Countdown to Christmas 2024 – Week 12

December 21, 2024January 16, 2025 ~ Karen Young

The final project for my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series reminds me of the poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas’.

It’s the final design from my recent Christmas Card Class.

Our cute mouse is from the Christmas Friends Stamp Set. Greetings of the Season Stamp Set provides the sentiment, and the Snowy Wonder Stamp Set the snow.

First, the sentiment is stamped in Night of Navy.

Next, using Early Espresso, the mouse is stamped and then coloured using Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen.

This circle is layered onto a Night of Navy circle. these are cut out with Circle Punches from the Online Exclusives range.

Small strips of Balmy Blue ink are then stamped tone on tone with the snow to create a background.

Finally, a swoosh of Silver Trim is added before the mouse is attached using Dimensionals.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series. Do you have a favourite project?

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2024 – Week 10

December 7, 2024December 6, 2024 ~ Karen Young

With only a few week’s left of my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series, week 10 is this cute snowman.

This project is from the Christmas Card Making Day I held last weekend.

The Snowy Wonder Stamp Set provides the images and sentiment. My colour combination is Pebbled Path and Balmy Blue, with Pool Party, Gorgeous Grape and Berry Burst snowflakes.

A Stampin’ Write Marker in Pumpkin Pie colours the carrot nose and a Pool Party Stampin’ Blend helps to bring the snowman to life a bit more.

Our snowman sits on a shape cut out using the 2 3/8″ Circle Punch from the Online Exclusives range.

Silver Trim from the Gold & Silver Trim Combo Pack creates a swoosh and the snowman is raised up over it using Dimensionals. More Dimensionals are then used to raise up the sentiment too.

As each attendee made four of each design during the class, this project needed to be quick and easy.

It’s a great design for batch-making as you could stamp snowflakes all over a piece of A4 and then cut it to make your background.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2024 – Week 9

November 30, 2024November 29, 2024 ~ Karen Young

We’ve reached week 9 of my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series.

Today’s project is a one of four cards attendees are making later at my Christmas Card Making Day.

During the class, they will make 16 cards, 4 each of 4 designs.

For this quick and easy project, the tree and present from the Snowy Wonder Stamp Set are stamped multiple times in Granny Apple Green and Poppy Parade.

The stars are from the Christmas Everywhere Kit and stamped in Daffodil Delight.

Season’s Greetings, also from the Snowy Wonder Stamp Set is stamped in Basic Gray. It’s stamped onto a piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock cut out using the Modern Oval Punch.

Two lengths from the Gold and Silver Trim Combo Pack are added to the back of the sentiment. It is then raised up using Dimensionals.

For this class, the projects need to be quick and simple, but you could always add extra embellishments and more to step up your own version.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2024 – Week 7

November 16, 2024November 15, 2024 ~ Karen Young

The project for week 7 of my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series is this very quick and easy card.

Using more traditional colours of Shaded Spruce and Real Red, this project is a great scrap buster.

The holly and the sentiment are both from the Snowy Wonder Stamp Set. This set is really versatile as it has a large number of festive images and sentiments in different sizes that are great for lots of projects.

After stamping the sentiment, I stuck strips of cardstock across the project. You could use your cardstock or DSP scraps here, or a length of ribbon.

I then stamped the holly onto layered shapes cut from the Deckled Circles Dies. These are from the Online Exclusives range.

The holly is stuck to the project before Rhinestones, coloured with a Stampin’ Blend marker are added to finish the design.

This is a great project if you need to make lots of cards, or need to use up some of your offcuts.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2024 – Week 6

November 9, 2024November 8, 2024 ~ Karen Young

We are now halfway through my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series at week 6.

This is a fun design that uses parcels to create a Christmas tree.

The Snowy Wonder Stamp Set provides the parcel image that is stamped multiple times in Shaded Spruce for the tree shape and Pecan Pie for the trunk.

Once they are stamped, the ribbons are coloured using Stampin’ Blends in Real Red and Daffodil Delight.

A Daffodil Delight Glossy Dot creates the ‘star’ at the top of the tree with a few Rhinestones for a touch of extra bling.

Why not use other small images to create your own tree?

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Countdown to Christmas 2024 – Week 4

October 26, 2024October 25, 2024 ~ Karen Young

The project for week 4 of my Countdown to Christmas 2024 series is one of my go to Christmas Card designs.

For this version, I’ve used Crumb Cake and Blackberry Bliss, with gold accents to coordinate with the ribbon. It also only uses one ink pad with tone-on-tone stamping.

This card isn’t in the more traditional Christmas colours, but has a more rustic feel.

First, I created the background using the Falling Snow Background Stamp Set. As background stamps are larger, only one inking up and stamp is needed to fill the card.

New Textured Ribbon from the Mini Catalogue in Blackberry Bliss and Gold then creates the ribbon across the parcel.

Next, the sentiment is created, this is from the Snowy Wonder Stamp Set and cut out using the Modern Oval Punch. I’ve layered another cut out from the Punch in Blackberry Bliss behind it.

The sentiment is then stuck on with Dimensionals.

Finally, coordinating gold sequins from the Neutrals Adhesive-Backed Sequins are added for a touch of festive bling.

What I really love about this design is how versatile it is. Use any colours, stamps, bling and more for your creation. You can also use strips of DSP for the ribbon and change it to landscape too. The possibilities with this design are endless and it’s why it’s a firm favourite design of mine.