(bright cheery music)
- [Kristina] Hi everyone, Kristina here.
Welcome to day two of the Holiday Card Series for 2017.
I'm using three different stamp sets
from Simon Says Stamp for today's card.
I'm using the Peace on Earth stamp set
with all these really great greetings in it.
I'm gonna be using that one that's really tall.
And then I'm also using the Lots of Stars
and Big Perfect Shapes.
Starting out by scoring four card bases.
This is a very simple card,
so I'm going to be creating the same design four times.
I'm using some 110-pound
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock,
as well as some 100-pound Neenah Desert Storm
environmental cardstock.
So I've scored that at five-and-a-half
to create top-folding cards.
And then now I've taken the large triangle stamp
from the Big Perfect Shapes stamp set,
and I'm stamping that
in some Simon Says Stamp Jellybean ink.
I'm stamping this triangle
centered near the bottom of the card.
And I'm going to stamp it with my Misti tool
so that I can mount the stamp once on the Misti door,
and then I can just slide in a new card base
every time I want to stamp a new card.
So this is a real time-saver,
especially if you have a lot of cards to make.
I usually make a lot of different kind of one-off cards
around the holidays,
so most of the people on my list,
every single person gets a different card.
However, sometimes it's a great idea
to have one or two really simple designs,
and just recreate multiples of that same design.
And having a Misti tool on hand to do that
is a really great option.
So I've stamped all of the bottom triangles
for my modern Christmas tree.
Now I've put that triangle stamp
on this transparency grid paper,
and I've just lined it up
so that the top of the triangle's
right on that vertical line.
And then I can slide the stamp
and transparency sheet around,
get it positioned just right,
close the Misti door, peel off that transparency sheet,
and then I can stamp a new color.
So by using that transparency sheet
and the grid on it to help line up the stamp,
I can really position that stamp perfectly
before I go into all the stamping.
So I'm stamping in some Audrey blue ink.
And my Audrey blue ink pad
is getting a little bit on the dry side.
I accidentally left it open
without the lid on for a little bit,
and so it's a little bit dry.
But I just double-stamp
and that fills in all of the gaps in the stamping.
So I did that on both colors of cardstock
for the card bases.
And I made sure to do two stampings
so I got a really solid triangle.
So then I'm gonna move onto the third triangle,
and I moved that up
and I'm using the Hot Mama color from Simon Says Stamp.
This is a really nice purple.
It's kind of like a really warm reddish-violet.
And I thought it would go perfect
with these other two colors.
So I'm gonna stamp this on the white cardstock bases
and also onto the Desert Storm
or the craft-colored cardstock bases.
And then I'm gonna go ahead
and pick out a star for the top of my tree.
I'm gonna have to pick out a star
from this Lots of Stars stamp set.
And I've decided to go
with the column of stars that are smaller,
and it's the second one from the top.
So the second-largest in the smaller column of stars.
And I've positioned that,
and then I'm going to come in with some Duckling ink.
This is a softer yellow.
It's not quite such a stark gold
as the Sunshine ink from Simon.
I thought this more muted color
would work best with the color scheme.
So I stamped the star twice,
just because it was a small image
and I wanted to make sure it was nice and solid.
And I did that for all four card bases
until all of them were complete.
So my idea behind this kind of mod tree
is that I would then stamp the large greeting
over the entire tree.
So I used that transparency grid
to help get my stamp on the Misti just perfect,
and then now I'm using some Versafine onyx black ink.
This is a really fine, detailed black ink.
It's perfect for intricate text like this.
And I'm stamping right over the top.
So if you wanted to, you could actually,
like for these white card bases
I would definitely use the black.
But if you wanted to switch to some white embossing
for the craft-colored card base, you definitely could.
You would just want to make sure
to let that Christmas tree image dry for a long time.
These inks really soak into the paper,
and while dry to the touch they do retain some moisture.
So it does cause a problem for heat embossing powder
unless you let it dry completely.
So I noticed as I was folding down these tree cards
that the trees weren't entirely centered on the card front,
and it was really bothering me.
So I decided to cut off the back of the card
so I could save that cardstock for another card,
and then trimmed down these images
so that they are actually three-and-three-quarters wide
by five inches tall.
And I'm going to put them on other card bases.
I'm just going to adhere them onto the other card bases.
So I'm using some Tombow Xtreme Adhesive,
just adding some lines of adhesive around the outer edges
and a couple in the center,
and then going, putting that straight on the card front.
And I decided to switch things up
and have the white stamped image
on top of a white base
and also on top of a craft base.
So technically these four cards are all different,
being that they're on different cardstocks
with different card bases,
but they're all essentially the same.
Thanks so much for watching today's video.
I hope this gave you a great idea for your holiday cards.
I will see you on Monday for day three
of the Holiday Card Series.
(gentle bright music)
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