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Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings

Hey there, crafty friends! Marie here again from Marie Nicole Designs with three cards featuring Simon Hurley’s new collection, Glad Tidings.

I don’t know about you, but I love the classic Christmas feel of this collection. The Santa, the ornaments, and the little Nutcrackers all have a bit of a vintage feel. I decided to pair all three cards with some navy cardstock and some very Christmas colors. Let’s take a look!

Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings, BP-222

For my first card, I grabbed the Nutcracker Trio Better Press plates. These three little Nutcrackers can be pressed all together, but I love that Spellbinders has also included a die that will cut each Nutcracker out individually. This way, you can keep them a trio that is perfectly spaced OR you can cut them out and individual Nutcrackers to place where you’d like.

Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings, BP-222

I cut out six Nutcrackers and colored them with alcohol markers. I tried to keep them in traditional Christmas colors. I also pressed the sentiment from the set onto my navy cardstock using embossing ink. Did you know you can press and emboss? You can! Once the embossing ink was pressed into the cardstock, I just sprinkled on a little gold embossing powder and hit it with my heat tool. Great option for adding the sentiment in different ways!

I then used a Glimmer plate with the line design and ran my cardstock background through my Better Press to press the design into my card without using foil. I love that the Better Press, the Glimmer machine, and all the plates can interchange. It gives lots of crafting options!

I then added gold splatters to the background, arranged my Nutcrackers and adhered then down with foam adhesive, and then added the sentiment with foam adhesive, as well.

Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings, BPR-017

My second card features the Ornamental Better Press Plates set. This one has that lovely image of the ornaments hanging from the branch but the plates come in three pieces. Why is this exciting? Because you can use each piece individually so you can switch up your colors and mix mediums!

The plates also come with a template that helps you place all your pieces in just the right spot. I started by using the ornament plate and inked it up with some white pigment ink. I then pressed it into my navy cardstock and I love the frosty effect it created!

Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings, BPR-017

Next, I added the strings for the ornaments by pressing and embossing, just like I did with the sentiment on my Nutcracker card. The last plate, the branch, I pressed into the card with black ink. I was going for more of a silhouette look.

I then added white splatters around the edges to give the look of snow, and then I embellished the ornaments using some pretty rhinestones.

Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings, BP-221

My last card for this post features the Santa’s Sleigh Better Press plates. When I saw this image I knew that Santa had to be flying past the moon on a magical Christmas night.

I ink-blended the background and I created the moon using the Layered Full Moon Stencil Set from Spellbinders. Once I had the whole background ink blended and finished, I took Santa and inked him up with some black ink, and then pressed him right over the moon with my Better Press.

Classic Christmas Scenes with Glad Tidings, BP-221

I also pressed the sentiment into the card with the Better Press.

To finish this card, I added some white splatters for snow, and tied some red and white baker’s twine around the bottom. My card front is added to my card base with foam adhesive.

Spellbinders Supplies:


Other supplies

Navy cardstock, foam adhesive, liquid adhesive, rhinestones, gold splatter, white splatter, embossing ink, gold embossing powder, alcohol markers, black ink, night sky ink colors, ink blending tool, bakers twine

Thank you so much for stopping by to see the Glad Tidings collection! These are so fun to create Christmas cards with and I hope I’ve given you some ideas and inspiration to use in your own crafting.

Until next time,
Marie

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