Hi everyone! I love to stretch my stamps and use them all year round (be it Christmas stamps – I try using them for non-Holiday cards, or non-Holiday stamps – I love using them for Christmas cards).
Today I’m using Stacked Animals stamp set and dressing up my giraffe using a few winter accessories to create a fun Holiday card.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
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CARD DETAILS
I got the idea for this card when I imagined giraffe wearing letter O (from the word “Joy”) around his neck. That seemed like a fun and doable idea, so I grabbed my stackable animals stamp set and Copic markers and started stamping/coloring.
Images from the Stackable Animals stamp set have a very fine outline; with an outline like that I always have my alcohol markers bleeding and messing up my coloring. To prevent or minimize this I decided to do my coloring on watercolor paper. This kind of paper absorbs a lot more luquid and I have significantly less trouble with my markers going outside the lines. If you have a similar problem with your coloring – try using watercolor paper.
Once my coloring was done I used coordinating dies and cut my images out, I also die cut a beautiful JOY out of white cardstock.
To add something to the background, I heat embossed Falling Snow background in White Puff embossing powder (check out this video where I used it as frosting on a donut) onto Surf Blue cardstock. I also added a few winter accessories from the Christmas Cats stamp set and Ready Set Snow.
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 Stacking Animals Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Stacking Animals Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Stacking Animals Set Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas Cats Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Christmas Cats Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Christmas Cats Set Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Ready Set Snow Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Ready Set Snow Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Ready Set Snow Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp Falling Snow Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Big Joy Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Big Add Ons Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# Lipstick Red Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Surf Blue Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad 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 |
 Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Misti Precision Stamper Stamping Tool Kit Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive Shop at: SSS |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS |
 WOW Embossing Powder WHITE PUFF Regular WP01 Shop at: SSS |
This is SUCH a fabulous card! I just love it! What a super combination of crafting goodies to create your fun card!!
awww, thank you, Kate!
Love it! The expressions on the animals’ faces are priceless and I love the idea of the giraffe “wearing” the “O”. Fabulous colouring too!
thank you so much!
Excellent idea, the result is so funny and cute ! Really a great card.
thank you, Isabelle!
LOVE your card. Simply beautiful, fun and festive. Thank you for sharing
thank you!
I absolutely LOVE this!
thank you, Teresa!
Your card is outstanding! The giraffe spots are so cute. Thanks for sharing.
thank you, Nan!
What a clever idea for this adorable card, must have a look in my stash to see if I can do something similar. Thanks for inspiring us to look at our existing stash to see what we can do. Have a most wonderful day. Cheers Donna Z 🙂
thank you, Donna! Have fun!
I jus can’t!! It’s soooo funny!! Cannot stop laughing;))
And the design is gorgeous, love soft background, bright animas and how you placed them within and around the joy!
haha 🙂 glad it made you laugh 🙂 it’s my most favorite Christmas card of the season 🙂 thanks!
So cute!
thank you!
What a darling card – I just love it!!! Thanks so much for sharing and for your video too!!!
thank you!
Great out of the box idea. It is hard to use little animals sometimes and thank you for a great idea..
thank you, Barbara!
I love this card and would love to recreate it for 2018, but which copic colours did you use?