POLKADOODLES TUTORIAL CHRISTMAS CARD WITH THE FANCY BAUBLE AND MORE XXX

Hello there it is my Turn (Terry) to show you how you can easily make a beautiful Christmas card.

I started by editing a piece of cardstock with 4 colors of acrylic paint with my brayer. I wanted to use green, orange, purple and white, but to my surprise the main color really turned purple with some white. If you look closely you can still see some green through it but the orange color has really disappeared hahah

And here from upclose so you can see the bits of green .......so I thought I would continue with purple and white colors, I love the color purple so no worries at all....

Of course only purple and white paint in the background becomes a bit dull, so I thought I'd have to take out the Texture Galore stamp set and stamp it on the card with the Distress ink here and there. 

And what I did afterwards, I punched the Craft Die Fancy Bauble and glued it to the card. When it was a bit dry......

                               

 I treated the Baubles with Crackle to give it a glassy look. If you look closely on the picture you can see that it has this glassy look. I still had the idea that it was not finished on the background so I stamped a little star all over my card with the Purple Distress Ink and also I used the Doodle Borderstamp set all around my card and I even could hang up my Baubles how about that....those stamps are so versatile...I think everyone has that feeling sometimes when you are working on your project and you look at your background that you think it  is not "full" enough hihih

And with the Gnome 25 December stamp set stamped on my Christmas Card it was finished....I am pretty pleased about it. I hope I have been able to give you some inspiration again and have shown that you can make a pretty Christmas Card with not too many stamps or dies.  Now of course I am very curious what you will make with acrylic paint, stamps and distress ink.

And I have played with these amazing products:

Gnome 25 December Stamp set

Fancy Bauble Craft Die

Holly Flourish Stamps

Cute as Christmas Clear Stampset

Textures Galore stamp set

Distress Ink

Acrylic Paints

Doodle Border Stamp set

If you are looking for other Christmas Supplies you can check them out, just click the linky and you will find all your Christmas products YAY

Thank you so much for checking out my Tutorial and have FUN

I would like to join into the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge, Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, Challenge 123 Christmas

QKR Stampede, Challenge #373

Cardz 4 Galz, #110 Get ready for Christmas

Crafty Creations, Challenge ##402 Anything Goes

POLKADOODLES TUTORIAL ON HOW TO MAKE A QUICK CHRISTMAS CARD WITH STARS XXX

Hi There it is my turn (Terry) to post a little tutorial on the 

Polkadoodles Inspirational Blog, 

Today I have a Christmas Card covered with Snowflakes for you......

I started out with 3 different colors of blue, This time I made a Christmas card with blue Snowflakes instead of White, something else right? So did you ever make Blue Snowflakes instead of the traditional white ones? This time I opted for a simple card that can be made quickly. That's very nice if you started making Christmas cards late. 

This time I worked with 2 different stencils in the background. Distress ink works perfectly with the Polkadoodles stencils. The first one I used is the Snowflake Border Stencil  . 

The different sizes of snowflakes work very well for this card, I can say that I am pretty pleased with it. Sure hope that you like it too though.

...I stamped the tiny star with the Holly Flourish Stampset. 

And to finish my card I stamped the Sentiment from the  There's Snowplace like Home stamp set from on my Christmas Card. Before I glued it onto my card I placed a dark blue cardstock underneith so the Sentiment would pop out of the card....and I think it does....what do you think?? Did it work out? Or not.....Please tell me all about it oke ...

So this was my inspirational Tutorial for your inspiration, offcourse I cannot wait untill you show what you have made. 

Thank you so much and please show you Christmas cards, I can't hardly wait....

Thank you for your time and have fun Crafting...

The products that I have played with are:

Snowflake Border Stencil

Holly Flourish Stamp set

Snowflake Garden Stampset

and 

Check out ALL the Christmas Stamps from Polkadoodles right under this link

I would like to join into the following challenges:

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, Anything Goes

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge, Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge

Craft Galore Encore Challenge

Merry Little Christmas Challenge, Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #10

WE LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE #11, ANYTHING CREATIVE MIXED MEDIUM GOES WITH POLKADOODLES

Hi there, crafters out there.....did you know.....that we

 Have a NEW challenge over at the 

WE LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE BLOG

I have made a Christmas Card for your inspiration. I thought you could use some more inspiration for making your Cards for this Christmas. Have fun......I know I did....

I started out wtih a piece of cardstock and colored it with Distress Inks and when it was dry to lighten my paper up a bit I, played with Acrylic Paint and Gesso. I thought the color came out just the way I wanted it to be, light with a bit of purple in there.....What I did next was, I looked at the Christmas stampsets that had different shapes and sizes snowflakes in it. It took me about 6 different Christmas Stampsets to get the ones that I wanted to stamp on my Card. So I played with different colors purple and with differents sizes and shapes and stamped them randomly on my background. Untill I was finished and happy with the result. 

