Christmas Card Ideas

2009 Christmas card ideas are inspired by the cute cartoons offered by Hero Arts Clear Design Stamps, featured in one of my newsletter issue. I am featuring just a few designs to give you an idea what you can do with the versatile stamps that Hero Arts Clear Design is able to offer.

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Angel Carols

Dimension

Card measures 9cm X 13cm.

Materials

For the card

1 set of cream cardbase with matching envelope

1 green cardstock

1 white cardstock (preferably smooth finish) for stamping image

1 Matching ribbon about 1.5cm thick (or up to your own preference and availability).

Other tools,

Foam tape.

Glue/Glue Dots.

Hero Arts CL354 "Let the Angels Sing" Clear Stamp (shown below).

Black pigment ink.

Sparkle embossing powder. Click here to view the wet embossing technique.

Heat gun.

Scissors.

Soluble crayons or markers or color pencils for coloring image. Click here to watch the use of soluble crayons.

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Instructions

Use a scalloped white cardstock for stamping the image. Not necessary scalloped if you do not have a cutting tool.

Stamp the angel image with black pigment ink, emboss with sparkle embossing powder and set it dry using heat gun.

Color image and sponge the edges with matching colors, with use of chalk or dye ink.

Trim a rectangular tag with the green cardstock.

Layer image tag over green cardstock using foam tape to give added dimension.

Cut a small slit at the fold of cream card base according to the width of the ribbon.

Slip the ribbon through the slit and tie a knot at the edge.

Fasten the image tag over the ribbons using foam tape.

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