12 Weeks of Christmas Card Tutorials: VERY fun mask and ink brushing technique with Jamie!

Here is Jamie with our last 12 Weeks of Christmas: Tutorial Time

I have been playing with this new technique I saw online. Honestly I looked at a picture and found my own way of doing it. I am good at that. I like to experiment. 

The supplies you need for this project are brushes, ink and paper. Optional painters tape and shapes for masking areas off.  It is a super simple technique and a lot of fun to experiment with.

  So I found a picture online of a pretty card made with brushes and ink. The brushes where ink dusters and I looked them up and tried to find them at the local craft stores and no luck. Online they were more than I was willing to pay so I thought I would just get some regular brushes (on the left). I used them on a few cards and they worked pretty good but I wanted a fluffier brushes still. So I happened upon the make up brushes (on the right) at Target for $1 each. I was happy to find them so cheap and love the way they work even more than the regular brushes. 

I used some scrap paper and ripped the edges in different patterns. I used them as masks for the different colors and to produce different shades. Tip~ start the brush on the scrap paper so the strokes are more even. 

You can do this technique using the masking scraps above and do different colors, like the top three in the above examples. Or you can use shapes to mask areas off, like the balloon one above. Or you can use them to color that shape. This is what I did with this one. I used Christmas tree cut outs this this tutorial. 

 I brushed a small amount of red first just for fun. 

I used Tim Holtz Distress ink on this example however I used Stampin up and some other generic ink for the others. So any ink will do.

  This is the first time I used the template to add ink to the shape only. I just add some ink to the brush and stroke the ink on a few times, then more ink, over and few time. I re-ink the brush several times.

Then I used the actual cut outs and some painters tape to cover them up to add the red. 

 I however taped the tree on the left on the wrong side so my tree has a white glow around it a bit more than I would have like but its okay.

 I used the paper mask that I made and inked red in different shades all over the card.

 I just brushed over the tree masks. 

 I moved the paper around so the pattern would vary. 

Here is the red all done.

 Here is the front all inked. This is a very mess technique so make sure you put something under the paper. I used a piece of foam. You can see where my card was on the green foam below.  

Here is the finished card. I added brads to the tree for the ornaments and the star on top. The rest is Inspired Stamps Christmas stamps. I used the holly in the corners from the Poinsettia set. The sentiments stamps are from Vintage Christmas.
Another idea for this technique is just to make your own background paper.

This one I just randomly dabbed and brushed red and green ink on. Then I cut my paper to card front size. I stamped on top of it and colored my image. 

 The background came out nice on this card. I added another sentiment from the Poinsettia Set

I added a few red brads and some ribbon to decorate a bit more.

GREAT JOB JAMIE!!!  This is a really fun and artistic technique I know I'm going to have to play with over the Christmas season!

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Blessings,

Antoinette

12 Weeks of Christmas Card Tutorials: SHADOW BOX CARD

Hello Everyone, Shanta here!
I wanted to share a  Shadow Box card tutorial I created for Inspired Stamps.  Here are the few supplies that you need.
Stamps
1 Thessalonians 5:18

Step 1:
Cut 2 pieces of card stock at 4 1/2 and 5 1/4 Score both pieces of card stock at 1/2 and 1 inch from each end on the 5 1/2 inch side.

Step 2:

Take one of the pieces and cut a circle out for the window portion.

 Step 3:
Next take the scored parts and fold them mountain valley one forming a W and the other forming an M, placing tape of the outer flaps.

Step 4:

Stamp your sentiment in the inside and glue the panels together.

 Here is the finished card!!

TENT CARD TUTORIAL (week5 of our 12 Weeks of Christmas Card Tutorials!)

 

 Hello friends,  Deneen has a great tutorial for you today, so take it away Deneen!

Hello and welcome!  You may have seen my card for Inspired Stamps yesterday, well today I am sharing a short Tutorial on how I made it.  I found the inspiration of my card HERE by Beate Johns.

The stamp sets I used for this card are:  His Little Ones: Shepherd Boy, His Little Ones:  Angel, Sheep Laying and the sentiment is from Vintage Christmas.

Recipe:  Inspired Stamps SS-His Little Ones:  Shepherd Boy, His Little Ones:  Angel, Laying Sheep & Vintage Christmas, Bazzill Mono CS-Admiral, Splash & Ivy, CTMH White Daisy CS, Martha Stewart Grass Border Punch, XCut Ornate Frame Die, Viva Decor Glitter Line-Holo Iridescent, Copics.

 

   

These cuties are our HIS LITTLE ONES clear stamps that are only $4.49 over at the online store.  Deneen used our His Little Ones: Shepherd Boy and His Little Ones: Angel.  Also is a stamp from a Scripture Set called VINTAGE CHRISTMAS and the cute little sheep is only $3.99 and is called SHEEP LAYING.  You can find these and many more by clicking on our store link below:

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blessings,

Antoinette

Waterfall Card Tutorial: Belinda; Week 6 of our 12 Weeks of Christmas Card Tutorials

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Today Belinda is  sharing a tutorial on a waterfall card using Inspired Stamps sweet Nativity set. Because the cutting and folding takes a little time, I kept the stamping very simple. I used to think this had to be  really difficult card to do found it's actually quite simple.

 

My card is 5x7 so start with a base of 10x7 folded in half.  You will also need 4 squares for your mats cut at 3x3 and 4 plain squares of 2 3/4"x2 3/4". I then used a light touch with a sponge to add color to the white squares and then inked the edges darker.  After they were all inked, I used a dark blue to stamp the images.

 Adhere each of the stamped images onto a mat.

Next cut a plain cardstock strip to 2 3/4" x 12". Then score the strip at 3", 3 3/4", 4 1/2" and 5 1/4". Fold on the score lines-as shown (all mountain folds).  

 Choose your bottom image and adhere it to the 2 3/4' square left from the 1st fold.

Pay close attention for the next image to only put adhesive on the strip, then carefully line up next image square over adhesive and right next to fold-not over or under it. Continue with last 2 squares.

I adhered coordinating cardstock to the bottom inside flap of my strip. Now cut a coordinating strip of cardstock 1"x5" and another 2"x5".  Center and adhere 1" piece to the edge of back of bottom square.

Attach ends of 1" piece over 2" piece with brads-NO adhesive

 Use adhesive on back of 2x5" piece and  adhere only to your card front approx 3/4' from bottom of card front.. The back of your waterfall strip should NOT be attached or glued to anything.  Slide it between your 1" and 2" strips between the brads. it becomes your pull "tab"