Pink Christmas with Christmastime and Gloria!

Hi Friends! 

I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas!  I am still celebrating Christmas this week by sharing a few cards that I designed for Christmas using the December 2016 ArtisticOutpost (AO) release stamp sets, Christmastime and Gloria (both available at Our Daily Bread Designs).

This is a quick Mixed Media card that I am linking to the TGIF! Challenges #87 “I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas” along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "Anything Goes" Challenge and my second entry to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #31 “Merry & Bright” Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). Ink the AO Christmastime stamp with an embossing ink, stamp onto white cardstock and emboss with white embossing powder.

2). Using a water brush, apply a variety of pink and raspberry distress inks (I used spun sugar, victorian velvet, picked raspberry) to cover the white cardstock, gently wipe the ink away from the embossed areas.

3). Once the watercolor dries, apply additional ink with a sponge dauber to darken some of the areas around the ornaments.

4). Trim the panel, mount onto a piece of raspberry cardstock die cut and embossed with the ODBD Snowflake Sky Die and adhere to the white card base.

5). Add a bit of looped metallic silver thread to the area where you are placing the sentiment (I use hot glue to adhere).

6). Ink the sentiment from AO Gloria stamp set with embossing powder, stamp onto a piece of raspberry cardstock and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

7). Create the flag banner on the sentiment by cutting the “V” by hand, distress with your fingers a bit and mount onto the card front along with dimensional foam.

8). Use a clear glitter pen to add shimmer to the ornaments and add a few rhinestones to finish off the card.

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs to all of you and Happy New Year!

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Gloria

Merry Christmas! Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Merry Christmas, Sweet Friends! Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

In celebration of Christmas, I am sharing another Mixed Media Christmas card that I designed using the December 2016 Artistic Outpost (AO) release stamp sets, Christmastime and Gloria (both available at Our Daily Bread Designs).

I am linking this card to the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light ODBDSLC281 “Let’s BeSentimental” Challenge as well as the Deep Ocean #144 Silent Night Challenge and the Word Art Wednesday #262-#263 "Anything Goes" Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the other challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). Ink the AO Christmastime stamp with an embossing ink, stamp onto white cardstock and emboss with white embossing powder.

2). Using a water brush, apply a variety of brown inks (I used brushed corduroy, vintage photo and walnut stain) to cover the white cardstock, gently wipe the ink away from the embossed areas.

3). Trim the embossed panel, mount onto a piece of black cardstock, trim again, mount onto a piece of suede cardstock, trim once more and mount onto the white card base.

4). Ink the angel image and sentiment from AO Gloria with archival black ink, stamp onto white cardstock and heat set with the heat tool.

4). Using a water brush, apply the same variety of brown inks as above to the images and dry with the heat tool.

5). Fussy-cut the angels as well as the sentiment, mount all onto black cardstock, fussy-cutting along the edges.

6). Mount the angels and sentiment to the card front with dimensional foam and add shimmer with a clear glitter pen to the angel wings and ornaments.

7). Finish off the card with a few pearls in the corners.

 Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs to all of you and I hope you have a very blessed Christmas!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”  John 3:16 NKJV 

Jesus is the Perfect Son of God who came to earth born of a virgin to die on the cross for your sins and mine- what a wonderful free gift of salvation we have when we truly believe in Christ as our Savior!  I pray that you have accepted His free gift this Christmas season.

Gloria

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Vintage Christmastime

Hi Friends! 

Merry Christmas Eve, Eve :-)!  I will be sharing several Christmas cards over the next few days that were created with the December 2016 ArtisticOutpost (AO) release stamp sets, Christmastime and Gloria (available at Our Daily Bread Designs).

This card was designed using only the AO Christmastime background stamp and I am linking to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #31 "Merry & Bright" Challenge.

I had fun designing this card and it is a bit difficult to see all of the vintage crazing in the photo but it looks very "aged" IRL  :-)

If you have not had a chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the linked challenge site yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from my Design Team sisters on the AO Blog as well as the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge gallery!

To create this card:

1). Ink the AO Christmastime background stamp with various water-based markers, “huff” onto the ink to re-moisten before stamping onto a piece of vanilla cardstock.

2). Ink the ornaments only on the AO Christmastime background stamp with a red water-based marker, stamp onto a separate piece of vanilla cardstock and carefully cut out the ornaments (setting aside for now).

3). Using tea dye, vintage photo and walnut stain distress ink, carefully sponge the distrees inks onto the stamped AO Christmastime panel to “age” the paper.

