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Two tags from one card!

By KariV on November 22, 2018 in Christmas, Paper Crafting

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to all my USA friends. Today I’m up on the Hedgehog Hollow blog sharing a seriously cool tag project using the Kindred Stamps collection from November.

I love these tags and in my video I will show you how easy it is to use the stencil, the Nuvo glitter accents, and the stamps sets to create 2 tags at once.

I’ve got a little secret on how I use very thin stencils easily to get this clean look.
To see the process check out my video here or on YouTube:

Linking up to the 25 Days of Christmas Tags, inspired by Joyce Heinen from day 21. She made the cutest gingerbread men tags with a beautiful striped background!

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time!

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Foiled Ornaments with ODBD

By KariV on November 16, 2018 in Christmas, Paper Crafting

Hello again! Today we are taking a look back at the November release from Our Daily Bread Designs and I have some foiled ornament cards to share!

This November release was amazing, with poinsettias and ornament dies that I absolutely love. I have three projects to share with you today, all using foil!

For this one, I cut the Retro Ornament dies using red foil paper. Aren’t those ornament designs just dreamy? I used paper from the Christmas Collection 2018 paper pad. The holly leaves are from the new Christmas Bells set. The JOY sentiment comes from the new Holiday Words dies.

This next card is a larger size card that fits into a #10 business envelope. It measures 9″ x 3 3/4″ and really works well for all these ornaments! I cut two with silver foil paper as the inside, and three with gold foil paper as the inside. I then used thread in both silver and gold to use as the hangers for these ornaments.

Foiled cards are notoriously difficult to photograph, so you will have to remember they are silver and gold! In real life this is just stunning! Around the edges, I used gold embossing powder. To finish it all off, silver glitter tape along the bottom and the Merry Christmas sentiment (from this set here).

The last card I have today, is a poinsettia from the Merry Christmas set that has been foiled in teal foil, using a Minc Machine to add the foil. It is so fun to add some fun foil touches to cards! For this card, I stamped the poinsettia image, colored it with copics, then restamped it using clear embossing powder. (To re-stamp it in exactly the same place, I used the MISTI.) Then I heat set that embossing powder with my heat gun, added teal foil to the top, and ran it through my Minc. You could also use a laminator.

I found that in order to have the foil stay nice and thin on the lines, I changed the setting to a “1” on the Minc and added a piece of cardstock to the top of the foil before running it through.

I hope you enjoyed these projects today! I really love the look of foil, especially this time of year!

For more inspiration using the November Release and to see the other designers projects, be sure to visit the ODBD Blog here.

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Gingerbread Wishes Shaker Card

By KariV on November 15, 2018 in Christmas, Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I’m up on The Hedgehog Hollow blog showing you just how easy it is to make a shaker card using the sweet images from the November box. These stamps from Kindred Stamps are too cute and I have so many ideas for cards. Today, here’s a sneak peek of my project:

Aren’t those gingerbread men so cute! Hint: I stamped them on brown cardstock and used white colored pencil to add the details. 🙂

So head on over to the blog here to get all the details. And while you are at it, please leave me a sweet comment to match these sweet gingerbread people! Thanks for stopping by.

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Poinsettia Love

By KariV on November 9, 2018 in Christmas, Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I’m sharing some of my favorite POINSETTIA stamp (and die) sets! These are so beautiful and I couldn’t resist making a bunch of cards using the new November 2018 release from Our Daily Bread Designs.

I colored this up in some pink Copics in the colors E50, R81, R83, and R85 so I could match that beautiful new Christmas Collection 2018 Paper from Our Daily Bread Designs. I used the Snowflake Sky die to cut out the white snowflake background, and attached the poinsettia spray to some black fun foam to add dimension.

This next one shows the large poinsettia stamp set. It also comes with it’s own die to cut out the image! I love that it is included! The size of this stamp is perfect to fill an A2 size card.

I added some Pine branches from this die, and that beautiful paper with the woodgrain is also from the new paper pack. The Merry Christmas sentiment is red glitter paper cut out with the Holiday Words dies.

The last card features the same poinsettia die as the first card, and this time I added two of the poinsettia sprays over the Lattice Background Die.

I love that you can mix it up a bit by just adding another spray of flowers. I also love how the leaves turned out! I used a classic Copic green color combo in YG17, YG67, and YG03.

I hope you enjoyed these beautiful poinsettia projects today! Have you started on your Christmas cards yet? If you are looking for poinsettias to add to your holiday cards, they are on sale as a bundle, which you can check out here. The bundle includes the paper pack I featured here, as well as the Poinsettia Box stamp set…which is also so beautiful! So go ahead and check it out.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Gingerbread Scene with The Hedgehog Hollow

By KariV on November 8, 2018 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I am up on The Hedgehog Hollow blog sharing my first project with the November 2018 box. This box comes chock full of awesome supplies and sweet gingerbread stamps from Kindred Stamps!

Here is a sneak peek of my project: