 Hi everyone, it's Vicky here and welcome back. Today I'm sharing four Christmas cards using stencils. The stencils that I will be working with are by Darkroom Door. These are their new collection. I love all the designs really basic and you can create quick and simple cards. I'm going to use each and every stencil today. The fun part is that in the package you don't only get the stencil but also the mask and you will see some techniques on how you can use both of them for a project. For the first card I'm going to work with a reindeer stencil, which is absolutely adorable. I love the antlers and I'm going to secure it at the back with some purple tape. So today I'm going to share four cards. Two are going to be clean and simple in style and the other two are going to be vintage looking. I love both styles and depending on my mood I like switching from one to another. So for the first card I'm going for a clean simple look really easy to reproduce. I'm using a paste over the stencil and this is a new product by Nouveau. It is called Glacier Paste and the color I'm using is Quicksilver. This is going to try nice and flat and it's going to give you beautiful shine. There is no glitter in that product. I believe this is my kind side. As my card base I used Satin cardstock in pink. I am creating a clean and simple looking card in a non-traditional color. Also I went with Silver and Pink. I also cut out the word Merry and combined that with a heat embossed sentiment that says Christmas, which I just cut out on a very thin strip of paper. It's a great card design because it looks beautiful, that reindeer is adorable and at the same time it's really quick and simple to recreate. So you can create many panels with a reindeer and when everything is dry, then all you have to do is to just stick a sentiment or stamp one. Now to complete my card, I'm just sticking down some gems at the tips of the antlers. And here are some close up photos on the first card for today. Moving on to the second card and this time I will be using the Christmas tree set. I'm going to secure it down on my cardstock by using some purple tape at the back. I'm using Nina Desert Stone cardstock in a lovely craft color. I'm going for a vintage look for this card. So I'm going to do some inking. I'm using my Distress Oxide Inks and the colors I'm using are Pill Paint and the darker one is Forest Moss. So I'm starting with a lighter color, making sure that I cover up completely the whole tree. And then I'm going to darken up the edges by using Forest Moss and I'm going to finish it off by using a little bit of Distress Oxide Ink in vintage photo at the tree trunk as well as at the very tips of the tree. I can easily lift the stencil and check how it looks. And then I'm going to ink up the tree trunk once more. I want this to be more brown and now I'm going to remove the stencil so you can see the result. You can call this card done, just stick a sentiment on top and you are ready to go. However, I'm going to take it a step further and this time I'm going to use the mask. I'm holding it with my fingers just on top of the tree and I'm going to ink up the edges. I just want to make sure that I will not cover up the tree with more brown since I think it looks nice as it is at the moment. Now I'm going to do some stamping and I want this to be only the background. That's why I will cover up my tree with the mask. You can of course use some repositionable tape at the back of the mask to make sure that it's going to stay in place. I didn't really care, I just placed it there temporarily. I inked up my stamp with Distress Oxide ink and that's a vintage photo. I don't want to have a perfect stamping, that's why I didn't ink up the whole of the mask. I just want to have some sinks here and there. Now by the way, the stamp that I'm using is a big 6x6 rubber stamp. It is full of Christmas Sings. In a tiny font I don't remember from which company it is, I just found it on my stash but I will try and find something similar and link it down below. Now I have some green cardstock here and I'm going to matte my panel with that. I'm going to leave a tiny border all around so I'm using my paper trimmer here and eyeballing the borders. And since I'm going for a vintage card here, I'm going to keep the traditional color combo so greens and reds and I'm also going to stick this panel on top of my red card base. I have foam squares at the back and now to finish it off I need to stick the sentiment. For that I cut out the word Merry out of the same red cardstock as the card base and finally to embellish my card even more I'm going to use some gold confetti which I'm going to stick on top of my tree. When I am creating traditional looking Christmas cards I always like to add a touch of gold. So I used my Nofote looks to add little dots of glue and now I'm sticking those little confettis all over the place. Now to pick up all those tiny little pieces I'm using a wax pencil, this is a question that I get all the time. It's really inexpensive