How to Mid Mod Christmas, in a hurry

Yes I’m a stamper, but yes I’ve taken a bit of a side-quest into stencilling recently and this card is the result of an idea that’s been floating in my head since I made a bunch of geometric mid mod stencils for the store. This is my idea of Mid Mod Christmas, in a hurry.

I designed a wee set of 4 layering, card sized stencils to allow me to create a Christmas tree design, super quick, because at Christmas, I have zero time, like, minus time. The fact that this coincided with me finding my long buried gold lustre embossing paste seemed like the sort of serendipity I shouldn’t ignore. Here it is, my super simple, super quick, but (I think) super stylish Mid Mod Christmas card, complete with gold baubles!

Having 4 little layering stencils enables me to create a multi coloured tree. On the last stencil, which is circle shapes, I used the gold embossing paste, honestly haven’t been this chuffed with anything since the night I discovered that my ink pads were still juicy after years in storage!

I cut the stencils to the same size as a card front (I use US card front sizes mostly 4.25 by 5.5 inches) and I stamped onto a pre-cut card front panel, that way it is super simple to correctly position the stencil each time, see this sequence of photos below – I begin working with a piece of card 4.25 by 5.5 inches in size, and I just set the stencil on top each time and hold in place with my left hand while brushing on colour with my right hand.

This may be one of the simplest cards ever. I tend to use minimalist sentiments with this design, I think they work well. The “peace’ and ‘joy’ are from an old WMS set (Festive foliage, and I know there’s a ton of folks out there who have that set!) – Here’s one I made on coloured card, I brushed a little extra orange around the card front (yellow card) before I began stencilling and then I kept it tonal to pinks and oranges, I think this looks great with the gold lustre baubles.

If you fancy having a go at this, you can find the stencil set here in my store – Ta for popping in!