Christmas Joy Card with Tim Holtz Stamps and Dies!

Hey there crafty friends! How's your week going? It feels like Winter and now it's only a month until Christmas! My studio is FULL of Christmas crafty projects and new stamps and I'm having a hard time keeping up with it all. I want to use everything, but I'm running out of time! Eeeeeek! I want to stamp, and make treats, and crochet, and decorate! Trying to cram it all in to my favorite time of year! How's your holiday planning coming along?? Yesterday Lucky and I did a Christmas card photo shoot and I got some adorable pictures of him. Christmas cards were ordered late last night. Check! Enjoy your day my friends!

Today's card is a Vintage/Retro/Old Fashioned Christmas card! I LOOOOOVE everything Tim Holtz for Christmas, don't you?? No one does it like Tim! Everything is so pretty and fun to play with. This card started with me coloring those pretty Blueprints stamps one day... Then another day I made the stenciled background.... And they went together perfectly! The finished card is A2 size made from woodgrain paper splattered with white paint to look like snow. 

I stamped the Holly and Poinsettia onto watercolor paper with Versafine Ink. I watercolored the images with my Distress Markers and a water brush. EASY PEASY! After I colored the images I inked the edged with brown ink. I also added snow splatters and a tiny bit of blue ink (marker) around the edges of the images. Here's a close up....

I used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Festive Greens Dies to make some leaves to tuck in between the images. I colored those with Distress Ink pads and a sponge dauber. I like to have just that bit of a spray there! Makes the card have more texture. 

Now for this stencil! It's called Peppermint - of course! I used a small sponge dauber and red ink to ink the stencil onto watercolor paper. Next I used a water brush to blur the lines of the edges. Then I sprayed it with clean water for some water droplets effect. Next I splattered it with Copic Opaque White ink. FINALLY I inked the edges with Vintage Corduroy DIstress Ink! OOHHHH LA LA! At first I wondered if I ruined a perfectly good stenciled paper... But this look really grew on me! 

 

 

 

 

I used the Holiday Words Script Dies from Sizzix and die cut the word joy out. I inked it with Black Distress Ink and glued it onto the card. I like this die set because the scale is small - and I needed a little word right in that spot!

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! What's on your holiday agenda for this weekend? Tell me what you're up to! XO

 

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Comments

[sdjsa]

So festive and pretty!

[Senior Housing Minnesota]

Thanks for the inspiration.

[Rosa M. Vasquez]

I really like this card! it's so colorful and cheerful and bright....it's Christmassy!
This weekend was the Christmas Craft Fair in Mariposa. Hubby and I found presents for family AND ourselves. Our home will be sporting some amazing framed photographs of Yosemite and local wildlife!

[Lizzie T]

LOVE this card! So festive and pretty!

[Celeste Goff]

Gorgeous vintage looking card Wanda!!

[Julie L]

Love this style you do so well Wanda! Running behind on the Christmas card factory. Happens every year! HA. Thanks for the inspiration.

[Anne Sturgeon]

Oh so gorgeous. I love that stencil. Tim Holtz has such amazing stuff. Working on holiday cards and probably put up the tree this weekend. Happy crafting...

[Theresa]

Hi Wanda! Gorgeous card as usual. I am working the Christmas Mall at my church this weekend. I just hope it isn't too rainy for those coming.

[Martha H.]

Lovely card!

For some odd reason, stencils scare me. I'm not sure how to use them.

[LUCYG]

Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.

[Maureen sala]

So many techniques. Just stunning. Yes I love Tim’s tiny stamps. Have several sets.

[Vikki H]

Awesome Christmas look with each element perfect! Our church has an annual Women's Sock or Scarf exchange party and at the same time a Men's Hat exchange party at two houses not too far away from each other. The men usually meet at our home! Lots of fun and goodies to eat.

[Debbie Olson]

So beautiful, Wanda!!

[Linda S.]

A very pretty card. I really like your stenciled background. I'm going to take the grandkids to see the Grinch movie this weekend. A fun start to the holiday season.