This is my second post for today! For my Lawnscaping solo post please scroll down or click here. Also to celebrate the new MarkerPop design team we’re giving away 5 $20 gift certificates. For more information and to enter click here!
Good morning and welcome back to the second week of my Christmas in July video tutorial series! You can find week 1 here! This week I wanted to focus on using dies to create dimension and texture and my cards use very little stamping (only the sentiment). This is another design that would be easy to mass produce and there are endless color possibilities.
I made a similar card last year and I really liked the way it turned out so I thought it would be a good card to recreate with a video tutorial. You can watch the video below or in HD at my YouTube channel!
To start I die-cut the deer from gold shimmer cardstock. I wanted a little shimmer but not the effect of glitter paper and this metallic cardstock from PTI is perfect! The deer die has a cut edge on the bottom (to create the ground) and can be extended on either side by fussy-cutting the edge. I cut a softly arching hill for my deer to stand on. Next I ran the coverplate die through my BigShot to create that faux stitched texture. It reminds me of wind!
Then I cut two hills from white cardstock using the hillside borders dies. I trimmed the stitched background to an 1/8″ of an inch short of an A2 size and then adhered it to a white card base. Next I adhered the largest hill. I applied ATG gun tape and two way zig glue to my deer and set it aside to let the glue dry. The two way glue is permanent when wet but repositionable when dry. I used enough of the ATG gun tape to securely adhere the deer to my card but the zig glue is perfect for adhering the delicate antlers. Allowing it to dry slightly means that no glue will squish out around the sides of the antlers.
Finally I stamped the sentiment with versamark on the smaller white hill, heat-embossed it with gold or silver embossing powder, and adhered it to my card. In the video I mentioned trying different color combinations and after I finished the video I decided to try those colors. I really like the hot pink and navy combination you can see in one of the above photos and I also tried mint and peach!
I really like unexpected colors combinations for holiday cards but, of course, gold and silver are classics, too! 😉
P.S. Fun fact, the music on my video today is performed by yours truly on my harp! This month I’ll be using tracks off of my solo Christmas album on my holiday card tutorial videos and I hope you enjoy them! ?
To help get you in the holiday spirit I have a crafty package of a few supplies that I’ve used to create each card this month. The total contents of the package will be a surprise for the recipient but is valued over $30 (technically it’s $45 now…I found a few interesting things to add in)! To enter leave a comment on each of my Christmas in July posts and this week, let me know your favorite holiday tradition (if you don’t celebrate Christmas, let me know your favorite seasonal tradition)! ? US and international entries welcome!
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They are amazing and fabulous Christmas cards, Jess. Love the stitched backgrounds and deer 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition is putting up Christmas tree as family on the Sunday after Thanksgiving and doing Advent reading together, too.
Elegant card with the deer! Love it! I have 3 does and 5 fawns in my yard these days… so fun to watch the babies play!
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking about 4 or 5 types of cookies to share with friends and neighbors!
lovely cards especially deer dies and hills…We go to midnight mass
Such a fab design and love seeing it in different colour combos. Really love the texture in the background too, makes such a difference. One tradition is I always make a trail of lollies from each childs bed to the Xmas tree on Christmas Eve. Its gotten a little harder since we now have two dogs but the kids still get a kick out of seeing the trail. Will be so sad when they don’t believe anymore and I don’t think it will be long till this happens……
I love this card! Silver is my favorite, but the other colors look great, too 🙂 I really like driving around the neighborhood looking at all the Christmas lights. There is even one house that times their lights to songs on the radio!
Lovely cards! The one with the silver deer is my favorite! 🙂
Such beautiful and classy Christmas cards! Love the texture and design and color combos!!
My favourite holiday tradition is decorating the tree whilst eating mince pies and drinking mulled wine.
A couple of traditions that we have, stay at the hotel on the beach. We go to enjoy Christmas with the grandkids and our kids.
I really like your style! It’s simple and serene…so pretty! My favorite holiday tradition is simple too. It’s just being with family and the ones we love.
These cards are right up my alley!! LOVELOVELOVE them all!! We are a family of outdoors men and women and these cards would be a hit all around! Thanks for the inspiration!
My favorite Holiday Tradition is one that was passed down through my husband’s family. They always place a fresh orange in everybody’s stockings! We have taken over that job since his father passed away and I won’t ever let this tradition die.
What great Christmas cards!!!!!
Beautiful cards!
My favorite Christmas tradition is the Christmas dinner:-)
Chic, Classy and awesome Christmas cards – love that you are doing this series – it is really inspiring me to get some Christmas cards done early!! You are just so very amazing!!! My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the Christmas tree together as a family on the first Monday of December!! On the Saturday before that we go as a family and pick out a tree – love Christmas Time!!
All of the cards in the various colors are lovely!
Your background music is beautiful! We always open gifts by started with the youngest person to the oldest! It takes longer but we can see everyone’s reaction to the gift!
This card is superbly classy! And, the music is divine. Trimming the tree is my favorite holiday tradition.
This is a really pretty card and I love the silver one, but I think it will also very pretty in other colours, maybe light blue…
My favorite Christmas tradition is to decorate the Christmas tree and I also love to look to a Christmas service on televison, because my health is not well enough to go to the Church, I love to hear and see al the singing and the music.
Beautiful card! My favorite is the one with the gold! My favorite Christmas tradition was caroling. Haven’t done it in eons but I liked it.
Cute and inspiring and thankful to already have some of those supplies. One of my traditions is helping Mom set up her Christmas village collection which takes several hours.
Love the background on this great card.
Just watched your video and not only did I like your idea of using mainly dies for your card with just the stamping of the sentiment but your music is so soothing. What amazing talent you have-both musically and artistically!
BTW my fav. holiday tradition is putting the decorations on the tree with my kids with Christmas music blaring!
Awesome design for mass-production indeed and love how you used non-traditional colors, they look so elegant! So wonderful to hear you playing the harp ?????? My favourite Christmas tradition is me and my sister decorating the tree at our parents, digging for the decorations from our childhood
Lovely cards. I like the blue and silver; and the mint and peach.
I started a family tradition when my daughter was born 24 yrs ago. I bought her a special tree ornament for her first christmas and have bought an ornament every year since. When my granddaughter was born I did the same thing for her, she is now 6yrs old. We just had another grandbaby in Nov. 2015 so she got her 1st. ornament last christmas. I started this tradition in my family and my daughter continues with her girls. Needless to say , I have enough ornaments for two trees going on three.
What a great card! I love the silver and gold deer versions.
My favorite Christmas tradition is having a big Christmas eve dinner of seven different kinds of fish which is typical in Italy, where my family is from.