Christmas Card - Peaceful Trees

Peaceful Trees

Once again I wanted to use Simon Says Stamp's Clean Line Christmas stamp set and it's geometric trees that I was recently gifted to use. I thought it would be perfect to create a clean and simple Christmas card. I also wanted to use the 'peaceful' stamp from Simon says stamp's Holiday Greetings Mix 1 so that formed the basis of this design.

(I'll post a link to a process video here in the near future)

Simon Says Stamp Holiday Greetings Mix 1

Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas

First of all I decided to stamp each of the 3 geometric trees in a shade of blue, green and red. For the blue I used Altenew crisp dye ink in Desert Night, the green is Ranger Archival Ink in Library Green and the red I used was Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler.

Ink Pads Used on this Card

I placed a A6 sized piece of 300gsm (~100lb) cardstock and each tree stamp into my we r memory Keepers stamping platform and lined them up using a ruler. I stamped the furthest from the edge of my stamping platform first, removed it from the door then stamped the tree in the middle, removed that stamp and stamped the final tree. Thus was to make it easier for me to stamp the separate colours cleanly while keeping them all lined up where I wanted them on the card front.

I decided I wanted to have the sentiment "wishing you a peaceful Christmas" so I lined up the smaller 'wishing you a' above the "peaceful" stamp with 'christmas' below. I stamped this using ranger archival ink in jet black but I wanted the "peaceful" part of the sentiment to stand out so decided to restamp it using clear embossing ink then heat embossed it with black embossing powder. When I did this I made sure the stamped images where completely dry before applying my anti static powder tool then heat embossing.

Heat Embossing Tools Used

That was all I wanted to do on this card to keep it simple but felt it needed something more. I decided to give the card a bit of dimension by using foam tape to adhere the card front to a 180gsm textured white card base.

All The Products Used on This Card

And it's done. It turned out really simple and clean. Just how I wanted it to be. Hope you enjoyed this card design.

Happy crafting!

Mel Crafting.