Joy To The World handmade Christmas card tutorial

Hello everyone! How are we all? I’m back with another Christmas card tutorial for you. This has a cosy feel and great if you love creating an inky background.

handmade Christmas fireplace greetings card

So here goes….

I started by printing the cute fireplace to fit a UK A6 card, from the Home for the Holidays Digi stamp set and then I coloured it using my Copic markers in the following colours:

Light Brown: E31, E35, E55
Dark Brown: E25, E23, E59, E79
Fireplace stones: E15, E47
Fire: Y00, Y02, Y13, Y35, YR15, YR04, YR16, YR09

I fussy cut my Fireplace out and added some White highlight detail using my white gel pen. I popped this aside whilst I created my background.

I made a card blank into a top fold UK A6 by cutting a piece of white card in half down the length. I then cut a piece of white, super smooth 300gsm card down to approx 3mm smaller around each edge than the card front.

Onto this, I blended my Distress Oxides. I covered the entirety on the card with Carved Pumpkin. I went in very lightly using Black Soot around every edge. Then, I went in heavier on the very outside edges.

To this, I splatted some watered down blank gesso.

Now I adhered this panel to the front on my card blank using Double sided tape. I sped up the drying process of my splat detail which can warp the card. Double sided tape goes some way to straightening it back out when it’s applied, as opposed to wet adhesive.

Finally, I put my card together. I adhered the fireplace to the card front using foam tape and to finish, I added a pre-made sentiment from my stash to the fire place.