First Christmas Cards for 2021 with Distress Blending

 Every year I am determined to make Christmas cards each month so that I have them completely finished by October. I succeeded at this a couple of years ago, and I am going to try to do it again this year.

I made 10 cards of this same design with a new to me stamp from Magenta. I love this Swirly Poinsettia. Although it's large, I think it would also be pretty on tags.

I started by blending Distress Oxide colors onto panels of 80# cardstock using the Magenta Square Silhouette stencil. I love the deckle edges this stencil has.

I blended some of the squares using one color, and others using multiple colors.

After doing all of the blendings, I flicked water onto each one so there would be droplets. I left them to dry for awhile. All of the panels have these 6 colors shown.

I stamped each square with Versamark ink and embossed them with gold or silver embossing powder.

I cut each panel with The Greetery Crimped Frame die and added the Magenta sentiment Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I selected coordinating colors of cardstock for mats and mounted each onto a 110# Neenah Solar White base card.

Magenta Products used:

02.232.P Swirly Poinsettia

07.798.G Merry Christmas and Happy New year

Other Products used:

Distress Oxide inks:

Candied Apple, Rustic Wilderness,

Mermaid Lagoon, Picked Raspberry,

Seedless Preserves, Speckled Egg,

Ranger Gold Embossing powder

JudiKins Silver Embossing powder

Versamark Ink

Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock

Various colored cardstock for mats