Sending Christmas Cheer with Hero Arts

by Robin

I’ve started making Christmas cards for my friends and family this week, and can’t wait to show you some of my latest designs.

Since I haven’t pulled out my tree yet, I wanted to hang some ornaments from one of my cards! I also wanted to make a non-traditional Christmas card. Red, green, silver and gold are so common during the Christmas season, so I wanted to mix it up a bit. I hope you’ll like it. Please let me know what you think!

 

Watch the Sending Christmas Cheer YouTube video tutorial here.

MATERIALS USED:

 Soft Cantaloupe & Ultra Pink Stamp Pads – Hero Arts AF361 Yana’s Sunset Layering Stamp Pad Set

 Sea Glass & Soft Brown Stamp Pads – Hero Arts AF362 Tami’s Mint Chip Layering Stamp Pad Set

ColorBox Wicked Black Archival Ink

 Small Stamping Block –Krystal Acrylic Block Set Of 5

Forever In Time 3D Pop Dots Square Dual-Adhesive Foam Mount, 1/4-Inch

 Black 005 Fine Point Micron Marker –Sakura Pigma 30064 Micron Blister Card Ink Pen Set

Scrapbook Adhesives Initially Repositionable Mounting Squares

Trim Slant Tip Tweezers

Feather No.55 Switch-Blade Shear, 5.5 Inch

 12 Inch Ruler – Omnigrid 4-6-12-Inch Marking Ruler Trio

Recollections White Heavyweight (4’x5.25’)

Recollections White Heavyweight (3.75’x5’ for interior insert)

 Sunset Yellow Cardstock (8.5’x5.5’ folded in half) – Recollections Cardstock Paper, Spice Market 8 1/2 x 11

 

WALKTHROUGH:

I started this Christmas card by cutting the sunset yellow cardstock to size then folding it in half to make the base of the card. I also cut out the 3.75×5 interior insert prior to being with the stamping.

Tip: If you use inserts inside your cards often, pre-cut a stack of them and keep them together, so that when you need them you can just grab them.

Once I had all of my cardstock prepped, I stamped the ornaments. I cleaned the stamp in between each color to ensure that I would get the true color of the inkpad stamped onto the paper. I then cut out each ornament by hand. I bought this stamp several years ago, so it doesn’t have a die cut to match, but since the shape of the card is pretty simple to trace, it wasn’t difficult.

 

Once the ornaments were cut, I positioned them on the card. I placed them on the card about a quarter inch lower than where I actually planned to put them, so that I could hand draw lines on the card that the ornaments would seem to “hang” from. This gave it a really cool effect. I then placed the ornament on pop-out dimensional tape, and placed them near the bottom of those lines I’d drawn.

Lastly I stamped the “sending Christmas Cheer” sentiment in Wicked Black, and placed the final image on the outside of the card. I also placed the insert inside the card, and that was it! One Christmas card tutorial down, and a few more are on the way!

 

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