Christmas in July with Joy Clair: Joy to the World!

Hello there Joy Clair Friends!  Today I'm sharing three cards I created for the Joy Clair Christmas in July celebration!  I'm thrilled to add this card to my Christmas card stash and I'm happy to say I am now three cards closer to my yearly goal!  WOO HOO!  Joy Clair is offering a great prize at the end of this event, so make sure to check out the Design Team posts all week!  

This card features the Out of this World stamp set.  I enjoy using non-traditional stamp sets to create my Christmas Cards and after thinking about the phrase "Joy to the World", I imagined how I could represent this on a card.  I shuffled through my Joy Clair stamp collection and found the Out of this World stamp set and thought those planets would make some cool hanging ornaments!  Well, that set the ball rolling and I stamped the images onto white cardstock and then worked to create the ornament tops for them.  I placed a little piece of white cardstock over the top of the planets and then used a pencil to sketch a little top that would fit. When I was pleased with the results, I traced over the designs with a Staedtler permanent pen and attached it to the planet with glue.  I cut around the top so that they would blend in with the stamped image.  There is a slight line, but if you squint hard enough, you can't see it.  LOL

After cutting out the "ornaments", I colored them using Leisure Arts Watercolor Pencils.  Once done, I applied some clear glaze and microfine glitter to make them sparkly.  

After they dried, I punched a hole in each ornament and threaded them onto some black twine.  I moved on to the card base next!  

To create the card base, I diecut the Reverse Confetti Cuts Stitched Squares out of a white card base and used the cut out to create a frame.  I watercolored the frame with the watercolor pencils and then mounted some gold cardstock behind the cut out on the card base.  I doodled a design around the oval and then I mounted the "frame" wonky style onto the front of the card and attached the ornaments.  To finish the card off, I applied some silver pearls for added shine!  

I hope this project inspires you to get inky and helps you get one step closer to your Christmas Card goals!  

If you're interested in learning how I created a specific card pictured below, make sure to click on the link to direct you there. 

Come Let Us Adore Him

Glory to the Highest

Christmas in July with Joy Clair: Oh Come Let Use Adore Him

Hello there Joy Clair Friends!  Today I'm sharing three cards I created for the Joy Clair Christmas in July celebration!  I'm thrilled to add this card to my Christmas card stash and I'm happy to say I am now three cards closer to my yearly goal!  WOO HOO!  Joy Clair is offering a great prize at the end of this event, so make sure to check out the Design Team posts all week!  

This card features two stamp sets:  Christmas Nativity and Out of this World.  To start off the project, I stamped the star/dot image onto a piece of white cardstock.  After covering most of the page, I used Leisure Arts Watercolor pencils to color the background.  

To push the color into the background and add some layering effect, I brushed Winter White acrylic paint (in a whitewash fashion) over the whole paper from the base (white part of the cardstock) upwards.  I was careful not to apply too much as I wanted the starry background to show up on the page.  

Next, I mounted this panel onto light lavender cardstock and then mounted it onto a light blue card base using foam squares to give it dimension.  

Next, I diecut an oval out of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment using black ink and my Misti.  I also took this time to stamp the King, cut him out and watercolor him so I could apply him to my card.  I punched a hole on the top of the sentiment and attached a ribbon.  This sentiment was mounted onto the card using foam squares, and the King was applied over that.  The card was complete!  

I hope this project inspires you to get inky and helps you get one step closer to your Christmas Card goals!  

If you're interested in learning how I created a specific card pictured below, make sure to click on the link to direct you there. 

Joy To The World

Glory to the Highest

Out of this World!

Hi again inky friends!  I'm back in a flash with another adoooorrrrable card featuring the new Out of This World stamp set from Joy Clair.  This was such a fun and easy card to create so get your Gelli Plate and your ink pads ready and let's have fun!  

To create the fun background, I swiped some ink (directly from the Memento dewdrop pad) to the Gelli Plate.  I laid my paper onto the inked plate and lifted up the impression.  I did this a few times with a couple different Memento colors and oh yeah...It ended up deeelish!  After that, I stamped a few stars and dots and added some sparkle washi for pizaaaaazzz...

I stamped the UFO with black Memento ink twice (once onto some leftover Gelli Printed paper and then once on white cardstock).  I paper pieced the green part of the paper onto the other UFO that I colored with colored pencils.  To finish the card off, I punched a few stars, added some twine and mounted the card onto some bright and alien-ish cardstock.  A little gold flicked here and there just made the card complete!