tree, I used 2 sets of colors  – greens and blues. You can also use other colors and maybe go whimsical and have a pink or a purple tree if you like.

I used brown ombre ink for both color combinations to stamp the tree trunk and also stamp the sentiment for my cards. The Color Layering Christmas Tree stamp set is probably the easiest one to align, hence why it’s a perfect one to use for last minute holiday cards. If you flip the packaging of your set to the back you can see the step by step guide that tells you what you need to do to create a beautiful little tree. The basic idea here is you want to stamp 3 layers using 3 shades of one color, so for example green and for my green tree I used Green Apple, Moss and Forever Green and stamp the last layer in a different contrasting color to work as ornaments on your tree.

For my blue trees I used a Pool to Navy ombre ink pad, also Deep Ocean and Aegean. Finally, I stamped a slope under the tree and for this I used Soft Sky ink.

Next, I added the last, 4th tree layer. I heat embossed it in Red and also Gold Glitter embossing powder. You can use Silver Sparkle powder just as well to heat emboss the lights layer on some of your trees. Using a sparkle embossing powder for these kinds of projects is especially fitting!

I finished up all of my panels and foam mounted them onto my card bases already covered with the pre-stamped backgrounds. I love the different colors used for the background and also different color options used for the trees themselves.

Have fun stamping!

MORE COLOR LAYERING!

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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!

Hero Arts Color Layering Stamps Christmas Tree Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Newspaper Bold Prints Background Stamp Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Soft Navy Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Lipstick Red Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Gold Glitter Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Hero Arts Red Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | SC | HA	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Red Royal Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Navy Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Hero Arts Moss Hybrid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Soft Sky Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Forever Green Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Ombre Pool To Navy Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Hero Arts Ombre Sand to Chocolate Brown Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Green Apple Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Deep Ocean Hybrid Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Hybrid Bold Ink Pad Aegean Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS | TS

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