Hi friends!
It’s Jarle here, and I am happy to be back on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog for my weekly project.
Today, I am featuring the Classy Christmas stamp set for an elegant Christmas card. I haven’t made many Christmas cards this year, so I was glad to have another one done!
I trimmed a piece of red cardstock to 3,75 by 5 inches. I went for Cranberry cardstock from Spellbinders. I prepped this panel with an antistatic powder tool, since I was going to be doing a lot of heat embossing.
I stamped different images from the Classy Christmas stamp set with Versamark ink onto the card panel. I used a regular stamping block instead of my Misti because I stamped those images a few times.
I sprinkled on gold embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.
Tip 1: Stamp, emboss and heat set in different sections. Only bring your heat gun to your cardstock when it is very hot so you don’t get any warping.
Tip 2: Wipe down your card panel with a cloth after embossing. This gets rid of the antistatic powder.
I took out my Polychromos pencils and colored all the images. I did very simple shading, with only 2 colors of green and 2 colors of blue. I was afraid that the cardstock was going to be too smooth for colored pencils, but it worked beautifully.
These are the colors I used:
– Blue: 149 & 152
– Green: 266 & 278
After that, I chose a sentiment from the Build A Greeting Holidays and heat embossed it as well on a strip of red cardstock. I popped up the sentiment onto my card panel.
I adhered the whole panel with foam tape on an A2 cardbase made of Oceanside cardstock (Spellbinders). Yes! Lots of dimension!
For a finishing touch I glued down a few Gold Jewels. I think this really finishes off the card.
Whenever I do gold embossing, I am always amazed on how beautiful and special the effect is. I hope you will give this a try!
Have a beautiful day!
Love, Jarle x
