Hello, crafty friends! The new Stellar Inks are the perfect addition to the previously released colors, and are my go-to inks for their vibrancy and richness. I have had the best time making holiday cards with them as well as the new Simon Hurley create. stamps, so let’s get into the card for today! 

Step 1: Trim a piece of Stark White Cardstock down to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”, and blend Shooting Star Stellar Ink onto the edges of the cardstock using a Blending Brush.

Step 2: Attach the panel and the flower petals stencil from the Festive Poinsettias Stencil to the Wendy Vecchi MAKE ART Stay-tion using the magnets, and first blend Bee Sting Stellar Ink with a Blending Brush through the stencil. Next blend Love Bomb onto the middles of each flower using a Tiny Blending Tool.

Step 3: Grab the leaves and stems stencil from the Festive Poinsettias Stencil, and blend Ivy League Stellar Ink through the stencil.

Step 4: The next stencil in the Festive Poinsettias Stencil is the veins of the flower petals. Using Shady Stellar Ink, blend that through the stencil onto the panel.

Step 5: The final stencil in the set is the small dotted details. Using Slippery When Wet, blend that through the stencil onto the panel.  Now clean off the stencil.

Step 6: Place that same detail stencil back over what was last blended, and using a palette knife spread some Phoenix Feather Astro Paste onto the panel. Set that to the side to dry.

Step 7: Stamp the ‘REINDEER MAIL’ stamp from the Christmas Postage stamp onto a piece of watercolor cardstock using the Jet Black Archival Ink .

Step 8: Watercolor the image using a waterbrush and Slippery When Wet, Love Bomb, and Weeping Willow Stellar Inks that have been dabbed onto a nonporous surface.

Step 9: Stamp and die cut out the sentiment from the Ho Ho Ho stamps and dies, and fussy cut the watercolored postage stamp image.

Step 10: Swipe Ivy League Stellar Ink across a piece of Stark White Cardstock, and trim that down to about 1”x 4 ¼”. 

Step 11: Attach the completed panel to the front of a card base that measures 5 ½”x8 ½” and is scored at 4 ¼”.  Glue the postage stamp and sentiment to the Ivy League strip, and using foam adhesive attach that to the front of the card.