{"id":11387,"date":"2024-12-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2024-12-21T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T09:23:45","slug":"cards-221224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/papercrafting-cardmaking\/cards-221224\/","title":{"rendered":"Brusho Blue Christmas Cards with XMas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hello, it\u00b4s Sanna here again with another set of Christmas cards. This time with a strong blue background. For the cards I again used the Textured Xmas Trees 2<\/a> stamp set and the XMas Trees<\/a> and Stars 1<\/a> stencils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I created quite a big piece of background paper at once, so I could create a big batch of cards. Here is how I made the background:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First I took the Stars 1<\/a> stencil and transparent texture paste. I applied the paste with a palette knife onto the surface thru the stencil. Some areas are fully covered with stars, some only have bits here and there. Next I took out a white mixed media paper (a thicker one that takes wet medium well), applied water onto it and then dabbed some white and turquoise Brusho powder onto the wet paper. Then I just let the powder do it\u00b4s magic on the wet surface. If needed, I added some more blue \/ white on top to make sure all areas got treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the surface was dry, I sprinkled some speckled embossing powder onto the surface and heated it first from under the paper (this prevents the powder from flying away\/moving) and then applied heat from the top, until the powder had melted. Now all I needed to do, was to cut the paper into right size for my white card bases and I had several card backgrounds ready. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To these cards I added the stenciled and inked Xmas Trees 1<\/a> outlined trees. Before outlining and fussy cutting the images, I treated the paper with Distress Oxide Inks and stamped patterns with Mix It Up 5 <\/a> stamp seton top. then I only added a stamped and fussy cut sentiment (from Textured Xmas Trees 2<\/a> set) onto the card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this card I used the same stencil and stamps, but this time, outlined a piece of an old map book page to create a fun Christmas tree centerpiece. Also the first card is done in the same manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this card the centerpiece is again stamped with the Textured Xmas Trees 2<\/a> stamp set, but onto a piece of paper I brayered paint that was left over from a gelli printing session. The random stripes of color make the trees look really interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this card I\u00b4ve used the same basic idea, but the tree is stamped onto a gelli printed paper and then fussy cut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This card is also done with the same basic idea, but mixing both gelli printed and brayered papers together for the centerpiece trees.
I love how the blue background is so strong in color and the embossing powder creates an illusion of falling snow. I hope my idea inspired you. Wishing you a lovely holiday season and many happy creative hours!
xxx, Sanna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hello, it\u00b4s Sanna here again with another set of Christmas cards. This time with a strong blue background. For the cards I again used the Textured Xmas Trees 2 stamp set and the XMas Trees and Stars 1 stencils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,218,5,199,19],"tags":[213,155,496,583,581,123],"class_list":["post-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-projects","category-greeting-cards","category-papercrafting-cardmaking","category-stencil-inspiration","category-tutorial","tag-brushos","tag-gelli-printing","tag-mix-it-up-5","tag-stars-1-stencil","tag-textured-xmas-trees-2","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SannaLippert_blueXmascards_A_detail1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}