Welcome to a vintage Christmas. This stamp was originally designed based on actual ornaments from the early fifties . It lends itself quite rightly to some distressing and lots of shimmer.Choose a  red card 41/4x51/2  for your card base.Cut ecru coloured  card stock 4x5 .Stamp ornament image in centre..Branch is coloured with tombow markers.All ornaments are coloured with sakura gel pens.You can really see the metalic shine.Take a scrap piece of paper and tear a centre square out of it. Place this over the image.Use scattered straw(distress ink from Ranger Industries) to distress inside the area.Remove mask and distress frame around the outer edge.If you like the torn look tear the bottom off pulling towards you to get the most texture. Stamp Merry Christmas on a piece of green card stock with black(memories ink from Stewart Superior). Mount on front of card  with double sided foam. Inside your card stamp corners with corner holly stamp. Tear an ecru piece of card stock for your final stamping of "Never a Christmas morning.."Distress edges. Mail your card that has been completely stamped with Under Construction stamps.

Stick a Bow on it

Shimmer and sparkle is is the best part of this three dimensional card. Cut your card stock to measure 8x4 in a gold shimmer. Your next layer is 3 1/2 x 3 1/2.Use peel off border stickers to frame this.Stamp ball on 120lb smooth card stock suitable for promarkers. Choose matching green marker to colour in image. cut image very close to design.Attach to front of card. Stamp bow two times colour with same marker colour as you are going for a monochromatic colour scheme. Cut entire bow from one image. The second image cut only the top portion.Take marker and edge entire bow (both pieces) Add to card.Now that everything is attached use gold gel pen to highlight and add accents.With a quickie glue trace your gold and add a splash of glitter.Now you are ready to  send to your best friend.

A Little Bit Country Christmas

This is a beautiful card with many techniques.At Christmas time we often really want to do something special but our time is limited.The good news is this card can be done assembly  line fashion without compromising quality.Stamp  the farm scene in black memories on water colour card stock. Use pencil crayons ,gamasol,and a stump to apply colour.This is a very quick technique.Using a recipe of two parts water and one part perfect pearls mix and put into a mini spray bottle.Spray your farm scene and set aside to dry.Cut 12x12 browncard stock into 3 pieces of 4x12.Cut and layer red card stock 3x5 1/2.  Stamp snowflakes with white snow cap (pigment ink by Ranger). Punch  tiny white snow  flakes from shimmer card stock. It's important its shimmer card stock because we sprayed the farm scene to shimmer.Add Velvet punched holly for extra texture. stamp sentiment inside. All stamps by Under Construction

Shimmery Poinsettia

Choose two complimentary shimmer card stocks . Cut to size for layering leaving a  1/4 inch border. Emboss  this layer with holly embossing folder. Cut black card stock.Stamp Under Construction's solid poinsettia with  perfect medium. Dust on forever red ,gold, kiwi green,and green perfect pearls.  Use your pouncer brush to seal the medium. Mount this to   the left side of the card. Adhere two strips of peel offs to create  balance. Mount double sided tape onto card stock. Punch out three hollys. Remove backing and dip into glitter. Mount evenly on the peel offs.

Angels at Toonie Tues.

This photo shows two samples  of one of our most recent Toonie Tuesday cards. The background was stamped in antique linen and then distressed. The wreath was then stamped in memories art print brown. Various shades of browns and rusts were used to colour in  to provide a monochromatic colour scheme. Our littlest angel was stamped coloured and shadow cut out.The smallest poinsettia punch  was used for the final embellishment. All stamps are  designs of Under Construction

Coming November 2012

Welcome to the place to come for inspiration and new card ideas to use with your Under Construction stamps....Check back with us in November when we get the site runnning.

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