Glad Tidings 2 Step Stamping Video

 

Hello, Crafters.

Today's video features the Glad Tidings card I shared here a couple of weeks ago. 

A little while ago I ran out of the Solid Red Ribbon and haven't re-ordered yet............I keep forgetting! 

So in the meantime I've been using a retired ribbon, and today I had the last 12+ inches left, with which I had to make two "bunny ears" bows. 

The first was no problem, but I didn't think I was going to make the second one! 

But I took it slowly, and persevered, and much to my surprise, I succeeded - for all to see on the video! LOL!

One thing I have learned about making videos is that it's a bad idea to re-ink an ink pad immediately before starting! 

My Wild Wasabi was amazingly dry but it held up well. 

I really must remember to re-ink my pads when I'm tidying up after crafting, not when I'm first starting!

I also wanted to share the Snowflake card I showed on my last video, which was about using the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets.

You may know that in my Die Storage Folders,on the back of the magnetic sheets,I adhere a piece of card so I can adhere one each of the die cuts in each set of dies. 

I find this amazingling helpful, especially when I'm looking for a particular shape e.g. door handle and hinges for my recent card of the wreath on the door. 

For the Snowflake card, I wanted to know what the negative die cut looked like, but this wasn't something I'd kept!

The first thing I did was to go through all the die sets to see which ones had a suitable snowflake, and then I die cut them to see what the negative looked like. 

I wrote the name of the die set on each piece of card - so I didn't end up confused! - and have now filed them with the die sets. 

I chose four different dies for my card, and they were from Seasonal Layers Framelits Dies and Seasonal Tags Framelits Dies.

The NOEL is from the Christmas Stockings Framelits Dies, which has a thin strip of cardstock which fits across the width of a regular A6 card, but I trimmed it down for my card so I could have a snowflake towards the bottom of my card. 
 
I saved the Whisper White snowflake die cuts and adhered one inside my card. I made it stand out by painting it with my Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Pen.

I finished my card by adding a Basic Rhinstone in the centre of each snowflake. 

My UPS delivery arrived nice and early yesterday at 9.30 am - it normally arrives at lunch time!

It was my regular UPS man and he explained he had a 10.30 am delivery at a house a few doors down, so he thought he'd drop mine off, too! 

He also said it'd clear a bit of space too, as it was three boxes of Stampin' Up! goodies!

Just two days to go before I set off for the Stampin' Up! OnStage Convention in Birmingham and still have a lot to do, so until tomorrow, happy crafting!

JanB.

Good Tidings

Hello, Crafters.

I had a busy day yesterday preparing projects for today's class. 

A lot of my regulars aren't able to attend as they're away this weekend, which is half-term for the children. 

One of my newer ladies isn't very well at the moment, and asked if she could pay for the lesson and receive the kit, which is what we're doing! 

I have toyed with doing classes in the mail for quite a long time, but just don't have enough time to give it my all! 

However, selling kits from my classes should be doable, so if this idea appeals to you, please let me know. 

If it looks as if it would be popular, I will try and make it happen! 

Please note that Stampin' Up! rules only allow me to sell class kits to crafters with addresses in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Austria - I'm truly sorry!

Once I had everything ready for today, I had time to sit and make a card to share with you today.

There are two things I particularly like about the Good Tidings Stamp Set.

Firstly, it's a two-step stamping stamp set, and this is one of those areas where Stampin' Up! really shine!

Secondly, when I'm making Christmas cards I love working with the red and green of holly and berries!

My starting idea for today's card was to stamp the large holly and berry branch, on either side of a landscape top layer, on Whisper White Cardstock (CS).

Then I wanted to have a strip of black and white Designer Series Paper (DSP) from top to bottom, with the Good Tidings sentiment sitting on it.

I started by practising stamping the holly - a total of six stamps and three colours - on scrap paper.

When I was happy, I stamped the relief (main) holly stamp in Wild Wasabi Ink, and then the full (background) stamp in Wild Wasabi Ink stamped off once.

For the berries, I stamped the relief stamp in Real Red Ink, and then the full background stamp in Real Red Ink stamped off once.

Then I used Soft Suede Ink for the two stamps which are branches for the holly.

The relief stamp also stamps little dots of ink onto the tops of the berries - such attention to detail!

Then I used Soft Suede Ink stamped off once for the full branch stamp.

I stamped the sentiment in Real Red Ink, and die cut it using the largest Stitched Shape Oval Die. 

Then I adhered it to a layer of Wild Wasabi CS that I'd die cut using the largest Scalloped Layering Oval Die!

Using Dimensionals, I adhered it in the centre of the top layer, and finished the look by adding two small ribbon bows on the base of the holly branches. I was happy!

I adhered the top layer to a layer of Wild Wasabi CS, and then onto a Whisper White CS card base. 

Inside the card, I adhered a layer of Whisper White onto a layer of Wild Wasabi, and then onto the inside of the card. 

I decorated the bottom right hand corner using the holly and berry stamps - twigs as opposed to the larger branches - that were in this stamp set.

I hope you have a super weekend, and until tomorrow, happy crafting!

JanB.