Big Christmas Collection Wreath

Elaine here with a traditional Christmas wreath card made using the Big Christmas Collection - a set of 17 small stamps including poinsettias, hellebores, leaves and baubles etc.

For this card I used the Fir Sprig stamp to create the wreath - I lightly drew a circle, stamped on the line with the Fir Sprig and embossed it with Gold Detail powder.  In the centre I gold embossed the Wishing you a Merry Christmas sentiment and using 2 masks (1 to cover the sentiment, 1 to cover the wreath) I stamped the Winter Words with Wine Pigment Ink.

For the foliage I've used Gold, Red and Welbeck Green embossing powders and painted with Acrylic Inks - Malachite for the Holly, Ruby and Emerald for the Poinsettia flowers, Garnet plus Glorious Gold Ink in a Bottle for the Hellebores and Emerald and Citrine for their leaves.  I've also used Citrine to colour some white beads for the poinsettia centres and finished by adding some red beads for the holly berries.

Hope you like and are inspired to have a go.  A Christmas wreath is definitely wintery - why not have a go and join in November's Challenge.  All details are on Facebook.

EDIT from Lynnda This is a a BIG stamp set, 17 stamps! the normal price is £19.50 But I have decided to make this stamp of the week and until next Sunday it will be just £14.50! 

Winter at Oak House Studios

Hi it's Clare here with a little winters inspiration for you. What better time of year to crack open the crafting goodies and create something seasonal for this months Oak House Studios winter themed challenge. Don't forget you could be in with a chance of a prize so get your stamps and inks out to get lucky!

For this card I used:
Big christmas collection stamps
Spring green ink pad
Forest green ink pad
Colour chemistry french wine ink in a bottle
Colour chemistry french mint ink in a bottle
Colour chemistry Paris pink ink in a bottle
Gold detail embossing powder
Deck  the halls stamp set 'Tis the season'

To make this card I first stamped the branch in spring green pigment ink pad to form my christmas tree. Over the top of this I re-stamped using the forest green pigment ink pad. Using three of the christmas baubles I stamped an heat embossed with gold Oak House Studio embossing powder and painted them using the French mint, French wine and Paris pink ink in a bottle. After that I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed with gold detail embossing powder. Finally I tied some string onto my baubles and added them to the card with a glaze of glossy accents from my stash.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I look forward to seeing what everyone will be creating during the coming month.

Happy crafting,
Clare x x x x

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Big Christmas Collection Christmas Card With Stamps from Oak House Studio.

Today's card  for Oak House Studio features 2 sets of stamp collections, the Big Christmas Collection and the 2 inch Journal Circles set.  For the background I used a mixture of regal claret, citrus orange and totally turquoise from the ink in a bottle range  and sprayed onto a glossy card.  The background was made on a A4 size card and I cut out this square as the colours worked well with the Sea Blue ink pad .  

To start with the construction of the card I stamped the dotted frame circle onto my background square.  Then I stamped the solid snowflake bauble from the big Christmas Collection onto white card stock with the sea blue ink.  I cut this out using a 1 inch circle punch (you can just cut around the bauble if you don't have a punch).  I then glued this to a flattened bottle cap, let it dry and then added the clear bubble dome on top.  I then applied this to the center of the stamped frame - if you score the back of the bottle cap with a scalpel it will help to adhere the cap to the background.  the corners are then stamped using the open snowflake bauble in the 4 corners of the background.  I've mounted the whole thing onto a coordinating paper from my stash of scraps.  To balance the whole card I added the words "Let it Snow" from the Snowflake collection.

Have a great day 

Anita

Autumnal Holly Leaves

Hello everyone hope you've all had a wonderful weekend.

I've been having a play with the holly leaf from the Big Christmas collection.  I started by stamping the leaves in a circular design very organically with black archival ink.  I then painted the whole image using neocolors II water soluble wax crayons.  I built the colours up gradually until I was happy with the depth.  I've added some gold acrylic and glitter to the leaves.  To finish off I added some red star gems in between the outer leaves.

The center of the card is made up of 5 leaves which have been stamped, coloured and cut out and then mounted using foam pads to give some depth.  

The berries are made from a selection of seed beads in a mix of red and gold - these were threaded onto some thin wire and just randomly twisted until they resembled a cluster of berries.

I've mounted this onto a cream A6 card to which I've stamped the leaves using the Spring Green and Dusky Rose pigment ink pads  - I added the dusky rose to the center of the leaf and then the spring green to the edges to get a two tone effect.

Until next time keep crafting.

Anita