Stampin' UP! Sweets & Treats Christmas Card ideas featuring fruitcake and caramel apples! Colored with Stampin' Blends markers. www.PattyStamps.com

 

Well, these are tasty cards!! 🙂  So fun!!  I created these while participating in an online class from Melanie.  We used the Sweets & Treats stamp set and I learned several fun tips to share with you!!  

The First little bit of magic is to use the StazOn ink pad and stamp the cake stand on Gold Foil paper.  We cut it out using paper snips and as you can see in the 2 cards above, I made 2 altered cake stands out of these stamped images!

 

Stampin' Tip for Sweets and Treats set: stamp the cake stand on metallic paper with StazOn ink!

Sweets & Treats Christmas Card idea featuring a fruitcake with Shimmery Crystal Effects.

 

The Second bit of magic we created with this Sweets & Treats set was to add Shimmery Crystal Effects to various parts of the stamped images.  I added it to the “fruit” pieces in my fruitcake… because I thought that’s how they should look!  The fruitcake image was stamped with Memento Black ink so we could color it with our Stampin’ Blends.  I stamped it twice and fussy cut the frosting part out to layer back on top of the fruitcake… I wanted to give more of a dimensional feel. 

 

Sweets & Treats Christmas Card idea featuring a fruitcake with Shimmery Crystal Effects.

 

The final touch for the fruitcake image was to use red rhinestones on the berries. 

Below, we created more magic with the caramel apples!!   We used the fruitcake image, stamped with StazOn ink on a window sheet as a glass dome, but I used a cotton swap with rubbing alcohol to “remove” or erase the fruitcake part!  By doing this, I created a dome for my caramel apples!!

 

Stamp images from the Sweets & Treats stamp set with StazOn ink on window sheets for extra shine and a glass dome look! "Erase" any lines you don't want using a cotton swap and rubbing alcohol.

See… it worked!!!

 

Stamp images from the Sweets & Treats stamp set with StazOn  ink on window sheets for extra shine and a glass dome look!  "Erase" any lines you don't want using a cotton swap and rubbing alcohol.

 

Isn’t that SO COOL!! IT WORKED!!

 

Sweets & Treats Christmas Card idea featuring caramel apples colored with Stampin' Blends.

 

My dome, fussy cut from the window sheet stamped image, was placed over my caramel apples.  They also have Shimmery Crystal effects on them (on the apples) so in person it’s quite the sparkly card!!

 

Sweets & Treats Christmas Card idea featuring caramel apples colored with Stampin' Blends.

Base card: folded Real Red cardstock

Striped layer: from Pansy Petals designer paper pack.

Die Cut: Tasteful Labels dies, embossed with Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder

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