Inspired by Awesomely Artistic stamp set

I have been asked to showcase the Awesomely Artistic stamp set at a special in-home class. In the process of coming up with some designs for cards and also incorporating the Envelope Punch Board.
I came up with some lovely Christmas cards that I had produced for my last class. As I said in a previous post, not everyone has a lot of Christmas images. They may have the words but nothing to go with them, so I decided to create Christmas cards out of regular stamp images.

By placing a scrap piece of paper circle as a mask and stamping around the edge you get a wreath.

 

Pop a Christmas greeting inside, add a bow and there you have a truly lovely card.

These type of cards I have made before, it is the Spotlight technique. Stamp the main image in Basic Black and then choose a colour for the spotlight, I chose Watermelon Wonder for the square spotlight and Real Red for the circle. I mounted the spotlight piece on coordinating card making it just a smidgen bigger.

 

I decided to show a square spotlight for those people that have not got circle punches. I like the circle spotlight better but if you don't have the tools, you don't have to miss out, just cut out a square. I think it works well, don't you?

I forgot Christmas

Well actually I didn't really forget Christmas. I just forgot to post my last class for the year in which we made some lovely Christmas gifts.

Dare chocs, wine and tinsel all set the scene. Of course my favourite tool the Envelope Punch Board had to perform for us. We made delightful gift cards and a little holder for them.

Cards and kisses

Here are the cards  we made for Christmas in July, Stamp a Stack. We made 2 each of 4 different styles and then one that was a little fiddly.
The stocking card used the Stitched Stocking stamp set and the Builder stocking punch. We stamped 2 stockings out in Old Olive and one in Real Red. Then used Tombow glue on the toes, heel and top of stocking and then dipped into gold glitter.
The green strip was embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder and then the strip and the stockings were attached to Letters to Santa DSP onto Real Red Card. Finishing the card off with the Very Merry sentiment from the Short and Sweet stamp Set.

The Joy card used the Welcome to Christmas stamp set. I really love this set. The Whisper White card was embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder and adhered to Real Red card . We stamped the Wreath with Wild Wasabi and then stamped Joy in Real Red. Then we stamped Joy again on Whisper White and cut out the letters and stuck on using dimentionals to give it a 3D look. This was then adhered to the Wild Wasabi green card and then using dimentionals it was adhered to the Whisper White.

The Peace on Earth card used the Merry and Type stamp Set and the Striped embossing folder and Oval Frame embossing folder. The Christmas ornaments were stamped with Versamark and then clear embossed on River Rock card. Used a strip of Pumpkin Pie wrapped in Crumb Cake Seam Binding ribbon. Finishing the card off with ripping around the oval and adding half pearls.
With the Seasons Greetings card we glued different sized strips of Letters to Santa DSP and then cut out shape using the Top Note in the Big Shot. The little Christmas wreath was added to the Old Olive Scallop circle and adhered to the strips with dimentionals. The Seasons Greetings was stamped in Real Red and then the strip was folded to form a banner. Cute ey?
Finally the fiddly one, phew we were pretty tired by this time. The Wreath was made from leaves in  Wild Wasabi and Garden Green. We used the Build a Bird punch for the leaves. The leaves formed the circle and then it was adhered to the Real Red card. Seasons Greetings from Welcome Christmas stamp set was stamped in Real Red on to the bottom of the Whisper White card and then the top layer added. What a night. What fun. What great people. We had a ball.