Stampin' Pals: Joy Dies

Monday, 21 September 2020

AWH Heart of Christmas Showcase September

Another opportunity to Blog Hop with the lovely ladies from the Art With Heart team, and its a Christmas one, hosted by the wonderful Judy May, who always creates the most beautiful cards.

Pop back to Judy for the next blog to check out.

Peace and Joy with the co-ordinating word dies (Joy Dies) is a delightful stamp to mix and match with all sorts of paper, and other stamp sets. We had wanted these words with three layers for ages, and I am getting a heap of cards made using them.

My first card shows off a branch of foliage from Forever Fern, which I am featuring on World Card-making Day - October 3. Other stamps and dies are from the Peace & Joy Bundle.

What better then the World Globe from the Beautiful World Bundle when you are wishing 'Peace On Earth'? Another leaf from Forever Fern is placed atop the world. When you have fine dies such as these words & the globe stand, it pays to include adhesive sheets in your order.

I guess this card is the simplest of the lot, but still very effective I think. A white panel stamped with holly leaves and berries from the Peace & Joy stamp set, along with 2 layers of word, and a stamped secondary sentiment. These are so easy to stamp and trim to use.

I hope you are getting enough time to make a timely start on your Christmas cards, it will be here before we know it!

Product List

Peace & Joy Bundle

[155167]

$78.25

Peace & Joy Photopolymer Stamp Set

[153430]

$31.00

Joy Dies

[153530]

$56.00

Beautiful World Bundle (English)

[154091]

$84.50

Forever Fern Bundle (English)

[154094]

$94.50

‘Tis The Season 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[153489]

$20.00

Red & Green Foil Sheets

[153510]

$17.50

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$44.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$17.00

Adhesive Sheets

[152334]

$17.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$6.00

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$14.00

Stampin' Seal Refill

[152814]

$9.50

Stampin' Scrub

[126200]

$31.00

Stampin' Mist

[153648]

$19.25

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$10.00

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

$14.25

Just Jade A4 Cardstock

[153084]

$15.25

Just Jade Classic Stampin' Pad

[153115]

$13.00

Just Jade Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[153121]

$6.50

Real Red A4 Card Stock

[106578]

$15.25

Real Red Combo Pack Stampin' Blends

[147935]

$15.50

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[147084]

$13.00

Sunday, 20 September 2020

Sunflowers To HollyCTC#286

CASE the Annual catalogue and give it a mini catalogue twist? Mmmmm....

For a while now, I've wanted to try this technique used on the Sunflower card on page 15 of the Annual catalogue. I'm not sure how successful it is on Just Jade, but it certainly helped my creativity kick-start into quite a session of card-making! The holly leaves from Christmas Gleaming (P19 Mini Catty) are beautiful and the open design lends itself to so many techniques.

I'm sure that this particular technique has some snazzy name, but it escapes me!!! Not every leaf is highlighted with white, but all the berries were painted. When the white ink dried I used Real Red re-inker to add colour to them. You can see that some are quite pink where the ink has disturbed the white and mixed with it. They also seemed very dull, so I've painted some with the fine tip glue which gives that glossy look.

This is how the craft session developed, from left to right.

Technique using white craft ink to highlight
Light colour wash using water
Water colouring with added ink and a stepped up greeting.

For my second card, I stamped in Just Jade onto white. Using a waterpainter, I've spread the ink as much as I can, before colouring the berries with Stampin' Blends Real Red. The 'Merry Christmas'

has been stamped, cut out and added to the red strip.

Finally, this version was stamped in Just Jade onto Whisper White. Drops from my Jade re-inker were placed on an acrylic block and I watercoloured the leaves, with a light touch. added a red mat behind the stamped piece, and a simple strip to the front. The 'Bright' die cut from the Joy dies (see them and the Peace & Joy stamp on page 18) really lifts this card. I think this is my favourite, but it was a fun trip to get here!

There is so much to CASE in the Annual catalogue and give a mini catalogue twist. When you've decided, and made your project, share it on our Facebook challenge page please.

Peta Stephen is following me this week, I wonder what her cat Marvi is up to this week?

I'd love you to choose my online shop to purchase from, and when you use the Host Code at check out, I will send you a gift. The items listed below were used in my projects above, and link to that item in my online shop.