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Merry Christmas

Happy Holiday's everyone!

It's Donna here and I am featuring the "Snow Fall" and "Holly Jolly Santa" stamp sets.  I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas is ready to celebrate.  I pray you all will enjoy your family throughout the Holiday Season.  I will see you next year!

Here is how I created my card.

My card is an A2 card, I cut my first layer at 4 x 5, I used versamark along the edges of the panel and added silver embossing power and heat set it.  I then stamped the snowflakes from the  "Snow Fall" stamp set with versamark, added silver embossing powder and heat set it.  The next panel which measures 3 5/8 x 4 7/8.  I also stamped the sentiment from the "Holly Jolly Santa" with versamark, added silver embossing powder and heat set it.  I then used some scissors and cut the sentiment out and added it to my card with foam squares.

Closer look at the card.

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Winter Cards

Customization stamps are fun because the possibilities are endless! A stamp platform is beneficial when building images for proper placement. The little embellishments I enjoyed stamping and placing on the cards. I used The Christmas Cocoa Stamp set to create these cards.

I used pop dots on the image to make it POP, but able to still put it in the mail with no additional postage. 

The little heart is so cute and perfect for winter and/or Valentine's Day! To add dimension to this card I used foam to mat the image on. I found the foam at the dollar tree in the kids' section in a pack of 20, Not only was it cheap, it also die cuts beautifully. 

Don't be afraid to use things from other places on your cards and in your craft! The results can be stunning!

Until next time ~ Happy Crafting!

Betz Golden

Happy New Year with Three Joy Clair Sets & More Custom Stamps

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here today with Happy New Year's cards featuring a combination of three Joy Clair stamp sets:

Joy Clair Dog-Gone Christmas, Joy Clair New Year, New Me, and Joy Clair Happy Camper sets.  All of my supplies are linked on my blog HERE if you are interested in seeing exactly what I used.  (The blue links are affiliate links - no extra cost to you.)

This first card has the top panel popped up on foam tape and features one of the cute dogs "woofing you a yappy New Year!"  Don't you just love those music notes with the paw prints?  The trees are from the Happy Camper set that I have used for many occasions and in all seasons.  Many of the Joy Clair sets are very versatile like that, not just for one holiday or event.  For example, the New Year, New Me set has a whole set of numbers so that you can use it for every new year's card, just change the year!  But you can also use those numbers for birthday cards when you want to acknowledge a certain milestone birthday or just put the recipient's age on the card.

Here's another view of my card:

I also made a 2nd card very similar to the first one, except it has a darker sky and a bright moon along with another adorable pup from the Dog-Gone Christmas set.  

Here's a look:

I hope you enjoyed these New Year's cards - for all the details, supplies and instructions on how I made these, check out my blog HERE.

Earlier this month I shared some custom stamps with my logo on them and today I want to share a couple of return address custom stamps I have that Joy Clair made.  One is with a Christmas wreath and the other was just a style they had in the shop that I really liked.  (I blocked my address in the pictures for privacy.)

Joy Clair has lots of choices in their custom stamps section HERE.  They can also make others so if you have artwork, or a logo, or one you'd like made, just email them and ask [email protected] 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope your holiday season is full of joy and happiness!

Foliage birthday cards with a festive color palette

Welcome to today's blog post. I had the best of intentions to make some Christmas cards using some of the gorgeous foliage and leaf stamps from Joy Clair. But as inspiration was lacking they turned into Birthday cards which I need a few of for December. So here they are...

I really have fallen in love with the leaves from all across the stamp sets from Joy Clair. There are several and they are all so versatile.

For this card I used a gelli printed background and some stamped leaves. The leaves are colored using markers and a shimmer pen adds some sparkle to them.

For the sentiments and decorative elements I used some Kaisercraft collectables - quick and easy adding some gold foiling for bling. You can find the gorgeous Fall Greeting Stamp set that I used here.

And on my second card using the same supplies but adding a strip of washi tape down the sode.

