Super Saturday at Magenta: New Christmas

 Hi everyone! I'm over at the Magenta blog today and you can see that post here.

I'm working on Christmas cards, and I really love this new Magenta Christmas stamp that Nathalie designed with poinsettias and ornaments.

First I stamped the images and embossed in gold and then watercolored with Distress ink. This was super easy and fast to do. You could use lots of different colors and mediums and it would look as lovely.

In the end I die cut the panel, matted it and mounted onto a base card. I'm thinking it will be easy to do multiples with this beautiful stamp.

Magenta Products Used:

07.995.E Joyeux Noël

Other Products Used:

Distress inks:

Fossilized Amber, Mermaid Lagoon

Picked Raspberry, Festive Berries,

Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn

The Greetery Crimped Edge die

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Tim Holtz Watercolor Cardstock

PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# Cardstock

Super Saturday at Magenta: Swirly Blossom Poinsettia with Prismacolors

 Hi everyone! I'm over at Magenta today, and you can see that post here.

I've been having a lot of fun with the Swirly Blossom Poinsettia stamp, which I've been coloring with Prismacolor pencils in some of my favorite blends.

I started out by cutting some of my favorite cardstocks for coloring using The Greetery Crimped Frame die. The one above is Strathmore Blue Tone Mixed Media.

I stamped all of the cards with the Poinsettia image using my MISTI stamp platform.

Leaving the stamp in the MISTI, I took all of these panels and colored them with my favorite Prismacolor combinations of blends. 

Since I knew I was going to emboss over these, I was just trying to get some nice color blends laid down under the embossing.

After coloring, I stamped over each panel with Versamark ink and embossed in gold or silver, depending on the colors. It's very important to add powder to the panel before you stamp and emboss, since embossing powder really likes to adhere to colored pencil.

I added a sentiment to each card at the same time, using the same color of embossing as the flower. The above card was done on PTI Enchanted Evening cardstock.

I added gems to some of the flowers, which are very sparkly in real life. This card was done on PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock.

This card was done using Strathmore Tan Tone Mixed Media cardstock

The above card was again PTI Enchanted Evening cardstock. I really like this dark blue with the turquoise blends.

I even did one on a green shaving cream technique panel. I didn't take an individual picture of it, but you can see it in some of the group pictures above. You can also see that technique tutorial here. The post where I made the green ones is here. The Prismacolor choices on that one would also be good on white.

I'll list the colors I used on each color of cardstock, in case you are interested. I hope you like these! I'm getting close to having enough Christmas cards I think.

Magenta Products Used:

0445.O Swirly Blossom Poinsettia

07.995.E Joyeux Noël

07.956.F John Lennon Peace Quote

07.1019.F Wishing you Peace Love Joy

Other Products Used:

Prismacolor Colored Pencils:

For Blue Tone cardstock: PC901 Indigo Blue,

PC902 Ultramarine, PC1087 Powder Blue

For Dark Blue cardstock: PC105 Cobalt Turquoise,

PC905 Aquamarine, PC992 Light Aqua

For Tan Tone cardstock: PC924 Crimson Red,

PC925 Crimson Lake, PC1014 Deco Pink

For Red cardstock: PC923 Scarlet Lake,

PC926 Carmine Red, PC929 Pink, PC927 Lt Peach

On Green and White Shaving Cream cardstock:

PC924 Crimson Red, PC923 Scarlet Lake,

PC1014 Deco Pink

The Greetery Crimped Edge die

Strathmore Blue Tone Mixed Media

Strathmore Tan Tone Mixed Media

PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock

PTI Enchanted Evening Cardstock

Versamark Ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Magenta Stamps Used:

14.671.M Stitched Leafy Branch

07.995.E Joyeux Noël

August Christmas Tags

It was my goal beginning in January to make Christmas cards every other month, and Christmas tags every other month. I run a little behind because I'm making multiples of each design, but I have the August tags for you today (all finished) and I'm working on the multiples of the September cards now, which I already showed you in this post.

These tags are pretty simple, but I like them a lot. They are about 2.75" x 4" and their design was constrained by the fact that I have been trying to use up the scraps from making lots of multiples of the cards seen here. I had plenty of nice red and green and white rectangles that just needed to be used for tags, and I used some of them on these tags.

Both of these tags were made by die cutting into the colored piece, stamping them with new Magenta sentiments using Veramark ink and embossing the sentiments with JudiKins White Diamond embossing powder. This powder is very sparkly in real life, but the sparkle is hard to capture in a photo.

I mounted each die cut onto the white leftover rectangles. For the green cabin in the woods one, I colored the windows with a Copic marker and then went over it with a clear Wink of Stella glitter pen, which provides sparkle in the windows in real life. 

I hope you like these, and I hope you will be inspired to use your leftovers and make your own Christmas tags with dies or stamps that you haven't used yet. You can see in my piles of tags that there are a few I tried out that didn't quite make the cut for producing a lot of them, but I will still definitely use them on presents!

Red Poinsettia Tag

07.995.E Joyeux Noël

Sizzix 661602 Tim Holtz Mixed Media Christmas Thinlets

Die-Namics MFT-847 Inside/Outside Stitched Rectangle die set

Versamark ink

JudiKins White Diamond embossing powder

Stardream Jupiter cardstock

Neenah Solar White 80# cardstock

Green Secret Cabin Tag

07.990.G Peace Love Joy

Memory Box 99602 Secret Cabin Die

Die-Namics MFT-847 Inside/Outside Stitched Rectangle die set

Versamark ink

JudiKins White Diamond embossing powder

Emerald Green cardstock from The Paper Cut