Christmas in July Day 4

 Happy 4th of July friends! It is America's 250th Birthday. I hope you celebrate with friends and family or just have a relaxing day. Here is today's card: 

 I didn't plan for a full instruction on this one as my schedule is quite busy this week but it's easier done that it appears. I used sets from Waffleflower (supply list below). The birds are all stenciled and then cut with a die that cut each one out and adds texture. I didn't use the stencil for the branch. I just hand-colored that. The sentiment is heat embossed in white. The background paper is from my collection and is textured but I added white acrylic marker dots to it. 

 ~Paula
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Christmas Postage Cards

 Hello friends!

Today I have this adorable holiday card using Waffle Flower's postage collage set. 

I adore their products and especially their line of postage collage stencils, dies, and stamps. They came out last year but just about every month they add new things. Other companies have similar sets and I'm not gonna lie, I'm addicted to those too. You'll see many postage related cards for a while from me. It kind of goes along with how much I really want people to send greetings in the mail. 

To make this card I started off by inking a sheets of stamps. I chose last year's holiday stencils since it is Christmas in July season.

You can see that the after I die cut the paper to be the a sheet of stamps I set it on a clear mat. This is a Waffle Flower grip mat. A grip mat is made from the same photopolymer material that clear stamps are made out of. Paper doesn't stick to it but the stencils totally do. 

It is really nice not to have to use tape or magnets all the time as I work through all the colors. 

I added some glitter glaze to get some dimension and sparkle. I finish all the coloring and cut the stamps apart. 

I cut a piece of silver glitter paper with a frame die and messed it up. It happens. I almost tossed it but decided to use it anyway and cover up my mistake with linen tape. 

I added some festive greenery and the stamps with various thicknesses of foam adhesive. The sentiment was in my leftover box. 

~Paula

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Papers are just from my collection. I always grab from my scraps first and I don’t keep track of where they came from.