So after I was finished stamping and glueing my background on another piece of cardstock I had to choose again......this time I had to choose if I wanted the Christmas sentiment to be on a piece of cardstock and then onto the card OR......I would glue the Sentiment without cardstock on the card....Sometimes it is very difficult to choose and if you have doubts you simply do it twice, hahaha that is my motto. So I just cut out the Christmas sentiment twice with the Dies and put them 1 on 1 on the card and looked at what I thought was nicer. So .... I chose only the text, without the cardstock

So like this .... I made the letters a bit shiny by going over them with the Glitterpen. You can't see it on the picture I am afraid but trust me in "real" life the letters have a shiny feel over it. 

So this is my finished card for this month's challenge, I sure hope you like it and hopefully I can give you some inspiration for making your own Christmas Cards, It would be great if you could show it I am curious what you are going to make.

The Polkadoodles Products I have worked with: are

Texture Gallore Clear Stamp Set

Merry Christmas Craft Die

Doodle Borders Clear Stamp Set

Snowflake Garden Stampset

Heartfelt Tree Stamp Set

Winter Flurries Stamp Set

Holly Flourish Stamp Set

Cute as Christmas Clearstamp

Craft Glue Pen

Thank you for visiting my blog and if you want to participate in the Challenge then come on over to the We Love To Create Challenge Blog and have fun creating your Project.

Hugs Terry xxx

I would like to join into the following challenges:

Crafter's Castle, November Challenge

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #103

Classic Design Team Open Challenge #11

Love To Craft Challenge Blog, LTCCB#40

Mix It Up Challenge Blog, MIUCB#31

The Crafting Challenge, November-Anything Goes

POLKADOODLES INSPIRATIONAL BLOG, POINSETTIA LACE DIES AND CHRISTMAS STAMPS

Hey there guys, it is MY TURN, Terry, 

to post a Tutorial on the Polkadoodles Inspirational Blog

The funniest thing happened.....I just realized that it does not take that long before it is Christmas so I thought that I would make this project a Chistmassy one. I was ready for my first picture of the products that I have used, I had in my mind these products....but....as you will see a few pictures down the post, it turned out Different than I had in mind lol....but anyways, I worked with the fabulous Poinsettia Lace Dies, they are AMAZING. Placed the dies in my Big Shot and they were cut out perfectly....You will notice why and what when you check out my Tutorial....

I chose 3 Stars from the Poinsettia Lace Dies and I wanted to give them a light blue color because Christmas makes me think NOT only of white from the snow but also the Light blue and it is a different color than usual.... So I sprayed lots of water on the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. 

And because I wanted to let the Poinsettia Lace (stars) look a bit different than "normal" I used a bit of shaded lilac on them too....

I added the Nuvo Glitter Drops and Jewel Drops on the stars because I wanted to give them a bit of Glitter and make them even more light Blue than with only the Distress Ink. So what do you think about these "stars"? I call them stars because I think they look like them, what about you??

I played with Distress Oxide inks on my background for the card, because I think they blend so nicely together....I used purple, reddish, white and blue. When I put the distress ink on it and it was dry, I started working with chlorine. I wanted to know if that would also make the color lighter, I thought my background for a Christmas card was a bit too dark. And quess what....it worked out the way I wanted it to be lol..... So after that...... I played with the Snowflake Border Stencil with Transparant Texture Paste, if you look at the picture of my background you can see the Snowflakes coming up to the front, Can you see them? 

At first I had a bit of a problem with the Transparanty lol....so what I did to fix it was.... I grabbed my paintbrush and put Gesso on it and what happened the snowflakes came a bit more to the foreground, problem solved.

So now you can see the Transparant snowflakes can't you? 

Perhaps you ask yourself why did she post this picture? Well it is because I wanted to show you that there is a blue piece of cardstock behind my colorfull background. Can you see it?

And I played a bit with the Doodle Borders all around my card.....

I thought my card was missing something and then I figured out that the Holly Flourish Stampset has such fabulous curly stamps in the stampset and I just had to use them...At first I wanted to stamp with White Ink but when I did you could not even see it...then I thought I would stamp with the Black ink and when it was dried up I would put the Nuvo Glitter on top of it, if you click on the picture I hope you can see it...so another "problem" solved lol......

And I placed the Sentiment 25 December from the Gnome stamp set on it to finish my card. I embossed the sentiment in white. So and this is finished project, so YOU like it ????? I do lol....and might I asked you IF you would make a card like this who would you sent it to? I would love to see YOUR projects guys and I would LOVE to see YOUR version of it....

Thank you for visiting the blog and sure hope to see your projects. 

Some products that I have played with are:

25th December Stamp

Craft Dies Poinsettia Lace Dies

Craft Glue Pen

Doodle Borders

Holly Flourish Stampset

Snowflake Border Stencil

Thank you for watching guys....

I would like to join into the following challenges:

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #171

Crimbo Crackers, Challenge #194

Fab 'n Funky Challenges, Challenge #450 Christmas

Cute N'Crafty Christmas,Challenge #18

Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes, Simon Wednesday Challenge Blog

The corrosive challenge blog, Challenge #9, Anything Goes