Morning all!
I’m over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with another festive card project, this time using the lovely Christmas Sampler stencils from The Greetery.
Stamps: The Greetery – Written in Ribbons Holiday
Dies: The Greetery – Written in Ribbons Holiday, Lawn Fawn – Zig Zag Rectangle (r), The Greetery – PreText Banners
Stencils: The Greetery – Christmas Sampler
I started out by grabbing a panel of light grey cardstock to use as the “fabric” for my sampler.
I kept the colour palette minimal with a sage green, darker green, light grey, and light brown.
The Christmas Sampler stencils have a total of 6 steps to create the full background which includes trees, birds, baubles, and a little house. However, you can skip some of the elements and mask them off to pick out the designs you want to feature.
I just needed something to allow my sentiment to pop against a subtle background.
I also wanted to include some texture paste for the snowflake elements and fair isle border to add a little wintry detail, and I added additional snowy details with a white pen.
For my sentiments, I pulled out the Written in Ribbons Holiday stamps and coordinating dies. I love the hand-lettered look of these sentiments and how you can create different phrases with the stand-out words.
For festive pop, I used two tones of red to stamp the “Joy” sentiment.
The smaller greetings also fit on the PreText Banners dies, or you can simply stamp directly onto your card, or mix it up like I did!
Before assembling everything, I cut the sampler background down to size so that it would fit inside the largest of the Zig Zag Rectangle dies from Lawn Fawn (currently in the Bargain Basement – so once they’re gone, they’re gone!). The zigzag edge goes so well with the stitching theme.
The panel really stands out nicely against the jade card base.
Until next time, happy crafting!
 The Greetery – Written in Ribbons Holiday stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Written in Ribbons Holiday dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Lawn Fawn – Zig Zag Rectangle dies (r) Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 The Greetery – PreText Banners dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Christmas Sampler stencils Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Altenew – Limestone dye ink Shop at: MISC |
 Lawn Fawn – Pizza Crust ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK) |
 The Stamp Market – Aspen ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Cranberry ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Lipstick Red ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Matcha ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ (UK) | MISC | SBC |
 PTI – Soft Stone cardstock Shop at: MISC |
 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste – White Shop at: MISC |
 Uniball Signo White pen Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Bearly Art – Precision Craft Glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: SBC |
 Waffle Flower – 6.5 x 8.5 Grip Mat Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Detail blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
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