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Our 2016 Christmas card design

December 29, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Before the Christmas season and the year come to an end I thought I would share my 2016 Christmas card design. I did some stamping, heat embossing, and Distress Ink stippling to create these, and the idea for how to make them came from Jennifer McGuire’s Easy Distress Inking post.

You blend each color of ink with shimmer spray and stipple it all over the watercolor paper with your fingers to create this colorful faux granite effect. It was fun (and time consuming)! I made four styles and used four or five ink colors on each.

Here’s a close-up shot so you can see all the shimmer that covered each card. That gorgeous Christmas tree stamp is from Martha Stewart.

My MISTI came in so handy for the whole process this year. Here is my setup as I stamped all the inside greetings before adhering the watercolor panels (while watching other crafters making cards on YouTube).

May the beauty of the season bring you joy

December 20, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

I decided to bake for my mom and bro this year because I know they no longer take part in this holiday tradition, and I wanted to send them some Christmas cheer. So I made peanut-butter-chocolate-chip cookies, cracker candy, and caramel apple fudge and packaged it all up with some mulling spices for cider. Then I made this card to tuck in with it all and sent it on its merry way.

Here is a closeup shot so you can see the glitter on the berries.

Product/technique notes

The gorgeous poinsettia stamp is by Stampendous, and I enjoyed coloring it with Copic markers. The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts. The patterned papers are from the American Crafts 6×6 Kringle & CO pad.

Happy 50th birthday to my friend Jim

November 6, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Jim and I have been friends since the day we met in the first week of our freshman year of college. And today he’s turning 50! I just had to stamp and color a special card for him.

Happy birthday, my dear friend.

Product/technique notes

The main image is a stamp by Hampton Arts, which I thoroughly enjoyed coloring with Copic markers. The background stamp is by Hero Arts. And the yellow-orange banner is embossed with a wood grain design.

Distress Ink lifting birthday card

March 7, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

I want to wish my childhood friend, Kathy, a wonderful birthday today. This is the card I created for her using a technique Jennifer McGuire calls Distress Ink lifting.

After heat embossing your stamped design with white embossing powder, you completely cover your paper with an intense Distress Ink color (I used Mermaid Lagoon). Using a small paintbrush and water, you wick or lift the color away from the stamped image just by dabbing the water inside the lines. Then you use the brush to add other Distress Ink colors while it’s still wet. What remains of the background color blends with the added colors and creates this look. I used Mowed Lawn on the leaves and Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, Picked Raspberries, and Festive Berries on the petals.

Our 2015 Christmas card design

December 22, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

I felt like doing a little paper folding on my Christmas cards this year. So I did some searching on Pinterest for origami tutorials and found this one for a Christmas tree design. I used three squares—3 inches, 2.5 inches, and 2 inches—in various patterns and attached them to some American Crafts cards from their North Pole collection. I really like how they pop off the card when you pull them out of the envelope.

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