And looking at these cards now, I might as well have gone with my initial Christmas theme - as I really love the red, pink and green color combo.

Do you ever find yourself lacking i9nspiration, just find that it was there all along? Thank you for stopping by - I hope you are having some down time to create those festive cards and projects - and I hope inspiration strikes hot! With love Jowilna xxx

Handmade Gifts: Christmas Card and Ornament

Hello hello hello... December is here and Christmas is coming near... Today, I would like to share couple handmade gift ideas with you all that you all can make with Joy Clair Stamps for this Holidays!

I use the Vintage Christmas Ornaments stamp set to create this CAS Christmas card. I stamped the ornaments with Antique Linen Distress Ink on a watercolor paper 140 lbs. I did not use any masks to create that stacked ornaments becuase when I painted them with watercolor paper, the Distress ink reacted with the water and blended in. But if you use non-reacted dye inks or pigment inks, you will need the masks.

I painted the ornaments with Shimmerz Inklingz Watercolors (I'm Not Limon, Blue My Mind, and Good As Gold). These watercolor paints have the shimmering, metallic look. I dried the paints with craft heater, and then I sprayed it with some water using the Distress Sprayer. I dabbed the water off with paper towel to get more distressed, vintage look on them.

I added some extra gold splatters on the background with the Good As Gold Shimmerz Inklingz. After that, I dried it again with craft heater and cut it with Double Stitched Rectangles Dies.

I stamped the ornament again three times (just the top of the ornament) on a white cardstock with VersaMark Ink Pad and then I added some silver embossing powder. I heat set the embossing powder with craft heater and then fussy cut them with scissors. I added them on the ornaments with dries-clear permanent glue. I drew the stings with Posca Metallic Silver Paint Marker.

I stamped the sentiment on one of the ornament using MISTI with Delicata Silver Ink Pad, and then I stamped it again with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink Pad. I dried ink with craft heater. I added this finished background on top of a green card base with 3D foam tape for extra dimension to it.

Second handmade gift than you can make with Joy Clair Stamps is this chalkboard wood slice Christmas ornament. On this wood, I used The Reason Stamp Set and Snowy Greetings Stamp Set.

First, to paint the base color. I used Chalk Paint for the base. The paint dries fairy quickly. I usually paint the base twice, but if once is enough for you and that is okay, too.

To give the white chalk look on the background, I dibbed my finger in a white paint and lightly painted on the chalkboard. I had wet (not too wet) paper towel to remove the paint so not too much on the background.

After that, I stamped the images and sentiment on both side with white acrylic paint, too. I put the stamp on acrylic stamping block and I added the paint with mini brayer. I put the stamp directly in a bowl with warm water so the paint won't dried on the stamp and will be easy to clean.

I tied up the twine and done. You have a handmade Christmas ornament that you can also mass-produce this ornament as gifts.

I hope these projects give you some ideas to get crafty this Holidays. What would you make for this Holidays?

How to Make a 3-D Poinsettia with Stamps

Any kind of 3-D element on a card is a good thing. I created this card with two sets of stamps in no time! Every time I see a poinsettia I think of the 1970's. Ugly sweaters were big back then and back in now. Nothing is better than mixing the two on a card.

Creating the poinsettia was simple with this stamp set and embossing powder. The raised edges make it easy to fussy cut.

The background was fun to create! I really wanted to resemble a 1970 era, so the Ugly Sweater Background stamp was perfect. I used two different colored ink pads and a stamp platform to get it even.

Here is a video I created on how to create this card. 

 

In the video I messed up. This is how I covered it!

This was such a fun card to make! It has turned out to be my favorite Christmas card I have created this year.

Until next time ~ Happy Crafting!

Betz Golden

A Savior is Born

Hello Everyone! 

It's Ceal, here to share another card with you and I am sad to say this will be my last post for the Joy Clair design team. I am taking some time off but will still be creating with Joy Clair stamps so be sure to stop by my blog Simply Beautiful. Also there is some exciting news happening at Joy Clair in the new year so stay tuned for that! 

