Christmas Sweater Tag and Card Tutorial

Hi friends! Today I have a tag and a card to share with a warm and textured sweater background, looking almost like a real knitted sweater. 

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I wanted to make winter/Christmas cards with different color combos and using the lovely Sizzix Sweater 3-D Embossing Folder designed by Eileen Hull. Lately, I have used embossing folders a lot and there are more tutorials coming with fun dry embossing techniques. The stamping was done with the cute Simon Says Stamp Let It Snow set and I used Clearly For Art Modeling Film for the dimensional snowglobe.

Start by stamping Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow on a watercolor card and a tag cut from watercolor paper. Use permanent inks for this step.

Ink the inside of the Sweater 3-D embossing folder with two shades of Distress Ink. Mist with water and emboss the paper. Look at that amazing sweater texture.

When dry, I inked the tag and the paper with more Distress Ink to bring out the texture. If you want a lighter look, leave as they were after the previous step.

The cute snowman was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Let It Snow from the Cozy Hugs release. Start by stamping on white paper with Rose Madder Archival Ink and Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Surf ink.

Continue by stamping the scarf, facial features and snowglobe.

Die cut with the coordinating die.

Die cut the snowglobe from Wendy Vecchi's Clearly For Art Modeling Film. 

Heat the modeling film with a heat tool and shape it into half-globes. Be careful not to burn yourself. Add Moon Dust Stickles at the base.

Stamp snowflakes and sentiments with Simon Says Stamp Let It Snow and die cut with the coordinating dies.

The pink tag uses coral combined with stronger shades of pink and just a bit of turquoise. You can of course turn this into a card too instead. I stitched around the edges of both the tag and the card with my sewing machine, to add to the fabric theme.

Most of the snowflakes were adhered with foam tape. Add a sprinkle of Simon Says Stamp Beachy sequins to the background.

I die cut lace from Simon Says Stamp White Diamond Glimmer Cardstock using Tim Holtz Crochet set and also used cheese cloth and a real piece of lace trim. 

Attach the modeling film snowglobe to the paper one with staples and adhere to the background.

Here you can see the dimensional globe better. Clearly for Art Modeling Film will keep its shape perfectly.

The card turns the color combo around, with turquoise and teal being the main colors, and peach being the accent color. 

Adhere some of the snowflakes with glue and some with foam tape.

Since the dots were stamped before the dry embossing, they look like they are a part of the pattern of the sweater.

The hat and the base of the snowglobe were colored with Tombow pens. 

Again, I added a die cut lace trim and a real one, combined with cheese cloth.

I hope you enjoyed this project and that it inspired you to do some textured cards or tags.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

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