Flora and Fauna: Christmas by the Sea
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please welcome one of the owners of Flora and Fauna, Lara Di Re as a special guest on our blog today! She’s showcasing some brand new Flora and Fauna sets to make tropical holiday cards using their new Christmas by the Sea clear stamp set! Please read on and enjoy!
Hi! This is Lara from Flora & Fauna and we are so excited to be guest posting here on the Simon Says Blog again! Today we are excited about the holidays and using one of our new clear sets Christmas By the Sea for a fun take on a traditional holiday!
To make the first card we watercolored the background and then masked the border with seashells and starfish which we colored with colored pencils. Then we added White Blizzard Nuvo glitter drops to the hat which was stamped in our favorite classic versafine black onyx ink.
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For the next card we stamped the shells in black and colored with colored pencils. To give it more sparkle we added gold sequins. Next we fussy cut the mermaid and tiny candy candy and colored with pencils and to finish added a mini wobble to the mermaid to make her move.
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For our sled card we stamped the image with black and filled in with colored pencils. Next we used an exacto knife to open the sled and placed the shell packages in the sled. On top we used black glaze pen for the added ropes between seahorses and sled and used red Nuvo drops for nose. The next step was to emboss the stars with white embossing powder and to add additional snow dots using white Sakura pen. To finish we sponged the background with peacock feathers distress ink. The star stamp comes from our Cozy Cuddles Penguin set.
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For our final card we first stamped the wreath with various sea life stamps from the set and then added the greenery from our poinsettia watercolor set. We first stamped sea life pieces in black, then colored with pencil and finally filled in with greenery stamp. To complete the card we added Nuvo red drops at the end.
We hope you enjoyed our samples with our new holiday sets. For more inspiration visit our Instagram page at florafauanclear. Happy Stamping!
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Lara for being our guest today!
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The tree made from shells is so clever! What a great bunch of stamps.
I adore the seashell Christmas tree!! It’s too cute!
Such cute cards!
OMG these are too cute!!!
I love how clean and simple these cards are!
What cute cards! I love this idea for my friends who live overseas and have warm Christmases!
Cute ideas for Christmas cards!
These are so fun and creative — who’d ever think of a seashell tree?
This is adorable!! Seashell Christmas tree! Too cute!
Fun and out of the box cards! I especially like the seashell Christmas tree!
These are really cute. I especially like the seashell Christmas tree.
Absolutely adorable cards! Love these!
Very clever ways to use this set.
Super adorable cards!
Love a sea theme and these are so very cute!
Sure adorable cards Lara and awesome stamp sets!!!
Adorable cards!!
What an awesome idea: great way to stretch your stamps!
Love the mermaid stamp and such a cute theme for Christmas!
Brilliant! Always love stretching product ideas. These are adorable. Perfect for those who celebrate Christmas in the heat.
This is so adorable! LOVE the seahorse carriage and the seashell tree – so clever!
Such a cute and clever stamp set. Bravo!
This is such an adorable Set. I would rather have seashell than snow!!
That seashell tree is adorable and so creative! Fun set.
What a neat traditional Christmas alternative! Great idea.
i would love to be by a warm sea for Christmas.
Cute ideas and love the stamps. Can’t wait to try some of these tips.
What a novel take on the Christmas holiday. I like the originality of your cards.
Super cute!! Love the shell tree!!
This set is so, so fun!! What fabulous creations!!
Love this non-traditional theme
What a cute and inspiring idea! Love these tropical holiday cards!
Cute and unique for the holidays!
Lara, these are ALL fin-tastic! LOL. Seriously, they are all absolutely awesome and your colouring is beautiful. I def. need to get some good coloured pencils, I can see it makes all the difference in the world! Well done!
Such fun cards! Love the delightful stamps!
Adorable! Love the tree!
I always loved the idea of escaping to the Caribbean for Christmas. These cards are looking so much fun.
Love the seashells!!!
What a fun idea! Makes me want to go to a warm place for the holidays!
Warm winter wishes are the write words for these delightful cards. One word: Gorgeous!
Thanks for being a guest designer on this blog.
Very interesting take on Christmas cards–makes me wish I lived near the sea! They are very cute–thanks for sharing!
Wonderful for a Christmas with a nautical theme.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
How fabulous – not everyone lives in snow area during Christmas – TFS
Love the seashell tree!
Love the tree made out of the shells.
The shells added to the wreath is a
fun idea.
Fantastic take on nautical.
thanks for sharing.
Awesome cards…way to think out of the box! Great job!!!
Adorable projects:)
Really cute set of cards!
This is such a cute idea. We seem to think Christmas is always ice and snow. Love it.
Beautiful cards! Love the soft colors!