Tuesday 27 August 2024

Shimmery Christmas card ideas using Yuletide Village from Stampin’ Up!®

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas

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.

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas

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. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas
 

For the backgrounds of both of these cards, I used Stampin’ Up!® Metallic Enamel Effects (161610) in copper. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas

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. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas
 

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. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas

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. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas
 

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. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas
 

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. 

Stampin Up Yuletide Village Christmas card ideas
 

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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