{Christmas In The Air} Christmas Inspiration By Nancy And Monika

Happy Wednesday, STAMPlorations friends! Crafting is keeping us all sane right now. Should you be looking for some festive inspiration, our Christmas in the Air blog feature with STAMPgirls Nancy and Monika will hopefully get your creative mojo going.

We'll also randomly draw one lucky winner of a $15 gift code from all the comments left on this post, on Nancy's post and on Monika's post. Let's have a look at their festive makes.

 

 

 

Here is a more detailed look ...

Nancy's Christmas Cards

Monika and I are continuing the Christmas in the Air Feature Projects:-)

Such a fun feature and great way to add to your Christmas stash!

We will have July, September and November feature projects to help inspire you to add to your Christmas Stash. 

I just discovered a new to me split-4 stamping technique, which gives you 4 cards. I changed it up a bit and used a stencil instead of stamps. I used the new ARTplorations stencil by Sanna, Christmas Wreaths, which worked out really well! 

I will be sharing several photos showing the split-4 stenciling technique using STAMPlorations products.

STEP 1

8 1/2" X 11" White 100# CS

Trim to 8" X 10 1/2"

Score at 4" and 5 1/4"

Step 2

Secured Sanna "Christmas Wreath" Stencil with masking tape.

Used Distress Oxide Inks and Make Up Brushes for ink blending.

Step 3

Christmas Wreaths stencil after using make up brushes and eye shadow applicators to blend inks.

Step 4

Removed stencil and loved the beautiful Christmas wreaths! You can see the scored lines.

Step 5

Cut scored lines with paper cutter for 4 card fronts. Then attached to red card stock and white card bases. Added clear stickers and outlined stickers. Traced the wreath images with black ultra fine sharpie and  added Wink of Stella for shimmer! All done!

Finished Cards! 

Sharing STAMPlorations Products:

Sanna Lippert Designs for ARTplorations Christmas Wreaths

CRAFTplorations Clear Stickers Good Tidings

CRAFTplorations Clear Stickers Simple Christmas

Hope you are inspired by my Clean and Simple Split-4 Stenciling Technique Christmas Cards. So fun getting 4 cards for my Christmas stash out of one play session:-)

The new STAMPlorations store is now fully open. You will LOVE the new easy search feature, the clean look, and easy navigating for all the stores and all in one place. There are so many awesome specials going on also that you will not want to miss. 

My STAMPGIRLNANCY is still available at checkout for 20% discount on your order unless specified. 

Happy shopping and checking out Shery's new beautiful store:-)

Love and Hugs...Nancy

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Monika's Christmas Cards

Well, what can I say? Nancy and I like the Christmas In The Air Feature so much that we were eager to continue over the Summer too.

Did I just say Summer? It's been so cold in the UK recently that Christmas cards seemed to be a rather seasonal.

My first card features the new Good Tidings clear stickers and my favourite snowman from the Yuletide Cheer digital stamps. Here they are ... the jolly snowmen ...

My background was created using Turquoise, Purple and Ultra Marine Brusho crystals on photo paper/card. I started by sprinkling a bit of each colour on my photo paper/card and spritzed with water to activate the crystals. The purple looked a bit too dominant, and I added some Ultra Marine on top lightly misting until I got my desired effect.

Originally I had intended to use the background with the purple flecks toward the top, but after I had coloured and fussy cut the snowmen, I decided the purple flecks looked better towards the bottom.

I attached my elements in place added a doodled border and finished off with a sticker sentiment panel.

Here are the STAMPlorations products I used:

- from the Digital Store

Yuletide Cheer Digital Stamps - set of 3

- from the Main Store

Good Tidings Clear Stickers

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Next up is a card using one of Sanna's new stencils, Christmas Wreaths ...

My little eye shadow brushes came out again to play. I used them to blend the following inks through my stencil: Cerise and Grenadine Izink inks for the berries and Verveine, Menthe and Emeraude Izink inks for the leaves

I rounded the corners of my square base card and edged my card with a gold pen. To finish I added a gold edged sticker sentiment panel and a couple of golden pearls.

Here are the STAMPlorations Products I used in my second card:

- from the Main Store

Christmas Wreaths Stencil - Sanna Lippert Design, Simple Christmas Clear Stickers

  

Hopefully Nancy and I have inspired you to add to your 2020 Christmas stash.

Wishing you lots of fun hopping along.

hugs

Monika xxx

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For a chance to win a $15 gift code to the STAMPlorations store, leave a comment here and on the designers' blogs (Nancy's blog here and Monika's blog here) by August 8. We'll announce the winner in the July winners post on August 10.

If you enjoyed today's Christmas In The Air feature post, Nancy and Monika will be back in September and November with more festive inspiration. Keep your eyes peeled!

Our new store is fully up and running and we are celebrating the move with a special sale. For details check out the graphic below.