Victorian Christmas Stocking Card With DIY Patterns and Instructions

DIY Home Decor and Cards with Prima's Victorian Christmas -Part 2

I really loved the beautiful Prima Victorian Christmas collection by Frank Garcia.  I had some left over paper and thought I'd make a series of cards and a canvas for Christmas to use the collection.  I have 4 projects in total so I decided to split this into two posts and share all my step-by-step instructions, DIY tips and techniques for each project.    This is Part 2.   

Part 1 projects are in the photo below. You can see the  complete instructions from the projects from Part 1  right here.   

These are the papers included in the Victorian Christmas papers I used for my projects.   

Prima Victorian Christmas  - Stocking Card with downloadable template  

This is my sweet stocking card.  

I have created a template for you to print.  Just clink on the link here.  

Step 1. Fold a piece of paper or use pre-folded cardstock.  Align the tempate against the fold.  Cut the template out but make sure the places that touch the fold are not cut.  

Your card should resemble this when opened.  

Step 2. Cut a doily to fit the toes, heel and trim on the top of the stocking.  

Step 3. This is what the back of the stocking top looks like.  I tucked the gold trim behind the piece before gluing to the card.  It provides a clean finished look and keeps the ends of the trim from fraying.    

Finishing Touches: from here, you choose if you want to keep the card flat for easy and inexpensive mailing or add dimensional embellishments with your personal flair.  

You can click here to get the printable Stocking Card Template 

Products used:  Prima Victorian Christmas Paper 990480, 990534, 990503
Prima Victorian Christmas Alpha Stickers 582371
Prima Gold Paper Doilies 585006
Gold trim
Cream pre folded Card/Envelope sized 5x6.5
Tim Holtz Distress ink - Vintage Photo

Victorian Christmas  - Stenciled Ornament Card

This card features the Victorian Christmas stencil.   For this card, I only share a stenciling tip.

I used the stencil that was part of  Prima's Victorian Christams collection for this card.  The stencil is obviously great for holidays  but perfect for all season as well.    Keep the stencil with the gift boxes handy for quick birthday cards.   

In this particular card, I really wanted to stencil  the ornaments.  To do this, you will want to block off the sections of the stencil that you do not want to include.    Slip a piece of paper under the stencil to keep the card clean of excess  stencil.  

Some people even add tape over the stencil sections they want to avoid.  

The credit card (used gift card) shown in the photo is another tool I use to spread the molding paste quickly and evenly.  

Thanks for sharing your time with me.  

May your Christmas season be filled with friendship and peace. 

Products Used:

Prima Victorian Christmas Paper 990480, 990534, 990503
Prima Victorian Christmas Alpha Stickers 582371
Prima Victorian Christmas  - Deck the Halls Stencil 582951
13Arts Chalk Modeling Paste
Prima Coy Liam Leaves 581138
White cording 2yards
gold sequins
Gold trim
Mini-red floral berries
Kraft Card/Envelope sized 5x6.5
Tim Holtz Distress ink - Vintage Photo

DIY Cards and Home Decor Christmas Canvas - Part 1

DIY Home Decor with Prima's Victorian Christmas -Part 1

I really loved the beautiful Prima Victorian Christmas collection by Frank Garcia.  I had some left over paper and thought I'd make a series of cards and  a canvas for Christmas to use the collection.  I have 4 projects in total so I decided to split this into two posts.   
 Even better...I'll share my step-by-step instructions, DIY tips and techniques for each project.    I'll share Part 1 today.  You can see Part 2 here.  

This is Part 1

These are the papers that I used for this mini-series.  It included the Victorian Christmas collection from Prima and Frank Garcia. 

DIY  Victorian Christmas - 8x10 canvas

 I created an 8x10 canvas with the Victorian Christmas papers and used stencils as accents.  Scroll down to find the step -by-step DIY instructions for this canvas.  

Step 1. Stencil the Prima Doily onto the Victorian Christmas paper with  molding paste.  Be sure to wash the molding paste off the stencil immediately.  Pay extra attention to the little holes in the stencil to make sure they are all clear to preserve the stencil's delicate appeal. 

Step 2. After the paste is dry, cut the shape of the stencil out. 

Step 3. Cut approximately a 3.5 in circle in the center of the stencil.  

Step 4. Add cardboard or dimensional foam tape to create dimension.  

Step 5. Cut image from the Victorian Christmas paper.  The image size should be 3.5inches.  

Step 6. Add a bit of  color to an 8x10 canvas.  Watercolors work nicely - but I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo.  Gently mist to "activate " the water.  

This provides a wonderful soft  background for the stenciling and will make the details of the stencil pop.  The effect is amazing in person - very hard to convey in a photo over the internet.  

