Faith Filled Handmade Christmas Cards

 

I was visiting with a friend and we had a play with Distress Mica Sprays.  I used a couple of greens and water to create a green background, which I spritzed through the Circle Pattern Stencil using a deep red.  

I stamped the Lantern Light stamp with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and watercolored with the same, mixed with Hickory Smoke.  I stamped the candle in Lumberjack Plaid and the flame in Fossilized Amber and watercolored with the same.  I stamped the bow in black for a pop and watercolored with Rustic Wilderness and Peeled Paint.  I finished by stamping a sentiment from the Best Gift Ever stamp set onto a scrap and curled the edges.

My next card features the Stars stencil I designed for Creative Worship Stamps.  It's my first product design and I'm a little giddy!  :)  

I made an inky background using Fired Brick and Peeled Paint Distress Inks.  The second background was made with green Distress Mica Spray, then monoprinted with the Stars stencil.

I tore the stenciled piece and layered, then stamped with the We Three Kings stamp set.  I added an embossed sentiment from the Christmas Wordfetti set.  

My final card also uses my new Stars stencil.  I made an inky background with Faded Jeans Distress Ink and sponged through the Stars stencil in the same color. 

Then made a little “snow globe” using a circle die and stamped it with the distressed music stamp from the Texture Tiles 1 set. I stamped the nativity from O Holy Night over that. 

I finished with a sentiment from the We Three Kings set.  I hope these Christmas card ideas inspire you today!  Check out all of the beautiful new releases at Creative Worship Stamps today!

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Faith Based Stamps Handmade Greeting Cards

 

Hi sweet friends!  I'm back with fresh inspiration for you using beautiful new products by Creative Worship Stamps, formerly Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps, a wonderful faith based stamp company in the States.  I'm delighted to get to use some of the new releases this October.  For this first card, I used the brand new Peace & Grace dies. 

I made an inky background using Distress Oxides in Faded Jeans and Peacock Feathers.  I sponged over it with more Faded Jeans through the Bold Bloom stencil. 

I stamped an inky tag made with the same colors with a beautiful blossom from the Nature Silhouettes 4 set and finished with a simple word stamp from the new Wordfetti Mash-ups. 

For my next card, I used the new Vintage Snippets (rulers) and Peace & Grace Word Dies again.  I made an inky background using Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks and stamped the rulers, cutting them out to use on different projects.  

For my background, I made an inky panel using Rustic Wilderness and Vintage Photo, then stamped the rulers again in Rustic Wilderness.  I layered a torn hymn page over this for contrast.  I made a third inky panel with Antique Linen and stamped it very lightly to further add the distressed look with the Vintage Elements (label).  I attached the Peace die cut and a cutout flower from the Botanical Collages set and finished with a twine bow.  The verse was added with a fine liner pen using my handwriting.

My last card for today is a bright and cheery birthday card.  I used the gorgeous Be A Wildflower stamp and die set and colored the flowers with my Zig markers and water. 

I made a little vase by cutting a Sharpie striped rectangle and rounding the bottom corners. 

I sponged the Circle Pattern stencil with Distress Oxide in Peacock Feathers onto a white background  panel.  I stamped the greenery in Twisted Citron.  

I added the new Happy & Hugs die cut in pink and  the birthday word from the new Wordfetti Mash-up stamp.  I hope it makes you smile today!  Make sure to check out all of the beautiful new release products at Creative Worship Stamps!

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Creative Worship Stamps Handmade Card Ideas

 

Hi everyone!  I'm back with a new round of inspiration for you featuring beautiful faith art stamps by Creative Worship Stamps, formerly Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps.  For my first card, I enjoyed dipping a Bristol panel in Distress Inks in Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch.

I stamped the gorgeous sentiment from the Hymn Word Art set in VersaFine Clair Warm Breeze and decided to have a little birdie carrying the word banner, so I stamped the bird from the Nature Silhouettes 4 set and drew some little ribbons around the banner he's holding.  I finished by stamping some of the floral silhouettes from the same set along the bottom in black and used a Posca paint pen to highlight them a little.  

For my next card, I repeat stamped the flowers from the Colors of Fall stamp set, fussy cutting one of the images.  I watercolored the flowers with deep magenta and warm oranges, then the background with olive.  

I stamped the 1 Corinthians 13 text stamp from the With Love stamp set in Antique Linen for texture at the top and on a separate piece I had also watercolored olive green.  I stamped All My Love from the same set onto that piece and mounted it with a wrapped twine bow. 

You may have seen the bee from this Botanical Collages stamp set in my last post.  I'm going to work through each image in the set.  For this card I focused on the bird, isn't he sweet?!  I watercolored him and cut the panel into an upside down tag.  I mounted over a piece I had embossed with aqua embossing powder using the Delightfully Delicate background stamp and then dipped into Distress Inks in Evergreen Bough and Antique Linen.  

