Pretty Poinsettia Ornament!

The Stampendous Design Team is excited to share more beautiful designs from the July 2015 Stampendous Catalog. This week our theme is "Pretty Poinsettias", and if you've seen the cover of the new catalog you know why we had to have this theme! If you haven't seen it, what are you waiting for! Click here to see it online.

Today I used the Oval Ornament and just the Poinsettia from the Three Christmas Icons stencil to create a beautiful, old-fashioned ornament card. 

Supplies

Stampendous:SSC1068 Christmas Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamps Set

Dreamweaver:
DWLG674 Oval Ornament
DWLL469 Three Christmas Icons
DWLL332 Picasso Shield/Stencil
DWETMD Embossing Tool Medium
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle
DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle

Plus:
Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Classic® Red Pepper & Classic Cream Linen Cover Stock by Neenah Paper®
Sheet Music
Brilliance™ Rocket Red & Pearlescent Ivy Ink by Tsukineko®
Delicata™ Golden Glitz Ink by Tsukineko®
Ribbon by May Arts
ZipDry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives™
Wax Paper
Hole Punch
Deckle-Edged Scissors
Foam Mounting Tape

Instructions:

1. Tape the Oval Ornament stencil to a piece of cream cardstock, turn the paper over, rub with wax paper, and dry emboss the ornament with an embossing tool, be sure to go around the outer edge of the stencil too.
   
   
2. Turn the image back to the front, tape it all around and use a 1/2" stencil brush to add color around the outer edge of the ornament, use a Picasso tool to shield the topper.
   
3. Step 3:    Lay the Three Christmas Icons stencil over the oval and tape in place, use a 1/4" stencil brush and inks to add red ink to the Poinsettia, and gold to the center, use the Picasso tool to place color.
   
   
4. I liked how it looked, but decided it was too flat, so I trimmed the ornament piece to 4" x 4", put the Poinsettia stencil back over it, turned it over and embossed the flower too.
   
5. Remove the poinsettia stencil and  place the ornament stencil back on, use the 1/2" brush to add more green ink all around the edges.
   
   
6. Fold a 5 1/2" x 11" piece of dark green cardstock in half to form a square card, trim a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of music paper with a deckle scissors and brush with red, green and gold inks, tape to the front of the card.
7. Tape the ornament on a red mat, punch a hole in the ornament hanger, add a little gold thread and a May Arts bow to the top of the ornament, adhere the ornament to the card front with foam tape.
   
8. Here's a suggestion for the inside of the card, lightly stencil the ornament on cream cardstock, and stamp the sentiment from the Christmas Wishes set using Versafine Onyx Black.
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I'm at the CHA Paper Arts show this week, so for the most current list of other Pretty Poinsettias creations today go to the Stampendous Blog.  Here are yesterday's links in case you missed them!

Monday

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Happy Creating,
Louise

Christmas in August Day 5!

Wow! It's been a great week so far! The teams on both sides of the "pond" have been creating wonderful things to inspire you for the upcoming holidays with a mix of both Dreamweaver and Woodware UK* products! Six days, SIX, of beautiful, elegant, merry, cute, artsy, and craftsy projects to have you heading out to your local stores or internet sites to buy these goodies immediately!

Of course, there will be prizes as well. Three prize packages will be given to three commenters during this week's posts on the team's blogs, including five stencils and one nested die set. You can have an opportunity to win these goodies by leaving some holiday sweetness for each team member posting each day, to be one of the three winners for the week. Here are the team members that are inspiring you today:

Dream It Up!

Woodware UK

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

Lynn Mercurio

Gill Wilson 
 Debs Frost
Alison Heikkila

Siobhan the Recovering Stampaholic

Here's my creation: 

LG674  Oval Ornament and the new LL3045 Sm Oval Ornament
PLUS the new matching die set DG674 Nested Ornaments Dies

•  To start, I taped each ornament stencil to some decorative holly cardstock (Graphic45) with removable tape
• Place a large dollop of Pearlescent Embossing Paste on your craft mat or on a piece of freezer paper, add ONE drop of Wendy Vecchi's Archival Fern Green re-inker to the paste and mix well, it will be a very pale green
• Use a paste spreader (LM2010) to apply the colored paste over each stencil
• Remove the stencils and place in water for cleaning
• Let paste dry thoroughly
• When the paste is dry, lay the matching die over each ornament and cut them out
• Lay LJ891 Holly swirls stencil over one ornament and use 1/4" stencil brushes and Fern Green and Red Geranium re-inkers to stencil the design
• Brush the edges of each ornament with the Fern Green
• Mount on some beautiful Hanko cardstock and add a bow and fiber from May Arts, clean and elegant
• I love how the background paper shows through the paste too!

Close up, notice the bird that was on the paper looks like he's eating one of the berries

The left over negatives that I will certainly be using for another project

*For a stockist near you contact Woodware Craft Collection in the UK and Notions Marketing in the USA.

Happy Creating,

Louise

Christmas in August

Welcome back to week two of the Dreamweaver Stencils Christmas in August challenge. It's never too early to design your Christmas or Holiday cards, of course, no matter how early I design mine, it seems I'm always making them in December! This week I created a card using the paper piecing technique, but by using decorative paper it was very quick and easy to make!

LG674 Oval Ornament - Paper piecing

• Start by choosing a decorative paper with a nice Christmas design that fits well in the Oval Ornament stencil (LG674). I used a piece of Authentique Paper from the Wonder collection. The sweet little poinsettia design is on one side, and the beautiful stripes are on the other side, so they match perfectly.
• Lay the ornament stencil over the part of the paper you want inside your ornament and trace around the inside edge of the stencil with a Black Micron Pen (I used an 02)
• Cut out the ornament from the decorative paper staying as close to the black line as possible without cutting away the black line
• Emboss the ornament stencil on cream or natural cardstock
• Leave the stencil in place and add color to the ornament cap and hook area by using a small stencil brush and gold or silver ink (I used Brilliance Galaxy Gold)
• Round the corners with a corner rounder
• Glue the decorative paper ornament over the embossed ornament
• Cut out another flower and layer it on the first to give it more dimension
• Mount ornament on a dark green layer, then the stripe paper, then another dark green
• Embellish with a bow at the top of the ornament and a gem in the center of the flower

Want to get into the holiday spirit a little early? Link your own Christmas in August creations to the Dream It Up! blog mr. linky, or email pics of your creations to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win this wonderful newly released Heart Ornaments:

 Don't you just love this new design? There are several newly released stencils and products from CHA last month, which you can view for yourself HERE. During the week of August 20th - 25th, the Dream Team will be posting all week with a hop on Saturday to top it all...featuring all of these new fabulous designs...in collaboration with the Woodware UK team. Just a little hint...you may want to buy all of these new designs now, so you are ready and waiting for the inspiration that will come your way that week! Meanwhile, check out what the rest of the team has been creating this week:

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
 Laura Drahozal
Cherylynn Moser
Wendy Jordan  

Terrece Siddoway

Kristi Van Doren

Georgia Sommers

Lee Kellogg

Liz Martin

Cyndi Bundy

Happy Creating,
Louise