November 24, 2021

'Tis the Season - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Hello Friends and welcome to my blog. Today I have a christmas card to share with you, designed with the new Blooms Collection and Florals 12 from Elizabeth Crafts.

I am in the mood for Christmas and wanted to create a few more Christmas Cards so I hope you enjoy this one.

I went into my EC stash and pulled out everything related to Christmas, to create this. I have a few steps here i can share with you on how i created this gorgeous card.

To begin with i used canson water color paper for my main background, smooshed some antique linen on my mat and pulled my background paper through that. (this measures 4 x 6 by the way) Stamping with CS146 as i felt it reminded me of the days of Christmas. I used Gold embossing powder form Nuvo and heat set that.

I inked around the edges with antique linen distress ink again just to add a bit of dimension. I added some splatters to the background using aged mahogony and the water brush woth the water color set.

I then set that aside to dry and got started on my blooms.

i stamped 6 of the poinsettia flowers from the Peace Bloom set, i wasnt sure at this point how many i was going to use, i just knew i wanted to use them. Stamping them with versa mark and then heat setting them with gold embossing powder. I then colored them with the water colors.

As it turned out i only used two of these on my final project.

I stamped the sentiment from CS101Classic Christmas Sentiments onto canson water color paper using black Archival Ink. I did the same smooshing technique to the sentiment as i did to my background.

Layering the main bckground with black, then gold mirri, red and kraft to coordinate with the colors in the background. I added some florals using the florals 12 colroing with aged mahogany and adding stamens to the centers.

i wanted to use the blooms from the Peace set as the background layer and added my florals 12 ontop of that both on the top and bottom.

i grabbed my favorite snow paste and just dabbed some of that around my card to give it that snowy look you see.

I added some colored seaming bind and some gold thread to tie this all together. I hope you have enjoyed my little step out tutorial today.

November 10, 2021

Merry and Bright - Mini Album - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Hello Friends and welcome to my blog. Today I have a mini album to share with you. I designed this using the Florals 12 on the cover along with indented stitched rectangles and stitched fishtails.

The inside boosts a few more of my favorites and i hope you enjoy.

The papers are from Stamperia - Classic ChristmasI love the vintage feel to the images in this collection and they were perfect for photo mats throughout the album.

inside cover and first page. I free hand drew the curves pockets on the inside front cover and used the indented rectangles as photo mats throughout the album.

page 2 and 3, indented rectangles used again for photo flips.

Above i used planner Essentials 16 and created a pocket from that large tree, Photo mats will fit in there. Same with the Small Villages on page 5. Photo mats will slip in under the houses and tress on that page.