and it works like magic. So here is the final card and some close-up photos. Moving on to the third card for today. Again I'm going for a vintage and traditional color combo looking card. I am using the bobble set, stencil and mask and I'm going to ink up the bobble. First of all I'm going to create a green ornament and I'm combining two colors here, build paint and forest moss which are the two colors that I used for the previous card since I had them on my table. And on one side of the ornament I added a touch of vintage photo. Now to make my card more interesting I want to have three different ornaments hanging from the top. That's why I'm going to clean up my stencil and move on to another color combo. Now I'm going to use the mask as well to cover up completely the ornament that I have just created so that I can ink up another ornament which is going to look as if it is at the background. So I'm going to secure the stencil again with some purple tape and this time the colors that I will be using are candy tuple and fire brick. Again I covered up with a lighter color the whole ornament and then on one edge of the ornament I'm going with a darker red and then finishing it up with some vintage photo. So I'm going to remove the mask and the stencil and you can see the effect. I'm going to create one more ornament using the exact same technique. You can use a ruler and draw some strings coming from the top and you have a card ready to go. If you want you can take it a step further like I'm going to show you here. So head those pine tree branches and these are from an older stamp set. I'm going to stamp a few of them coming from the top and I always like to keep it simple. I'm not introducing any new colors. This way everything matches perfectly and it kind of binds everything together. Now I'm going to do the same thing with vintage photo just to add a touch of a second color up there and I also inked up the edges with vintage photo. Now it's time to draw the strings coming from the top and for that I'm using my ruler to make sure that I have some straight lines coming from the top. Totally optional and if you like splashes you can do this step. I'm going to add some white splashes here. This is white jesso diluted with water. The splashes are not going to stay bright white because they are going to react a little bit with the ink underneath which is perfect for the vintage look. Now I'm going to use my dual speed heat tool. This is by Wow and it has two speeds. One is for heat setting your embossing powder and the second one is for drying out things like I'm doing here. I need to make sure that those splashes are completely dry before I move on to the next step which is applying some paste over the bow. I will be using the 24 cards light gold paste. This has tons of glitter inside. I'm going to make a review on this base which are absolutely beautiful and I think that this light gold is the perfect color for any vintage card. I repeat the same process for the other two ornaments and now I'm going to stick my sentiment on top. This is white embossed on a brown cardstock and I use the same brown cardstock as my card base as well. So here are some close up photos on this card and I wish you could see how sparkly these bows are in real life. And let's move on to the last card for today. This time I'm using the star stencil in a clean and simple looking card and in a non-traditional color combo. I secured my stencil on a light purple cardstock and now I'm spraying over it with pure white all the new ink spray. Once the ink was completely dry I placed that on my misty and I'm going to do some stamping. For that I'm using the word Peaceful and you will find the stamp linked down below. It is a lovely one that you can use both on vertical and horizontal cards. I'm just stamping that with embossing ink across the star and I'm going to apply white embossing powder and hit set it. This is not a time-consuming card and you can easily recreate it. Just create all the panels with the stencil and the star first and then just stamp a sentiment on top. I'm going to use Foam Squares at the back to stick this on a white card base and I will complete the sentiment with the embossed strip that I have here that says Happy New Year! And I think that a card for New Year needs some sparkle so I'm going to add a few of those white gems. Again I'm adding some dots with my Nouveau Deluxe Glue and I'm going to stick those on top. I'm making sure that I keep those and closed in the shape of the star. A lovely design that works for pretty much any occasion depending on the sentiment that you decide to stamp at the center. And here are all the four cards that I made for today showcasing the latest stencil release by Darkroom Door. Everything I used is linked down below just like always. I hope you had fun that you got inspired. Don't forget to leave my comment down below to like and subscribe if you have done so already. Thank you all so much for joining me today and I'll see you all next time.