Christmas cards

I have been on a stamping hiatus for quite a while. My hobbies seem to have changed as happens to many. But this lovely stamp has never had the kiss of ink and I thought I would like to make some cards with it. Here are a couple of quick pics of the cards that I made using the Holly stamp from the Stampsmith. Have a wonderful Christmas.

Lucy Vacation Book

I submitted this ages ago to Stampington and now that it has been returned, thought I would share it with you. This book uses images from the Stampsmith Lucy plate and I thought it would be fun to see if I could turn them into a story.
















Hope you enjoyed the trip.


The images were stamped on glossy cardstock, and coloured with water based markers applied by paintbrush.

More Christmas cards

These cards are made with images from the new Oxford Impressions Christmas plate Sleigh Bells. This card expresses my wish for peace this Christmas.





This quote seems made for these boys.




This card makes use of the masking technique. The quote is from the St. Nicholas collection.






I was so happy to see this formerly retired image back in this collection. She is one of my favourites. The snowflake was cut on my KNK electronic die cutter.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Dress form christmas card

I had fun combining this image from the Oxford Impressions Dress Forms and Corsetry plate with the Christmas tree from the Sleigh Bells plate. I drew the lights on the form and coloured the whole thing with Copic markers and air brush.

Corset cards

I did this series of cards using images from Oxford Impressions' new plate, Dress Forms and Corsetry. These are kind of unusual for me as I am not a pink person generally but liked the colour for these images. The background were all done doing a kind of master sheet, randomly stamped with various images from the plate, using distress inks.

More sea cards

Continuing with The Deep plate from Oxford Impressions, I used actual reef photos and stamped images to create this undersea world.





I used amber crystals for the eyes on the octopus.





The seahorse also has a crystal eye. The sea creature images were stamped on glossy cardstock and coloured with waterbased and pigment markers.





I really enjoyed using my photos with the images. Regardless of how exotic the stamped images are, the reef is even more spectacular. I did have to soften the pictures so that the stamped images were not lost.

Deep Sea Voyage

Suzanne at Oxford Impressions has been doing plates that are steampunk in feel. These cards are done using images from The Deep plate, based on Jules Verne type sea images. The gentleman is from the Steampunk Elements plate. My version of a diving bell was done using my Klik N Kut to cut out the basic shape from cardstock. I covered it with metal tape and added dimension using Ten Seconds Studios metal tools and acrylic paint. The background was done with Ranger Colour Washes. The fish were stamped on cardstock, coloured with Copic markers and then embossed with clear embossing powder. I used prismacolour pencils for the sea weeds and corals.



Taking a cue from the ladies that use Stampscape stamped images in conjunction with photos, the diver was stamped onto a photo from a recent snorkelling trip. The porthole was cut and embossed with my Wizard and circular dies. I used the copic airbrush to create the wood look. Pencil crayon defines the individual boards.