A Welcoming "Doorway"

I just love interactive stamps like these “Door Ways” clear stamps by Art Impressions.  If you like line art and enjoy coloring, you would love these too.  The doorway is sold separately and there are seasonal sets you can purchase to embellish your doorway.   This card was designed and taught by Cathy Verzi, my right-hand “man” at the store.  She used the December/January set.  It comes with sayings sized so that you can stamp them inside your door.  The main technique is masking. Cathy prepared these a head of time by stamping and cutting them out of post-it notes.

Here is how to make this card:

1) On folded 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 white card stock, stamp the tree on the left side with black dye ink.  Cover the tree with a mask.

2) Stamp the wagon on the right and cover it with a mask.  Then stamp the shovel and cover it with a mask.  You may want to measure a bit so you are sure you left room for your door.

3) Lastly, stamp the door.  By using masks, the stamped images will appear to have depth, some in front and some in back.  Now you can remove the masks.

4) Stamp the boots and the lantern as shown.  Stamp the wreath on the door.  We also stamped it on a separate scrap of white, then colored it and cut it out.

5) Color the rest of your images.  We used chalk.

6) Using a mat and an exacto knife, careful cut three sides of your door and fold open on the hinged side.  Adhere the cut out wreath to the top of the wreath on the door to add a little more dimension.

7) Stamp your greeting on the inside. Because the stamps are clear, you will be able to see to line this up perfectly.  Open the card and stamp a couple poinsettias on either side of the greeting.

We finished this off by adding some white perfect pearls to the top of the boots and the snowballs.

Probably not a card you would want to make 50 of, but a few for special friends would be enjoyable.  And the fact that you can open the door to reveal the greeting is a fun thing for the recipient to do, don’t you think?