Yuletide Village for Around the World on Wednesday - December 2024 | Technique with a Twist

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 4 comments

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card with Ink Swipe holly (scene 2 preview) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

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Hello and welcome to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop! We are so glad you have joined us and look forward to spending time with you as we share inspiration with you for our Technique with a Twist Challenge. So sit back and enjoy your favorite cuppa as you enjoy your trip Around the World on Wednesday!

Today's Project

Have you finished making your Christmas cards, yet?!? Well, I'm still making mine and really need to get them in the mail next Monday... hoping I make my deadline as I've not been feeling my best since the weekend fighting another low grade fever.

This month's technique challenge is a challenge to try something new or something old with a twist to make it our own. I chose to try something new... well, new to me! Sara Douglass demonstrated a fun technique that I've been wanting to try, but haven't. An Artisan friend of mine, Kim Fee, has been using this fun technique a lot during this Christmas card making season... and just this week (LOL!), she shared a card on Instagram that I knew would be perfect to CAS(e) as I have not been feeling my best. Thank you so much for the amazing inspiration, Kim!

So here's today's project to inspire you to CAS(e) an Artisan to use a technique you've been wanting to try!

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card (scene 2) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

Project Details

Many of you know how much I love to use Night of Navy and Basic White to create classic, elegant cards!

Totally inspired by Kim's project, I made it my own. The Yuletide Village scene was stamped across a piece of Basic White cardstock measuring 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". The snowflake garland was stamped across the top envisioning how it would look walking around the village. Each panel was trimmed down to 2" wide while carefully trimming 1/8" off between each panel to allow for the gaps on the card.

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card with Ink Swipe holly (scene 4 with overhang sentiments and envelope) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

The Night of Navy card base measuring as a standard size card when folded flat stands tall to be viewed from any angle.

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card with Ink Swipe holly (scene 4) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card with Ink Swipe holly (scene 3) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

A Garden Green ink pad was lightly swiped across a quarter sheet of Basic White cardstock several times to create a green background. A bottom section of the same sheet was swiped with a Real Red ink pad along the bottom edge. Four holly leaves and berries were die-cut from the Reindeer Fun Dies.

The Sentimental Wishes sentiment was white heat embossed twice and die-cut with a circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies.

The broad short banner from the Stylish Shapes Dies was die-cut four times from Gold Foil Sheets.

The gold foil banner and holly were adhered to the sentiment circle to replicate the front.

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card with Ink Swipe holly (scene 1 with overhanging sentiments and envelope) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

The assembled sentiment was adhered to the card panels with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Yuletide Village Scenic Tower card with Ink Swipe holly (scene 2 bird's eye view with envelope) | Nature's INKspirations by Angie McKenzie

The Basic White Medium Envelope was stamped to compliment the card front. A Basic White cardstock insert stamped to compliment the village scene will be included with the card to correspond to the recipient.

THE AWOW TEAM

THIS IS US

We are such a diverse and fun group of stampers from all over the world! Ten (10) of my Stampin' Up! Demonstrator friends are joining me today in this worldwide hug that stretches all the way from New Zealand to Hawaii across twelve different time zones. We love sharing sunshine with you through projects from our individual parts of the world on these second Wednesdays of the month. I hope that you are being filled with lots of inspiration.

More Inspiration

I hope this project has helped you imagine different ways you can create cards with a scene and/or using the Ink Swipe Technique. Now, hop along with me, Angie McKenzie, to see more Wednesday inspirations from my amazing friends Around the World. Just click the daisy below to go to my friend, Tricia, as she shares her amazing project, or scroll down the name list to follow along because you sure don't want to miss any.