Woodblock Wednesday

A year or so ago, I participated in a Woodblock Wednesday “challenge.” I’m not sure if they were discontinued, but I lost track of them for sure. Last month a friend posted a card for  Woodblock Wednesday, and I investigated. The challenge to use your old wooden stamps is posted for just one day, so I missed the November link-up. Today is the December posting, and I had a fine time over the weekend making cards with three different woodblock Christmas stamps. I still have a small, but lovely, collection of woodblock stamps, including the sentiment stamp on three of the cards.

I’ll start with the most traditional stamp, and the only card where I also used some newer products: the beautiful Tapestry embossing folder by Gina K Designs, and a sentiment strip stamped with a Reverse Confetti stamp.

The image is one from Magenta. I loved their detailed stamps and have saved several of them. After stamping it in a lovely green ink, all I did was to color the berries.

The embossing folder is so elegant, and the Waffle Flower Nesting Oval Frame sets off the main image. I’m entering this in the new Shop Your Stash Challenge: Holly & Ivy (any holiday greenery). This stamp has been in my stash for years!

Here are the cards I love the most. A much more modern feel, especially because the trees are stamped in non-tradidtional colors. I’ll chose one of these to upload to the Woodblock Wednesday post. These are, of course, my favorite Clean and Simple card design.

These two use three stamps by Hero Arts: Small Holiday Trees. Lining these up is  so much more time consuming that I’m used to with acrylic stamps and the MISTI stamp positioner.

The only embellishment was some thin gold twine and a gold pearl for the second one. The sentiment was purchased years and years ago on my first trip to Seattle when I discovered Impress Stamps. My last trip to the store was in 2019 during our last visit to Seattle. Since then the retail store has closed, but there continues to be an online store. This stamp and the inside sentiment are both Impress brand stamps. I have three other inside stamps that coordinate with “wishing you . . .” for other occasions. It was so easy to line up straight I need to remember to use it more frequently.

This card uses very similar, but larger, trees: Three Trees by Hero Arts.

All of the tree cards were stamped with the same inside message. 

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