2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

Case - Copy And Share Everything and that is why one should purchase the Stampin' Up! catalogues.  Today's project is cased from an old Stampin' up! holiday catalogue and focuses on the retired Stampin' Up! Christmas set "Joyful Christmas" a poinsettia with greetings.

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

Instructions
The cards are a square, the backing card, created out of Cherry Cobbler textured cardstock (now retired). 
I embossed the poinsettia in embossing powder - pewter for the above example, on cherry cobbler card stock and then I cut out the image.
For this example I the used some watered down shimmer paint to add dimension to the centre petals.
The poinsettia is then adhered with dimensionals to a piece of embossed Whisper White, which was lightly sponged in a coordinating colour - the above example in Old Olive.
This assembly was then adhered to the cherry cobbler backing card with sticky strip.
The greetings were then added, the "merry" being a wafer thin die, run through the Big Shot machine and the "Christmas" a stamp.
The centre can be dressed with a button, embellishment of your choice, pearls or rhinestones...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

Variations of this include using different embossing folders and colouring the pearls...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

 The gold leaves are the excess from the Y when the die punched out "Merry"...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

 Another combination, the powder embossing is done in gold...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

 Rhinestones and gold embossing powder were the features of these and I popped the centre petals with dimensionals to add dimension...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Joyful Christmas

Oh how I love this set, even now.....

Yours in paper craft

Christmas Card - Stampin' Up! "Festive Flurry" on ink pad drag

Ink Pad drag is one of my favourite techniques, in that it is so easy to create a lovely backgrounds.  I used this technique with the gorgeous Stampin' Up! snow flake stamp set of Festive Flurry (WM131778 / CM131781) and the greeting from Joyful Christmas (WM 131802 / CM131805) and the result is clean, crisp and so easy to recreate in mass.  I made around 100 of these in 2 hours.

 Island Indigo and Costal cabana on Pool Party background...

I added Dazzling Details 124117 to the flakes and it made the Ink colour so much darker...and glittery

Real Red, Melon Mambo and Blushing Bride on Pink Pirouette background...

A Crafty Cat:  Stampin' Up! Christmas cards with festive flurry on an ink pad drag.

The colours died on this one, Marina Mist on a Tempting Turquoise background...

A Crafty Cat:  Stampin' Up! Christmas cards with festive flurry on an ink pad drag...yesssss more Dazzling Details

Purples, this gave the most unusual colours - Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder and Perfect Plum on Wisteria Wonder Ink Pad Drag...

A Crafty Cat:  Stampin' Up! Christmas cards with festive flurry on an ink pad drag.

Although in some instances the same colours were used on the snow flake and background, there is a significant colour difference because the drag gives a thinner application AND for the background drag I used the old pads to ensure I got that textured / lined background.  This is especially evident for the above cards with the third card closed showing that I had in fact used Wisteria Wonder.

Two days until Christmas and I still have so much to share with you.  Unfortunately I've not been able to achieve posting all the cards I wanted before Christmas simply because I have crashed with chronic fatigue.  I am up and down like a yo yo, so bare/bear with me and know there is more to come x x x