3). Use a distressing tool to distress the edges and apply vintage distress collage medium over the entire panel.

4). Once the panel has dried, apply distress crazing medium over the entire stamped panel.

5). Distress the edges of a piece of artichoke cardstock, mount onto the vanilla card base and sponge vintage photo and tea dye distress inks over the edges to “antique” the paper.

6). Once the AO Christmastime panel has dried, add the cord cording and bow and mount the entire panel onto the card front.

7). Use an extra fine white paint pen to add highlights to the ornament strands.

8). Add the fussy-cut ornaments to the card front with dimensional foam, add gold bows along with pearls to finish off the card.

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs to all of you and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

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Peace on Earth

Hi Friends! 

I had a chance to create a quick Mixed Media card using Artistic Outpost (AO)  stamp sets, Christmastime and Gloria along with ODBD Pierced Rectangles Dies (all available at Our DailyBread Designs) and decided to incorporate the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #97 Kath's Colour Challenge into the design.

I love the elegance of this color combination and decided to create a two tone embossed card with silver and gold.  

I am also linking this card to the Inkspirational #124 Neutrals Only Challenge (hopefully gold and silver are considered neutral) as well as the CAS-ual Fridays #163 Christmas & Hanukkah Challenge :-)

If you have not had a chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the linked challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from my Design Team sisters on the AO Blog as well as the challenge galleries!

To create this card:

1). De-static two pieces of white cardstock with an embossing static tool, ink the AO Christmastime stamp and AO Gloria angel with embossing ink and stamp onto the prepared cardstock.

2). Apply gold embossing powder over the scroll area and ornaments as well as the body of the angel image, tap off the gold powder onto a piece of scrap paper (to funnel back into your container of embossing powder) and immediately apply silver embossing powder to all of the remaining areas before heating and embossing with the heat tool.

3). Trim the AO Christmastime embossed image and mount onto a piece of espresso cardstock (I die cut and embossed the espresso cardstock with the largest die from the ODBD Pierced Rectangles Dies).

4). Mount the panel onto the white card base and add the looped silver metallic thread.

5). Fussy-cut the AO Gloria angel image, mount onto a piece of espresso cardstock and fussy-cut again, close to the embossing (this gives the angel more stability to be mounted onto the card front).

6). De-static a piece of espresso cardstock, ink the sentiment from AO Gloria with embossing ink, stamp onto the prepared cardstock and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

7). Trim the AO Gloria sentiment and add the fish tail banner by hand.

8). Mount the AO Gloria sentiment and fussy-cut AO Gloria angel to the card front with dimensional foam to finish off the card.

Quick and easy and perfect for mailing or hand-delivery:-)

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs to all of you and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas week!

Gloria

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Artistic Outpost New Release- Christmastime and Gloria!

Hi Friends! 

Welcome to the December 2016 Artistic Outpost New Release and Blog Hop!  

This month, Artistic Outpost is releasing the new stamp set, Gloria along with the Christmastime background stamp (all items available from the Our Daily Bread Designs website) and I absolutely love the vintage style of both Gloria and Christmastime- beautiful on their own as well as together! 

 Since I know that you will want to see the inspiration from all of my Design Team Sisters in the AO Blog Hop, I will share the individual steps taken to create each card in a future blog post.

 My first card features the AO Christmastime stamp with gold embossing powder and distressing (this card just shimmers in real life so it was a bit difficult to photograph :-)).

My second card features the beautiful AO Gloria stamp set! I used the images in the AO Gloria stamp set to create my own background paper as well as the focal images and paired it with the Ornate Ovals Dies and Beautiful Borders Dies from Our Daily Bread Designs. 

I hope I have inspired you today and that you will have time to visit the rest of the Artistic Outpost Design Team Blogs:

Arvil  *  Terry  *  Lisa  

*   Julie (you are here)

Prize Information: Just for commenting on the Design Team Blog Posts, you have a chance to win a $15 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Website.  You have until December 9, 2016 at 10:00 PM CDT to leave comments on the participating AO DT blogs for a chance to win! One random winner will be selected from the comments left on the designers blogs, the winner will be announced on the AO Blog on December 10, 2016, be sure to check back there to see if you have won! 

Thanks again for stopping by- I hope you have a chance to comment (and possibly win) plus I cannot wait to see what you create with the new Artistic Outpost December 2016 Release! 

Hugs and have a great week, my friends!

Gloria

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ODBD Ornate Ovals Dies

Beautiful Borders Dies