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Stampendous/Dreamweaver Thursday - Create Christmas

9/10/2015

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Are you having fun with Create Christmas stamp set this week?  We sure are!

One of the loved traditions of Christmas season is finding the perfect evergreen tree and decorate it with treasured ornaments and accessories. Now we can create a grove of fun Christmas trees in assorted styles and decorations with two new products from our July 2015 catalog.

Here's my vintage romantic Create Christmas card today:
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I wanted to create a pink tree, which was the first step in my card design.  Usually, on Dreamweaver Thursdays, I design with the stencil first, but I couldn't be happier with the final results of this card.  I was thinking retro vintage and made the background paper with the Creative Palette, acrylic paints and a re-inker.  As usual, I made a bunch of papers to have on hand later.  I also made light and dark hues of pink papers so they weren't all identical.  The excess papers went in my 'Dreamweaver' stash drawer.

 After heat embossing the tree in Sparkle Puff embossing powder, it was diecut with the matching Create Christmas diecut set.  The sparkly ornaments were made with Glue Dots, a straw with the end cut at an angle, and micro glitters from the Christmas Micro Glitter set.  Push the glitter into the Glue Dot with a piece of the release paper or wax paper.  I actually used a silicone tool that is used with glue guns.  Not sure where to place the Glue Dots?  Here's my trick:  I stamped a second tree and placed sequins in the areas where the glue dots would go with my craft tweezers.  Using sequins, I could re-position them for better visual balance.  Once they were in place, I referred to the sample as I affixed the Glue Dots to my pink tree.  TIP:  Bring the paper tree to the Glue Dot rather than try to push the Glue Dot dispenser onto the tree.  I tried lifting them off with craft tweezers, but because they are really gummy, they lost their shape as they were pulled off the release paper.

Season of Joy stencil is 6-1/4 inches tall and I decided to mask off the sentiment and star area to reduce my card size to 5-1/2 inches tall.  The background was pasted with regular white paste and while wet, was sprinkled with Crystal Micro Glitter from the Christmas Micro Glitter Kit.  Once dry, it was trimmed to 4-1/4 x 5-1/8.  'Tis the Season was heat embossed with Versafine Ink and Detail Gold.  

The finished pink panel was mounted on Mixed Media White cardstock.  I added a Maya Road star pin to the back of the tree with a Glue Dot.  Gold floral wire was tied in a bow under the star.  Two strips of 3M Foam mounting tape was adhered to the tree and affixed to the pink stencil panel.
Stampendous Products:
CRS5080      Cling Create Christmas
DCS5080      Create Christmas Die Set
DWLX7016   Season of Joy Stencil
DWDEP         Regular White Embossing Paste
DWDPK         Palette Knife
DWLM2010  Paste Spreader
MGK02          Christmas Micro Glitter Kit
EP525            Sparkle Puff
VM0001        VersaMark Inkpad
DP102           Detail Gold Embossing Powder
SSC1147       Tis the Season Perfectly Clear Stamps

Other Products:
Glue Dots Dot N Go
Maya Road Star Pin
Gold Floral Wire - Craft Store
Thank you for stopping by today and leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!

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Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products.  They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils, Stampendous stamp, Mixed Media Paper, Micro Glitter, Detail Embossing Powder, Glue Dots, and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.
5 Comments
Janelle Stollfus link
9/10/2015 12:41:31 pm

Wow, that tree and stencil go so well together. Love the nontraditional pink color, so sweet.

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Stampendous Stamps link
9/10/2015 01:16:39 pm

This is a gorgeous card! Completely love the stenciled background and the glue dot ornaments. Thank you for sharing today!

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VikiB
9/10/2015 01:48:04 pm

This is such a gorgeous card! I love the sparkle and the star is so pretty.

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Pam Hornschu link
9/13/2015 01:43:50 pm

Love this! Thanks for sharing your tips and techniques for creating this beautiful card, Lyn!

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Pam
9/13/2015 03:14:01 pm

This is gorgeous! I am in love with the colors. So much beautiful sparkle, Lyn. The stencilled background is amazing.

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