Joy to you and yours

Sharing a Christmas postage card inspiration with a mix of various @alexsyberiadesigns products. I hope some of the details inspire you. All the details are on the @alexsyberiadesigns blog.

 

Alex Syberia Design products:
Postage stamps cover die and stencil
Merry Christmice stamp and die sets
Holiday wreath and branch stencil and die set
Jingle bell joy die set
Winter foliage die set
Joyful poinsettia die set
Joy die
Chrismtas sentiments (to you and yours sentiment)


Distress oxide: Old paper, Rustic wilderness, Vintage photo, Ground espresso + Mica sprays Holly branch and Frosted Juniper

 

For this card, I started by die cutting the Postage  stamps cover die from brown wood cardstock. Using a rectangle die, I removed the inner part of the four stamps, within the stitched lines.

I then dabbed Distress oxides Vintage photo and Ground espresso directly onto the postage panel to contrast the wood veins and age the frame.

Next, I cut a background panel from dark green cardstock, slightly smaller than the postage frame. Using the Postage stamps coordinating stencil, I blended Distress Oxide Rustic wilderness on the edges of the four stamps to create some shading. I then blended Old paper in the center to blend the two colors.

I then pulled the Holiday wreath and branch stencil to create the wreath in the background. I started with the branches with Distress oxide Ground espresso. Then, for the first layer of leaves, I used Twisted citron and Rustic wilderness for the second layer. For the fourth and last stencil, I used white pigment ink for the berries.

I then die cut the two smaller sizes of the poinsettia, from the Joyful poinsettia die set, from vanilla cardstock and blended Old paper between the leaves. I then shaped the petals and center of the poinsettia petals on a foam mat, with a dot tool and assembled the two flowers with liquid adhesive. For the berries in the center, I used metallic champagne cardstock and glued them on the center.

I also die cut several different winter foliage from the sets: Jingle bell joy die set and Winter foliage die set, from light green cardstock. I then dabbed Mica stain Holly branch and Frosted Juniper with a brush to give them a little shimmer and some interest.

I also stamped 3 cute mice from the Merry Christmice set and colored the images with Copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I also stamped the To you and yours sentiment from the Christmas sentiments set and also used the coordinating dies to cut out the strip. Finally, I die cut the sentiment Joy using the Joy die with Red metallic cardstock.

To assemble the card, I adhered thin double-sided tape at the back of the postage frame and adhered the foliage at the back, trimming the branches and leaves sticking outo. I then added foam tape at the back of the frame and adhered it onto the background.

I glued the front panel onto the cardbase and finally, I adhered the poinsettia and cute mice with foam tape and the sentiments with liquid adhesive.

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