Santa Is Coming Down The Chimney Holiday Card

 Hello crafty friends! Today I'm sharing my interactive card featuring Honey Bee Stamps' Lovely Layers: Fireplace with the Lovely Layers: Fireplace Add-On Honey Cuts. Santa is swinging on down the fireplace in this cute scene! I love these sets because I can create any color of theme and also use the "fire" dies for the fireplace too!

I first created my 5" x 7" card base and added a white cardstock layer that I embossed with the Wood Planks 3D embossing folder. I trimmed 1-¼" off of the bottom before adhering it to the card with glue. I stamped the sentiment from the Sending Christmas Joy stamp set onto a 1-¼" x 5" strip of white cardstock in black pigment ink. I adhered this to the bottom of the card and glued on a strip of dark gray cardstock just above it.

Next I die cut the Lovely Layers: Fireplace dies from three shades of gray cardstock. I used the Layering Guide to help me in assembling the fireplace layers with glue. I did not adhere the inner fireplace brick piece at this time.

Then I die cut the desired pieces from the Lovely Layers: Fireplace Holiday Add-On from green, red, white, brown, and black cardstock. I, again, referred to the Layering Guide as I glued the pieces together. I added some sparkle to the lights with a clear glitter pen.

Next I worked on the interactive portion of the card. I will do my best to explain it here, but I will have a reel posted over on my Instagram soon where you will get a visual of how I made this. Here are the steps for the interactive portion:

• Using the completed fireplace as a guide, I used a pencil to trace the opening onto the card.
• Then I adhered a piece of dark gray cardstock that is larger than the tracing.
• Still using the fireplace as a guide, I added glue to the back of the brick insert and glued it to the dark gray piece.
• Next you will need a circular, dimension piece for the swinging portion. You can use a penny, or die cut/punch several small circles (no larger than ¼" and adhere them together. It just needs to have a bit of height for the Santa to swing.
• First cut a strip of cardstock that is a bit wider than your chosen circular piece and is about 1" to 1-½" long.
• Adhere your dimensional circle to the card with a small piece of strong double-sided tape. Then I used my anti-static tool on the adhesive that is around my dimensional circle so that the Santa piece will not stick to it.
• Now you will need to trim a piece of cardstock that is a bit wider than your dimensional circle and about an inch or so long. Punch a hole that's a bit wider than your dimensional circle near the top of the strip.
• Glue this strip to the back of the Santa.
• I placed a piece of removable tape onto the front of the Santa and fireplace to hold him in place.
• Then I added thick foam dots to the back of the fireplace to adhere to the card and removed the temporary tape.

I finished up the card by placing the other elements of the scene around the fireplace. I used glue and more thick foam dots to adhere them.

If I decide to mail this card I will used a padded envelope. It will be a bit more postage but I think this card is worth it!! If you have any questions about how to make this fun swinging Santa card, please leave me use the "contact me" form in the left column, and I will be happy to help.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!

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Beautiful Window Scene Card

Hello crafty friends!!! Can you believe it is December?!! It is now only three weeks until Christmas! Which means we still have time to get our holiday cards made. Today I'm sharing my card that features the so fun and beautiful Lovely Layers: Window with the new Lovely Layers: Window Holiday Add-On.

Except for the sentiment, this entire card is die cut with an embossing folder background. I die cut all of the dies from the Lovely Layers: Window and Window Holiday Add-On from either white cardstock and some colored cardstock, with two exceptions. The warm yellow you see through the window was white cardstock inked using a yellow ink and a detail blending brush. I inked up a scrap of white cardstock with Festive Berries Distress Ink to use to die cut the tree ornaments and holly berries.

For the snow layers on the roof and balcony, I first die cut the snow dies with white cardstock. Then I used a palette tool to dab on Snowfall Distress Grit Paste. This will dry clear with some sparkle and a subtle crackle which adds to the icy feel, I think. If you don't have that paste, this one would be just as pretty.

I always print out the Layering Guides that are found in the products' description on the website. These are so very handy and makes gluing your die cuts very easy! When I am finished assembling the Lovely Layers, I store the guide with the product. All of the Window layers are adhere together with glue.

I added a layer to my A2 card base that I embossed with the Wood Planks 3D embossing folder. Then I adhered the window to the card with foam dots.

I thought this sentiment from the Sending Christmas Joy stamp set was perfect for this card. I stamped it and the Merry Christmas stamp with black ink and then cut them out with the coordinating Honey Cuts. I adhered the Merry Christmas sentiment with glue to the inside of the card. The other sentiment is popped up on the card front with foam tape strips.

I added a bit of shine to the holly berries with some Nuvo Crystal Drops that I still have in my stash.  Do you still have any of these? 

I love making die cut cards! I hope you've found some inspiration here today! Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Sending Christmas Joy Floral Holiday Card

Hello crafty friends! Can you believe we are half way through November?! That makes me super happy to be creating cards with products from Honey Bee Stamps' Cozy Christmas release! My card today features some new products along with a few pieces from previous releases. Today I've used:

• Sending Christmas Joy as the main feature of my card.
• Postcard Holiday Add-On: I used the holly/berries die and the pine branch die only.
• Time To Go Postcard: I used the die for the stamp.
• Postmarked stamp set: I used the postmarked stamp (the wavy lines on the stamp).

I stamped the floral images from the Sending Christmas Joy stamp set onto 80# Neenah with Intense Black Ink. Then I used Copic markers to color them. I used: R59, R29, R27, R35, G29, YG67, G94, YG63, G43. Then I cut them out with the coordinating Honey Cuts.

Next I stamped the postage stamp outline from the Sending Christmas Joy onto a dark green cardstock with black pigment ink and cut it out with the coordinating die. I adhered this to some green checked paper from the Gingerbread Village paper pad. Then I adhered those layers to an A2 card base.

I stamped the "20¢" in red ink and cut it out with the coordinating die.

Next I die cut the pine branches and holly/berries (Postcard Holiday Add-On) from dark green cardstock. I added thin lines of glue to the pine branches and then sprinkled on iridescent chunky glitter and set the pieces aside to dry.

I die cut the stamp (Time To Go Postcard) once green cardstock and again from white cardstock to use only the center portion. I taped the green and white die cuts of the stamp together on the back and placed it into my MISTI. Then I used dark green ink to stamp the postmark (Postmarked stamp set) onto the stamp. I glued the "20¢" to the stamp and stamped the postmark again, without re-inking the stamp.

Then I arranged all of the elements and used glue and foam dots to adhere them to the card. The sentiment from the Sending Christmas Joy stamp set was stamped in black ink and cut out with the coordinating die.

I hope I've given you another idea for these beautiful sets to use for your holiday card. Thank you so very much for stopping by!

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