🎄🌟 Introducing Crafty Meraki's #merakicraftober Christmas Extravaganza! 🌟🎄
Jingle all the way into the holiday season with Crafty Meraki's spectacular #merakicraftober release! Each product in this curated collection has been passionately designed to help you create jaw-dropping Christmas cards in a flash—while making it look like you've spent days perfecting each one! From our game-changing new line of Effortless Artistry Papers (EAPs) to perfectly coordinated stamps, dies, meaningful sentiments, and hot foil plates, there's something here you won't want to miss.
🎉 Celebration Times Eight! 🎉
To make this season truly unforgettable, we're hosting not just one, but EIGHT fantastic hops! And guess what? We’re rolling out show-stopping prizes like MISTIs™, a MASSIVE set of Karin Markers, and even products from the new release. So come along and hop for a chance to make this crafting season the most magical yet!
We are celebrating this gorgeous release with a FUN Blog Hop and we are giving away and are giving away a regular size MISTI(TM) !!
👉 How To Enter:
1️⃣ Follow Crafty Meraki on Instagram & Facebook
2️⃣ Hop along to each stop on the Blog hop and leave a comment.
3️⃣ For bonus entries, tag your craft-loving friends!
Next Stop - Cheryl https://www.cherylespiecreates.com/
Previous Stop - Deepa https://deezinesbyd.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-crafty-meraki-merakicraftober-blog.html
Winners will be randomly selected from the comments left across all participating designers' channels. Winners will be announced on Nov 6th. 📅 on the Crafty Meraki Blog here: https://craftymeraki.com/blogs/news/merakicraftober-hop-winners-announced
Don't miss this chance to kickstart your festive crafting spree! 🎅
Open in USA ONLY due to shipping constraints.
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These holiday cards feature a couple of fun techniques; reverse hot foiling and a flat shaker.
The backgrounds were created with Under The Mistletoe Hot Foil Plate. For the blue card, Bristol Smooth card stock was ink blended with Distress Oxide inks Tumbled Glass and Chipped Sapphire. The panel was foiled in silver and the foil retained.
For the second card, a Solid Rectangle Foiling Plate was placed on the Hot Foil System and the shiny side of the foil with the negative design face down on the rectangle plate. Navy blue card stock was placed on top. Because of the large surface area being foiled, in addition to the foil plate and shim, I used a sheet of copy paper folded in half.
Both panels were trimmed to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". The ink blended panel was mounted on a black, A2 sized card base.
The reverse foiled card and the black card base were cut with a circle die. To ensure the circles aligned, the card base was opened up and the card front aligned to one end of the card base. The circle was cut. If the die does not cut through both, it will leave an impression to line up the die.
For both cards, the leaves from Evergreen Elegance Stamp Set was stamped and embossed in silver.
The leaves were COPIC coloured using three combinations: G46, 43, 40 / BG18, 13, 11 / BG49, 34, 32. The leaves were cut with the Evergreen Elegance Coordinating Die.
The leaves were arranged in a half circle around the highlighted area of the background by adhering the stem end with liquid adhesive and popping up the leaves with foam squares. A couple of additional leaves from Evergreen Elegance Effortless Artistry Paper Collection were used to fill out the wreath.
REEL
For the card above, double sided tape was placed around the circle die cut opening on the back of the foiled panel and the front of the card base. Both were then covered with glittered tulle. The tulle on the card base was sprinkled with silver and blue confetti and, using liquid adhesive, the card front was adhered to the card base aligning the circle openings. Voila! A flat shaker!
A grouping of leaves was added to the left hand corner of the card.
Gilded Greetings Hot Foil Plate was used to foil navy card stock with silver foil.
Both the foiled words and black sheet foam were cut with the Gilded Holiday Greetings Coordinating Die.
The words were stacked on the foam die cuts and adhered to the cards,
Both cards were embellished with silver confetti finished off with Nuvo Crystal Drops Morning Dew.
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