I mounted the tag over a die cut Delicate Doily.  I just love this die!  I really hope these cards have inspired you today and you'll take a peek at the gorgeous stamps from Creative Worship Stamps.  xx, Autumn

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Faith Art Handmade Greeting Cards for Creative Worship Stamps

 

Hi everyone and thanks for visiting!  I'm so happy to be a guest designer with Creative Worship Stamps, formerly Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps, this October.  I've enjoyed the quiet time in my art room stamping and coloring and have a few cards to share today as a result.  First, I wanted to create a "fallish" card design using a not so fall stamp set, the Encouraging Peonies stamp set.  I used the leaves from the set to stamp a pattern on my Bristol panel using Shady Lane VersaFine Clair ink.  

Next, I had a fun time splashing around pools of color over both the leaves and background.  The panel was really pretty at this point, but I wanted to go a step further, and pulled out a brush marker and colored around the leaves to make them pop.  

I added some splashes of metallic gold watercolor by FineTec on the background.  Next, I gold embossed a sentiment from the Hymn Word Art stamp set and rounded the corners with a punch.  I like how the background is a striking color, but also picks up the underlayer of watercolor.  It was a fun experiment!

Next I was really excited to stamp out the images from the Botanical Collages stamp set.  I was having fun with my watercolor palette and decided to try a similar technique with the bees collage.  I colored in the main imagery, then used black watercolor to fill in the surrounding space.  I used postal edge scissors on the mat.

I finished by layering over a white panel stamped with the Diagonal Plaid 6x6" background stamp.  Oh my goodness, I love this XL plaid stamp!  Thankfully I had some vintage seam binding in the right shade of gold to coordinate and complete the card.

For my last card today, I added another sentiment from the Hope Word Art stamp set and paired it with mushrooms from the Colors of Fall stamp set.  For the sentiment panel, I dipped a scrap into Distress Inks in Fired Brick and Crackling Campfire then stamped in VersaFine black.

I fussy cut the mushrooms after coloring with Distress Inks in Frayed Burlap and Antique Linen, with a touch of Crackling Campfire for the top.  I then layered over a page from a very old devotional, which I splattered with more CC inks.  I adhered the sentiment, then stamped the Sew Many Stitches stamps around the perimeter.  There's just something about this color combo that I come back to every fall for my paper crafts.  I hope you're inspired today and will check out these and other beautiful new stamp sets from Creative Worship Stamps.  Hugs, Autumn

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How to Make Handmade Bookmarks with Watercolor and Gel Prints

 

Hey everyone!  I'm back today to share a couple batches of my handmade bookmarks.  I'm being painfully honest with you by saying I was never much of a reader.  I just never took time to read books and even with art articles I was interested in, I would generally skim them over.  What a pity, I know!  Well, several years back I decided to truly become a REAL READER.  After a while, I decided to start documenting my reads in an Excel spreadsheet.  Long story short, we went to Mall of Georgia to the massive Barnes and Noble for my son's birthday this past weekend and I was perusing the isles, I kept noting, "hey I've read that!"  I was really surprised and happy!  It got me to wondering just how many books I've read these past few years so I did a quick tally and the grand total is 99 books!  <insert happy dance>

It's no surprise that I've also found a small addiction to making handmade bookmarks because I am prone to read about 3 to 5 novels simultaneously and have several art books in process as well, so I need a good many bookmarks, plus I love to give them as gifts.  Yes, that is definitely me showing why I was never a good reader, because I am totally ADD.  But actually reading has helped me a lot with focus and minor memory issues.  

I recently posted on IG my latest watercolor bookmark collection.  I like to take a 9x12 sheet of Canson watercolor paper and use it for practice, you know to get my hand warmed up to fluid motion and control.  

I simply paint one type of flower all over the page, then repeat with another and another, some leaves, berries, etc. until I have a nice full composition.  I then cut the sheet into 2.25x7" strips.  I use a corner rounder for the edges and add tassels.  I love the serendipity of seeing what sections appear in the cut apart pieces and the general looseness of these play pages.  I recommend THESE tassels from Amazon.  They are much nicer than others I've ordered and quite reasonable.  

Well, I also love love love do dabble in gel printing, especially with botanical elements, but also with stencils and my beloved PaperArtsy Fresco chalk acrylic paints.  

I have piles and piles of prints and thought it time to try out Susan McCreevy's technique for transforming them into beautiful artsy bookmarks.  I did not use matboard, as Susan did in her video HERE, but used an Avery permanent glue stick and adhered my pieces to black cardstock instead.  

Actually, these were some of my least favorite prints and maybe just one part of the page was worth using.  This made the process even more rewarding.  I love a good trash to treasure project indeed!  

I hope you like my bookmarks and my little story of overcoming an obstacle in my life, resulting in a truly beneficial pleasure.  Please let me know in the comments what some of your favorite reads are.  xx, Autumn