Creating Christmas Cards with the Simon Hurley Christmas Collection

Hi, it’s Marie here from the blog and YouTube channel, Marie Nicole Designs. I’m excited to be sharing three cards I created using stamps from the new Simon Hurley Christmas Collection. These cards are fairly simple to create, and they will be perfect to send out in this upcoming holiday season. I made two cards with a glimmered background I added with a Simon Hurley Glimmer plate I have. I think the pattern looks like snowflakes so it fit well with the snowmen! The last card I made is simply using the stamped image along with a sentiment and some ink-blended colors. Let’s take a look!

SIMPLY SNOWMEN

I started my cards by stamping out the images from the Sketched Snowmen stamp set. These are so cute! I used some hybrid ink so that it wouldn’t smear while I added color. For the color, I used my watercolor brush markers and a water brush. These snowmen didn’t need a lot of coloring, but I did add some light blue to their bodies, and then color to their hats, scarves, and other areas that needed color. After the images were colored, I cut them out using the coordinating dies. I absolutely LOVE having dies to cut my images. I'm not a fan of fussy cutting but I’ll do it when needed. After I had the images colored and cut, I set them aside to work on the other pieces for my card. The backgrounds for my snowmen cards are created using the Geo Snowflakes Glimmer Plate. I added some light blue and silver foil. I think this plate looks great with these cute snowmen! I also used a lot of foam adhesive between layers so that I could add a lot of dimension. The sentiments on both cards are stamped, and the second card I have the sentiment stamped and embossed in black on a piece of vellum. I added some circle sequins around the skiing snowman to add to the look of snow flying up around him.

SECRET SANTA

My last card for today’s post is a little fun and playful, but also very simple. I used this Santa image from the Sketched Santas stamp set along with the sentiment, “From Your Secret Santa”. I imagined this card as part of a secret Santa gift. I first masked off a strip of cardstock using some low-tack tape. Then, I also masked off some rectangle areas for my ink. I used a combination of greens and reds and alternated the colors to create the strip of color blocks in the background. I imagined the Secret Santa peeking up from the bottom of the card, so I stamped him using black ink from the arms up. You can just see the gift he’s holding which I think is a cute effect to go with the sentiment, which I stamped on the white area of cardstock just under the ink-blended color blocks. I then popped this card front up on adhesive and added it to the card base. Done!

Other Supplies

Paper trimmer, foam adhesive, stamping platform, dye ink, hybrid ink, scissors, glue, vellum, embossing ink, embossing powder, heat tool, ink blenders, low-tack tape, watercolor brush markers, water brush, sequins That’s it for today’s post. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you love these stamps from the new Simon Hurley Christmas Collection! Until next time, Marie