Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas, Oh What Fun Card

Welcome back for week 2 of the Heart of Christmas cards. This week I have pulled out one of my favourite textured techniques to create a "faux silk" background which I stamped HO HO HO repeatedly on. If you don't know how to do a faux silk background, follow the step by step instructions at the end of this post to learn and to create you own card.


Close up

Can you see the texture the faux silk gives?

Inside card

Step by step instructions to create you own card (inches are in bold)
1. Cut red tissue paper larger than cardstock you are mounting it onto (9cm x 13.5cm (3 1/2" x 5 5/8")) and randomly stamp HO HO HO in real red ink over the tissue paper and set it aside to dry
2. Cut garden green cardstock 20cm x 14.5cm (7 7/8" x 5 6/8") & score at 10cm (4") and set aside
3. Cut crumb cake cardstock 9.5cm x 14cm (3 3/4" x 5 1/2") and cut real red cardstock 9cm x 13.5cm (3 1/2" x 5 5/8")
4. Crumple up red tissue paper and gently flatten it back out. Using a glue stick, cover the real red cardstock with glue and lay the tissue paper onto the side with the glue
6. Fold over the edges of excess tissue paper and adhere in place
7. Stamp "Santa" from Cookie Cutter Christmas stamp set in basic black ink onto watercolor paper and colour image in using real red, basic grey and pink pirouette stampin' write markers. Use Wink of Stella to apply sparkle to the "white portions" of Santa except for his beard
8. Stamp "Happy Christmas" from Oh, What Fun stamp set in basic black ink onto shimmery white cardstock and die cut out using stitched shapes framelits
9. Die cut out scalloped oval from layering oval framelits in crumb cake (so it has a slight boarder around the stitched oval shape from step 9)
10. Die cut out 3 "pine" pieces from pretty pines thinelets in garden green
11. Adhere Happy Christmas sentiment onto crumb cake oval and adhere pine pieces behind the scalloped oval. Adhere onto real red cardstock slightly to the left to allow for the Santa to adhere in place on the right hand side (and adhere Santa in place)
12. Adhere real red cardstock onto crumb cake and adhere onto garden green card front

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Comments

[Catherine Proctor]

Ros, thank you for explaining the faux silk technique--it looks fabulous and your instructions are great.

[Tina Gillespie]

Such a cute card! I had to laugh, as I nearly chose faux silk as the ATC technique for this month!

[Christine Blain]

Such a cute, cheery card, Ros! The faux silk background looks great.

[Caroline]

Your card is so cute Ros. This is one of my favourite Christmas stamp sets. :)

[Claire Daly]

Fabulous happy card Ros! Love the ho ho ho as the background stamping. It really is a happy card! Thanks for playing along in this weeks Heart of Christmas.

[Sharon Davern]

Love your Santa card Ros, great faux silk background. I have never done that before. I will have to try it! Thanks for sharing a great card and technique.

[monika o'neill]

Such a cute Christmas card, I love it Ros.
Mon xx

[Kate Morgan]

Love the faux silk background, amazing!