The new Stampin’ Up!® Mini Catalogue is going live soon so today I have two projects to show you using the new Christmas Stampin’ Up!® stamp set Yuletide Village, along with some really fun techniques.
Yuletide Village features in the September-December Mini Catalogue, which goes live on 4 September 2024.
For these two cards, I have paired Yuletide Village with the sentiment stamp set Greetings of the Season, which is a Stampin’ Up!® Online Exclusive that’s available to customers right now.
I’m not sure the photos do these projects justice but I wanted to try some new techniques – new to me, at least.
For the backgrounds of both of these cards, I used Stampin’ Up!® Metallic Enamel Effects (161610) in copper.
I began by stamping the house and church from Yuletide Village in black ink on to white cardstock and colouring it in lightly using Blender Pens and ink pads.
Next I stamped the same image again on some masking paper/sticky note. I placed this mask directly on top of the original image then applied copper Metallic Enamel Effects on top, creating a coppery sky. For the house card I used a Blending Brush which created a lovely soft effect.
For the church card, I used a paintbrush to apply the copper Metallic Enamel Effects and I was less keen on the result. It wasn’t as easy to apply, either!
I removed the mask to reveal the image beneath, then applied some Shimmery White embossing paste from Stampin’ Up!® on the roof and ground, to create some sparkly textured snow.
Finally, I used some slightly diluted Stampin’ Up!® White Craft Ink to add some snowy dots on top of the coppery background. However, I would possibly advise against this as 48 hours later, they are still not dry! Maybe they’ll be dry by Christmas? I should invest in the other pack of Metallic Enamel Effects which includes a white bottle, as this dries very quickly.
Quite a lot of effort had gone into creating these Yuletide Village images so I kept the rest of the card clean and simple, with white layers on white card bases.
The words, from Greetings of the Season, are stamped in Pretty Peacock – which goes beautifully with copper – and Pebbled Path for contrast.
The result is two striking and shimmery cards for Christmas. I hope you like them!
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