Christmas in July Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Scandinavian Christmas

 

Hi there

Anita here and today I have some Scandinavian style Christmas cards to share with you using two products, the Background Blocks Scandinavian Christmas clear stamp and the Scandinavian Christmas stencil.  It certainly felt very strange making these Christmas cards in the middle of our UK heatwave!  

I have three cards for you with very different looks.  

The first of two using the Background Blocks Scandinavian Christmas clear stamp...

I simply stamped the image using Altenew Winter Lake ink and coloured the linear images using Copic Markers.  I then stamped the greeting in the same blue ink which is from the Pattern Building Christmas Tree stamp set.

For this next card, on a die cut panel I stamped the main background image in Altenew Crimson ink.  Without moving the stamp in my MISTI I restamped in VersaMark ink and then heat embossed using clear gloss embossing powder.  I then masked off the rectangular area of the image and ink blended over the heat embossed image with Altenew Nimbus ink.

In this next image you can see how the heat embossed images resisted the Nimbus ink.  I finished with a stamped greeting from the Festive Sentiments stamp set.

For my final card I used the Scandinavian Christmas stencil...

I kept this one quite traditional by inking through the stencil using Distress Oxide ink in Candied Apple.  I then adhered a die cut panel which had a die cut oval aperture cut into it to create the window.  The sentiment, heat embossed in white, is from the Pattern Building Christmas Tree stamp set.  I added a few final dotted details to the images using a white gel pen.

I hope you're enjoying Christmas in July this month, there's still lots more to come from Bev and the team.

Thanks for visiting today - happy crafting!

Take care