Step 7. Once the canvas is dry, apply the stencil to the canvas using the molding paste.  

  TIP:  A great way to remove excess molding paste from a stencil is to rub the remainder on a kraft card.  I love the effect.  Then I have the start of a card along with my project.  Scroll down past this canvas project and I'll show you how I finished the card.  

Step 8. Once the molding paste is completely dry, add the cut out stencil.  This is going to be a wreath so place the Santa image in the center as the focal image.   

Step 9. Decorate as desired.   

TIP:  I'll show you how to roll those pretty flower buds shown below.  Just scroll down to the card instructions.    

Products Used:
Prima Victorian Christmas Paper 990480, 990534, 990503
Prima Victorian Christmas Alpha Stickers 582371
Prima 8x10 Watercolor Canvas Panel 585679
Prima Stencil Doily 2 6x6 - 582852
Prima Flowers - Solid Rose 586829
13Arts Chalk Modeling Paste
Quilling Tip
Prima Coy Liam Leaves 581138
Prima Flowers - Boxed White 586638
White cording 2yards
Prima Flowers - Allure Mocha 553111
wide lace trim
Prima Flowers - Allure Mocha 553111
Champagne colored floral berries
Tim Holtz Distress ink - Vintage Photo
cardboard
water mist

Prima Victorian Christmas -Kraft Doily Card

Step 1. Stencil the Prima Doily onto Kraft cardstock using molding paste.  Let dry completely.  It does dry fairly quickly.   

Step 2. Add your embellishments.  You can keep the card flat and add a sentiment, or gussy up with dimensional embellies.  I provided my particular embellishment sequence below.   

Step 3.  The Prima Victorian Christmas paper has some wonderful borders that make great sentiments for cards.  

Step 4. I added some rolled rose buds  for cluster filler.  To do this, I used a quilling tool.  

Cut a small circle from patterned paper.  Next cut a spiral in the circle as the photo shows.  Take the end of the spiral and insert into  the slit of the quilling tool and start rolling tightly around the quilling tool.   Glue the rose bud at the base.  

Step 5. I dabbed  a bit of white paint on the sentiments, flower and rolled rose buds to blend them and give them a soft frosty look.  

Thanks for sharing your time today.  You can see Part 2 of this collection right here. 

This is the card and downloadable template featured in part 2. 

 

Prima Victorian Christmas Alpha Stickers 582371
Prima Stencil Doily 2 6x6 - 582852
13Arts Chalk Modeling Paste
Quilling Tip
Prima Coy Liam Leaves 581138
Prima Flowers - Solid Rose 586829
Prima Flowers - Boxed White 586638
White cording 2yards
I added :
Prima Flowers - Allure Mocha 553111
Martha Stewart Small snowflake punches
White cording
Pre Folded  Kraft Card/Envelope sized  5x6.5

Christmas Carol Lantern- Home Decor with the Flying Unicorns

Flying Unicorns Off the Page Home Decor for July with "A Christmas Carol"

The OTP (Off the Page )altered project for July was really cool - a bit unusual and fascinating.  I looked at it and it brought images of the "Christmas Carol" to my mind so I had my sweet little Julie Nutting dolls help me create my mini carolling scene.   

This piece is available in my ETSY shop while it lasts.  You can see it here.    I also have 30% off all items in my ETSY shop through Labor Day - Sept 4th.  Use code "KITTY30" at checkout.  

The metal lantern is from Darice and stands only  3.5 x 3.5 x 7.5 inches so I had to use the smaller children doll stamps by Julie Nutting.  I chose Toby and the little girl.  

  

I wanted the little girl to have a long Victorian styled dress so I made extra ruffles for her skirt and gave her a cape wrap instead of a shirt.  If you scroll down the page, I'll show you how to adapt your Nutting doll stamps to work well with an "off the page" project and yet be durable. 

Papers and flowers are from the Prima Victorian Christmas collection by Frank Garcia. 

How did I make the dolls? 

Julie Nutting's doll stamps are meant to be used in a variety of ways and not for just tags.  Sure tags are fun, but then so is any project you make with the little darlins.  

The real trick to using them on "Off the Page " projects is to make them as durable as possible so they do not bend.    This is how I accomplish that:

Step 1.  I stamp the doll shape twice and cut both out.  One shape will be for the front and the second for the back. This is the "Toby" doll stamp. 

 Step 2.  Go ahead and decorate the front of your doll as you desire.  Leave the second blank for now. 

 Step 3.  Once the front of the doll is done, ink all the edges of the second doll - both front and back.   This is in preparation for making a doll "sandwich".  When I glue the two dolls together, I do not see any white edges.  The project blends nicely. 

