Sharing this plaid Christmas tree card tutorial to spread some joy!
Well, hello there! I’m still here! Sorry for the bit of radio silence there. Anyway, I’m here with a holiday card to share with you – and you can download the tutorial for this plaid Christmas tree card too!
You may remember that I love projects that are easy to make but that are still impressive. The thing that I love about this card is that the paper makes it easy! I have a free download of this Plaid Christmas tree card tutorial for you! I used the new two toned cardstock from Stampin’ Up! – in festive colours, of course. These are from the Snow Day 12″ x 12″ Two-Tone Cardstock package. Each cardstock has a side that is a lighter tone and the other side is the darker tone of the same colour. Makes crafting easy peasy, and especially when there’s coordinating products. The Snow Day cardstock has colours that coordinate with the Snowy Scenes Designer Series Paper and Sticker Sheet.
Hope you enjoy the plaid Christmas tree card tutorial!
Free Shipping! Dec 9-11
Stampin’ Up! Canada is having a FREE SHIPPING promotion December 9-11 (THREE DAYS!). Pay no shipping fees on product orders of $100CAD! Shortcut to shopping is yamstamps.com/shop. If you have a smaller order, and can do a porch pickup in Burlington ON, message me and I will group together orders so that everyone can benefit from free shipping!
If you need any supplies from the plaid Christmas tree card tutorial, you could shop Dec 9-11 and save some money on shipping!
Please reach out if you have any questions or need assistance placing an order! Happy shopping! Happy free shipping Monday December 9 to Wednesday December 11!
Sharing a fun and easy technique for World Card Making Day!
This ticks all the boxes – quick, easy and impressive! Check out this easy technique for World Card Making Day (which is today, Saturday October 5th!).
To celebrate World Card Making Day, I created a quick video showing the process of how to create the inked embossed background, and some tips to get good ink coverage. You can also download a written tutorial for the entire card here:
This is not a new technique, and I’ve used it before, but it’s so effective and I like to pull it out every once in a while. It’s good to revisit favourite styles, layouts and designs, and often you’re able to tweak things to make them even better!
I’m a few months into a new position at work – learning all the ins and outs of a new job is very time consuming (not to mention the brain workout!). I finally got around to editing the video for this technique (and now am wondering what took me so long because it actually wasn’t too hard LOL). You can find it on YamStamps Social Media (Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) – but I’ll post it here as well/
Here’s the video of this easy technique for World Card Making Day:
I hope that you can grab a few moments to make a quick card on this World Card Making Day….and make sure to send it to someone special as well!
Add some colour to this easy and elegant die cut card!
Stampin’ Up! Canada has some beautiful larger dies in the catalogues. The Two Tone Flora dies include dies that coordinate with the Two Tone Flora stamp set plus a larger detailed die that leaves a border around the cut section which I featured on this easy and elegant die cut card.
easy and elegant die cut card
The die is used to cut the detail in the cardfront, and then there’s a pop of colour in behind! Plus some Rhinestone Basic Jewels because who doesn’t like a little extra bling on their card?! I also added some Wink of Stella for some extra sparkle on the diecut (but it doesn’t photograph very well).
easy and elegant die cut card – insert
So as you can tell….you don’t need a lot of skill to create the coloured panel for this card….haha – that’s what helps make it an easy and elegant die cut card! If you can scribble, you can do this. I just did linear colouring, but you could do more organic blobby shapes (technical term…) or circles, or whatever. If you would like the details on how I created this card, click here to download the free tutorial pdf.
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In the meantime, if you’re in Ontario, hope that you are staying safe and not having to shovel TOO much snow right now!
Check out this fun fold card tutorial video – easy and impressive – great for Hanukkah or any special occasion!
If you are on my mailing list – first of all, THANK YOU, and second of all, you may remember that you get access to a free exclusive tutorial when you signed up. Every once in a while I change out the freebie, so I figured I could share previous tutorials with everyone. I love this particular project, and a friend recently pointed out that it could be a Hanukkah card! So it seemed appropriate to make a previous project public and share this fun fold card tutorial video at this time of year.
Hope you enjoy it! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. If you’d like to check out the latest new subscriber tutorial,sign up for my emails! You can use the box at the top of the YamStamps site, or click here. (If you’re already a subscriber – thanks and watch for the link to the current project in an upcoming email). If you’re interested in other fun fold card tutorial videos, you may want to consider grabbing one of my Online Classes – there’s a few fancy/fun fold card classes – you can see the list at YamStampsMore.com.
I know this is a busy time of year, so thank you for stopping by my corner of the cyberworld. I hope that you are able to spend some time with family and friends, and have a few days to catch your breath before we head into 2023!!
Could I pick a longer title? Blended Ink Stamped Background Technique is an accurate, if a little wordy description of my latest video upload on YouTube.
Blended Ink Stamped Background Technique Card
If you come up with a better description, please let me know….in the meantime, I showed how I created this card in the video. I used my Blending Brushes (hence the “blended ink”), and then I stamped with one of the stamps from the Amazing Silhouettes stamp set (hence the “stamped”). The picture is a little more vibrant than the card is in real life, but I still love the subtle effect of the “ghostly” leafy plant on the inked background. Since I used some of the Rainbow Glimmer Paper, I tried to add the same tones into the background that I created – so I used Coastal Cabana and Granny Apple Green. I love that I could come up with thousands of variations for this technique by varying the colours used. Easy and impressive – always my motto for crafting!
I’m partial to blue tones, and Misty Moonlight is one of my current favourites. It is also one of the 2020-2022 In Colours, so it will be retiring at the end of April – and I am really going to miss it! If you like it too, you’ll want to be sure to stock up on your supplies of it sooner rather than later. As with all retiring product, it will be “while supplies last” or until 2 May 2022 (the end of the sales period for the current Annual Catalogue) – whichever comes FIRST. In Colours usually sell out before the end of the catalogue period, so please don’t hesitate!
I am working on getting more videos onto my various social media channels, so I did a video celebrating circles and Pi Day by showing the Bokeh Technique used on this card. I posted the full video on the YamStamps YouTube channel.
Celebrating Circles – Bokeh Effect Tutorial Video for Pi Day 2022
You may have seen that I also did an Instagram Reel on this card. I could get addicted to doing reels – short videos with music, what’s not to like? Take a look at my Celebrating Circles Reel and let me know what you think – do you prefer the full length video or a mini length sped up version – or both?