Christmas stamps are my favorite especially those like this Away in a Manger set that tells the true meaning of Christmas. For complete details on how I created this card, head over to my blog Simply Beautiful. 

 

 

Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and a prosperous New year! 

A See Through Shaker Card - Box of Donuts

Hi everyone! It's Lindsay here, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog & YouTube Channel, and I am so excited for today's card! I have had this idea for awhile, but just didn't have the time to create it. When I first seen the Sprinkled with Love stamp set, I knew I wanted to try and create the look of a box full of donuts on a card - with a see through "lid" or front of the card and full of donuts on the inside. And since the front was going to be see through anyway, I figured it would make a fun shaker card! Keep reading below to see how I did it!

 

 

To start with this card you need a card base (A2) and another A2 sized cardstock panel. Then with a die, I used an oval but a circle, rectangle, etc. will work, cut the center out of both the panel and the card base. I like to line up the card base and panel on top of one another and die cut both at the same time so they are perfectly even!

The next stamp is the stamping and coloring, but unlike other cards, you want to stamp on the inside of the card base. Using the large donut from the Sprinkled with Love stamp set, stamp the inside of the card base. Some of the stamps will overhand the sides. Use whatever ink will play nicely with your coloring medium! Then color! I used colored pencils to color in just where the opening is, but you can color as much or as little as you want.

This next step is totally optional, but I really like the look of adding a frame. You can use ANY nesting die set to create a frame. Using the same die that you die cut your opening and one slightly larger, tape them together with the larger die on the outside and the smaller inlaid inside. Then you can cut as many frames as you want and they will be exactly the same! I die cut two frames, one for the outside and the second for the inside to highlight the colored portion.

The last step before putting the shaker together is to do any stamping on the outside that you may want. I used the "You're Sweet" sentiment and stamped it onto the acetate with Staz On Pigment ink.

Finally, it's time to put everything together. Add acetate to the back of the panel and the front of the card base. Be sure the acetate is large enough to cover the opening fully. On the card base, add foam adhesive taking care to be sure the ends are touching and NO GAPS are left. Finally, add your shaker bits (I used White Sprinkles) and then lay the panel over the base to lock everything into place!

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I hope you all enjoyed a look at this easy see through shaker card! The Sprinkled with Love set is so cute and just perfect for this technique! I love the look of an actual box of donuts!!

If you are interested in the stamp set I used today, you can find it linked down below. Until next time, happy crafting!!

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Fall Family Football by Jess

Hello friends!

 

 

It's Jess here today with a fun new card to share! Since I have been in Christmas mode, I decided to take a quick step away and make something NON Christmas using a newer release stamp set.  Football season is in full swing, so a football card seemed totally appropriate. I used the "Fall Family Football" stamp set to create this card. I love this set - it's a perfect fall/masculine/sporting themed set!  Great sentiments for all occasions - and you can modify it to apply to most sports too!

 

 

I stamped the football, helmet and sentiment stamps onto some white cardstock and colored with my Nuvo Markers, then cut them out.  I used some football field themed patterned paper to stamp a random pattern background using quite a few of the images from the set.

 

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope that you enjoyed my card. Be sure to grab your fave JOY CLAIR stamps today!  I promise, you will have so much fun using them!

 

See you again really soon!  Hugs!!

 

Jess

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holiday's everyone!

I am here with Joy Clair Stamps sharing a card I created using the Joy Clair Stamps the trees and the sentiment came from the stamp set called "Merry Christmoose ", the birds are from the stamp set called "Noah's Ark". 

Here is my card and how I created it.

My card is an A2 card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2), the black layer is  4 1/8 x 5 3/4. I cut the top layer at 3 5/8 x 5 and masked a small circle with masking paper where I wanted the moon and used distress inks on the background.   I stamped the trees and the sentiment with Versafine Clair Onyx Black.  After everything dried I sprayed the background with Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray Sparkle.

closer look at the card

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