 Step 4.  After the edges of the second doll are inked, it's time to give the doll some "legs" to stand on.  

I love wood barbeque skewers.  They are inexpensive and I use them almost every time I craft.  Today they are going to become the "backbone" of my dolls.  haaaaaaa.  Little wood doll stamp humor.    Cut the skewers to fit head to toe and glue to the doll.  

Yes you do want to have the stamped side facing up.  This is the side you want to use when adding the wood skewers.  

 Step 5.   After the skewers are in place, you can go ahead and glue the sandwich together.  You may need to hold the edges together as they dry.  Once dry, you can continue to dress the back of the dolls. I just stamp the clothes and flip them around to use the backside if I do not want a lot of clothing detail.   

Here are the rest of the close ups of the finished lantern and "Christmas Carol " scene. 

Here are more close ups of the lantern and the whole piece. 

 I added Prima's snowflake paste to the lantern and embellishments after I was done to give that snowy winter feel.  It's also topped with a bunch of Prima products from the Victorian Christmas collection by Frank Garcia.  

Thanks for stopping by.  The Flying Unicorn kits move fast.  If you missed the kit already, you may want to think about the pre-order option avail starting the 20th of each month.  This provides you with a complete look at all the items and products contained in the kit.  You have 48 hours to purchase.  Now that's a great deal.  All the details can be found right here. 

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 (use code "KITTY30" at checkout).  

The lantern can be seen here and everything else is here. 

Products Used
Flying Unicorns July Kit - Your Passion Your Art
Darice Lantern
Prima Julie Nutting - Toby Stamp
Prima Julie Nutting - Little Girl -910600
Prima Frank Garcia Victorian Christmas - Flowers Midnight Kiss 583460
Prima Frank Garcia Victorian Christmas - Flower Rudolph's Nose 583477
Prima Frank Garcia Victorian Christmas - A4 paper pad
Prima Snowflake Paste

A Christmas Canvas/card - Featuring Victorian Christmas by Prima and Frank Garcia

Prima's Victorian Christmas by Frank Garcia!

If you don't have this collection yet, go grab it up.  It's a Christmas collection and yet, once the holidays are over, you'll still be pulling this out and using the gorgeous non-holiday prints.  This collection has stripes and polka dots and music notes.  Can't get more versatile than that!!

Today I feature the paper with the music notes - the "B" side of the paper. 

This is a canvas/card that I made with a lot of dimension.   I put a variety of flowers in this card you can can see a good array of the collection.  

I am also gluing a card to the back of this to turn it into a card. It doesn't even have to be a canvas.  It can stay a card and you can frame it. 

This collection has such rich warmth - perfect for a vintage flair.  I actually used the 12x12 papers here because I wanted a pattern that was bigger than the 6x6 pad.   I also have one of Prima's newly released stencils as a background.  

Scroll down a bit further and I'll show you how I made the base of my canvas/ card.  But first a few more close ups.  I'll even show you where you can still grab this collection. 

 OK so here's how I made this:

I started with some heavy white gesso and a stencil placed onto the "B" side of this piece of Victorian Christmas paper - the music notes side. (Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un e Carte de Noel).

I used the heavy gesso because it tends to stay bright white.  I find that molding paste often doesn't keep it's initial bright white color.  When I want white - I'd like it to stay white, ya know what I mean?   

And this is how the stenciling turned out.  I cut around it once it was totally dry.  Pretty, right?

Next I decided to make it a bit more dimensional.  I backed it with cardboard and cut the cardboard out. 

To add the Santa image from the Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un Chant de Noel paper, I simply placed the Santa image behind the stenciled circle and all is perfect!

From there, I mounted this to my card, canvas or cardstock and finished embellishing.  You can add flowers anyway you like, but to me, the construction of the base is the most important to understand. 

In my flower clustering, I used one main anchor flower and then add filler.  Filler in this case are the floral berries from the collection as well as some pine punches and little snips of gold trim and red holly leaves. 

Thanks for looking and stopping.
Best of all, you can grab this collection right here at the Flying Unicorns store.

Prima Products:
Victorian Christmas Collection can be found right here
583460 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Midnight  Kiss
583415 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers- Holiday Lights
583491 Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Flowers - Sleigh Bells
990534  Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un Chant de Noel
990497  Prima Frank  Garcia Victorian Christmas Paper - Un e Carte de Noel
991050 Prima Frank Garcia -Memory Hardware - Cours Mirabeau Floral Lace
582845 - Prima Stencil 6x6 Doily 1
961442 - Prima Finnabair Heavy Gesso - White

Other products:
Gold Braid Trim
Cardboard
Floral Berries
6x6 canvas board