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Winter Shake Up

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Hello Winter – Squared

Happy Friday, crafty friends! This is Julissa of Paper Gems by Jules back to kick off your crafty weekend! The holidays are fast approaching and it’s time to shake things up with the Winter Shake Up stamp set. This December 2020 Whit Kit set can be purchased along with it’s matching snow globe die for lots of fun winter cards to shake things up with. But for today, I’m keeping it square.

I started by die cutting three squares using the middle stitched square from the Scallop & Stitched Square die. Next, I stamped the images in each using Copic friendly ink and colored each in using the same group of markers: YG99, YG97, YG95, R24, R14, R08, E25, E23.

Using VersaFine Clair in Shady Lane, I stamped the Hello Winter sentiment and fussy cut it out. To add a vintage look, I used Distress Ink on the edges: Tumbled Glass & Vintage Photo. I also cut squares in brown pattered paper to mat each colored image.

Lastly, I adhered them to a patterned paper cut to cover the front of a 3.5″ x 8.5″ slimline card. I used thin foam squares for the sentiment.  Slimline cards are a great way to add lots of fun images to one card and they are easy to mail out since they fit into a #10 sized envelope.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you found inspiration!

Until next time… Happy Crafting!

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Getting Foiled with Cute Santa

Happy Friday Crafty Friends!  This is Julissa of Paper Gems by Jules on the blog sharing some old and something new!  If you haven’t scooped up that “Cute Santa” stamp set, you might want to… because, today it’s all about him… and some fun foiling with some of the older Deco Foil Toner Card Fronts. (Product list at the end.)

Background Ink: Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Prized Ribbon & Black Soot

Let’s start with this blue Christmas scene.  I wanted to use some “not-so-Christmas” colors for this Flurry Forest Toner Card Front and these fun blues just pop!  What’s great about the toner card fronts is that it’s smooth paper and takes to Distress inks really well.

Once the background was completed, I die cut it and foiled it using Unity’s Silver Glitter Transfer Foils.  Love the shine that foiling brings to a card.  Next, I stamped and colored Cute Santa and a sentiment.  Fussy cut Santa and die cut the sentiment using the Stitched Postage Nesting Dies and popped them up on the Toner Card front using foam tape.  Using the Scallops and Stitched Rectangles Nesting Dies I layered the background on black and adhered it on a turquoise card base for a little more pop!

❄️ Wanna do another one?  Let’s! ❄️

 

Background Ink: Ripe Persimmon, Barn Door, Aged Mahogany

For this fun card, I wanted a little bit of an old school Christmas movie feel, so I colored Cute Santa using Toner Grey Copics and added a little color to his skin, the holly and gift. For the sentiment, I used the “Be Merry” from the December 2020 Whit Kit:  Winter Shake Up stamp set.

For the background, using Snow Many Flakes Toner Card Front, I got a little inky before foiling again with the Silver Glitter Transfer Foil {a Unity & Therm-o-web Collab that comes in gold too!}.  That bright red makes Cute Santa pop!

Hopefully these fun and colorful Christmas cards inspire some of your upcoming holiday cards… and some fun purchases.  Below is a list of Unity products used to create these cards.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have an inky weekend!

Happy Crafting!

 

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