Batch Cooking!

Hi everyone, I have been playing with various Christmas combos using my Christmas bauble stencils and new-ish winter cabin stamps. They are ideal for batch cardmaking, so I have made a few more ‘similar but different’ cards to recent makes - here’s a selection.

I have found that my Card-io bauble stencil is a bit big, so I have made a few one layer cards as the stencil fills a 6” square.

For the above card I scored a 30cm x 15cm piece of Pink Frog super smooth card to make a card base that I could stamp and colour onto directly. I stamped the winter cabin and a couple of extra trees in Morning Mist VFC, then created the bauble shape and Northern lights sky by blending Versacolor inks through the bauble stencil with a dry baby wipe - I think this one is much more vibrant than my previous efforts with these inks. I outlined the bauble with fine white Posca and Sakura Stardust pens and added blue shadow, then stamped the little deer.  I coloured the cabin with white Posca pen and Stickles glitter glue, then stamped the sentiment and added white Posca snow. 

Stamps: Inkylicious Winter Cabin (medium), Stag/Deer set 1; Card-io Small Pine Trees; Visible Image Poinsettia Grunge (sentiment); 

Media: Versafine Clair (Nocturnal, Morning Mist, Medieval Blue); Versacolor (Atlantic, Peony, Canary, Green Tea); Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Posca pen (white); Stickles (Stardust);

Tools: Card-io stencil - Vintage Bauble.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #128 - Anything Goes Christmas (4th entry)

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Stamps (3rd entry)

CAS on Friday #323 - Christmas

C.R.A.F.T. #769 - Christmas

DL.Art (November) - Anything Goes

Dream Factory #145 - Anything Christmassy Goes (3rd entry)

Just Us Girls #803 - Anything Goes + a Stencil

Merry Little Christmas #65 - Anything Christmas Goes (4th entry)

Paper Funday #82 - Anything Goes with option Merry and Bright (4th entry)

For this one I decided to have a go at an OLC with my large bauble stencil on kraft card, as I have previously made a few kraft cards with my smaller bauble stencil. I created the bauble by blending Brilliance Moonlight White ink through the stencil, then stamped everything using Pinecone VFC apart from the background wording which I stamped using Portobello. I coloured the cabin with white Posca pen and Stickles, shaded the bauble with Portobello VFC, and coloured the sentiment with a Sakura Stardust pen to add sparkle.

Stamps: Inkylicious Winter Cabin (medium), Stag/Deer set 1; Tracy Evans Boutique Design TE23 Winter Delights, TE22 Christmas Wishes; Lavinia Seasonal Words;

Media: Versafine Clair (Pinecone, Portobello); Brilliance ink  (Moonlight White); Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Card-io stencil - Vintage Bauble.

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Favourite : Gold, Silver or Glitter (and why)

(I love a bit of glitter on Christmas cards as I think I’m addicted to sparkle!)

Beccy’s Month of Holiday Cards 2025 - Day 29

Crafty Gals’ Corner #272 - ‘Tis the Season (3rd entry)

Daisy Chain #102 - Christmas/Winter (3rd entry)

Everybody Art #589 - Bling/Glitter (2nd entry)

The Holly and Ivy #196 - Anything Christmas Goes (3rd entry)

Krafty Chicks #796 - Masculine

Moving Along With the Times #183 - Winter Wonderland (4th entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Unicorn #115 - Christmas/Winter (3rd entry)

This one is another variation on some previous cards I made with a smaller bauble stencil. The method was very similar to card 2 except that I die cut a panel of kraft card to stamp on, then matted onto white pearlescent card and a kraft card blank. I also tried a different method of shadowing the bauble, using a brown Inktense pencil.

Stamps: Inkylicious Winter Cabin (small); Tracy Evans Boutique Design TE23 Winter Delights, TE22 Christmas Wishes, TE18 Decorations;

Media: Versafine Clair (Pinecone, Portobello); Brilliance ink  (Moonlight White); Sakura Stardust pens (clear, red); Posca pen (white); Inktense pencil (Bark);

Tools: Tracy Evans Snippet Stencil SS6 Bauble.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Addicted to Stamps & More #506 - Make Your Mark  (3rd entry)

Christmas (or not) BINGO Challenge #16 - Use 3 items from BINGO card column (2nd entry)

(Column N: Christmas / Free / Masking & Stencilling)

Craft Rocket #131 - Christmas/Winter (3rd entry)

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (November) - Use a Stencil (3rd entry)

Fab ‘n’ Funky #626 - All That Glitters (2nd entry)

Heart’s Quest #20 - Anything With a Heart Goes

Word Art Wednesday #726/727 - Anything Goes (5th entry)

Well I think I can truly say I’m all baubled out now! I’ll be back soon with another little batch of Christmas cards - but no baubles or winter cabins in sight lol!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,