Stamper at Heart: Nativity Stable

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Silent Night

Hello Friends

I am using some gorgeous dies today. They represent the true meaning of Christmas. The dies are Nativity Stable, Shepherd & Animals: Nativity Camel, Palm Tree & Angel: Nativity Holy Family & Wise Men. This is my last card of the season and it will be my template for my cards next year!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a blessed Happy New Year!!

Background Photo by Freepiks

Design Steps:

1. Using a white piece of card stock measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 score at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8. Bend the card directly in half and cut at an angle. Open it up and round off the center point. Use the card base as a template for the black pieces. I cut 4 side panel pieces and one middle piece

2. Use the Nativity Stable, Shepherd & Animals: Nativity Camel, Palm Tree & Angel: Nativity Holy Family & Wise Men and cut on Kraft card stock. Next use white ink and blend the tops of all the pieces. Use the Vintage Photo ink for the bottom of each piece

3. Use a stencil and add all the tiny stars in the sky with white ink. Do this on all of the panels

4. Add a strip to the bottom measuring 1 1/4 inches and tear it at the top. Ink with white ink on the top and Vintage Photo on the bottom. Place the manger with Mary, Joesph and Jesus in the center panel

5. Add the Shepard and palm tree to the left side panel. Then add the 3 wise men to the right side panel

6. Glue the panels to the inside of the card and then add the sentiment

7. To decorate the front glue your star black panels down. Add the sandy ground, sentiment and the camel. Your card is complete

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings and Take Care

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

O Holy Night

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

We have a NEW RELEASE FOR AN EARLY START ON YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS!! I am giving you a peek at a number of Nativity dies available in this release and they are just gorgeous. The release is Christmas Part 1 and has 21 fantastic dies. The release includes everything from Gnomes to Reindeer!! Check it out HERE it is on sale now!!

I have seen a number of scene builder sets lately and I love them! So I decided to create my own scene builder with the new dies. I am really excited about how it turned out! Each layer is popped up and there is so much depth. I wish you could see it in real life!

Design Steps:

1. Using the following dies: Nativity Camel, Palm Tree & Angel, Nativity Stable, Shepard & Animals and Stable Nativity Ornament cut out of gold, brown and tan card stock

2. Use Nested Rectangle slimline dies the largest and the second to the largest. Tape the two together to create a frame cut out 3 frames. For the base use white card stock cut 3 1/2 x 8 1/2

3. For the top layer use one of the frames. For the ground I used the Slimline Hills die on a piece of brown card stock which measures 3 1/2 x 1. Glue the ground to the back of the frame and then add the camels as shown above

4. For the middle layer use another frame. For the ground use the Hills slimline die on a piece of kraft card stock 3 1/2 x 3 1/2. Glue the ground to the back of the frame and then add the Nativity scene on top of the hill

5. For the bottom layer use the last frame. For the ground use the Hills slimline on a piece of tan card stock 3 1/2 x 3 1/2. Glue the ground to the back of the frame making sure it will meet up with the second frame and that no white will show through. Use a piece of blue DP for the sky measuring 3 1/2 x 3 glue it to the back of the frame. Add the Shepard, the palm tree and the gold star

6. Starting with the bottom frame which is the one with the Shepard glue it flat to the white card base. (I wish I would have used a black card base so if I didn't get the frame just right the white would not show)

7. Place dimension tape on the back of the middle and top layers

8. Take the middle layer and tape it down to the bottom layer as shown above. (You might want to just remove one side of the dimension tape backing and get it lined up then remove the other backing as you go)