Hi everyone! Svitlana here, and I'm so thrilled to kick off this special blog hop celebrating your fave crafting adhesives. Welcome to the Sticky Essentials Blog Hop and Giveaway! Make sure you hop along to get lots of inspiration and a chance to win $300 worth of prizes!
Today, I want to share a Christmas card made by implementing a couple of my favorite techniques and using wonderful sticky adhesives from Altenew.
The masking technique is a bit more time-consuming, but the result is always worth it.
I applied this technique to create a one-layer design of overlapping poinsettia and holly berry elements. I also cheated a bit, so cutting masks for this card wasn't very difficult.
Holiday Card Project with Altenew Adhesives
I used the Poinsettia & Berries Stamp Set to create the one-layer design for my card.
First, I stamped the lighter poinsettia using Cotton Candy and Coral Berry Dye Inks. After that, I stamped the poinsettia outline image onto a sheet of Masking Paper, cut it out with my scissors, and adhered to the stamped image.
Then, I stamped the second poinsettia using Coral Berry and Ruby Red Dye Inks. I also masked off the second poinsettia using Masking Paper.
Next, I stamped the holly berry leaves around the stamped and masked off poinsettias using the Ruby Red, Espresso, Lagoon, and Emerald Dye Inks.
I wanted to make the background non-white, but also, I didn't want to fussy cut masks for all the holly leaves. So I “cheated” by ink blending the same inks that I used to stamp the leaves – Lagoon and Emerald Dye Inks.
I blended them around the panel edges using the Large Blending Tool. As I was blending, I tried not to blend over the red berries as they weren't masked off. Overall it worked out fine, not having areas just around the poinsettias left white.
To bring more interest to the background, I also added Pure White and Antique Gold Ink Spray splatters.
To make the sentiment, I used the Christmas Season Die Set. I die-cut each word of the sentiment out of a Citrine sheet from the Gilded Glitter Cardstock Set and five times out of a dark red cardstock. Before die-cutting each piece, I first applied Double Sided Adhesives onto the back side of the cardstock, so all die-cut elements have a sticky back. This really helps build up the dimensional sentiments.
I stacked all corresponding pieces – placing the glitter ones on top. After that, they were adhered to the card.
Next, I foam-mounted the panel onto a white card base using one of Altenew's bestselling adhesives — the Instant Dimension Foam Tape.
To accentuate the card, I added several gold confetti. I hope you got inspired to use your favorite craft adhesives and hop along with us!
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63 comments
I was on your site last evening looking at adhesives. It really is confusing for someone just beginning on their card making journey. So excited for this blog. Thank you.
Hope this helped you identify which ones you need :D
Svitlana! I adore your bright pink Poinsettia!! What a wonderful ‘cheat’ that I’ll put into practice!
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What a beautiful card!
Beautiful card. I love Altenew’s tape runner. I use it all the time.
That’s definitely a must-have!
Beautiful projects!
A blog hop for glue and tape? I am a little confused but I will give it a look.
Yes! A perfect way to introduce beginners on the different types of adhesives :D
Great idea… can’t wait to try!
What a gorgeous card–worth the time to mask!
Svitlana’s cards are always beautiful!
Lovely projects as always! Good adhesives can make or break a card project so I’ve learned (the hard way lol) to make sure I have some good ones on hand!
Mistakes really are great teachers!
Beautifully created card!
Love the colors you used on your cards. My go to adhesives are double side tape a liquid glue and 3D foam dots/squares
Love it!
Really enjoyed the step by step. I’m all for doing “easy”. Appreciated the non traditional colors too!
Beautiful holiday card. Clever using the same color for the holly leaves and the background. Thanks for the step-by-step!
I think it might be essential to purchase the “sticky essentials” masking paper.
What a stunning card and I am excited to learn more about adhesives. THank you.
Beautiful card without the bulk!! Thanks for the inspiration.
love card – looking forward to more eye candy:)
Your card is absolutely stunning!
Fabulous card! Love all,the brightly colored elements of your design.
Great colours. Looks fantastic. I love Altenew products.
Great card! Thanks for the chance to win.
Such beauty. I like the “different” color combo
Really Beautiful card!!!!
Beautiful poinsettia! I LOVE the colors! Gorgeous design! Thank you for the fabulous hop!
Pretty poinsettia card! Love the color combo!
Looking forward to learning more about your line of adhesive products on the hop!
Great card. Thanks for sharing your process.
awesome card. Love using the double sided adhesive for my die cuts, certainly makes it easier to stack them
I love your adhesives and the projects shown above!
What a great concept, highlight an everyday supply category. Great inspiration and ideas.
Love the bright pink Poinsettia!!
I’ve missed your vivid colored cards. This is beautiful!
Love the colors of your card.
So festive and eye-catching – love the colors used!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful card! I love your colors.
Poinsettias are the quintessential Christmas icon. Love your pink ones! Gorgeous! TFS ❤️
Really love the color combinations. Thanks for sharing all the techniques.
On the Adhesive Blog Hop there was a funny statement: ”
Make sure to stick around for this blog hop, because many talented artists are bringing you stunning card projects to spark your inspiration!” STICK around? Made me laugh.
All the cards are gorgeous. Wonderful techniques. Looking forward to more.
Haha we’re glad you noticed that!
Thanks for sharing great cards. Very inspirational
Wow! I feel that adhesives are really important too because I want the card to last and not have stuff fall out from the card when the recipient opens it! :) I saw this mega foam tape roll and thought that is cool!
Loveliest poinsettia cards with lively and beautiful color shading. Favorite go to adhesives are foam tapes/strips and quick mounting squares for permanence and dimension. I find myself in sticky situations when crafting all the time so having dependable options is a key factor!
Such a lovely poinsettia card! How cool to do a whole blog hop on adhesives! It would be so great to have a roll if that foam tape!
I enjoy the step by step, my go to adhesive is double sided tape and liquid glue and to make things pop foam squares…
This is such a beautiful Christmas card.
I love all of these cards! :)
What a great idea!! Cannot wait to try these techniques.
What an unusual beautiful Christmas card!
I’d love to try your technique:)
My favorite glue is the pen kind. I can use it in big area and skinny thin lines both.
I love th color choices you uses on this gorgeous card! The techniques you uses are stunning. Thank you!
Such a beautiful color combo Svetlana! Love this Christmas design. Thanks for the inspiration!