Santa Theme Week Stocking Card

The Stampendous theme this week is Santa.  I know this isn't technically a Santa card, but I can imagine that this stocking, hung with care, waiting for Santa, is just the type of stocking that Santa would actually wear himself.  That seemed to follow the theme well enough for me.  Stampendous team members are also showing Action Wobbles cards, but this is not one of them.  This card was created with a little stamping, some die cuts, and some embossing powder.  

Materials:
R234 Snowflake Sky Stamp
SSC1231 Holiday Expressions Perfectly Clear Stamps™
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko^®
VM001 VersaMark™ Ink by Tsukineko^®
EP171 Opaque Winter Wonderland Embossing Enamel
3D White Glitter Embossing Powder
FX71 Sticky Panels
DWDG692 Nested Stockings Dies
DWDL3005 Holly Die Cut

Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
May Arts Ribbon
Small Queen and Co. Rhinestones
Xyron X Adhesive
Scotch Brand 1/2 inch Adhesive Tape
Die Cut Machine (I used Cuttlebug)
Big Bite
Embossing Heat Tool
Paper Trimmer

Instructions:

1. The base card stock size was 4 1/2" by 11" and it was folded on the top edge.
2. Use the Jumbo Acrylic Handle and the Snowflake Sky Stamp to stamp red card stock with Versamark Ink.
3. Generously pour Opaque Winter Wonderland Embossing Powder over the stamped snowflake image and shake off the excess.
4. Use the heat tool to heat emboss the powder.
5. Stamp white card stock with the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.
6. Use your die cut machine and the Nested Stocking Die to cut the stocking shape from the embossed card stock, the stocking top from Sticky Panels and the Holly Die from green card stock.
7. Remove the paper from the top of the die cut Sticky Panel and generously pour the 3D White Glitter Embossing Powder over it.  Shake off the excess.
8. Use your heat tool to emboss the powder.
9. Cut close to the sentiment image and then cut a thin red mat for behind it.
10. Cut red card stock to match the front of the card.
11. Cut dotted green card stock to fit inside the red.
12. Adhere down the stocking, stocking top and holly on the dotted green card stock, leaving room for the ribbons.
13. Run two pieces of ribbon through your Xyron "X" machine to get adhesive on the back.
14. Adhere the red mat (the one that will go behind the sentiment) to the dotted green card stock.
15. Place the adhesive backed ribbon on the green dotted card stock, starting with the bottom ribbon and wrapping a little under the sides.
16. Adhere the sentiment inside the white rectangle.
17. Use the Crop-a-Dile to create two small holes on the top of the stocking.
18. Run ribbon through the holes and tie.
19. Adhere the large red card stock to the card.
20. Adhere the green dotted card stock inside the red card stock.
21. Attach rhinestones.

Here are all the links for today:

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds (Wobbles, DW and Santa)

Pam Hornschu (Wobbles and Dreamweaver Stencils)

Laura Drahozal (DW and Santa)

Louise Healy (DW and Santa)

Pam Bray (DW and Santa and Wobbles)

Lea Fritts (DW and Wobbles)

Dreamweaver All In One

Fran Seiford, Owner and Founder of Stampendous, understands that holiday card making can be time consuming. Plus, it’s not always easy to find images that go together to make the perfect card. Enter the All in Ones from Stampendous. These darling stamps are the perfect size to make a whole card. Easy shapes to cut with scissors or simply stamp on a colored background, these stamps have a focal image, a background, a frame, and a phrase for the holidays. Just stamp it, sign it, mail it. OR get as creative as you like by combining with other stamps and embellishments!
Here is what I did by combining one of these stamps with a Dreamweaver Stencil and a die cut.

Materials:

Christmas Train Rubber Stamp RS-W159

Dreamweaver Christmas Borders Stencil DWLJ922

Dreamweaver Holly Die Cut DWDL3005

Pearlescent Embossing Paste

Crystal Glitter

Paste Spreader

Palette Knife

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle

Removable Tape

Blue Card Stock

White Card Stock

Prismacolor Pencils in the following colors:  White, Cool Grey 10%, Cool Grey 20%, Cool Gray 30%, Cool Grey 50%, Cool Grey 70%, Cool Grey 90%, Metallic Silver, Periwinkle, Indigo Blue, Dark Green, Olive Green, Crimson Red and Terra Cotta

Scotch 3M Adhesive

Foam Squares

Directions:

1.  Use the removable tape to adhere the stencil to the blue card stock.

2.  Remove the embossing paste with the palette knife and place on the paste spreader.

3.  Put the paste spreader on the top of the project and pull the paste down over the stencil, filling in all the gaps.  Treat the spreader as if it were a squeegee, keeping contact with the stencil all the way down.

4.  Remove the stencil, sprinkle glitter on the paste and then let it dry.

5.  Stamp the image on the white card stock with Memento Ink.

6.  Color the image with Prismacolor colored pencils.

7.  Die cut the holly leaves.

8.  Cut out the stamped image.

9.  Assemble the card, using foam squares to pop up the main image.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed my post today.

Here are the other blogs that participated in either the All In One or the Dreamweaver posts for today:

Stampendous Blog

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Alison Heikkila

Wendy Price

Laura Drahozal

Lea Fritts