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Nov 18
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Holiday Cards – Clean & Simple

By Cards

Hi all,

I’m excited for my favorite holiday that is coming just around the corner – Christmas! To give myself a kick-start in creating cards I signed up for an online card class. Each day is filled with amazing inspiration and techniques that just make me want to sit and create for hours. I absolutely love it!

Today’s cards and lessons inspired me to create cards that follow a clean and simple theme. There are many ways to achieve this type of card style here are 2 techniques I tried.

One way is by using score lines and minimal colors. I shadowed the score lines from the ornament piece onto the card base as well (it’s very faint in the photo, but looks soft and subtle in person).

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For the second card, I tried a tone on tone look. Here I chose 2 shades of red to create a background. For an added pop of color, I used a blue card base and a white banner to hold my sentiment.

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Such a fun style to create and the possibilities are truly endless. I can’t wait to share tomorrow’s class projects with you all as well.

Nov 14
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Holiday Cards – Cute and Whimsical Cards

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Hi all,

Today’s card theme for Holiday Style is to create a card that is cute or whimsical. Here’s the card I came up with to contribute to the class.

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The piece is watercolored using distress inks. I loved the look so much that I decided to make this a mass produced card!

Nov 09
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Holiday Cards – Soft & Subtle

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Hi all,

We’re in full swing of cards here on the blog and I wanted to share with you cards that I consider soft & subtle for the holiday season.

First, I have a watercolor card. I created the background using distress inks and ended up loving the painting so much that I created duplicates!WatercolorSentiment2

I heat embossed a snowflake design on some and left others with a simple sentiment. WatercolorSentiment1

Next, I went for a more classic theme. Here I have an illustrated image that I lightly colored using the same distress inks.Winterscape1

To add some shimmer and shine, I used a glitter brush on the roof of the church and on the trees. I tried to captuer this as best as possible in the photo. It looks so pretty in the light!

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These cards were also created in bulk!

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Nov 04
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DIY ‘Anthropologie’ Globe

By Room Decor

Hi friends!

Check out this amazing DIY!

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Anthropologie sells some seriously gorgeous hand-painted globes. Although absolutely stunning, they came with a pretty steep price tag. I’m sure the quality was top notch as most Anthropologie items are, however, being the DIYer that I am I wanted to create my own.

Here’s what I did.

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I purchased a little globe (I have a little shelf I wanted to display this on). This one doubles as a pencil sharpener.

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I did a little inspection on how the globe was created and found the paper could easily be removed.

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I separated the pieces and gave them a couple coats of my favorite spray paints.

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Ahhh, now we’re in business! Now to decorate.

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Here’s the finished piece next to the piece Anthropologie made. I used my silhouette to create a sentiment and some of my favorite floral stamps for some foliage.

Helpful Hint: If you want to achieve crisp lettering use die-cuts or a gold paint pen with a steady hand!

Thanks for stopping by! Come join the conversation on Instagram (jolie_samuel) and see daily posts on what’s going on in the craft room. I’d love to hear from you!

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