Die Cut Christmas: Shaving Cream Peace

 I have just a couple of cards left that I made by making die cuts with Christmas dies that I had not yet used.

I used the larger snowflake from the Elizabeth Craft die set Ornate Snowflakes, and cut it out of a white panel that I had already cut with the Greetery's Crimped Edge due. I put the white panel over a blue and white background panel that I made using the shaving cream technique. You can see instructions on that technique here, and creating the blue and white panels here.

I die cut the sentiment from an Elizabeth Craft set Love Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament. I used a dark blue cardstock for the sentiment. Last, I added silver snowflakes, and glitter dots from Elizabeth Craft peel offs.

Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft 1409 Ornate Snowflakes

Elizabeth Craft 1442 Love Joy & Peace Christmas Ornament

Elizabeth Craft Peel Off Stickers 8530 Silver/Silver Snowflakes

Elizabeth Craft Peel Off Stickers 7018 Glitter,Silver/Gold Dots

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

Distress inkers Broken China, Faded Jeans,

Speckled Egg

Shaving Cream (generic)

PTI Enchanted Evening cardstock

Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock

Die Cut Christmas: Mod Poinsettia Merry Christmas

 As part of my plan to try out all my dies, I thought it would be fun to use the Memory Box Diagonal Stripe Collage die in a way that would make me think of a candy cane.

I first cut a white panel out using the Greetery Crimped Frame die, and then used the Memory Box 94401 Diagonal Stripe Collage die at the bottom.

I added a Memory Box Mod Poinsettia that I cut out of a shaving cream panel that I had made with both red and green inkers.

These are the red ones I made. I didn't photograph the ones where I added green, because I didn't think I liked them; but probably die cutting the Mod Poinsettia out of those panels was a good use of them. If you have not already seen it, you can see how to do the shaving cream technique here.

The Merry Christmas sentiment is from Paper Rose, and I cut it out of Stardream Jupiter cardstock. The panel was also matted with Jupiter cardstock. I put one little gem in the center of the Poinsettia.

Products Used:

Memory Box 94401 Diagonal Stripe Collage

Poppy Stamps 2086 Mod Poinsettias

Paper Rose 17823 Merry Christmas Text die

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

Distress inkers: Mowed Lawn,

Twisted Citron, Festive Berries

Shaving Cream

Stardream Jupiter cardstock

Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock

Shaving Cream and Die Cuts Merry Christmas

 Here is another card using the shaving cream technique that you can see here, here and here. This time I'm using panels that I made using red Distress inkers.

The inker I used for these panels is Festive Berries Distress Ink. I noticed that the longer I worked with the inker infused shaving cream, the lighter it got, and the more pink it became.

I just love this technique for making a lot of interesting panels to work with.

For this card, I cut the panel out with the Greetery's Crimped Frame die. I die cut the sentiment using the Elizabeth Craft 1056 Merry Christmas die, from Stardream Jupiter cardstock. The mat for this card was cut from the same. I mounted the panel on a base card and it was done. Super easy fast and festive.

I made more of this card, but to make it more sparkly, I die cut the sentiment from red glitter cardstock, and the mat is Hopsack Red cardstock from The Paper Cut.

I kind of like the glittery one; which one do you like?

Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft die 1056 Merry Christmas

The Greetery Crimped Edge die

Festive Berries Distress inker

Stardream Jupiter cardstock

Simon Says Stamp Red Glitter cardstock

Hopsack Red cardstock from The Paper Cut

Neenah Solar White cardstock 80# and 110#

Shaving Cream (any will do, but not gel)

Die Cut Merry Christmas

 I've been so busy that I had not had time to start doing Christmas cards until recently. I got out all of my Christmas dies because I suspected that I had not even used quite a few of them. I kind of thought that the reason for that is I couldn't quite envision how they would look on a card. I decided to just start die cutting them out of white paper to see how they look. 

