Happy Wednesday! Today I wanted to share a quick and easy stamped Christmas card project!
Last month Anna and I went to a Christmas fair here in Hamburg—the booths stocked all kinds of craft supplies, and I happened to see a stamp company remembered from when I lived in Amsterdam. They’re called Different Colors, and they make beautiful wood-mounted stamps that are mostly sold in stores in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria, and at craft fairs like the one I attended. I love their designs and picked up the holly and pine at the show, and thought it would be fun to combine them with an Altenew sentiment and markers. Take a look!
Merry Christmas Card, what you need—
Stamps: Hust (holly), Dennentak (pine branch): Different Colors
Merry Christmas stamp: Happy Holidays from Altenew
Alcohol markers: Set A from Altenew
Breeze ink: Different Colors
White, red cardstock
Brown bakers twine
Foam tape
Merry Christmas Card, how to make it—
- Use Breeze ink to stamp the pine randomly on a piece of white card. Trim and mount the top and bottom edges on red card, then glue across the card blank.
- Stamp the holly on white card. Color the leaves with G702. Use G715 to trace along the detail areas of the leaves. C
- Color the berries with R304. Use R318 to line along the edge of the berries. Use R304 to blend the line
- Stamp Merry Christmas and use R304 to color in the outlined letters. Ink the edges of the stamped piece with Breeze.
- Mount the sentiment on red and wrap the bottom corner with bakers twine. Add a bow. Wrap the fold of the card with bakers twine and tie in a bow at the top left corner.
So simple…and such fun to make! (I think this would be an easy design to create in multiples, too.) Enjoy!
