Singing a Happy Holiday Tune
Hi readers! Happy Wednesday to you! I hope you’re having a great week, and getting into full holiday swing! To help keep that going, we have a special holiday card by our crafty friend Lucy Abrams! We hope you enjoy! Read on!
Hands up: who is guilty of always wanting to use brand new supplies on their projects, and neglecting all their much loved older products… I know I am! So when I was thinking about creating this card, I decided it would be fun to combine old and new.
I rooted through my stash of lovely older release Hero Arts stamps, and came up with their gorgeous Music Background. I remember how excited I was when they released this one; it’s just perfect for Christmas card backgrounds. So I paired it up with the newly released Fancy Cuts Christmas die set, and created this sparkly, inky card.
The background was heat embossed in white, then inked over with Ranger’s Festive Berries Distress Ink. And I stitched my die cuts to the card for a different look.
A few beautiful Hero Arts Smooth Clear Gemstones finished the card off.
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Lucy for being our guest!
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Just beautiful!
Absolutely gorgeous! x
Such a pretty card. Great embossing/blending! Love how the ink fades out from the center.
Such a simple and stunning card, I love it!
I love the word die cuts. That’s all you need for a card.
I think it’s so much fun to “rediscover” an older stamp!
Great card, love that the color fades away on the borders of the card.
This is such a pretty card! Love the stitching through the sentiment. Very “out of the box” thinking.
super cute card, I love the background and stitching, a great idea!
Totally Christmasy !!! Red and Silver ! Love the Background
Love music on a Christmas Card! And all that sparkle and shine too! Merry Merry!
Wonderful how you got such a large stamp to come out completely stamped and heat embossed on top of that.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
A fabulous musical creation in festive red and love the silver sparkly sentiment on it!
Lovely card! TFS ;-)
Love this…need to make use of my old stock too! Carol x
Love the silver & red-such a pretty combo for the season.
So pretty and a nice way to inspire me to use my older supplies!
Beautiful! Love the inking and all that sparkle!
Very pretty.
Such a pretty use of the great die cut!
That card is music to my eyes.
I love that music background, too, Lucy, and it’s not just for Christmas! I find myself pulling out lots of HA oldies all the time – they are timeless. Gorgeous card, Lucy!
This is an awesome and so beautiful card!!!
Gorgeous card!! Love how the red is darker in the middle and gets lighter as it goes out!!
WOW!!! A very gorgeous Christmas card!!! Perfect color combination, love the fading effect and the stitching and gemstones are a nice add ons to the card. Love your choice of Fancy christmas die cut and Hero Arts music background stamp. They are great together. Great job! Thanks for sharing :-)
Just gorgeous card, love the musical background :)
How fun! I inked up this same stamp last year and applied pink distress ink after heat embossing but never got around to turning the panel into a card. Maybe it’s time I did LOL.
Very pretty card! Love distress inks! Glitz is beautiful!
What a beautiful card Lucy! I love the gradation effect is in the BG!!!
I love mixing old and new supplies.
LOVE the card
This is beautiful! I need to dig out some of my older stamps again.
This is a very pretty card! I should do one like this!
The background on this card is absolutely beautiul!
You’re right about neglecting your older stamps! I have the music stamp! You’ve inspired me to ink it up and show it some love! Thanks for sharing your lovely card!
What a beautiful card!!
Wonderful Christmas card! Love the background and the silver sentiment looks fabulous!
Gorgeous Christmas card :)
Love your card with the mix of old and new. I do this all the time because I love using lots of my older stamps and they are still favorites.
Gorgeous Christmas card !! Love the background .
What a gorgeous Christmas Card!! Thanks for the great idea!
Beautiful card! I love the music background.
This is a fun card! and so doable. Thanks for inspiring today. I love the music motif!
Beautiful – love this background stamp and it looks great with the distress ink
Gorgeous card, love the color with the silver!
Beautiful card Lucy! I love the distressed ink on the music background and how it fades out at the edges rather than fading out in the center. Great job!!!
What a beautiful card! I really like that music background stamp!!
love the look of this wonderful Christmas card! great with the silver glitter sentiment. :)
Beautiful card, love your shaded BG :)
This is gorgeous! Love the music note paper!