As I was die cutting, I started putting things together and ended up with some Christmas cards that were all die cuts and no stamping at all. As the days go by, I will be posting these cards.

This one is placed over a panel I made using the shaving cream technique that you can see here and here. I made a huge stack of shaving cream panels in blue - some using stencils and some without.

The ones without stencils make a really pretty snow background. You will probably be seeing the ones using stencils on future cards.

I die cut the Hero Arts Snowflake Medallion die out of white cardstock and stuck it down onto the shaving cream panel. I added the sentiment and snowflakes that I die cut using some Impression Obsession dies and Memory Box glitter cardstock. Super simple, and it will be easy to make a lot.

Products Used:

Hero Arts DI789 Snowflake Medallion

Impression Obsession DIE330-R Merry Christmas

Impression Obsession DIE100-F Small Snowflake Set

Distress inkers: Broken China,

Faded Jeans, Speckled Egg

Memory Box Jewel Glitter cardstock

Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock

So Silk Glamour Green cartstock

Card Exchange: Stencils and Shaving Cream

I'm participating in another fun card exchange at Magenta. This time, it's done like a chain, so the person I send to isn't the same as who will send to me. I got Carole Dion to send to, and no pressure! She is one of the best in the Magenta DT, and also a friend.

Another friend of mine, Pam Nelson, has been experimenting with making videos of interesting art and craft techniques. One of them is a technique using shaving cream to make really interesting and beautiful backgrounds. You can see that video here. (Please remember to click "thumbs up" if you like it, and thanks so much

Pam recently thought of a new twist on the shaving cream technique, using stencils. She has done a post on that twist, and you can see her post here. I tried using her technique on this card, and while I didn't do as well at it as she did, I had fun!

To start with, I put some shaving cream on a cookie sheet and added drops of Distress re-inker. I used the new Crackling Campfire, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, and Mustard Seed. I knew that I wanted to use the Maple Leaf Trio stencil from Magenta, so I was going with Fall colors.

I used a palette knife to move the colors around a bit. Does this look some kind of crazy dessert to anyone else?

I wanted to just make some backgrounds to start with, since I hadn't done this before. I placed a piece of cardstock on top and pressed it in well. I was using 110# Neenah Solar White.

This is what the panel looked like when I picked it up off of the shaving cream! 

After scraping off the shaving cream with a scraper, I was left with this really interesting background. I continued making background after background and became fascinated with this process. I didn't want to waste any of the shaving cream, and even the cream that I scraped off, I put back onto the pan and continued to use it. That resulted in panels that were a big more muted and blended, but also wonderful

I wanted to use a stencil in this technique as well, and I chose this one from Magenta

I had trouble getting a clear image of the maple leaves in the several times I tried. I thought maybe that it was that the leaves were too large to work, but later learned that this was just operator error! Be sure to check out Pam's post to see how she did this.

I ended up using the shaving cream like stencil paste. I put the stencil on my panel and put lots of the shaving cream on it, scraped it off the stencil, and leaf shaped piles of shaving cream were left when I pulled the stencil off. (I somehow did not end up with a picture of that, sorry)

I let the shaving cream sit on the panel for a bit, and then once I scraped it off, I was left with this. I blended some Wild Honey Distress ink onto the panel, and splattered it with gold Liquid Peerless watercolor. I was pretty happy with how it turned out in the end.

I stamped the sentiment, and die cut the panel with The Greetery Crimped Frame die. The panel was matted with So Silk Black Style cardstock and mounted to a base card. I added a few gems at the end.

This was a lot of fun, and bonus, the cards smell really good! I hope you'll give it a try.

Magenta Products used:

TM319 Maple Leaf Trio

07.969.F Have a Beautiful day!

Other Products used:

Any shaving cream (not gel)

Distress ink re-inkers: Crackling Campfire,

Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, Mustard Seed

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Peerless Liquid Gold watercolor

The Greetery Crimped Frame die set

Lucy's Little Things Rainbow Jewels

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

So Silk Black Style cardstock