Caring Hearts Card Drive – Stamped Christmas Tree Pattern. Video

Simon Says Stamp | Caring Hearts Drive - Stamped Christmas Tree Patterns. Card & Video Tutorial by Yana Smakula

13 Листопада, 2016

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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

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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