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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Adding to Christmas Stash!

Hi everyone - hope you're having a great week! I'm popping in today with a couple of cards. First up - something for Christmas Kickstart #102 - Santa in September. I always need a vintage Santa in my stash:


Supplies: Paper - Recollections A2 card;
Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor;
American Crafts Christmas plaid
Stamps - Stampendous Jolly Santa
Other - Distress Inks; Glossy Accents; foam tape;
printed sentiment strip (SSS, I think);
Tim Holtz Christmas Snippets ephemera; 
stars are EK Success, I think

Stamped the Santa on watercolor paper and watercolored with Distress inks. Fussy cut and added to a buffalo plaid paper (yes, Betty - from our hoarded Target paper pad). Adhered the sentiment strips. What to add to finish the card? It look bare with just the Santa. Since vintage, I dug through my Tim Holtz stash and found some ephemera to add, plus some stars. Yay, that did it!! I'm not really happy with the watercoloring I did (some of the black ink smeared a bit) - oh well...

Next I have another winter wreath card, this time 4.25" square. I wanted to play along at Darnell's IDEAS - this week: Inks.


Supplies: Paper - Neenah Solar White;
scraps of silver, red glitter & green
Stamps - Recollections Mini Bows
Stamps with Dies - MFT Winter Wreath 
& Winter Songbird (retired/NIB)
Dies - Poppystamps Merry Christmas Moonlight Script
(retired but found HERE at Frantic Stamper)
Other - foam tape; Copics; Hero Arts inks

Stamped, die cut and colored the birds & wreath. Stamped, colored and fussy cut the bow. Trimmed an A2 card down to a 4.25" square and inked in from the edges, leaving the center palest. Die cut the sentiment, including a second outline in silver as a shadow. Assembled the card using foam tape on the sentiment and behind the bird heads. Sort of a lame use of inks to just ink the background but that's what I was feeling... I'll also share this card at Merry Little Christmas #64 where Anything Goes.

Two more cards for the Christmas stash - I'm up to 51 which isn't too shabby! Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a crafty week!!





4 comments:

Cat Craig said...

Two lovely festive cards for your stash.

Jeanne H said...

Oh, I really like the birds on a wreath card. :-)

Lisa Elton said...

Two cute cards, Linda! Love those sweet little birds!

Leslie Miller said...

Wow, 51! You're doing great! I don't think I have more than 20 so far. Need lots more! Your vintage Santa is such a beautiful classic, straight from Coca Cola, and the one that I grew up with for sure. Love the vintage ephemera and the buffalo plaid with him. I do love a wreath and birds, too. It's hard for me to pass up a cute or pretty bird stamp or die. Two beautiful cards, Linda, and I'm glad you shared your Santa with us at Christmas Kickstart!