Hey everybody! Happy Friday! Woot! When you read this, I will be in the car on a road trip to Lake Tahoe! One of my talented, creative entrepreneur friends is an event designer and she has to deliver some flowers for a wedding. So I'm tagging along to help, laugh and have some lunch! I love a good road trip... Should be a gorgeous day! Hope you have a great Friday and a great weekend!
Today I'm very excited to share some projects made with the BRAND NEW August release from Ellen Hutson! Everything just went on sale today at 9am PST! I love August, because it's time to start Fall crafting, and maybe a little Christmas crafting too! This new release features stamps and dies designed by our friend Julie Ebersole. Everything is fun and fresh and awesome! CLICK HERE to see the entire new release!
I made THREE cards! Two Christmas cards and one Halloween card...so you know that means lots of pictures today! Grab some coffee and take a look with me. My process when I get a new stamp release is to lay it all out on my big counter top in my studio. I will also grab my other stamps from that company and sort of look at it all at once. See what my brain starts to put together. I couldn't stop making cards with this release. Yay!
First up is a fun Christmas card featuring an adorable Santa and some pretty pine trees! This finished card is A2 sized with a white card base.
I cut one white layer for this card and die cut it using the Skinny Stripes Die. Then I backed it with pretty red cardstock for contrast.
I stamped and die cut out three trees and one Santa and one Holly leaf cluster. I colored everything with Copic Markers. I used white paint to add some snow to the trees! I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment in black, and some yellow stars.
I used foam tape to assemble everything in layers onto the card.
This is a good Christmas card layout because it's flat! Perfect for mailing!
Next up is a card with some totally adorable snowmen!!! This finished card is an aqua card base in A2 size. I die cut a stitched rectangle layer for the top layer from white cardstock.
I stamped and die cut three little cutie pie snowmen and colored them with Copics.
I stamped the background in aqua ink. This is a small stamp, and I stamped it 9 times to get the right amount of pattern coverage. I stamped the sentiment in rich black ink.
The snowmen were affixed to the card using foam tape!
These beautiful snowflakes dies were cut from sparkly silver cardstock. I LOVE red, aqua and silver for Christmas!!
And last, but not least, BOO! A Halloween Card! My first Halloween card of 2019! These stamps are sooooo cute! They are two layer stamping... An outline, and then a solid for the color in the middle. Easy stamping!! This card has a dark grey card base in A2 size.
I stamped and die cut out allllll the little shapes! (There are more in the set too! I didn't use them all!) I added some white gel pen highlights and bits of Diamond Stickles onto them also.
I cut a white layer for the top part of the card, and splattered it with black ink and a paint brush. Then I die cut the spider webs from black cardstock and glued them down as my background. I laid out everything and then stamped the sentiment. This sentiment stamp set is FUUUUUNNNNNY.
All the images were attached with foam tape! POP! You know me, and I looove dimension on my cards!
Okay friends, that's it for today! CLICK HERE to shop the brand new Ellen Hutson Release! I know you're going to find something(s) you love! CLICK HERE for the supply list for today, or click the graphic below. (Affiliate Links Used). Have a great weekend! I will see you soon! XOXO
Woww this looks so cute. what a great idea! Want to see mine? https://couponupto.com/coupons/whimsy-stamps
Posted by: Andrewdja12 | 08/19/2019 at 03:34 AM
Lake Tahoe sounds pretty fun, hope your trip is awesome. I was checking out these cute Halloween things on Ellen's site yesterday. Love all your cards but I am partial to the Halloween card. Loads of fun stuff coming out this week. Thanks for these and I hope you have a glorious girlfriend's day...
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 08/10/2019 at 11:05 AM
What darling cards! Love everything about each one! I love fall cards! ( I need to get inspired on Christmas cards so it’s not another crunch time finishing them like every year! HA). Thanks for the beautiful inspiration! Checking out this release.
Posted by: Julie L | 08/10/2019 at 10:28 AM
What fun cards! I am loving this new release. Thanks for the inspiration and have fun on your get-away. :D
Posted by: Janet Sisk | 08/10/2019 at 08:29 AM
These are all fabulous Wanda! Sounds like a super fun road trip!
Posted by: Amy Tsuruta | 08/10/2019 at 06:01 AM
Great job Wanda! I love the cute and colorful holiday images.
Posted by: Amy Cooley | 08/10/2019 at 05:46 AM
It's so awesome seeing 'what would Wanda do' and naturally I'm amazed! LOve every bit of Holiday joy, and a little boo always makes me smile... xx
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Posted by: Michele | 08/10/2019 at 04:48 AM
Awesome cards, Wanda! Love the new Christmas and Halloween designs! Have a fun day at Tahoe!
Posted by: Denise Bryant | 08/09/2019 at 01:05 PM